![]() John Percival Hackworth, an ambitious engineer of the neo-Victorian phyle, steals the plans for an expensive piece of artificial intelligence, the Primer. Rebel groups are working underground to create the Seed, a native, alternate form of nanotechnology. New Atlantis’s neo-Victorians are one of the most powerful phyles due to their control of nanotechnology delivered by the Feed, a centralized system that delivers subsistence-level food and goods to the have-nots (thetes) and a high standard of living to elites. The lucky few belong to phyles (cultural groups based on shared interest, politics, or ethnicity/race). Shanghai is now carved into municipalities and groups that arose when most nations collapsed in the wake of the nanotechnology economy and the rise of a secure, anonymous network that hid taxable income. ![]() The Diamond Age takes place in Shanghai and off the Eastern coast of China. ![]() Content Warning: The source novel includes sexual abuse and violence, misogynistic slurs as characterization, and physical violence. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We hear from his first friend, from his foster sister, from a child who runs across him squatting in a cabin in the woods we hear from people who love him and people who dislike him and at least one person who barely knows him at all. Ruth Emmie Lang’s debut is a mosaic of viewpoints looking at Weylyn and his impact on his surroundings over the course of nearly fifty years. He can, apparently, control the weather, speak with animals, accelerate plant growth, and do other supernatural things on occasion, but he’s also a perennial outsider, walking in and out of other people’s lives only to leave them touched with enchantment and confusion. ![]() Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance, Ruth Emmie Lang ( St. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to challenge power, you’ll be pushed to the margins. So, those in power and those who report on them are in bed with each other. They make themselves crucial to the process of journalism. They feed media scoops, official accounts, interviews with the ‘experts’. They know how to influence the news narrative. ![]() Governments, corporations, big institutions know how to play the media game. Journalism cannot be a check on power because the very system encourages complicity. The establishment manages the media through the third filter. They are also selling advertisers a product - YOU.” And so it isn’t so much that the media are selling you a product - their output. And what are the advertisers paying for? Audiences. Media costs a lot more than consumers will ever pay. The second filter exposes the real role of advertising. Naturally, critical journalism must take second place to the needs and interests of the corporation. And so it’s in their interests to push for whatever guarantees that profit. Often, they are part of even bigger conglomerates. 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Why did Marla, Alex’s dear aunt, change yet her mother did not? Alex is unsure. The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when countless numbers of regular wives and mothers gained wings, scales, and talons, left a trail of blazing devastation in their wake, and soared to the skies, was the most important event in Alex Green’s world, which otherwise resembles our own. The author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, winner of the Newbery Medal, presents her first adult book. ![]() A sincere, intricate, and completely engrossing coming-of-age tale that is both current and timeless.Ī stunning feminist story taking place in 1950s America in which millions of women spontaneously change into dragons destroying preconceived ideas about a woman’s role in the world and broadens perspectives on accepting others for who they truly are. 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The story of the show revolves around a pair of Scotland Yard Detectives with vastly different backgrounds and characters who are tasked with solving complex and often very tense murder cases. Only when events take an unbearable turn is New Scotland Yard brought in, in the guise of Detective Inspector Lynley and his partner, Barbara Havers. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a British crime drama series written for television for original broadcasting on BBC One and adapted from the novels of the same name by the American writer Elizabeth George. ![]() ![]() The Contestants: Ben Stiller and Owen WilsonĮric Thurm: Let’s get something out of the way, up front: Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are at their best when they’re together. Today’s combatants are Claire Lobenfeld, riding for Ben Stiller, and Eric Thurm, taking up arms for Owen Wilson. ![]() ![]() At the end, a guest judge will hand down a verdict. It may seem reductive, or even unnecessarily competitive, to put our gentle creators into a squared circle, but it’s a useful exercise in seeing who is doing things right, who is doing things wrong, who is doing things differently, and, of course, who is winning. The Upper Hand is where we pit unsuspecting entertainers against one another to determine who currently has a greater grip on the hearts and minds of America. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. To the extent that the image or images on the cover of this book. But though she makes Tristan’s task infernally difficult, falling in love may be all too easy. Named for the heather in her native Ireland, botanist Erica Burke dreams of travelsomewhere she won’t be. even indulge in a dangerous intimacy with a woman he has no business wanting.Įrica guards her journal as fiercely as she guards her heart, fearing to reveal a side of herself a man like Tristan could never understand. Could the culprit be his unconventional Irish guest? He needs to see her journal to be sure, and he’ll do what he must to get his hands on it. A brief return to England to set his affairs in order is extended by bad weather and worse news-someone is after the military secrets he keeps. An unexpected heir, Tristan is torn between his duties as an intelligence officer and his responsibilities as a duke. Named for the heather in her native Ireland, botanist Erica Burke dreams of travel-somewhere she won't be scorned for her scientific interests. ![]() Instead, a storm strands her with cool and commanding Major Tristan Laurens, the Duke of Raynham. by Susanna Craig Part 2 of the Rogues and Rebelsseries An English war hero must unlock the secrets of an Irish beauty's heart. Named for the heather in her native Ireland, botanist Erica Burke dreams of travel-somewhere she won’t be scorned for her scientific interests. ![]() ![]() An English war hero must unlock the secrets of an Irish beauty’s heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() Voices were either calling for the police to be summoned or joining in with a stupid “Fight, fight, fight!” chant. The sound of shouts and whooping seemed to get louder all of a sudden and as her stunned brain began to chug into gear, she realised that the music had been turned off and all attention was focused on the two bodies struggling against the counter. She skittered back on her heels and her surroundings dipped and swayed for a dizzy moment, exacerbated by a sudden pulse of the detested strobe lighting. 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