![]() Yet this vision of Greenwood outlawry may have been alive and well as early as the very early fourteenth century and possibly before then. 2 Robin Hood is, of course, one of the most famous medieval literary figures in our modern imaginary, and his name evokes a particular image of medieval outlaswry, one in which a group of unjustly persecuted men live in the woods and undermine the corrupt political and ecclesiastical powers that be. ![]() IN WILLIAM LANGLAND'S Piers Plowman, the character Sloth famously exclaims "I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as þe preest it syngeþ, / But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood." 1 The earliest explicit mention of the Robin Hood legend, these lines suggest that the "rymes" of Robin Hood were well known at that time, though the earliest of the ballads dates to around 1450. ![]()
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![]() ![]() By undergoing genetic enhancements, the octospiders became biological wizards and were eventually able to form a utopia of sorts. The octospiders were a simple species until a space-faring species made contact with them and forever changed their society. The book follows the story of Nicole Wakefield and her escape from imprisonment left at the cliffhanger of the previous book.Īt this point, the humans had already come into contact with two alien species known as "octospiders" and "myrmicats". The book picks up the story immediately after the end of The Garden of Rama. ![]() ![]() It is the last in a four-book series of Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama by these authors, and as the title suggests reveals the mysteries behind the enigmatic Rama spacecraft. Rama Revealed (1993) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. ![]() ![]() Given the figural power of zombies, the apparatuses for control of the vulnerable and dangerous bodies in this uncontrolled pandemic substitute – and obscure the need for – widespread sharing not only of facts but of understanding the implications of those facts. “Physical Isolation and Viral Information in Mira Grant’s Newsflesh” explores the connections between knowledge, scientific authority, physical distancing, and collective action. This constriction, and therefore the extension of government framing of the pandemic as a crisis condition, consolidates power in the hands of a CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) that is actively and secretly working to eliminate human adaptive responses to the virus. The ongoing apocalypse is untenable, as exemplified in the radically constricted lives most people live in efforts to protect themselves from people or other mammals who have been transformed into zombies by the virus. ![]() ![]() Set in the ongoing Kellis-Amberlee pandemic, Mira Grant’s zombie adventure series Newsflesh (2010–2016) conjoins knowledge-power with the physical and technological apparatuses of control for a group of narratives that place citizens against the government. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Dresden awakens, he discovers that the Nightmare's dream attack was both real and powerful, draining Harry of much of his magic. The dream ends up diverging from reality in the dream, a demon summoned by Kravos kills Michael and eats Dresden alive. He has a flashback dream in which he recalls events three or four months prior, when Special Investigations, Michael, and he went to capture Leonid Kravos, a sorcerer, cult leader and serial killer. He manages to injure Kelly by pulling down the roof of a warehouse, and is sent into a narcotic slumber. ![]() While trying to rescue a young seer, Lydia, Harry is attacked by two Red Court vampires (Kyle and Kelly Hamilton). He refuses to allow Susan to accompany him. ![]() ![]() Harry is bailed out by his girlfriend Susan Rodriguez, then receives an official invitation to represent the White Council at a Red Court vampire party. Plot summary ĭresden and Michael Carpenter, a Knight of the Cross, try to track down a bewildered but dangerous ghost in Cook County Hospital, are nearly ensnared by Dresden's faerie godmother the Leanansidhe, then arrested by the Chicago police. It is the third novel in The Dresden Files, which follows the character of Harry Dresden, present-day Chicago's only professional wizard. Grave Peril is a 2001 urban fantasy novel by author Jim Butcher. Print ( paperback) & AudioBook ( Audio cassette & Audio CD) ![]() ![]() He is the author of two poetry collections, Phantom Noise and Here, Bullet, which won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection, 2006 PEN Center USA “Best in the West” award, 2007 Poets Prize and others. Army, which included time in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. He is a writer of tremendous talent, and his work will be read for generations to come,” said Augustana Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence