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Download or read book Sleepwalk City written by Paul Stephenson and published by Hollow Stone Press. This book was released on 2024-01-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving the end of the world was just the beginning. Now the battle for control has begun. On a flight back to her family, Lydia is too busy trying to ignore the annoying passenger next to her to notice the sky filling with lights. Three months later she is alone in a desolate world, moving from one town to the next, trying to survive. When she enters the ruined city of York, she finds more than she bargained for. Ex-student turned revolutionary hero Tom, grieving and broken, has passed the last three months trying to keep himself and his people together. Now he will have to protect them from a new government force, hellbent on rebuilding at a cost too terrible to comprehend. Jen and Mira, reeling from their encounter with a homicidal maniac, flee into the wilds to escape. Soon they find themselves running from a very different enemy. Ex-detective Burnett, separated from his friends by chance, sees himself drawn into an investigation that will take him to the heart of the fight against this new government. Sleepwalk City is the pulse-quickening sequel to the bestselling British apocalyptic horror Blood on the Motorway. If you love edge-of-the-seat action, end-of-the-world tension, and characters you’ll be rooting for with every turn of the page, you’ll love the second instalment in Paul Stephenson’s thrilling trilogy. Buy Sleepwalk City today to find out who will prevail in the battle for humanity’s future.
Book Synopsis Sleep Walk Society by : Kendare Blake
Download or read book Sleep Walk Society written by Kendare Blake and published by PRA Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 2002,childhood friends, Violet Monroe and Terran Ingram are headed home from their first year in college. It has been an eventful year; Terran has become the new beauty queen on campus and Violet well....Then of course there was the 9/11 attack on America. Both are returning home with thoughts of reuniting with their other best friend, Joey, very rich and underachieving and madly in love with Terran. Their hopes of a carefree summer are dashed forever by the events that take place. Violet is forced to re-examine her world. She discovers cold truths about the state of her parent's marriage. She watches Terran submit to her mother's ambitions by suppressing her misery in a twisted romance with Joey. Both learn that despite having been in love with Terran for years She is not what Joey really wants. With the help of Brandon, Joey's charismatic cousin, who is visiting for the summer, Violet begins to understand the nature of choices. Things change and relationships die.
Download or read book Real Cities written by Steve Pile and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of city life. Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel, Pile explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city. Such experiences are, he argues, best described as phantasmagorias. The phantasmagorias of city life, though commonplace, are far from self-evident and little understood. This book is a path-breaking exploration of urban phantasmagorias, grounded empirically in a series of unusual and exciting case studies. In this study, four substantial phantasmagorias are identified: dreams, magic, vampires and ghosts. The investigation of each phantasmagoria is developed using a wide variety of clear examples. Thus, voodoo in New York and New Orleans shows how ideas about magic are forged within cities. Meanwhile vampires reveal how specific fears about sex and death are expressed within, and circulate between, cities such as London and Singapore. Taken together, such examples build a unique picture of the diverse roles of the imaginary, fantastic and the emotional in modern city life. What is "real" about the city has radical consequences for how we think about improving city life, for all too often these are over-looked in utopian schemes for the city. Real Cities forcefully argues that an appreciation of urban phantasmagorias must be central to what is considered real about city life.
Download or read book A Final Storm written by Paul Stephenson and published by Hollow Stone Press. This book was released on with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the world was just the start. Now see how it ends. Before the storm that ended the world brought humanity to its knees, Max worked for a bank, more concerned people might mistake him for a banker than how to survive each day. Six months later he's trying to stay ahead of a psychotic gang leader making a play for the ruined city of London. In Birmingham, Burnett's new Government is trying to stand on its own feet, while Lydia tries to find some peace. Out on the road, Tom and Mira are grieving, just trying to stay alive, when bandits come to tear them apart. But the sky is full of lights once more, and they'll need more than luck to get them through the coming storm. A Final Storm is the thrilling and emotional finale to the bestselling British apocalyptic horror Blood on the Motorway. If you love breath-taking apocalyptic action, tenterhook tension, and characters you'll be rooting for with every turn of the page, you'll love the final instalment in Paul Stephenson's thrilling trilogy. Download A Final Storm today to find out who will survive, and who will thrive, in this heart-pounding finale to the Blood on the Motorway saga.
