![]() The Columbus Day audiobook was a huge hit, and a finalist for an Audie Award as Audiobook of the Year. The breakout success of Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, Book 1) reached new heights when Podium Audio released it in audio format, narrated by Audie Award Winner R.C. Within 6 months of his first ebook release, he was able to quit his day job and pursue a full-time writing career. ![]() Writing fiction at nights and on weekends, he finally independently published three novels on Amazon. If you want to stay up to date on releases, receive promotion alerts and speak to me directly, please join my Facebook Page:Ĭraig Alanson used to create financial reports for a large IT services company. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It doesn't surprise us that this 1980 sequel, written as it was by director George Pal himself (in collaboration with screenwriter Joe Morhaim), reproduces the machine as visualised in the movie. It's a perennial problem with film adaptation, and cover artists have the choice of either collaborating with this visual hegemony or challenging it. ![]() ![]() The success of the 1960 movie adaptation, directed by George Pal, meant that, for many readers, visual imagery from the film tended to overwrite the pictures generated by their own imaginations. ![]() Given the exotic wonders the later sections of the tale contain, it's puzzling that the publishers would go for something so mundane. This illustrates the very beginning of the first chapter, where the time traveller is explaining his invention to his friends. Since then it has been reprinted in hundreds of different formats, and a wide range of designers and artists have faced the task of covering the story. Of course, when William Heinemann took the project on they had no idea it was going to prove as enduring, and their original cover, with a low-key line drawing (by Ben Hardy) of the ‘sphinx’ Wells's time traveller encounters in the year 802,701 could hardly be more low-key. H G Wells's first published novel, The Time Machine (1895), effectively invented the time-travel genre, and remains one of the most famous of all science fiction titles. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a harsh new world for a young woman who grew up as a coddled princess, and forging a new life for herself and for her young son Perseus will be the hardest thing she’s ever done. Nationally bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version-his mother, Danae his trophy, Medusa and his wife, Andromeda-but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all.ĭanae: Banished from her homeland thanks to a prophecy foretelling that her unborn child will one day cause the death of her father, the king of Argos, Danae finds herself stranded, pregnant, and alone in a remote fishing village. ![]() Guests of war trilogy7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Trying to fit these stories into timelines and around narratives hamstrings the storytellers in a way that wouldn't help the project. She's embarrassed by her mother, especially in front of a hero like Wedge.Ī project like Star Wars: Visions, meant to showcase animation styles and push limits, would be undeniably hampered by canon. Anni, however, isn't going to participate. The event Wedge is there to host is the appropriately silly (for Star Wars) "Family Race." This means that the young pilot cadets bring their parents and siblings with them on their ships on a death-defying race. Rather, Wedge is a hero of the Galactic Civil War who aspiring pilot Anni would look up to. ![]() ![]() Lawson's beloved Rebel and New Republic pilot is not just a celebrity guest for the fans. Appearing as a special guest at the city's "fancy" flight academy, Wedge speaks more than in the movies. She lives on a New Republic world, in a place called Hanna City. The story centers on a young Twilek named Anni learning to be a pilot. Denis Lawson, known for playing Wedge Antilles in four Star Wars films, voices his character in the non-canon story. The Star Wars: Visions Season 2 short from Aardman Studios, "I Am Your Mother," features a cameo from an original trilogy actor. The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: Visions Season 2, Episode 4, "I Am Your Mother," now streaming on Disney+. ![]() Middlemarch casaubon7/7/2023 ![]() Casaubon suffers from ill health and dies only a few years after marrying Dorothea. ![]() Casaubon’s cousin Will Ladislaw also reveals that because Casaubon doesn’t read German, he has not been able to keep abreast of the latest developments in theological scholarship and that his project will not be taken seriously (if it is ever published at all). He praises patience and diligent work as the keys to success, but over the course of the novel it becomes clear that he is paralyzed by insecurity and that the project will likely