![]() ![]() Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. ![]() The Flow is eternal - but it is not static. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. 2018 Locus Award, Best Science Fiction Novel ![]()
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He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. ![]() Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born Augin Waukegan, Illinois. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ball, Paul Cornell, Bradley Denton, Phyllis Eisenstein, Gillian Flynn, Neil Gaiman, Matthew Hughes, Joe R. 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A thrilling collection of twenty-one original stories by an all-star list of contributors including a new A Game of Thrones story by George R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “To help us see what we can be, to remind us that we can be better. I like reading books exploring the importance of mental health, and I haven’t read that many about eating. “This is why we look at pictures, to inspire us,” says Annabel in one of her many haunting lines. (2016 published) and pointed Nothing Tastes As Good out to me, asking me if I’d like to read it. Louise O’Neill’s novels come to mind in terms of theme and the way important subjects for young women are intelligently explored. Her history with Call Me Dermot is well handled, a complex subplot that doesn’t villainise but rather presents a real picture of a questionable situation. Julia’s intelligence and outward-looking attitude offer a plucky modern heroine who has been brought low by circumstance. Annabel’s snarky voice and frustration at being dead bring comedy to her sad story. Nothing Tastes as Good is young adult crossover fiction that centres on the tale of two older teenagers with eating disorders.Both female leads are engaging and vibrant. “It doesn’t matter how awful celery tastes, nothing will ever taste as good as skinny feels.” With a title that appropriates Kate Moss’s famous line on dieting and body image, Claire Hennessy’s new novel sets out its stall from the beginning. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She meets him in his office, interviews him, and is about to leave when he locks the door and kisses her. Soon afterwards, her boss sends Linda to interview a promising politician named Jacob who also happens to be an ex-boyfriend from her school days. The conversation leads Linda to believe that she is moving towards the apathy stage of depression. Linda talks to her friend about her depression and discovers that she is taking medication and feels fine now. Her friend takes her to a visually unappealing Japanese restaurant with excellent food. One day, she has lunch with a friend who suffers from depression. Still, she feels that she needs a change. She has a loving and rich husband, two adorable children, and is a journalist at a well-respected Swiss newspaper. ![]() The narrative, told in the first-person perspective of Linda, begins with Linda telling readers how unfulfilled she is by her current existence even though, by society’s standards, she has the perfect life. Arrow Books (Penguin Random House UK), 2015. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Coelho, Paulo. ![]() |