Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel) Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury. It is about 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern town on one October. The carnival's leader is the mysterious "Mr. Dark" who seemingly wields the power to grant the citizenry's secret desires. In reality, Dark is a malevolent being who lures these individuals into binding themselves in servitude to him. The novel combines elements of fantasy and horror, analyzing the conflicting natures of good and evil which exist within all individuals. One of the events in Ray Bradbury's childhood that inspired him to become a writer was an encounter with a carnival magician named Mr. The novel originated in 1955 when Bradbury suggested to his friend Gene Kelly that they collaborate on a movie for Kelly to direct. The novel opens on an overcast October 23. They follow Mr. William "Will" Halloway Charles Halloway G.
Discworld: The Ankh Morpork Map For iPad Artemis Fowl (series) The series has received positive critical reception and generated huge sales. It has also originated graphic novel adaptations, and a film adaptation is currently in the writing process.[2] Artemis Fowl, the main character and anti-hero, and his bodyguard, Butler, kidnap Lower Elements Police Captain Holly Short, a fairy elf, and demand an enormous ransom in fairy gold from the People.The story revolves on how Artemis manages to manipulate and avoid the fairies' desperate attempts to rescue Holly,resulting in the usage of a deadly bio-bomb that wipes out all life forms in near vicinity. A graphic novel adaptation was released in 2007. A film adaptation was reported to be in the writing stage in mid-2008 with Jim Sheridan directing.[3] Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident is the second book of the series. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code covers Jon Spiro's theft of the fictional C Cube and its recovery. Artemis Fowl II uses his intelligence to build his family fortune through crime.
The Wheel of Time "Aiel" redirects here. For the writ, see Ayel. The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels written by American author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under the pen name Robert Jordan. Originally planned as a six-book series, The Wheel of Time now spans fourteen volumes, in addition to a prequel novel and a companion book. Jordan began writing the first volume, The Eye of the World, in 1984. In 2014, The Wheel of Time was nominated for a Hugo Award.[6] Setting[edit] In the series' mythology, a deity known as the Creator made the universe and the Wheel of Time, which governs experience. Plot summary[edit] The prequel novel New Spring takes place during the Aiel War and depicts the discovery by the Aes Sedai that the Dragon has been Reborn. As the story expands, new characters representing different factions are introduced. Tarmon Gai'don[edit] Special powers[edit] Channeling[edit] Flows and weaves are visible to fellow channelers but limited by the viewer's access to either saidin or saidar.
Breakfast of Champions Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok. Plot summary[edit] Background[edit] In many places in the book, Vonnegut provides simplistic descriptions of troubling themes in U.S. history. Adaptation[edit] Editions[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Flowers for Algernon Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.[2] The novel was published in 1966 and was joint winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novel (with Babel-17).[3] The eponymous Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means. The story is told by a series of progress reports written by Charlie Gordon, the first human test subject for the surgery, and it touches upon many different ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled.[4][5] Background[edit] Different characters in the book were also based on people in Keyes's life. Publication history[edit] Synopsis[edit] Short story[edit] Novel[edit] Charlie Gordon, 32 years of age, suffers from phenylketonuria and has an IQ of 68. Style[edit]
The Shock Doctrine The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author Naomi Klein, and is the basis of a 2009 documentary by the same name directed by Michael Winterbottom.[1] The book argues that libertarian free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy by some political leaders. These leaders exploit crises to push through controversial exploitative policies while citizens are too emotionally and physically distracted by disasters or upheavals to mount an effective resistance. The book implies that some man-made crises, such as the Iraq war, may have been created with the intention of pushing through these unpopular policies in their wake. Synopsis[edit] The book has an introduction, a main body and a conclusion, divided into seven parts with a total of 21 chapters. [edit] Favorable[edit] Paul B. Mixed[edit] Unfavorable[edit] Awards[edit] See also[edit]
Horns (novel) The novel consists of fifty chapters grouped into five sections of ten chapters each, named as follows: 26-year-old Ignatius "Ig" Perrish wakes up one morning after a drunken night (in the woods containing an old foundry, near where his girlfriend's corpse was discovered) to find that he has sprouted bony, sensitive horns from his temples. Ig is the second son of a renowned musician and the younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, Terry Perrish. As Ig leaves the apartment he shares with his friend with benefits, Glenna Nicholson, he notices that she is strangely honest with him about her desire to binge, her feelings about his unwanted presence, and the fact that she performed oral sex on a mutual high school friend of theirs, Lee Tourneau, the previous night. Ig also realizes that he can make people give in to the ugly urges they have—in fact, the horns pulse in a pleasurable fashion when he does so—but he cannot make them do things they do not already want to do.
