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Cyborg Saints

Author : Carissa Turner Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429513798
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Cyborg Saints written by Carissa Turner Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene Luen Yang, and others demonstrate. Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity. While young people navigate political and personal forces, as well as technologies, that threaten to fragment and thingify them, saints show that agency is still possible outside of the humanist construct of subjectivity. The saints of these neomedievalist novels, through living a life vulnerable to the other, attain a distributed agency that accomplishes miracles through bodies and places and things (relics, icons, pilgrimage sites, and ultimately the hagiographic text and its reader) spread across time. Cyborg Saints analyzes MG and YA fiction through the triple lens of posthumanism, neomedievalism, and postsecularism. Cyborg Saints charts new ground in joining religion and posthumanism to represent the creativity and diversity of young people’s fiction.

Reframing the Perpetrator in Contemporary Comics

Author : Dragoș Manea
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031038533
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Reframing the Perpetrator in Contemporary Comics written by Dragoș Manea and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book foregrounds the figure of the perpetrator in a selection of British, American, and Canadian comics and explores questions related to remembrance, justice, and historical debt. Its primary focus is on works that deliberately estrange the figure of the perpetrator—through fantasy, absurdism, formal ambiguity, or provocative rewriting—and thus allow readers to engage anew with the history of genocide, mass murder, and sexual violence. This book is particularly interested in the ethical space such an engagement calls into being: in its ability to allow us to ponder the privilege many of us now enjoy, the gross historical injustices that have secured it, and the debt we owe to people long dead.

The Cyborg Experiments

Author : Joanna Zylinska
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 184714439X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book The Cyborg Experiments written by Joanna Zylinska and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-06-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cyborg Experiments analyzes the challenges posed to corporeality by techology. Taking as their starting point the work of the highly influential performance artists Orlan and Stelarc, the essays in this timely and important collection raise a number of questions in relation to new conceptions of embodiment, identity and otherness in the age of new technologies: Has the body become obsolete? Does transgender challenge traditional ideas of agency? Have we always been cyborgs?In addition to highlighting the playful character of digital aesthetics, the contributors investigate ethical issues concerning the ownership of our bodies and the experiments we perform on them. In this way the book explores how humanism, and ideas of "the human", have been placed under increasing scrutiny as a result of new developments in science, media and communications.Contributors:John Appleby, Rachel Armstrong, Fred Botting, Julie Clarke, Gary Hall, Chris Hables Gray, Meredith Jones, Orlan, Mark Poster, Jay Prosser, E. A. Scheer, Zod Sofia, Stelarc, Scott Wilson, Joanna Zylinska

Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults

Author : Paul Venzo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000393496
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults written by Paul Venzo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding outward from previous scholarship on gender, queerness, and heteronormativity in children’s literature, this book offers fresh insights into representations of sex and sexuality in texts for young people. In this collection, new and established scholars examine how fiction and non-fiction writing, picture books, film and television and graphic novels position young people in relation to ideologies around sexuality, sexual identity, and embodiment. This book questions how such texts communicate a sense of what is possible, impossible, taboo, or encouraged in terms of being sexual and sexual being. Each chapter is motivated by a set of important questions: How are representations of sex and sexuality depicted in texts for young people? How do these representations affect and shape the kinds of sexualities offered as models to young readers? And to what extent is sexual diversity acknowledged and represented across different narrative and aesthetic modes? This work brings together a diverse range of conceptual and theoretical approaches that are framed by the idea of sexual becoming: the manner in which texts for young people invite their readers to assess and potentially adopt ways of thinking and being in terms of sex and sexuality.

Antarctica in British Children’s Literature

Author : Sinead Moriarty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100026257X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Antarctica in British Children’s Literature written by Sinead Moriarty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent themes and tropes while interrogating how this landscape has been constructed as a wilderness within British literature for children. The text is divided into two sections. Part I focuses on the stories of early-twentieth-century explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature highlights the impact of children’s literature on the expedition writings of Robert Scott, including the influence of Scott’s close friend, author J.M. Barrie. The text also reveals the important role of children’s literature in the contemporary resurgence of interest in Scott’s long-term rival Ernest Shackleton. Part II focuses on fictional narratives set in the Antarctic, including early-twentieth-century whaling literature, adventure and fantasy texts, contemporary animal stories and environmental texts for children. Together these two sections provide an insight into how depictions of this unique continent have changed over the past century, reflecting transformations in attitudes towards wilderness and wild landscapes.

