epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:J. R. R Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R]

Chapter 6 MANY PARTINGS When the days of rejoicing were over at last the Companions thought of returning to their own homes. And Frodo went to the King as he ...

epub |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Jones, Stephen & Newman, Kim [Jones, Stephen & Newman, Kim]

*** Disaster is a proud tradition in fantastic literature, from H. G. Wells' Martian invasion to such modern-day bestsellers as Swan Song and War Day. The fifties and the early ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein & William H. Patterson, Jr. [Heinlein, Robert A. & Patterson,, William H. Jr.]

Your urge to work on stories may be prophetic, or a symptom of one of two things. Either that the plant there is beginning to run reasonably smoothly, or that ...

epub |eng | | Author:William H. Patterson, Jr.

25 ON TO OTHER THINGS Editors and publishers had always sent Heinlein manuscripts hoping to get a comment to use on the book jacket. Most of the time he was ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

12. BEAM ME UP If your first experience of teleportation was Star Trek and the all-too-frequent requests to Mr. Scott to be beamed up (wonderfully parodied in Galaxy Quest), then ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:David J. Peterson

Geilää liivinith domintaath. (domintaa “scout,” nominative) “The warrior attacked with a scout (or accompanied by a scout).” Benefactive: The benefactive case is used with a noun on behalf of whom ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Diana Gabaldon

N Nan—A former prostitute at Magda’s, she was apparently a favorite of Harry Quarry when he utilized the facility. [PM] Nanny Elspeth—William’s dour, stoic nanny when he was a child ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-16 | Author:Martin, R.R. George [Martin, R.R. George]

EDDARD He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood. In the dream his friends rode ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-02 | Author:James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel [Kelly, James Patrick & Kessel, John]

For what makes SF wonderful and complicated is that mix of speculation and the fabulous: SF is both think-fiction and dream-fiction. For the first 60-odd years of the century American ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Ytasha L. Womack [Womack, Ytasha L.]

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first black woman to go into space, always liked math and technology. But her space dreams were sparked by watching Lieutenant Uhura, the lone black character ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski [Zaleski, Philip & Zaleski, Carol]

14 LOSS AND GAIN As the war wound down, so did Charles Williams. “I’m even more of a … prophet? priest? something—more of a Voice and less of a man ...

epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Sam Weller [Weller, Sam]

19. THE WHITE WHALE I have been in awe of Ray Bradbury ever since my brother introduced me to his books when I was a young boy. I remember distinctly ...

epub | | 2013-07-30 | Author:Colin Duriez

Further reading Clyde S. Kilby, Tolkien and The Silmarillion (1976). Paul H. Kocher, A Reader’s Guide to The Silmarillion (1980). Consolation Tolkien believed that consolation was a central quality of ...

epub, azw3, pdf, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Terry Brooks

* * * The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don’t change. * * * * * * ...

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 ...