![]() Robots keep crops growing to feed everyone, and all is managed and overseen by a team of ‘Janitors’ who stay awake, one for each of the remaining cities where everyone now lives. The world can’t support those left, so a radical programme has been put in place–the majority will spend three quarters of the year asleep, waking every three months for one month of so-called normal life. Climate change has wreaked havoc on the world, in Britain large areas are flooded, uninhabitable. But the world inhabited by the subjects of this novel is now broken. Kings of a Dead World is set in the near future, a time in which the second half of the 20th century is still fresh in some minds and vintage TV programmes are still broadcast. ![]() It shows a strong Ballardian influence too, JG being a favourite of mine! I’m often slightly wary of direct author approaches in case I have to disappoint, but having fallen in love with the cover, I am relieved to tell you that this is a superb novel. Earlier this year, I was approached by Jamie to see if I’d like to read his Spec SF novel. ![]()
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In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mos Def as Booth, Jeffrey Wright as Lincoln in Topdog/Underdog 2002 The original Broadway production opened on April 7th, 2002 starring Jeffrey Wright as Lincoln and Mos Def as Booth. Haunted by the past and their obsession with the street con game, three-card monte, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their history. Suzan-Lori Parks’ TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, a darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln (Hawkins) and Booth (Abdul-Mateen II), names given to them as a joke by their father. Chambers, Marc Platt, Debra Martin Chase, and the Shubert Organization. The production is being produced by David Stone, LaChanze, Rashad V. ![]() Tickets will go on sale at on Monday, June 20th, Juneteenth National Independence Day. ![]() The production will officially open on Thursday, October 20th. The strictly limited 16-week engagement will begin previews on Tuesday, September 27th at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street). Suzan-Lori Parks Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, will return to Broadway this Fall in a 20th Anniversary Production, directed by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon and starring Tony Award-nominee Corey Hawkins (In the Heights, The Tragedy of Macbeth) and Emmy Award-winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen, Candyman) as brothers Lincoln and Booth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Susan is also a published author of two premarital books, two children’s picture books, stories in a dozen compilations, and hundreds of published articles. Susan makes her home in Colorado Springs and enjoys traveling around the world but returns each summer to enjoy the Thousand Islands. Reagan’s Reward is a Selah Awards finalist. She is also a published author of two premarital books, two children’s picture books, seven stories in compilation books, and hundreds of published articles. Her book awards include two Illumination Book Awards, three American Fiction Awards, two Indie Excellence Book Awards, and two Literary Titan Book Awards. Mary’s Moment comes out May 12, 2023, and book eleven, A Summer at Thousand Island House, comes out in July. Sara O’Neill, works as an assistant pastry chef at the magnificent Thousand Islands Crossmon Hotel where she meets precocious, lovable, seven-year-old Madison and her charming father and hotel manager, Sean Graham. Susan G Mathis is an international award-winning, multi-published author of stories set in the beautiful Thousand Islands, her childhood stomping ground in upstate NY. Susan has been published more than twenty-five times in full-length novels, novellas, and non-fiction books. She has nine in her fiction line including, The Fabric of Hope: An Irish Family Legacy, Christmas Charity, Katelyn’s Choice, Devyn’s Dilemma, Sara’s Surprise, Reagan’s Reward, Colleen’s Confession, Peyton’s Promise, and Rachel’s Reunion. ![]() ![]() ![]() All he really wants to do, though, is escape so he can find his friends. Cole will have the especially deadly job of scout, until he has flown fifty missions-if he lives that long. Average life expectancy is measured in weeks. These folks literally live on the edge of the world, and plunder the castles that float by on clouds. Before he can free them, Cole is betrayed, snatched, marked as a slave, and sold to the sky raiders. ![]() Some of them are to be delivered to the High King, who is interested in kids with Shaping potential which is basically Outskirts lingo for magic. Cole’s friends have been captured by a team of slavers, and are being hauled to market. It’s a world where magic, or something like it, is possible. ![]() But the hole in the basement floor proves to be a portal to another world-and it’s a one-way trip.Ĭole arrives in the Outskirts. ![]() His plan is just to find out where the kids are being taken, so he can report back to the police. Cole manages to hide until everybody has gone down the hole, wondering how anyone could think of getting away with kidnapping so many kids at once. But the basement is already nearly full of caged kids waiting to be forced down a ladder in the floor. When Cole and his sixth-grader friends troop down the basement steps to view a spooky Halloween house of horrors, they’re more worried about whether they’re too old to go trick-or-treating than about being kidnapped. ![]() ![]() The clock is ticking, and Gesicht has to figure out who is behind these brutal killings before time runs out. Seven of the remaining greatest robots built by humanity are on the murderer’s list, including Gesicht himself, as well as humans connected to preserving the International Robot Laws, which grant robots equal rights. ![]() ![]() The clues lead Gesicht to realize the killer is a robot, which would make it the first case in the past 8 years where a human is killed by a robot. Gesicht, a German Europol robot detective and a war veteran, is investigating a series of robot and human murders around the world, where the killer leaves behind his signature mark on the victim two pointy objects jutting out of their skull resembling horns. Set in a distant future where humans and sentient robots have come up with a peaceful coexistence after several years of a brutal war, Pluto drives its plot through post-war PTSD and a message of anti-war. The manga series ran from September 2003 to April 2009, publicized by the magazine Big Comic Original. ![]() ![]() Urasawa and Nagasaki's Pluto is based on Tezuka’s Astro Boy storyline known as “The Greatest Robot on Earth" from 1964. Watch Netflix's sneak peek at 'Pluto,' an adaptation of Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's manga based on Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy. ![]() |