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Title page of Book from the Sky, in pseudo-Chinese characters.The characters “天書” do not appear anywhere in the book. A Book from the Sky (simplified Chinese: 天书; traditional Chinese: 天書; pinyin: Tiānshū) is a book produced by Chinese artist Xu Bing in the style of fine editions from the Song and Ming dynasties, but filled entirely with meaningless glyphs designed to resemble ...
A Ladder to the Sky is a 2018 novel by Irish novelist John Boyne, and his eleventh novel for adults. The plot concerns Maurice Swift, a handsome young writer who schemes, seduces, and plagiarizes his way to literary stardom. The novel received positive reviews from critics, and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the 2018 Irish Book Awards ...
[2] High Conquest was the first of nine books for the J.B. Lippincott Company, coming out in 1941, followed by The White Tower, River of The Sun, Windom's Way, and Banner in the Sky, a 1955 Newbery Honor book. All of these titles became small motion pictures.
The three books are each well over a thousand pages long and are not standalone novels, totalling 1.2 million words. The trilogy is set in a universe with a wealth of worlds and artificial orbiting colonies. The plot is centered on the souls of the dead coming back from a hellish "beyond" to possess the living, and the latter fighting back.
A Book from the Sky, a similar book by Chinese artist Xu Bing, consisting of new, meaningless Chinese characters, printed from hand-carved blocks; Fantastic Planet, a French film consisting of similar abstract imagery; After Man and Man After Man by Dougal Dixon, books illustrating speculated future zoology and anthropology, respectively.
The novel is an adventure involving the original Star Trek series cast and journeys through many eras of the Trek timeline.The story is presented as a book within a book featuring excerpts from a novel called Strangers from the Sky by fictional author Garamet Jen-Saunor which claims that the official records of how the Human and Vulcan races met for the first time were incorrect.
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys of Sudan (2005) is a book co-authored with Judy A. Bernstein. [1] It is the autobiographical story of brothers Benson Deng and Alephonsion Deng , and their cousin Benjamin Ajak .
The book centers "on female protagonists exposed to a cruel world that pushes them to take certain steps to fit in, or make them realize, they just might not fit in," [7] offering "a humanizing portrait of both the Nigerian citizen and first generation young female immigrant", showcasing "their flaws, their desires, their victories, and their attempts at carving out a place in a country whose ...