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Atomic Heart takes place on the grounds of Facility 3826, the Soviet Union's foremost scientific research hub in an alternate history 1955, located in the Kazakh SSR.In 1936, scientist Dmitry Sechenov developed a liquidized programmable module called the Polymer, sparking massive technological breakthroughs in the fields of energy and robotics in the USSR and freeing much of the populace from ...
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 book received mostly positive reviews from critics. [5] Tor.com stated that The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires was "a brutal book", whose "happy ending comes at a high cost." [1] The AV Club's AUX also reviewed the work, comparing it to "its undead antagonist: flashy and engaging in the action, but strangely hollow at its ...
Sir Giles Staverley, a compulsive gambler, is tricked into gambling away his home by his old adversary Lord Harry Wrotham. As Staverley is distraught and desperate, Wrotham gives him one last chance - he will gamble everything Staverley has lost against Staverley's daughter's hand in marriage and her trust fund of 80,000 guineas.
Bookclub is a monthly programme, devised by Olivia Seligman and hosted by Jim Naughtie and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.Each month a novel is selected, and its author invited to discuss it.
Horse_ebooks was a part of a network of similar Twitter spam accounts which promoted e-books organized around a single theme. Based on investigations by Splitsider and Gawker, its creator was believed to be a Russian web developer and spammer named Alexei Kouznetsov [1] [5] (Russian: Алексей Кузнецов, also romanized Alexey Kuznetsov [6]).
To that end, Bluhdorn made it his mission to create a movie out of the book and tried to enlist Barry Diller, then head of Paramount, to his side. Ultimately, Diller and Korda convinced Bluhdorn that making the film was a bad idea, and it was abandoned. [3] The agent for the book was Irving Paul Lazar. [3]
Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a British writer.It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the fictional character Mountstuart, a writer whose life (1906–1991) spanned the defining episodes of the 20th century, crossed several continents and included a convoluted sequence of relationships and literary endeavours.