![]() ![]() After he has lived under a number of masters, Rat Korga's world is destroyed by a conflagration. ![]() Korga, a tall, misfit youth, undergoes the Radical Anxiety Termination, or RAT, procedure, a form of psychosurgery which makes him a passive slave, after which he is known as Rat Korga. In an attempt to find a stable defense against the phenomenon known as Cultural Fugue (a process where "socioeconomic pressures a point of technological recomplication and perturbation where the population completely destroys all life across the planetary surface"), many human worlds have aligned themselves with one of two broad factions: the Sygn, which promotes and celebrates social diversity, and the Family, which promotes adherence to an idealized norm of human relations modeled on the nuclear family. Many of these worlds are shared with intelligent nonhumans, although only one alien species (the mysterious Xlv) also possesses faster-than-light travel. The novel takes place in a distant future in which diverse human societies have developed on some 6,000 planets. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. ![]()
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![]() We will be continuing with ACOSF and then moving on to Crescent City afterwards. ✨SJM Sundays - These will be exclusively SJM Book Episodes that you have come to know and love so dearly. With all of that being said, we are making these changes with the hopes that you all get the BEST of the Cadre in 2023! New Year, New (but same chaotic) Us! We love you all and appreciate your endless love and support! As y’all know, we are big proponents of mental health awareness and setting healthy goals and boundaries. Juggling both series at once, while achieving the high quality level we expect from ourselves and know that you deserve, has been increasingly difficult. ![]() We have quite a few updates to share with y’all! We are doing a full reconstruction of how the podcast will operate starting with today’s episode! First and foremost, we want to assure you that these changes are meant to improve the quality of what we are putting out there for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2017, Khalis Foundation, a Californian based non-profit, relaunched Sikhi to the Max based on the open source philosophy promoted by the Sikher project. In 2004 the Sikher project was launched by Jasdeep Singh Khalsa to develop an 'open source' approach to Gurbani translations and app development. In 2003 the Panjab Digital Library, in collaboration with the Nanakshahi Trust, began digitizing centuries-old copies and manuscripts of the Guru Granth Sahib and other Sikh sacred texts. In 2000 a British Sikh named Tarsem Singh developed the 'Sikhi to the Max' Guru Granth Sahib search engine which is currently used throughout Sikh diaspora communities around the globe to provide English language translations within gurdwaras. ![]() Kulbir Singh Thind which included a full set of Gurbani fonts which he also developed in 1995. The first CD of the Guru Granth Sahib was released in 2000 by Dr. ![]() ![]() But he must have made them very angry because.' 'How did they kill him?'-Mqhele The man shrugs before he speaks. ![]() ![]() He was one of those that were recruiting people o join a church, and most people here believed him and followed him. 'What happened? What did they do?' Qhawe asks. They were good children, that's what my father said, but then one day they must have been 14 years old.' He stops when he hears a gasp. The father must have done something because these two lived, only them, and then he died. 'I'm not sure if I'm getting the story right, but there were other twins before, but they all died. He said their father died on the day they were born.' He stops and squints as if trying to remember something. He is speaking in a hushed tone, as if this is a forbidden subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With her husband’s cousin, Sarah, as her sole companion, she finds an almost dilapidated dwelling, with stern, soulless servants that reflect the coldness of the entire village. ![]() In my opinion, at least.Įlsie, a young widow, travels to her late husband’s family estate in the 1860s. It is made from the finest blend of the two genres, it is perfect. So much more than a ghost story, so much more than Historical Fiction. Goodness me! How can I write a coherent (and non-spoilery) review on a book that has stayed with me, haunting me (no pun intended) ever since I started reading? A novel that has definitely made it to my personal Top-10? A story that is haunting and ghostly, tragic, raw, darkly beautiful? The Silent Companions was everything I thought it would be and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Related: Harley Quinn's Joker Obsession Was Actually Never Her Faultīatman: Beyond the White Knight has a startling segment where Harley's daughter walks into their apartment and bares a shocking resemblance to her father, the Joker. Unfortunately, it looks like her past is starting to catch up to her again as shown through her children that she's been trying to shield from the Joker's influence for so long. She put the spandex back on once to help solve a case involving the Starlet and the Producer in her own miniseries, but after that, she's been laying low again. She's been raising her children on her own and been doing her best to be a single mother to make sure they never end up like she did. Since the death of the Joker, Harley Quinn has been making steps toward picking up where her life left off as her alter ego, Harleen Quinzel, before she was molded by the Clown Prince. ![]() ![]() Instead, I want to celebrate these 55 novels, collections, and memoirs. This fills me with such complicated joy: my hope is that, one day, publishing will be so inclusive that a list like this will become less useful.įor this short while, I want to forget about trepidation. This list is now in its fourth year, and has expanded to include nonbinary writers of color it gets larger each year, and I’m told it’s used to help inform books coverage in other publications, that high school teachers and college professors look to this Electric Literature list when forming syllabi. The list became one of Electric Literature’s most shared pieces, as it did when I compiled a new list the next year, and the year after that. ![]() Maybe they’d also find the list useful.Ī lot of people did, as it turned out. If I was having trouble, I thought, then others surely were, too. ![]() Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.Ī few years ago, because I was having trouble finding upcoming books by women writers who were Black, Indigenous, and people of color to read and review, I compiled and published a list of such titles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We are treated to wonderful stories of Charles Darwin, banker Walter Rothschild, Henry Wallace Bates and his travels to South America, author Vladimir Nabokov, and Maria Sibylla Merian, a seventeenth-century artist and notetaker who was an expert on the life cycle of the butterfly. She travels North America and takes us worldwide to see and learn about these amazing creatures in such places as Florissant, Colorado in the United States and in Michoacan, Mexico. She weaves science, history, and culture with her own personal narrative. Wendy Williams has created a wonderful book that illuminates the beauty and resilience of butterflies and the passions of artists, collectors, and scientists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is your opinion of the characters, the Golem and the Jinni? What do you like best about each of them? If you could have a magical power, what would it be?.What do we learn about lifeabout what it means to be humanfrom Ahmad and Chava? How does each reflect particular aspects of the human character, both our noble inclinations and our flaws?.Why do you think Helene Wecker chose to set the story in turn-of-the-century New York? How do the experiences of the Golem and the Jinni mirror those of their fellow immigrants? Are their magical powers all that set them apart from their human neighbors? How might the story unfold if it were set today? What would Ahmad and Chava think about modern America? Would it be easier or more difficult for them to adapt and blend in to contemporary urban society?. ![]() What are Chava and Ahmad like when we first meet them? What about at the end of the story? How do events impact who they are and what they believe about themselves and each other?.How are their personalities reflected in their origins? How are the creatures similar, and how do those similarities draw them together? How are they different? What are their individual strengthsand what makes them weak? How do these influence their choices as events unfold? How do the Golem and the Jinni make each other better beings? Compare the Golem and the Jinni's origins. ![]() ![]() MMO, Natural England and Macmillan Children’s Books, want to encourage families to go on their own big adventures this summer, exploring the England Coast Path and marine areas. The little snail feels so small in the vastness of the world but when disaster strikes and the whale is beached in a bay, it’s the tiny snail’s big plan that saves the day. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins. ![]() ![]() This summer sees the launch of a unique partnership between the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), Natural England and Macmillan Children’s Books, celebrating fifteen years of The Snail and the Whale, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s classic tale of adventure and friendship.įirst published in 2003, The Snail and the Whale tells the story of a tiny snail who hitches a lift around the world on the tail of “a great big, grey-blue humpback whale”. ![]() |