Dr. ![]() What I admire most about Turner's work is how he never loses sight of the humanity of those who fought against him. His work beautifully, and honestly, captures what it means to be a human being caught up in war. “It's an honor to have Brian Turner on campus to talk about the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. Following the talk, Turner will hold a Q&A session and book signing. ![]() Turner is set to address the campus community on Monday, March 20, at 6 p.m., in the Froiland Science Complex, Room 113 - the date marking the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq. Veteran Brian Turner, renowned writer/poet, to discuss his experiences in the Iraq War, as well as its aftermath. ![]() Augustana is excited to announce that the university will host Speaker and U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Louinet, Patrice, Le Guide Howard (a guide to the works of Robert E. The Soldier’s Son ( Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic, 2005-2007).Ĭonan the Barbarian: the complete collection (1932-1936) 3 volumes, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (13 stories, including "The Frost Giant's Daughter"), The Bloody Crown of Conan and The Conquering Sword of Conan, Del Rey, 2003-2005. The Liveship Traders (volume 1, Ship of Magic, 1998). Gaiman Neil, Pratchett Terry, Good Omens (1990).īifrost n° 82, April 2016, Special feature on "Neil Gaiman, entre miroirs et fumées". The Sandman, covers by Dave McKean, various illustrators, New York, Vertigo (DC Comics), (1988-1996). The NeverEnding Story ( Die unendliche Geschichte ), film by Wolfgang Petersen, Germany / US, 1984. Through the Looking Glass (1871) with illustrations by Mervyn Peake.ĭie unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) (1979). Mars Series (11 volumes, 1st volume Under the Moons of Mars, 1912). Here is a selection of fantasy works recommended by the authors of the site, classified by theme. ![]() ![]() ![]() She would eventually become its editor-in-chief and take internships at papers like the Washington Post. She then attended the nearby Howard University for the express purpose of working on the university newspaper. Thanks to her parents’ decision to migrate, Wilkerson grew up in multicultural, integrated Washington, D.C., where she discovered a passion for journalism in high school. ![]() Wilkerson’s mother grew up in Rome, Georgia, and Wilkerson tells part of her migration story in The Warmth of Other Suns. Her father was from Petersburg, Virginia and served in World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airman (a prominent cohort of Black pilots). Isabel Wilkerson identifies as “a Southerner once removed” because her parents both participated in the Great Migration.
![]() He left that field to write and pursue a career advocating against prison rape. Parsell worked in sales in the software industry from 1982 to 2002, employed by companies such as the New York City Transit Authority and DuPont. He is currently working toward a Master of Fine Arts degree in film and television at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was named a Reynolds Fellow in 2010. ![]() He completed high school while in prison and later received a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. During the four years he remained in prison, older inmates sexually assaulted him numerous times. He is best known for his book Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison, which details the sexual violence he experienced while serving a four-year prison sentence as a teenager.Ī native of Dearborn, Michigan, Parsell was incarcerated at age 17 for holding up a Fotomat photo developing booth with a toy gun. J." Parsell (born July 12, 1960) is an American writer, filmmaker, and human rights activist committed to ending prison rape. ![]() ![]() ![]() Captain Darian Frey looks on as one of his passengers/accomplices, Grayther Crake, is being threatened by smuggler Lawsen Macarde. We meet our unheroic protagonists in the middle of a rather sticky situation. But, so as not to get ahead of myself, let’s start from the beginning. If you’re hoping to find similar men (and women) to those found aboard the above ships, I’m sorry to disappoint you. ![]() Enterprise but the greasy, morally dampened wretches of the Ketty Jay from Chris Wooding’s Retribution Falls. No, these are not the beloved crews of the Serenity or the U.S.S. In my first review here I praised the quirky scoundrels that took centre stage in Patrick Weeke’s The Palace Job and, after a brief stint in Earthsea, I’m back with another review involving another gang of less-than-reputable thieves. ![]() ![]() Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money?ĭedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. When Pulitzer Prize –winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ![]() |