Trainspotting (novel) Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, first released in 1993. It takes the form of a collection of short stories, written in either Scots, Scottish English or British English, revolving around various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction. The novel is set in the late 1980s.[1] The novel is split up into seven sections: the first six contain multiple chapters of varying length and differing focus. Each character narrates differently, in a fashion comparable to stream-of-consciousness or representative of psychological realism. Unlike the film it inspired, the novel's plot follows a nonlinear narrative. The Skag Boys, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mother Superior – Narrated by Renton. Junk Dilemmas No. 63 – Narrated by Renton. In Overdrive – Narrated by Sick Boy.
The Thin Man An early draft of the story, written several years before the published version and now in print in several collections of Hammett's work, does not mention the main characters of the novel, Nick and Nora Charles and ends after ten chapters. It is about a quarter of the length of the finished book.[citation needed] The Thin Man was Hammett's last published novel. Lillian Hellman, in an introduction to a compilation of Hammett's five novels, contemplated several explanations for Hammett's retirement as a novelist: I have been asked many times over the years why he did not write another novel after The Thin Man. Following the success of the movie version of "The Thin Man" in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to work on screenplays for sequels. Summary[edit] The story is set in Post-Prohibition-era New York City. See also[edit] Nick and Nora Charles References[edit] Editions[edit]
Outlander (novel) After separation by their work in World War II, British Army nurse Claire Randall and her husband Frank, a history professor, go on a second honeymoon to Inverness, Scotland, where Frank conducts research into his family history and Claire goes plant-gathering near standing stones on the hill of Craigh na Dun. She faints when investigating a buzzing noise near the stones; upon waking, she encounters Frank's ancestor, Captain Jack Randall, who strongly resembles Frank. Before the cruel Captain Randall can take her into his custody, he is knocked unconscious by a Scotsman who takes Claire to his party. When the Scots force into place the dislocated arm of their comrade Jamie, Claire uses her superior skill to relocate Jamie's arm; whereupon the men identify themselves as members of Clan MacKenzie, and Claire eventually concludes that she has traveled to the past. Claire must take on a new identity as an English widow who is traveling to France to see her family. Frank Randall
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" is a short story by British science fiction author Brian Aldiss, first published in 1969. The story deals with humanity in an age of intelligent machines and of the aching loneliness endemic in an overpopulated future where child creation is controlled. §Plot[edit] In a dystopian future where only 1/4th of the world's overcrowded population is fed and living comfortably, families must request permission to bear children. Meanwhile, the story jumps to Henry Swinton who is in a meeting with a company he is associated with known as Synthtank. Monica Swinton discovers David's unfinished letters that portray lines about love and a jealous contempt for Teddy who Monica always seemed to connect with more than David himself. §Film[edit] It was the literary basis for the first act of the feature film A.I. §Characters[edit] Monica Swinton: A troubled, lonely woman and less-than-compassionate mother, Monica struggles to understand her A.I. son David. §Themes[edit]
Mount Analogue Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing is a classic novel by the early 20th century, French novelist René Daumal. The novel is both bizarre and allegorical, detailing the discovery and ascent of a mountain, the Mount Analogue of the title, which can only be perceived by realising that one has travelled further in traversing it than one would by travelling in a straight line, and can only be viewed from a particular point when the sun's rays hit the earth at a certain angle.[1] "Its summit must be inaccessible, but its base accessible to human beings as nature made them. It must be unique and it must exist geographically. The door to the invisible must be visible." Daumal died before the novel was completed, providing an uncanny one-way quality to the journey. Mount Analogue was first published posthumously in 1952 in French as Le Mont Analogue. Daumal compares art and alpinism in this novel, saying:[3] Adaptations[edit]
Gaunt's Ghosts Gaunt's Ghosts is a series of novels written by Dan Abnett. It is a military science fiction series set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The series spans 15 novels which document the efforts of the Tanith First-And-Only, a highly skilled yet unappreciated light infantry regiment of the Imperial Guard, during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. The protagonist is Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, one of the few political commissars of the Imperium to be officially awarded command of a regiment. Although Gaunt is the primary character, the perspective from which the novels are told shifts regularly to encompass a wider view of events – it is usually told from the Imperial point of view, though the perspective is occasionally seen through the eyes of antagonists. The series alludes to other series by Dan Abnett, such as Eisenhorn and Ravenor, and has resulted in three spin-off works. Publication history[edit] Series Synopses[edit] First and Only & Ghostmaker[edit] Voltis City, Voltemond[edit] Monthax[edit]