Book Synopsis Blood on the Motorway by : Paul Stephenson
Download or read book Blood on the Motorway written by Paul Stephenson and published by Hollow Stone Press. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An apocalyptic storm. A killer on the loose. The battle for humanity’s survival starts here. Tom is a layabout ex-student waiting for his life to start or the power to get cut off, whichever comes first. Jen works two jobs, hates both, and most days is too hungover to deal with either. Detective Burnett is trying to work out who the hell turned his sleepy Yorkshire village into a murder town. When the skies fill with a mysterious storm, each of them wakes to find streets filled with dead. The world they knew has gone, and their old lives with it. Tom finds himself at the mercy of a deranged soldier, Jen has to flee the fires burning her city to the ground, and Burnett must track down a killer who sees the apocalypse as an opportunity for more mayhem. If they can’t band together, the fate of what remains of humanity hangs in the balance. Blood on the Motorway is the first in the British apocalyptic horror trilogy readers have called “gripping from the first page’’. If you love edge-of-the-seat action, end-of-the-world tension, and characters you’ll be rooting for with every turn of the page, you’ll love the first instalment in Paul Stephenson’s apocalyptic trilogy. Pick up Blood on the Motorway today to start the epic journey of murder at the world’s end.
Download or read book Last Light written by Paul Stephenson and published by Hollow Stone Press. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2107. Earth is dying. For Wyn, Lois, and Judd, that’s the least of their problems. Wyn is the pilot on the ISS Minos. Its mission: a race to the ice moon of Europa to cure the disease destroying humanity’s crops. But not everyone on board seems to have the same agenda. Lois is an Interpol agent investigating the world’s worst criminals – those rich enough to get whatever they want and powerful enough to murder without consequence – and her cover’s been blown. Judd is hiding as far away from humanity as he can, working in a cheap tourist attraction on the Moon. But when an old man pries a long-forgotten secret from his head, he can no longer hide from the truth he’d buried even from himself. Because Judd is a telepath, and a weapon badly wanted by both sides of an unseen war. They might not know it, but each holds a key to Earth’s cure… and humanity’s survival. If you like pulse-quickening action, blood-soaked science fiction, revelations, and revolutions, you’ll love this first episode in Paul Stephenson’s Sunset Chronicles, the new monthly sci-fi horror serial from the author of the bestselling Blood on the Motorway saga. Pick up Last Light and start the epic saga of plague, conspiracy, murder, and monsters today.
Book Synopsis Sleepwalking Into a New World by : Chris Wickham
Download or read book Sleepwalking Into a New World written by Chris Wickham and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian commune Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally alters our understanding of one of the most important political and cultural innovations of the medieval world. Chris Wickham provides richly textured portraits of three cities—Milan, Pisa, and Rome—and sets them against a vibrant backcloth of other towns. He argues that, in all but a few cases, the elites of these cities and towns developed one of the first nonmonarchical forms of government in medieval Europe, unaware that they were creating something altogether new. Wickham makes clear that the Italian city commune was by no means a democracy in the modern sense, but that it was so novel that outsiders did not know what to make of it. He describes how, as the old order unraveled, the communes emerged, governed by consular elites "chosen by the people," and subject to neither emperor nor king. They regularly fought each other, yet they grew organized and confident enough to ally together to defeat Frederick Barbarossa, the German emperor, at the Battle of Legnano in 1176. Sleepwalking into a New World reveals how the development of the autonomous city-state took place, which would in the end make possible the robust civic culture of the Renaissance.