never be finished. Casaubon has spent several decades of his life on a work of theological scholarship called The Key to All Mythologies. He is also described as ugly and “dry ” when Sir James Chettam hears that Dorothea is engaged to him, he laments that Casaubon is “no better than a mummy.” His house, Lowick Manor, is described as correspondingly dark and dreary. He is wealthy and high-ranking, but socially awkward and dull. Edward Casaubon is a 45-year-old bachelor. When we are first introduced to him, Rev. ![]() ![]() See them battle across the world of Evony in real-time, capture enemy generals and use them against their own leaders! ![]() Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, King Arthur, Charles the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Oda Nobunaga, Yi Sun-sin, and more await you to explore. ![]() ◆ YOU ARE THE MONARCH! Recruit famous Generals of history to help with battles and city development. ◆ YOU ARE THE GOVERNOR! Administrate your cities in your Empire and use your leadership skills in managing resources and research improvements to gain strategic advantages. ◆ YOU ARE THE WARLORD! 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Some things to help you know what to expect – ![]() It is and always will be free, so read whenever and as many times as you'd like :) It'll be a slow process, but I'll eventually have it polished enough to publish as a Kindle book. A/N – Hello there! I'm happy to announce that this story is finally getting the editing it deserves. ![]() Rated: Fiction M - English - Adventure - Chapters: 58 - Words: 419,691 - Reviews: 299 - Favs: 158 - Follows: 131 - Updated: - Published: - Status: Complete - id: 3095130 Survival is a continuous struggle when it's hide or fight, and the creatures aren't the only threat in a wasted America. It's six years after an infection turned a majority of the population into ferocious, zombie-like creatures that hunt during the day, forcing the living into a nocturnal state of existence. ![]() Bill gates how to avoid7/6/2023 ![]() His goal with this book appears to be to explain and persuade and although he doesn’t say so in the book, the implicit theme parallels something President Abraham Lincoln once said: “Give the people the facts and the nation will be safe,” meaning we Americans would make the right decisions about the problems we face if we have the facts.Ĭertainly in recent years many Americans have felt completely free to adopt their own beliefs on everything, completely unmoored from science and truth. Gates has crafted a calm, reasoned, well-sourced explanation of the greatest challenge of our time and what we must change to avoid cooking our planet in “How to Avoid Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need.” ![]() Watching Bill Gates in the news over the years, his demeanor usually is that of an earnest, enthusiastic college professor, someone who draws on research and thinks before he talks. “How to Avoid Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need,” by Bill Gates (Knopf) ![]() ![]() This cover image released by Knopf shows "How to Avoid Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need" by Bill Gates. ![]() ![]() ![]() I received a copy from Thomas Allen & Sons in exchange for a honest review and to take part of this blog tour. 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Stitched into the lining of a fabulously feathered design was the loveliest message I’d ever read: Thank you for making all of my dreams come true. ![]() That’s when I found another bride’s “something old.” I’d gone to sell my own unworn bridal gown at a vintage clothing store. It all started with a mysterious blue note sewn into a wedding dress. ![]() From New York Times bestselling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward comes an unexpected love story of secondhand hearts and second chances… ![]() Long way down ewan7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The series was added to Apple TV+ on 18 September 2020, along with sequels Long Way Downįrom 14 April 2004 to 29 July 2004, Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, motorcycle riding cameraman Claudio von Planta, along with director/producers David Alexanian and Russ Malkin, travelled from London to New York City via Western and Central Europe, Ukraine, Western Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia and Canada, over a cumulative distance of 18,887 miles (30,396 km). The series aired on Sky One from 18 October 2004 – 1 February 2005 and was repeated on BBC Two in 2008. They travelled eastwards through Europe and Asia, flew to Alaska, and continued by road to New York. Long Way Round ( LWR) is a British television series and book documenting the 19,000-mile (31,000 km) journey of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from London to New York City on motorcycles. ![]() |