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Author: Michael Andre-Driussi Publisher: Sirius Fiction ISBN: 1947614029 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 68
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Seven previously published pieces pertaining to the science fiction of American author Jack Vance, and his voyages around the world. Topics include the curious linkages between some of Vance's novels into a sort of "Future History;" an examination of a Vancean "hard sf" novel; a look at his various globe-trotting excursions and what he wrote while out on each one; and further delvings into the methods he employed to create such memorable fiction.
Author: Michael Andre-Driussi Publisher: Sirius Fiction ISBN: 1947614029 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 68
Book Description
Seven previously published pieces pertaining to the science fiction of American author Jack Vance, and his voyages around the world. Topics include the curious linkages between some of Vance's novels into a sort of "Future History;" an examination of a Vancean "hard sf" novel; a look at his various globe-trotting excursions and what he wrote while out on each one; and further delvings into the methods he employed to create such memorable fiction.
Author: Jack Vance Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1682995828 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn—until he found them all the hard way!
Author: Michael Andre-Driussi Publisher: Sirius Fiction ISBN: 1947614142 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 116
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A chapter guide to Gene Wolfe's early novels Operation ARES (1970), The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972), Peace (1975), and The Devil in a Forest (1976).
Author: Michael Andre-Driussi Publisher: Sirius Fiction ISBN: 1947614118 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 155
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A guide to Gene Wolfe's series The Book of the New Sun, and the sequel The Urth of the New Sun, as well as four shorter "New Sun" works. Designed for use by first-time readers as well as those returning to the text.
Author: Jack Vance Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312864743 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
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A romantic tale follows a space swashbuckler and conman as he travels from world to world, plying his trade, drinking in wild bars, and flirting with women.
Author: Jack Vance Publisher: Spatterlight Press ISBN: 161947011X Category : Dwellings Languages : en Pages : 115
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The houses if Iszm. The people of Iszm live in houses created from living tree-like plants and they alone know the secret of cultivating these plants. Aliens from other worlds have been trying for decades to break the monopoly by stealing a female house-seed.
Author: J. D. Vance Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062300563 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 166
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Author: Paulette Jiles Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062409220 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture National Book Award Finalist—Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.
Author: Michael Andre-Driussi
Author: Michael Andre-Driussi
Author: Jack Vance
Author: Michael Andre-Driussi
Author: Michael Andre-Driussi
Author: Jack Vance
Author: Jack Vance
Author: Jack Vance
Author: Jack Vance
Author: J. D. Vance
Author: Paulette Jiles