Rulers of Literary Playgrounds

Author : Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000205991
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Rulers of Literary Playgrounds written by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together international children’s literature scholars who each look at children’s texts as key vehicles of intergenerational play reflecting ideologies of childhood and as objects with which children and adults interact physically, emotionally, and cognitively. Each chapter applies a distinct theoretical approach to selected children’s texts, including individual and social play, constructive play, or play deprivation. This collection of essays constitutes a timely voice in the current discussion about the importance of children’s play and adults’ contribution to it vis-à-vis the increasing limitations of opportunities for children’s playful time in contemporary societies.

Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature

Author : Blanka Grzegorczyk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351385380
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature written by Blanka Grzegorczyk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for social interactions, transforming the ways in which young people relate to the world around them and to one another. This is the first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/7 British writing for the young as a response to this contemporary predicament, exploring how children’s writers find the means to express the local conditions and different facets of the global wars around terror. The texts examined in this book reveal a preoccupation with overcoming various forms of violence and prejudice faced by certain groups within post-terror Britain, as well as a concern with mapping out their social relations with other groups, and those concerns are set against the recurring themes of racist paranoia, anti-immigrant hostility, politicized identities, and growing up in countries transformed by the effects of terror and counter-terror. The book concentrates on the relationship between postcolonial and critical race studies, Britain’s colonial legacy, and literary representations of terrorism, tracing thematic and formal similarities in the novels of both established and emerging children’s writers such as Elizabeth Laird, Sumia Sukkar, Alan Gibbons, Muhammad Khan, Bali Rai, Nikesh Shukla, Malorie Blackman, Claire McFall, Miriam Halahmy, and Sita Brahmachari. In doing so, this study maps new connections for scholars, students, and readers of contemporary children’s fiction who are interested in how such writing addresses some of the most pressing issues affecting us today, including survival after terror, migration, and community building.

Out of Reach

Author : Kate G. Harper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000682889
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Out of Reach written by Kate G. Harper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls’ series in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion and erasure of Othered girls? How does the trope retain its power through cultural shifts? Drawing from six popular girls’ series that span the twentieth century, Kate G. Harper explores the role of girls’ series in constructing a narrow ideal of girlhood, one that is out of reach for the average American girl reader. Girls’ series reveal how, over time, the ideal girl trope strengthens and becomes naturalized through constant reiteration. From the transitional girl at the turn of the century in Dorothy Dale to the "liberated" romantic of Sweet Valley High, these texts provide girls with an appealing model of girlhood, urging all girls to aspire to the unattainable ideal. Out of Reach illuminates the ways in which the ideal girl trope accommodates social changes, taking in that which makes it stronger and further solidifying its core.

Connie Willis’s Science Fiction

Author : Carissa Turner Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000728455
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Connie Willis’s Science Fiction written by Carissa Turner Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of Connie Willis’s numerous science fiction awards and her groundbreaking history as a woman in the field, there is a surprising dearth of critical publication surrounding her work. Taking Doomsday Book as its cue, this collection argues that Connie Willis’s most famous novel, along with the rest of her oeuvre, performs science fiction’s task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly—and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location. Willis’s fiction emphasizes that doomsdays happen every day, and they risk being forgotten by some, even as their trauma repeats for others. However, disasters also have the potential to upend accepted knowledge and transform the social order for the better, and this collection considers the ways that Willis pairs comic and tragic modes to reflect these uncertainties.

ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature

Author : Cristina Herrera
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000091945
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature written by Cristina Herrera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández, Isabel Quintero, Ashley Hope Pérez, Erika Sánchez, Guadalupe García McCall, and Patricia Santana. Combining the term "Chicana" with "nerd," Dr. Herrera coins the term "ChicaNerd" to argue how the young women protagonists in these novels voice astute observations of their identities as nonwhite teenagers, specifically through a lens of nerdiness—a reclamation of brown girl self-love for being a nerd. In analyzing these ChicaNerds, the volume examines the reclamation and powerful acceptance of one’s nerdy Chicana self. While popular culture and mainstream media have shaped the well-known figure of the nerd as synonymous with white maleness, Chicana YA literature subverts the nerd stereotype through its negation of this identity as always white and male. These ChicaNerds unite their burgeoning sociopolitical consciousness as young nonwhite girls with their "nerdy" traits of bookishness, math and literary intelligence, poetic talents, and love of learning. Combining the sociopolitical consciousness of Chicanisma with one aligned to the well-known image of the "nerd," ChicaNerds learn to navigate the many complicated layers of coming to an empowered declaration of themselves as smart Chicanas.

Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics

Author : Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8775972654
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics written by Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to images, we are all animists. Deep down, we all know that images can – at least potentially – be alive or come to life. Nowadays, we may tend to rationalize our ingrained animism and explain it away as a mere projection only happening in the space between image and viewer. In the Middle Ages, however, imagery made enthusiastic use of magical, miraculous and mechanical means of animation, empowered and ensouled by both natural and supernatural principles of life. This animist book investigates magic, miracles and mechanics as motors of animation and seeks to understand the living image in solidarity with medieval experience rather than dismissive alienation of it. Effigies did bleed, weep or lactate, either through divine intervention or through hydraulic machinery. Statues did move or speak, either as demonic oracles or as talking heads with implanted speaking tubes. Marvels made by magic or by miracles were real, as real as the wonders of physical mechanics moving bodily matter. We just need to look and listen more carefully to comprehend these fluid realities, even when – especially when – they challenge our received worldview. Animation was by no means uncontested or uncontradicted, but even its stiffest critics knew that gods and demons could intervene in inanimate matter to set it in motion, to speak in tongues and exude the liquids of life.

The Cyborg's Fortune

Author : Benoit Lanteigne
Publisher : Benoit Lanteigne
ISBN 13 : 1738752615
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Cyborg's Fortune written by Benoit Lanteigne and published by Benoit Lanteigne. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cruel decision lies before Commander Daniel Ricdeau. No doubt it’s the hardest choice of his career, or rather his life. Ever since the mysterious cyborg known as Doctor Death became Ostark’s president, he remained out of reach. Most of his time he spent in secure military complexes. Even when a rare public appearance happened, intense security measures and disinformation campaigns meant the Nirnivian learned the fact too late to act. Now, however, a unique opportunity presents itself. A Nirnivian spy discovered the date of a public speech by the president. This makes assassinating him possible, though it would be a suicide mission. While ridding himself of his sworn enemy tempts Daniel, he remains reticent. An attempt on the cyborg’s life means war. The last one they waged against Ostark was a disaster for Nirnivia. They survived only through the cyborg’s apparent mercy. Nothing suggests they’d perform any better in a new conflict. And yet, can Daniel afford to wait any longer? Since Doctor Death took over Ostark, their military strength has grown exponentially. The more time passes, the greater the gap between the two countries becomes. Soon, the chances of a Nirnivian victory will go from improbable to impossible. But what if the mission fails? Then, they’d face a brutal war while the greatest tactical mind ever still led their opponent. Will Daniel go ahead with the assassination attempt? If so, will they succeed? Will the cyborg perish? In that case, what comes next? All the answers point to certain death. Book 4 of The Cyborg’s Crusade

Technophobia!

Author : Daniel Dinello
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292758464
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Technophobia! written by Daniel Dinello and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techno-heaven or techno-hell? If you believe many scientists working in the emerging fields of twenty-first-century technology, the future is blissfully bright. Initially, human bodies will be perfected through genetic manipulation and the fusion of human and machine; later, human beings will completely shed the shackles of pain, disease, and even death, as human minds are downloaded into death-free robots whereby they can live forever in a heavenly "posthuman" existence. In this techno-utopian future, humanity will be saved by the godlike power of technology. If you believe the authors of science fiction, however, posthuman evolution marks the beginning of the end of human freedom, values, and identity. Our dark future will be dominated by mad scientists, rampaging robots, killer clones, and uncontrollable viruses. In this timely new book, Daniel Dinello examines "the dramatic conflict between the techno-utopia promised by real-world scientists and the techno-dystopia predicted by science fiction." Organized into chapters devoted to robotics, bionics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other significant scientific advancements, this book summarizes the current state of each technology, while presenting corresponding reactions in science fiction. Dinello draws on a rich range of material, including films, television, books, and computer games, and argues that science fiction functions as a valuable corrective to technological domination, countering techno-hype and reflecting the "weaponized, religiously rationalized, profit-fueled" motives of such science. By imaging a disastrous future of posthuman techno-totalitarianism, science fiction encourages us to construct ways to contain new technology, and asks its audience perhaps the most important question of the twenty-first century: is technology out of control?

