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Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova (Russian: Надежда Андреевна Дурова; September 17, 1783 – March 21, 1866), also known as Alexander Durov, Alexander Sokolov and Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov, was a Russian cavalry soldier and writer who participated in the Napoleonic Wars.
This Thing of Darkness (published in the United States as To the Edge of the World) was the debut novel of Harry Thompson, published in 2005 only months before his death in November of that year at the age of 45. [1]
Explorer, hiker and mountaineer; Truda Peaks of Mount Rogers is named after her Mabel Bent: Anglo-Irish: 1847: 1929: Explored and excavated with her husband James Theodore Bent in the Eastern Mediterranean, South Africa and Southern Arabia Laura Bingham: British: 1992: Executed expedition to cross continent of South America with no money ...
The reason of why she has two names comes from the fact that, unlike most war maidens, who were born commoners, she is born an aristocrat; the Estes family descends from the royal family of Zhcted, which means that, although few, she has a chance of ascending to the throne, and is willing to deceive and manipulate the other persons in the line ...
War Girls explores on the themes of war, climate change, colonialism, and posthumanism. War. The novel depicts a bloody and intractable civil war between the Nigerian state and Biafran separatists. In the novel's extended battle scenes, science-fictional technologies intensify the brutality of war.
Ath – Ath is the mage who wrote the first Book of Names. Ayeth – Ayeth is a sorcerer on Semel. Called Sunbright. ("On the High Marsh") Ayo — Ayo is a woman of the Hand, on Havnor, mother of Anieb. ("The Finder") Azver – Azver is the Master Patterner of Roke, from Karego-At. Means "banner of war" in Kargish. ("Dragonfly") B
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Woman on the Edge of Time is a 1976 novel by American writer Marge Piercy. It is considered a classic of utopian speculative science fiction as well as a feminist classic. The novel was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf. Piercy draws on several inspirations to write this novel such as utopian studies, technoscience, socialization, and ...