epub |eng | 2010-08-19 | Author:Gregory Bassham [Bassham, Gregory]

NOTES 1 Both Plato and Alcibiades were students of the great Athenian philosopher Socrates. 2 Plato, “Seventh Letter,” 324b-324c. 3 Ibid., 324d. 4 Ibid., 325a. 5 This term is often ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Lawrence Watt-Evans

35 The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002) (with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen) ONCE AGAIN, WE HAVE A DISCWORLD STORY about Rincewind interfering with the evolution of Roundworld, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John D. Rateliff

(ii) The Black Arrow The motif of the Black Arrow both harkens back to the alliterative poems of the 1920s and ahead to the Númenórean blades in The Lord of ...

mobi |eng | 2012-12-04 | Author:Stratford Caldecott

Given its centrality in Tolkien’s mythology as the link between the world of today and the Elder Days when the world was flat, between mythical time and historical time, the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Isaac Asimov

1. “Robbie:” This is the first robot story I wrote. I turned it out between May 10 and May 22 of 1939, when I was nineteen years old and was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-09-09 | Author:David Standish [Standish, David]

Koreshan children dressed in costumes, standing in front of the Tea House. (Koreshan State Historic Site) They also had a little riverside outdoor theater. As Carl Carmer, a New Yorker ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Duncan, Hal [Duncan, Hal]

The Model and the Machine Ghosts, golems—these metaphysical quirks of fantasy are incongruous in an exploration of SF surely. Ah, well, let’s just employ the Paradigm Shift Caveat here. Let’s ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Wright, John C. [Wright, John C.]

NOTE TO THE HISTORICALLY ILLITERATE: If you do not recognize more than half the names on the list given above, you are not allowed to have an opinion on any ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Bev Vincent [Vincent, Bev]

Q: The layout for the Dark Tower graphic novels is more basic than some of the contemporary graphic novels. A: From the beginning, Jae only did horizontal panels. The idea ...

mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Frankel, Valerie Estelle [Frankel, Valerie Estelle]

Drogo Returns Upon the stillbirth of her child, Mirri Maz Duur advised her that Drogo will return from his comatose state. When the sun rises in the west and sets ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Rivan Codex [Codex, The Rivan]

Large numbers of gold and silver coins from the period of the civil wars of varying weights and purity. Practice is to weigh them and check extensive tables for value. ...

mobi |eng | 2008-02-09 | Author:Kevin R. Grazier

Did they really talk that way? The Plot The story begins with the appearance of a mortally injured man in the Arizona desert. He is raving and suffering from strange ...

epub, mobi | | 2009-04-25 | Author:Octavia E. Butler [Butler, Octavia E.]

14 The next day, all three children were arranged in backpacks and carried toward the mountains. They were not allowed to walk. Gabe carried Akin atop a bundle of supplies, ...

epub |eng | 2006-08-29 | Author:Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J. & Herbert, Frank [Herbert, Brian and Anderson, Kevin J. and Herbert, Frank]

I think this will be called a better book than Dragon in the Sea and that has won many songs of praise. I bow three times—and hold out my hands ...

epub | | 2010-03-24 | Author:Frank Herbert [Herbert, Frank]

(Several short scenes from the opening of Dune) On the inner wall beneath the window was a loose stone that could be pulled out to reveal a hiding place for ...