Byzantine Tree Life

Author : Thomas Arentzen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030759024
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Tree Life written by Thomas Arentzen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries of how communicative trees may be, and how they defend themselves. Considering writings on and images of trees from Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantium sympathetically, the book argues for an arboreal imagination at the root of human aspirations to know and draw close to the divine.

Philosophical Issues of Human Cyborgization and the Necessity of Prolegomena on Cyborg Ethics

Author : Greguric, Ivana
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799892336
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Issues of Human Cyborgization and the Necessity of Prolegomena on Cyborg Ethics written by Greguric, Ivana and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are currently living in an age of scientific humanism. Cyborgs, robots, avatars, and bio-technologically created beings are new entities that exist alongside biological human beings. As with many emerging technologies, many people will find the concept foreign and frightening. There is a strong possibility that these entities will be mistreated. Philosophical Issues of Human Cyborgization and the Necessity of Prolegomena on Cyborg Ethics discusses the ethics of human cyborgization as well as emerging technologies of robots and avatars that exhibit human-like qualities. The chapters build a strong case for the necessity of cyborg ethics and protocols for preserving the vitality of life within an ever-advancing technological society. Covering topics such as cyborg hacking, historical reality, and naturalism, this book is a dynamic resource for scientists, ethicists, cyber behavior professionals, students and professors of both technological and philosophical studies, faculty of higher education, philosophers, AI engineers, healthcare professionals, researchers, and academicians.

The Cyborg's Warning

Author : Benoit Lanteigne
Publisher : Benoit Lanteigne
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cyborg's Warning written by Benoit Lanteigne and published by Benoit Lanteigne. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I almost ripped my ears off. And yet, part of me wanted to listen to him. It’s like a horrible car crash. You try to look away, but you just can’t. No question James had a raw deal. Not only did he teleport to another universe, but he also had to live in a secure military complex named Valardir for protection. The only bright spot is that Rose Ricdeau, his winged benefactor, shares his living quarters. Her friendship makes his stay there tolerable. Just as James finds a sense of normalcy in his new existence, he receives a phone call from the mysterious cyborg the Nirnivians call Doctor Death. Without delay, the Doctor warns him not to trust Rose. James, however, refuses to listen and hangs up, quite certain that if his hosts discovered he talked to their enemy they’d be less than pleased. Deep down, James wonders if there’s truth to Doctor Death’s words. Should Rose not be the friend she appears to be, what did that imply for him? Still, he can’t risk antagonizing his only lifeline, so he reveals the cyborg’s call to Valardir’s authorities. Immediately, panic ensues. That the Doctor contacted James implies he breached Valardir’s security. This scenario spells doom and so a rush occurs to find out what happened. This puts more pressure on the already overworked technical staff, who considers rebellion. Did the cyborg breach Valardir security? If so, what does it mean for James’ and Rose’s safety? If not, how did he contact James? Either way, why did the president of another country bother calling an insignificant human from a different world? Perhaps more crucial for James, is Rose the benevolent figure she pretends to be? And what if she’s not? Book 2 of the Cyborg’s Crusade series.

The Letters of Tabula/Saint Patrick

Author : Othniel Poole
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1952269237
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Tabula/Saint Patrick written by Othniel Poole and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letters of Tabula and Saint Patrick are two books in one, both reflecting family life in perplexing, adventurous environments. The Letters of Tabula alternates between poetry and short stories in the manner of Othniel Poole's poetry volumes, including Chapel of Green Stone. It's crowned with the further adventures of the Rosas and the Batistes, both before and after Poole's novel Gohm. These include Darcee and Tabula's toddler days involving some strange fruit, bad dreams, and a first reading experience. It also looks to the future, where Tabula and Gohm are married and yet to conceive, and Darcee has yet to find someone. Saint Patrick features thirteen short stories that continue the adventures of Patrick and Leah Curlewis.