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Edward Parker of Lambda Literary stated that "Time is an important theme throughout the book. Delany has constructed the story so that time passes slowly in the beginning—the whole first half of the book covers only five of the novel’s seventy years—and then accelerates as the main characters age, structurally reflecting the human ...
Johnson describes world history beginning with the aftermath of World War I, and ending with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.. In the first part of the book, Johnson deals mainly with the shaping of the Soviet Union in the first decades after World War I, the collapse of democracy in Central Europe due to the rise of Fascism and National Socialism, the causes that led to World War ...
The Big Time was serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1958. The Big Time is a short science fiction novel by American writer Fritz Leiber.Awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel or Novelette in 1958, The Big Time was published originally in two parts in Galaxy Magazine's March and April 1958 issues, illustrated by Virgil Finlay.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
The "shadow men" - malevolent beings outside of time and reality - begin closing in on John and David, who in panic uses the furgun to summon a traditional depiction of Jesus, which burns the shadow men as well as the spiders that control the REPER force. A stray bullet is about to hit Amy, but Amy's dog Molly puts herself in its path, and with ...
Internal conflict in Myanmar: 2 April 1948: Ongoing: 76 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days Arab–Israeli conflict: 15 May 1948: Ongoing: 76 years, 7 months, 1 week and 6 days Muslim conquest of Sicily: June 827: August 902: 75 years and 2 months Apache Wars: 1849: 1924: 75 years Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes: 1949: Ongoing: 75 ...
The story begins at Larklight, a house that orbits Earth's moon, where the Mumbys receive a visitor from the Royal Xenological Society, a Mr. Webster, who is revealed to be an extra-terrestrial resembling an enormous white spider. Art and his sister Myrtle escape; but their father is captured and presumed dead.
No Comebacks is a 1982 collection of ten short stories by English writer Frederick Forsyth.Each story takes place in a different setting and ends with a plot twist. Several of them involve a central male character without any apparent strength who is put under pressure, but who does not g