![]() She found Cain exactly where she’d expected him to be. The weather here was milder than on Earth, but the evenings were brisk this time of year. The soft grass was cool beneath her feet, and she wished she’d put a wrap around her sleeveless nightgown before she’d come outside. Cain’s ranch was vast, and it had taken her weeks to grow familiar with the endless stretches of land. ![]() So she rolled out of bed and padded barefoot out of the house.īoth moons were nearly full, and the night was clear so there was plenty of light illuminating the expansive yard and the sloped fields surrounding the house. Sometimes she just went back to sleep when she woke up and found he was missing. She wasn’t surprised or particularly concerned. The covers were warm and rumpled from where he’d been sleeping but Cain was no longer in bed. She never slept in pitch darkness anymore.īut when she rolled over and opened her eyes, she saw the other side of the bed was empty. ![]() And there was faint light shining dimly from the hallway. ![]() The bed was familiar now-big, clean, and comfortable. ![]()
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![]() When orders come down for the rebels to fall back in the face of superior opposition numbers and firepower, Twilight reluctantly complies. Hard-bitten, war-weary, and ferociously loyal to one another, the members of this renegade outfit doggedly survive where others perish, and defiance is their most powerful weapon against the deadliest odds. ![]() ![]() Leading the charge are the soldiers-men and women, human and nonhuman-of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, better known as Twilight Company. In the streets and alleys of ravaged cities, the front-line forces of the Rebel Alliance are taking the fight to the enemy, pushing deeper into Imperial territory and grappling with the savage flesh-and-blood realities of war on the ground. On the battlefields of multiple worlds in the Mid Rim, legions of ruthless stormtroopers-bent on crushing resistance to the Empire wherever it arises-are waging close and brutal combat against an armada of freedom fighters. ![]() The ultimate survivors.Īmong the stars and across the vast expanses of space, the Galactic Civil War rages. A companion novel inspired by the hotly anticipated videogame Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a squad of soldiers caught in the trenches of the ultimate galactic war between good and evil. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea popped up again during the famous #DonaldforSpiderman Twitter campaign that sought to cast multi-hyphenate Donald Glover as Peter Parker in Sony’s cinematic Spider-Man reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. Created by Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli in 2011 as part of the Ultimate Marvel imprint, Miles has transcended his comic origins to become the lead of his own animated movie ( Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and now a videogame ( Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales) too.Īccording to then Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, Marvel had plans to introduce a Black Spider-Man around the 2008 election of President Obama but delayed to find a more thoughtful and natural approach to presenting the character. ![]() New comic book characters debut all the time, but few of them break out and capture the public’s heart as much as Miles Morales. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ticket Stub Diary Rated Hip Ampersand Logos by Vanessa Azzoli $12I need one of these desperately. It’s an outstanding read for those powerful musical women in your life. 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Hoping to get something a little geekier than socks and underwear in your stocking this year? The G&B Team have put together our list of favourite geek and beat-related gifts for the holiday season. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The movies shattered Hallmark viewing records according to the network, all three movie premieres were the most-watched entertainment cable programs for their respective premiere weeks and had a combined total of seven million unique viewers. Despite their doubts, each character found love throughout the trilogy. Starring Lacey Chabert, Alison Sweeney, and Autumn Reeser, the trilogy was about three college friends who bought an antique lace wedding veil said to bring true love to whoever possessed it. ![]() A post shared by Lacey Chabert three “Wedding Veil” movies debuted on Hallmark in early January 2022, with the third one premiering on February 19, as part of the network’s “Loveuary” programming event. ![]() ![]() ![]() Steampunk uprisings, forging empires, out-of-depth elementals and Brandon Sanderson’s Secret Project 2 revealed! Enjoy our ultimate selection o top new fantasy books in April and the latest news in sci-fi this week. Also check out the mega collection of sci-fi and fantasy books in May and the awesome collection of new LitRPG books in May. Then brave dark powers, immortal enemies and go on the quest of a lifetime with the most anticipated new fantasy books in May. Check out these amazing new sci-fi books in May. Enjoy!ĭoomed planets, prehistoric predators and temporal paradoxes worth avoiding. ![]() There’s a bit to explore already, and more coming soon. ![]() And I’d really appreciate your support – share it with your friends if you like, or sign up for my free scifixfantasy newsletter, or connect on the scifixfantasy Facebook page. If you know of a book, author, show, channel or event that should be on this list, let me know at and I’ll make it happen.ĭo you enjoy my take on sci-fi and fantasy? I’m just one person doing all of this by myself because I love it ( about scifixfantasy). Note: I try my best to get every bit of info I can, and will keep updating this page all the time. ![]() ![]() ![]() I may also explore among the picks in the Long List, though I have no intentions of reading all of them. This will also tie in nicely with my participation in 6th Annual Canadian Book Challenge , hosted by John Mutford of The Book Mine Set . I confess that I am in general deeply cynical about prizes awarded by popular vote, which is the whole premise of this literary “event”, but this year the shortlist picks seem more intriguing to me than some in the past, so I’ve set myself a personal goal of reading and reviewing all five of them. This is an event I’ve watched (well, more accurately, listened to) with mild interest the last few years, but never really embraced. ![]() Last night, with great self-congratulatory brouhaha, CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi introduced the Canada Reads 2013 Shortlist and celebrity panelists. ![]() ![]() section 3: Reading Queer indigenous writing.Unsettling Queer politics : what can non-Natives learn from Two-Spirit organizing? / Scott Lauria Morgensen.Two-Spirit men's sexual survivance against the inequality of desire / Brian Joseph Gilley.Exploring Takatapui identity within the Maori community : implications for health and well-being / Clive Aspin.Asegi Ayetl : Cherokee Two-Spirit people reimagining nation / Qwo-Li Driskill. ![]() section 2: Situating Two-Spirit and Queer indigenous movements.Fa'afafine notes : on Tagaloa, Jesus, and Nafanua / Dan Taulapapa McMullin.A Queer caste : mixing race and sexuality in colonial New Zealand / Michelle Erai.Queer theory and Native studies : the heteronormativity of settler colonialism / Andrea Smith.Decolonizing the queer Native body (and recovering the Native bull-dyke) : bringing "sexy" back and out of Native studies' closet / Chris Finley.section 1: Performing queer indigenous critiques. ![]() Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cantos I and II were published on 15 July 1819, and cantos III, IV, and V were published on 8 August 1821.īyron began to write canto VI in June 1822, and had completed writing canto XVI in March 1823. Cantos III and IV were written in winter of 1819–1820 and canto V was written in October–November 1820. Canto I was written in September 1818, and canto II was written in December 1818 through January 1819. ![]() Lord Byron was a prolific writer for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life" he wrote the first canto in late 1818, and the seventeenth canto in early 1823. Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. ![]() ![]() Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on an engrossing journey into the lives and minds of the world’s greatest writers, from Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot to Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith-with a few mischievous detours to visit Tolstoy along the way. “Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” How then to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets, writing a sex scene? What made Nabokov choose the name Lolita? Why did Fitzgerald use firstperson narration in The Great Gatsby ? How did Kerouac, who raged against revision, finally come to revise On the Road ? “There are three rules for writing a novel,” Somerset Maugham is said to have said. I have never annotated a book so fiercely.”-Hilary Mantel It didn’t make me more Russian, but it fired up my imagination. “Richard Cohen’s book acted as a tonic to me. ![]() NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SPECTATOR ![]() ![]() A thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King ![]() |