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Weapon is a 1989 science fiction novel by Robert Mason. The book was Mason's first novel; he had previously written a memoir about his experiences in Vietnam titled Chickenhawk . The book is about an android , designed to kill, which experiences a crisis of conscience and runs away from its government masters to live in a Nicaraguan village.
Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990.It is the third novel in the Culture series. [1]The narrative takes the form of a biography of a man called Cheradenine Zakalwe, who was born outside of the Culture but was recruited into it by Special Circumstances agent Diziet Sma to work as an operative intervening in less advanced civilizations.
Kirkus Reviews gave it a starred review, summarizing that there's "no high drama here, but Marie and Gabe are compelling in their basic goodness." [1]Writing in The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised the novel, stating Someone is a "wonderfully modest title for such a fine-tuned, beautiful book filled with so much universal experience, such haunting imagery, such urgent matters of life and ...
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The Hate U Give Hardcover dustjacket (2017, 1st ed.) Author Angie Thomas Cover artist Debra Cartwright Publisher Balzer + Bray Publication date February 28, 2017 Publication place United States Pages 444 ISBN 978-0-06-249853-3 Preceded by Concrete Rose The Hate U Give is a 2017 young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It is Thomas's debut novel, expanded from a short story she wrote in college in ...
Juliet Mitchell, CEO of the Life Etiquette Institute, said that while people can sometimes extend “grace” to others who use pet names based on their generation and culture, LeVell’s use of ...
If the unmarked enemy aircraft, mirrored visors and carefully evasive language of Joseph Kosinksi’s “Top Gun: Maverick” tell us anything, it’s that Hollywood has learned to avoid political ...
Stanisław Lem pictured at a typewriter in 1966. Stanisław Lem's fictitious criticism of nonexistent books may be found in his following works: in three collections of faux reviews of fictional books: A Perfect Vacuum (Doskonała próżnia, 1971), Provocation (Prowokacja, 1984), and Library of 21st Century (Biblioteka XXI wieku, 1986) translated as One Human Minute, and in Imaginary Magnitude ...