A legend covert soldier with a mysterious past now decides to once again unleash his beast inside of him to stand up for what he cares about.
Aug
15
Set in a Fascistic future America, The Handmaid’s Tale tells the story of Kate, a handmaid. In this America, the religious right has taken over and gone hog-wild. Kate is a criminal, guilty of the crime of trying to escape from the US, and is sentenced to become a Handmaid. The job of a Handmaid is to bear the children of the man to whom she is assigned. After ruthless group training by Aunt Lydia in the proper way to behave, Kate is assigned as Handmaid to the Commander. Kate is attracted to Nick, the Commander’s chauffeur. At the same time, a resistance movement begins to challenge the regime.
Aug
15
When her police officer husband starts abusing her, Maya realizes she must gather ironclad evidence to take him down.
How can we theorise partitions differently? How are new identities, moralities, polities and life constructed post-partition? How are gender and sexuality recalibrated after partition? How can violence be theorised? What is the relationship between identity in the diaspora and identity after partition? What is the relationship between the movement of capital and national borders that is the mark of partition?
Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America.
In these days of computers and CCD cameras, visual comet observers can still contribute scientifically useful data with the help of this handy reference for use in the field. Comets are one of the principal areas for productive pro-amateur collaboration in astronomy, but finding comets requires a different approach than the observing of more predictable targets.
Aug
15
A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. First giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to differentiate the different forms of counterfactual fiction, Jack Dann lays out the ‘tricks of the trade’ such ‘Heinleining’, how to create recognizable ‘divergent points’ and how to employ paratextual elements and ‘layering’ to overcome readers’ unfamiliarity with invented counterfactual events and cultures.
Aug
14
The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
The hit game show where adults have to answer grade-school level questions to win big is back. And this time, the kids play a bigger role as they help contestants prove that they’re smarter than a 5th grader. Hosted by John Cena.
Aug
14
After being released from a 6-year prison sentence for the possession of marijuana at a college party, Tyler Richards is surprisingly reunited with the friends for whom he took the fall. After a secretly planned dinner party is revealed by his best friend Justin, Tyler finds himself forced to spent his first night out “catching up with the old crew”. The surprise to Tyler, he is shocked at how distant the group has grown and how much each individual has changed; and not for the better. Seeing that they have nearly all veered from the paths that he expected them to take, Tyler listens as the complaints of their everyday lives become louder, and he sees the selfish and ungrateful soul of this generation’s society. However, Tyler comes to hear that being imprisoned in your mind and literally being in prison might not be as far from one another as one would think. Or are we simply conditioned to take our freedom for granted? Are we taking our own willpower and ability to make conscious …
