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Air, also known as Air: Or, Have Not Have, is a 2005 novel by Geoff Ryman.It won the British Science Fiction Association Award, [1] the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, [2] and was on the short list for the Philip K. Dick Award in 2004, [3] the Nebula Award in 2005, [1] and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2006.
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.
Mel Bakersfeld is the main character around whom the book revolves. He is General Manager of Lincoln International Airport. Tanya Livingston is Mel's love interest.She works for Trans America Airlines, and Mel often visits her.
The Warlord of the Air is a 1971 British alternate history novel written by Michael Moorcock. It concerns the adventures of Oswald Bastable, an Edwardian era soldier stationed in India , and his adventures in an alternate universe, in his own future, wherein the First World War never happened.
The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker [note 1]) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century. It was a significant stage in the development of the modern novel as a form of popular literature in Western culture.
The airport novel represents a literary genre that is defined not so much by its plot or cast of stock characters, but by the social function it serves.Designed to meet the demands of a very specific market, airport novels are superficially engaging while not being necessarily profound, usually written to be more entertaining than philosophically challenging.
Hidjo is a young man from Surakarta, Central Java, who is engaged to Biroe, in accordance with his father's wishes.His father, a merchant named Raden Potronojo, orders Hidjo to go to the Netherlands and attend university; this is hoped to give the family greater status, as generally only priyayi (noble) families send their children abroad for schooling.
Queen of Air and Darkness is the third and final book in The Dark Artifices trilogy by Cassandra Clare, which is the fourth chronological series in The Shadowhunter Chronicles. This series follows the characters of the LA Institute in 2012 and features characters from all of the previous series.