Ian McDonald crea narrative che approfondiscono temi profondi di trasformazione umana e potenziale, spesso ambientate in futuri vividamente immaginati o realtà alternative. La sua prosa distintiva è ricca di dettagli ed evocativa, attirando i lettori in mondi complessi. Il lavoro di McDonald è celebrato per la sua profondità intellettuale e la sua capacità di provocare la contemplazione sulla traiettoria dell'umanità. La sua scrittura si distingue per l'originalità e la natura stimolante delle sue idee.
Un avvincente romanzo sulla realtà virtuale: un giovane studente e manipolatore di computer grafica, Ethan Ring, scopre che le immagini generate al compiutere possiedono poteri infiniti: il potere di guarire, di cancellare i ricordi, di provocare l'estasi, di uccidere senza rimorso alcuno...
This book is one of many that fall part of a series. Designed to assist reluctant readers and dyslexia sufferers, this book follows the British Dyslexia Association guidelines (printed on cream paper, double line spacing, large font, left justified and plenty of pictograms). Alien Teeth is the crazy new sequel to the extremely popular Eyeball Soup. When you accidentally sit on a set of teeth, they can be hard to remove from your bottom...especially when they belong to an alien who left them behind on a flying visit to Earth. The precious molars belong to Emperor Zarg and he wants them back! With fabulous illustrations, Alien Teeth is packed full of schoolboy humour and the narrative hurtles relentlessly from one outrageous disaster to another. This excellent Reluctant/Dyslexic Reader has special appeal to boys and was also selected by the SLA Boys into Books Project (5-11).
'Dark, twisty and excellent . . . Grimdark with heart' Mark Lawrence For Ryhalt Galharrow, working for Crowfoot as a Blackwing captain is about as bad as it gets - especially when his orders are garbled, or incoherent, or impossible to carry out. The Deep Kings are hurling fire from the sky, a ghost in the light known only as the Bright Lady had begun to manifest in visions across the city, and the cult that worship her grasp for power while the city burns around them. Galharrow may not be able to do much about the cult - or about strange orders from the Nameless - but when Crowfoot's arcane vault is breached and an object of terrible power is stolen, he's propelled into a race against time to recover it. Only to do that, he needs answers, and finding them means travelling into nightmare: to the very heart of the Misery. RAVENCRY is the second book in the Raven's Mark series, continuing the story that began with the award winning epic fantasy BLACKWING.
World-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon. There they find an Alderson Disc, an astronomical megastructure of incredibly strong material reaching from the orbit of Mercury to the orbit of Jupiter. Then they meet the Jiju, the dominant species on a plane where the dinosaurs didn't die out. They evolved, diversified, and have a twenty-five million year technology head-start on humanity. War between their kingdoms is inevitable, total and terrible. The Everness has jumped right into the midst of a faction fight between rival nations, the Fabreen and Dityu empires. The airship is attacked, but then defended by the forces of the Fabreen, who offers theEverness crew protection. But what is the true motive behind Empress Aswiu's aid? What is her price? The crew of the Everness is divided in a very alien world, a world fast approaching the point of apocalypse.
This Gaelic dictionary serves as a valuable reference for both learners and fluent speakers, suitable for accompanying Gaelic courses and appealing to primary and secondary school pupils educated in Gaelic as their first language.
The Beatles' Records & the Sixties
Tracing the development of the Beatles song-by-song, this book places the group in the wider cultural context of the '60s. It considers all the elements which combined to create each song as it was captured on vinyl, from the stimuli of contemporary pop hits to the influence of psychedelic drugs.
As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis and Blur. This book goes back to the heart of The Beatles - their records.
From the vantage point of later middle life, Ian McDonald’s collection looks into the heart of time the coming death of aging parents, the old men, the sight of ‘my own lines of age’ and the loss of pleasure in the glittering carnival of the senses. There are joys in the rich blessings of the arrival of a new child coming unexpected at this stage of life, but those joys are made more piquant by the inescapable sense of the ephemeral. Poems of moving domestic intimacy and humor (‘To alarm their fathers half to death/New-born babies hold their breath’), valedictory requiems for the characters who have given Georgetown life its flavor and regret for the country’s loss of civility during its darkest recent years and songs in praise of nature are all part of a vision which looks into the darkness but says, ‘Yes, it is as you say,/ But let us get just one thing There is beauty in the world/ ... And the star-tree blossoms in the night,/Night that will have an end.’
Crowfall is a gritty epic fantasy for fans of Mark Lawrence, Scott Lynch and Daniel Polansky.
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