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In a positive review, The Horn Book Magazine ' s Anita L. Burkham wrote, "Alcatraz's seat-of-the-pants narration—with references to 'wombats, outer space, and stamp collections' in chapters that don't exist, direct requests to readers (to change their underwear daily, for instance), and self-referential comments on the literary nature of the book—might make the series appear at first to be ...
Dhalgren is a 1975 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany.It features an extended trip to and through Bellona, a fictional city in the American Midwest cut off from the rest of the world by an unknown catastrophe.
Worlds Collide is the sixth and final book in the series and was released in July 2017. [6] [7] Conner, now 80 years old, celebrates his birthday at a bookstore. He then returns home and goes upstairs to find a collection of books he wrote about their adventures. He picks up the sixth and final book and begins to read in order to remember what ...
Esther Greenwood, the protagonist of the story, is an ambitious English Major from Boston. Having won a summer job as a "guest editor" for Ladies' Day magazine, she lives at the Barbizon hotel [4] (referred to in the novel as the "Amazon" hotel) in New York City, along with the other young women who were selected as guest editors.
Kirkus Reviews began "A haunting series of stories, in most cases putting it up to the reader to interpret the final outcome – in all cases using the device of the moment in life when emotion or reason reaches the point of tension beyond which something snaps", and finished with "In this collection...Daphne du Maurier's peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for ...
Thieves' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978. The original series comprised twelve anthologies, including stories by science fiction and fantasy authors Poul Anderson, John Brunner, Andrew J. Offutt, C. J. Cherryh, Janet Morris, and Chris Morris.
Ruth B. Bottigheimer catalogued this and other disparities between the 1810 and 1812 versions of the Grimms' fairy tale collections in her book, Grimms' Bad Girls And Bold Boys: The Moral And Social Vision of the Tales. Of the "Rumplestiltskin" switch, she wrote, "although the motifs remain the same, motivations reverse, and the tale no longer ...
Like both previous books in the trilogy, The Farthest Shore is a bildungsroman. The story is told mostly from the point of view of Arren, who develops from the boy who stands overawed in front of the masters of Roke, to the man who addresses dragons with confidence on Selidor, and who will eventually become the first King in centuries and unify ...