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The Fullmetal Alchemist novels were one of the premiere titles for Viz's new Fiction imprint and were translated by Alexander O. Smith. [8] [9] The first five novels were released in North America from October 2005 to December 2007. [10] The sixth novel, translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash and Asumi Shibata, was released in October 2021.
Ask the Dust is the most popular novel of American author John Fante, first published in 1939 and set during the Great Depression era in Los Angeles. It is one of a series of novels featuring the character Arturo Bandini as Fante's alter ego, a young Italian-American from Colorado struggling to make it as a writer in Los Angeles.
AlphaPolis is a publisher of light novels and manga, [4] particularly for online readers. [5] The company is the publisher for several light novel series, including A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life, New Saga, and Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy. They are most notable as the publisher of Gate, which has sold 6 million copies. [6]
The story itself had no ending, [14] and is left on a cliffhanger, with Tintin's fate left unexplained. [15] Hergé's main assistant, Bob de Moor, showed an interest in completing the book following Hergé's death. [16] As De Moor explained, "Personally I would have loved to finish Alph-Art. It would have been a tribute to Hergé.
Alpha : socially (and in some interpretations, even biologically) dominant, physically built, short-tempered and a natural leader; Beta : depending on the story, they are regular human beings, or have a mix of Alpha and Omega traits, or their own unique traits; Omega : submissive and gentle, calm and a peacemaker.
[2] Anthony C. Doyle reviewing for the School Library Journal did not recommend the novel saying "readers looking for a novel about a sibling's criminality would be better served by Patricia McCormick's My Brother's Keeper, and those looking for stories about tissue donation and sibling illness could try Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper" [3]
The system of Lagash has six stars named Alpha, Beta, etc., in the original short story, whereas each has a proper name in the novel. In the novel, Onos is the primary sun of Lagash and is located 10 light-minutes away, similar to the distance from Earth to the Sun. The other five suns are minor in comparison, but provide enough light to ...
The novel is a fixup [1] of two earlier short stories, "The Ark of Mars" (first published in the September 1953 issue of Planet Stories) and "Teleportress of Alpha C" (first published in the Winter 1954-1955 Planet Stories). Its first book publication was as half of Ace Double F-187 with Legend of Lost Earth by G. McDonald Wallis. [2]