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The Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in 1926. It was the winner of the 1963 Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in The Saturday Evening Post , and was published in January 1963 by Harper & Row .
Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 – November 1, 1964) was an American sailor and novelist. He was best known for his historical novel The Sand Pebbles, which tells the story of an American sailor serving aboard a gunboat on the Chinese Yangtze River in 1925.
This tale introduces We-wee, Blakes first boy assistant. Blake meets him in China while on an adventure. We-wee is an orphan and readily agrees to accompany Blake back to England. In many ways the We-wee tales foreshadow the adventures of Blake and Tinker. We-wee is a key figure in the 1890s' renaissance of the child detective. [27]
Sand Hollow Reservoir is a reservoir located at Sand Hollow State Park in Washington County, Utah, United States. [3] The lake opened to the public in 2003 making it the newest lake in Utah. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
"Sandkings" is a novelette by American writer George R. R. Martin, first published in the August 1979 issue of Omni. In 1980, it won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the Locus Award for best novelette, and was nominated for the Balrog Award in short fiction. [1]
"The Book of Sand" (Spanish: El libro de arena) is a 1975 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges about the discovery of a book with infinite pages. It has parallels to the same author's 1949 story " The Zahir " (revised in 1974), continuing the theme of self-reference and attempting to abandon the terribly infinite, and to his 1941 ...
David Wadsworth Ball (born September 12, 1949) is an American author whose novels include Empires of Sand (1999), China Run (2002) and Ironfire (2004). His short story, The Scroll, was published in Warriors (2010), and Warriors 2 (2010), anthologies assembled by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.
Starting with issue #70 (January 1951), he disappeared completely; the book was still called Daredevil Comics, but only the Little Wise Guys remained. [4] The titular star briefly reappeared in issues #79 and 80, but that was the end of him. Daredevil Comics ended with issue #134 (Sept. 1956), and the Little Wise Guys vanished along with it.