Uncanny valley memoir5/21/2023 There was no room to grow, and after three years the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s phone had worn thin. I thought, every day, about applying to graduate school. Everyone trusted it anyway.īut the corners seemed to be coming up. The cloud was an unmarked data center in the middle of Texas or Cork or Bavaria, but nobody cared. Self-driving cars were considered inevitable. Artificial intelligence and virtual reality were coming into vogue, again. Two hundred million people signed on to a microblogging platform that helped them feel close to celebrities and other strangers they’d loathe in real life. A social network everyone said they hated but no one could stop logging in to went public at a valuation of one-hundred-odd billion dollars, its grinning founder ringing the opening bell over video chat, a death knell for affordable rent in San Francisco. Depending on whom you ask, it was either the apex, the inflection point, or the beginning of the end for Silicon Valley’s startup scene-what cynics called a bubble, optimists called the future, and my future coworkers, high on the fumes of world-historical potential, breathlessly called the ecosystem.
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Peretti (Author) 153 ratings Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 11.98 26 Used from 2.31 3 New from 45.45 1 Collectible from 49.99 Paperback 12.14 217 Used from 1.48 9 New from 8.25 8 Collectible from 4.25 Audio CD 49.56 9 Used from 49. Urn:oclc:855181080 Republisher_date 20160624163159 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 2575 Scandate 20160624030655 Scanner . Frank Peretti Piercing the Darkness Hardcover Septemby Frank E. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:01:28.121291 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1144703 City Thorndike, Me. Peretti, Wanda Assumpção (translator) 4.27 avg rating 167,823 ratings The Cooper Kids Adventures (8 books) by Frank E. The abyss surrounds us book 25/21/2023 The Abyss Surrounds Us is an exciting romance set in the backdrop of an interesting futuristic sci-fi world. While it was on my tbr for ages, her enthusiasm about the book gave me the final push to read it and I’m SO GLAD I did. I have Elise over at to thank for this book. 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Murasaki the tale of genji5/21/2023 Genji has to conceal the paternity of one of his sons, because the boy is the product of Genji’s affair with one of his father’s consorts. Although he amasses great influence, he never ascends the throne to the pinnacle of power. From the time Genji is barely a teenager, he cavorts across the region now known as Kyoto, hopping from one woman to another as he breezes through affairs and takes on multiple wives. The narrative is structured around the life of Genji, who is the son of an emperor and his favorite consort. The more I read, the more this ancient work made me think about how gender and power dynamics have echoed across the centuries in Japan. Instead, I found common ground not only with my personal experience but with my reporting over six years as a correspondent in Japan. After all, the book is set among the courtly elites of the classical Heian period of the 11th century, with their mysterious rituals, monarchal codes and allusive poetry. I expected to feel distance from the medieval text. When I first opened its pages, I was reading for edification. It has been subjected to countless translations, interpretations and adaptations across seemingly every possible art form: paintings, Noh plays, dance, film, television drama, manga, anime, even a rom-com. Passages are taught to most schoolchildren. In Japan, “The Tale of Genji” has maintained an unwavering grip on the culture. The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey5/21/2023 Now Maar is once again advancing on Urtho's Keep, this time with a huge force spearheaded by magical constructs of his own-cruel birds of prey ready to perform any evil their creator may demand of them. He is the fulfillment of everything that the Mage of Silence, the human sorcerer called Urtho, intended to achieve when he created these magical beings to be his champions, the defenders of his realm-a verdant plain long coveted by the evil mage Maar. Courageous, bold, and crafty, Skan is everything a gryphon should be. Skandranon Rashkae is perhaps the finest specimen of his race, with gleaming ebony feathers, majestic wingspan, keen magesight and sharp intelligence. It is an age when Valdemar is yet unfounded, its organization of Heralds yet unformed, and magic is still a wild and uncontrolled force. Batman by grant morrison omnibus5/21/2023 There’s some of that there, though I think for some people, they may not like his writing style, it’s just not for them. 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His first book (Journey Through Pakistan, with photographers Mohamed Amin and Duncan Willetts) was published in 1981. "In the early 1980's Hancock's writing began to move consistently in the direction of books. He was co-editor of New Internationalist magazine from 1976-1979 and East Africa correspondent of The Economist from 1981-1983. He went on to pursue a career in quality journalism, writing for many of Britain's leading newspapers including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Guardian. Later he went to school and university in the northern English city of Durham and graduated from Durham University in 1973 with First Class Honours in Sociology. "Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hancock's early years were spent in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. He has become recognised as an unconventional thinker who raises legitimate questions about humanity's history and prehistory and offers an increasingly popular challenge to the entrenched views of orthodox scholars. His public lectures and TV appearances, including the three-hour series Quest For The Lost Civilisation, have put his ideas before audiences of tens of millions. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. Graham Hancock "is the author of the major international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods and Heaven's Mirror. Cold print by ramsey campbell5/20/2023 "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Campbell's best known works in the US are Obsession, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, and Nazareth Hill. He has been President of the British Fantasy Society and has edited critically acclaimed anthologies, including Fine Frights. Ramsey Campbell's works have been published in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and several other languages. His collection, Scared Stiff, virtually established the subgenre of erotic horror. His classic novels, such as The Face that Must Die, The Doll Who Ate His Mother, and The Influence, set new standards for horror as literature. This book is a collection of Lovecraftian horror stories by British writer Ramsey Campbell. The latter half of this collection is made. Some of the earlier tales I struggle with a bit, although many of them contain glimpses of what is to come later. About half of them are his early stories from the 60s, one is from 1976, and the rest come from the 80s. Cold Print by Ramsey Campbell This one collects together the more Lovecraftian tales, many of them dating back to his first book, The Inhabitant of the Lake, & other less welcome tenants. Critically acclaimed both in the US and in England, Campbell is widely regarded as one of the genre's literary lights for both his short fiction and his novels. Cold Print is a collection of short stories by British horror master, Ramsey Campbell, all on Lovecraftian themes. Ramsey Campbell has won more awards than any other living author of horror or dark fantasy, including four World Fantasy Awards, nine British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and two International Horror Guild Awards. James Cameron, The New York Sunday Times It is a work of scholarship, of investigation, research and of significance.” Having been there most of the time in question and having assisted at most of the encounters, I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood. “There is no single passage in this profoundly researched book that one could actually fault. The book was an international bestseller and achieved enormous acclaim in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen-but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war.įreedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. |