![]() ![]() In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle down the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel. Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars. ![]() From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth there was nothing left to be discovered. It’s a modern classic."-Pico IyerĪ brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road-an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world.Īs a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved-to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician-had gone extinct. " Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And in doing so, he changed the course of art history. Upon his arrival, he retrieved a painting that he had entered into the exhibition, carried it out to the taxi and took it home. Once his brothers had departed, the artist locked up the house and took a taxi by himself to the Quai d'Orsay, where the Salon des Independants was scheduled to begin later that week. Half a century later, the artist would vividly remember the dark clothes his brothers had worn that day, as if they had come to challenge him to a duel. One hundred years ago today, on March 18, 1912, two men dressed in black crossed the Seine in Paris to pay a call on their younger brother, an artist who lived alone in his studio on Rue Amiral-de-Joinville. 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This article is an excerpt from the Shortform summary of "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls. ![]() ![]() ![]() And genre writing, despite its many pleasures-thrilling plots, the satisfaction of seeing battles of ideas (in sci fi) or battles of wits (in mysteries) played out-is constrained by its conventions. I want utterly convincing writing that immerses me in an experience, delivering unexpected truths. While I spent my high school years devouring visionary futuristic works by Hugo- and Nebula-award winning authors, I’m a literary nerd now. Not that I geek out much these days on science fiction (or “speculative fiction,” the term Atwood prefers). Begun in 2003 with Oryx and Crake (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and continued with 2009’s acclaimed The Year of the Flood, this saga had already hooked me with its portrayal of life before and after a bioengineered plague destroys most of humanity. Which is why I savored the rare sense of excitement that gripped me as I opened up MaddAddam, the final volume in the recently concluded dystopian trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Unlike genre stories, literary novels seldom end with an implied “to be continued.” ![]() Extraordinary novels of the sort that garner nominations for the Booker Prize and its ilk are typically one-offs. ![]() ![]() While literary fiction offers many pleasures, its readers don't usually get to experience this one: the joy of pouncing on the next book in a much-loved series. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can forget about my love life entirely. Now I’m back at home scrambling for work and trying to pay my dad’s bills. Until my fiancé cheated, and my mom died. I’m Stevie Summers and I’m barely scraping by. The only thing I need to make him part of my life is something money can’t buy. When his foster family can’t keep him anymore, my choice is clear. ![]() Befriending a kid was never on my agenda, but the second I set foot into my new apartment, he’s there to show me the ropes. Multi-million-dollar companies don’t run themselves and I work hard to keep mine at the top. I’m Sebastian Keller and I’m a workaholic. Fall in love with your next book boyfriend with There’s More To It by Allie York, the next book in the Single Dad’s Romance series. She’s down on her luck, he’s trying to become a father, together, they can help each other, but can they stop themselves from falling in love? Readers will love this fake romance featuring a swoony adoptive dad. Workah olic Sebastian Keller wasn’t expecting to adopt the kid he befriended in his building, but now he’s invested and he will do whatever it takes, even if that means faking a relationship with Stevie Summers. ![]() ![]() As Jules digs for the truth, she starts to find that Ingrid isn’t the only apartment sitter to have vanished in the night. ![]() ![]() Beneath the glitz and glam is a dark truth that leads to Ingrid disappearing. When Jules meets Ingrid, a fellow apartment sitter, she starts to learn that the Bartholomew has a dark past, which might just be linked to a series of odd events happening in present day. So what if she can’t talk to anyone who lives in the same building as her? Recently left broken hearted and without a job, Jules believes she has found the perfect opportunity to change her life. Jules has nothing to lose and $12,000 to gain. She is being paid as an apartment sitter in one of Manhattan’s more high-profile and mysterious buildings, the Bartholomew. 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He meets Nessus, a Pierson’s Puppeteer, that is, a three-legged alien with two snake-like heads on stalks who speaks a language that sounds like orchestral music, though he also speaks the Interworld language that all the other characters use. Although he first appears in a sort of Fu Manchu costume with long white hair in a queue down his back and chrome yellow skin (I almost stopped right there), it soon becomes clear that his real appearance is a blend of all races. The story begins on Louis Wu’s 200th birthday party in 2850 CE, an event made possible by his consumption of boosterspice that keeps him relatively youthful. That adds up to a considerable achievement but doesn’t make up for the absence of character development and the abominable presentation of the story’s two female characters. ![]() ![]() The alien species Niven created are among the most interesting I’ve seen, and the adventure is well told and fairly satisfying. The basic story about exploring a megastructure, a giant ringworld surrounding a star, is compelling, and the characters have to come up with one intriguing idea after another to get themselves out of near-fatal encounters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The few text pages there be are a short discussion of the art and the divisions that book breaks them up into (Aliens, Astronauts, Symbolism, Fantasy, Barbarians, Spacecraft, Futuropolis, Other Worlds, Supernatural, Robots, Humor & Back To Earth), a section of annotations for each image (again listing artist, and then title, date & its original use / source) along with an index of artist names with the pages upon which they appear. Each of the images is captioned with the artist's name. (edited by Ian Summers) A bit thicker/heavier than my ideal size, but it is a superb collection of science fiction paintings, mostly used as book covers in the 1970s. Tomorrow And Beyond - Masterpieces Of Science Fiction Art ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, I really didn’t care for Shift at all. I read and loved Wool and was excited to finally be reading these next books. The Shift Omnibus Edition by Hugh Howey is a trilogy that is a sequel to his bestselling Wool. With this godlike power at their fingertips, can humanity be trusted to create a new-and better-world? Or is it doomed to bring about its own destruction? Read more A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event.Īt almost the same moment in humanity’s broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall, and the ability to forget it ever happened. ![]() ![]() In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. The technology has an almost limitless capacity for good-but in the wrong hands, it could have an equally boundless capacity for evil. In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In this second volume in the New York Times best-selling Silo series, Hugh Howey describes the catastrophic events that led to the creation of the silo- and the beginning of the end ![]() |