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Was (or Was... in the UK edition) is a WFA–nominated [1] 1992 novel by Canadian author Geoff Ryman, published by HarperCollins, focusing on themes of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the 1939 musical film version, ranging across time and space from 1860s Kansas to late 1980s California.
Aniello Ascione (fl 1680 –1708), Italian painter of still lifes; Joe Ascione (1961–2016), American jazz drummer; Patrick Ascione (1953-2014), French composer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music; Roberto Ascione (born 1973), Italian entrepreneur and global thought leader; Thierry Ascione (born 1981), retired French tour male tennis player
At the end of the collection, a chronology of the Xeelee Sequence is provided. Every short story and book from the cycle (up to 1997) is noted, with notable events from each story plotted. "Vacuum Diagrams" is also the title of the fifteenth short story in this collection. It was originally published in Interzone in 1990.
From 1980 to 1989 Vassanji was a research associate at the University of Toronto.During this period he developed an interest in medieval Indian literature and history, co-founded and edited a literary magazine (The Toronto South Asian Review, later renamed The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad), and began writing fiction.
Gregorio, his brother Vanni and their sister Livia have progressively lost contact with each others. Vanni and Livia have found success in their artistic career, along the footsteps of their father, a famous sculptor.
The story itself takes place in 1992. The plot follows two parallel patterns, one during late apartheid South Africa where incumbent president F.W. de Klerk, leader of the Afrikaner minority which is on the brink of losing power to the African majority under the leadership of the ANC, about to end 44 years of suppression by the Broederbond rule.
Rising Sun is a 1992 novel by Michael Crichton. [2] [3] It was his eighth under his own name and eighteenth overall, and is about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. [4]