Book Synopsis Sleep Walking Now and Then by : Richard Bowes
Download or read book Sleep Walking Now and Then written by Richard Bowes and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sleep Walking Now and Then", by Richard Bowes, is a weird, futuristic novelette about an interactive theater production in The Big Arena (aka New York City) and the mystery surrounding its inspiration. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Sleepwalker's World by : Gordon R. Dickson
Download or read book Sleepwalker's World written by Gordon R. Dickson and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC FROM A MASTER. Celebrated author Gordon R. Dickson's classic novel pitting good against evil, back in print. The Sleeper Wakes The energy crisis has been solved. Core Taps have been driven 300 miles into the Earth to tap into the subterranean power source at its core. The only catch: when activated, the Core Taps disrupt brain waves, sending everyone nearby into a deep, forced sleep. It’s a small price to pay for a world of plenty. Or so it seems. Rafe Harald is one of the few humans not affected by the Core Taps. Back from the Moon, where he has been preparing for humankind’s first trek into deep space, he makes his way through a shadowy night world of induced slumber. He’s come to discover the whereabouts of a missing colleague. What he’ll find is a mysterious figure known as the Old Man—and a conspiracy so devious in its design, he’ll wish it was a nightmare. But soon the Old Man will discover that he has awoken a sleeping giant in Rafe Harald. And on a planet of perpetual sleep, a new day is about to dawn. At the publisher's request, this book is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Gordon R. Dickson: "Dickson is one of SF's standard-bearers."—Publishers Weekly "Dickson has a true mastery of pacing and fine understanding of human beings."—Seattle Post Intelligencer "A masterful science fiction writer."—Milwaukee Journal
Book Synopsis Sleepwalk with Me by : Mike Birbiglia
Download or read book Sleepwalk with Me written by Mike Birbiglia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a humorous memoir about first love, denial, sleepwalking, and the author's perils and pitfalls of being himself.
Book Synopsis The Whole Mess and Other Stories by : Jack Skillingstead
Download or read book The Whole Mess and Other Stories written by Jack Skillingstead and published by Fairwood Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be human in a universe of shifting, sometimes terrifying realities? Eighteen stories from Jack Skillingstead’s second decade of publishing feature intense and surprising explorations of who we are, who we wish to be, and who we can’t be. In “The Whole Mess” a genius math professor solves a multiverse equation only to find himself pursued by ancient Masters across the many iterations of his could-have-been lives. “Straconia” gives us a Kafkaesque world where all the lost things go, including people who must first find themselves before they can find a way back home. “Tribute” looks at a post-NASA space race that goes nowhere—until an unlikely pair of marooned astronauts find each other and the future. Also included in this collection is “The Writing Life,” a self-reflection on memory, ambition, and imagination in the formation of one writer’s journey.
Download or read book Language and Power written by Andrea Mayr and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the field of institutional discourse, introducing the key theorists.
Download or read book Fear of Seeing written by Mingwei Song and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture the anticipation and anxieties of China’s new era, speaking to a future filled with uncertainties. Deeply entangled with the politics and culture of a changing China, contemporary science fiction has also attracted a growing global readership. Fear of Seeing traces the new wave’s origin and development over the past three decades, exploring the core concerns and literary strategies that make it so distinctive and vital. Mingwei Song argues that recent Chinese science fiction is united by a capacity to illuminate what had been invisible—what society had chosen not to see; what conventional literature had failed to represent. Its poetics of the invisible opens up new literary possibilities and inspires new ways of telling stories about China and the world. Reading the works of major writers such as Liu Cixin and Han Song as well as lesser-known figures, Song explores how science fiction has spurred larger changes in contemporary literature and culture. He analyzes key topics: variations of utopia and dystopia, cyborgs and the posthuman, and nonbinary perspectives on gender and genre, among many more. A compelling and authoritative account of the politics and poetics of contemporary Chinese science fiction, Fear of Seeing is an important book for all readers interested in the genre’s significance for twenty-first-century literature.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies by : Jeremy Tambling
Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 1977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
Download or read book Sleepwalker written by M A Hunter and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't close your eyes... When Jake Meredith is arrested for the murder of his wife, he's adamant he's not guilty, even though her blood is all over his hands and his prints are on the murder weapon. He has no memory of attacking her. His solicitor brother claims Jake is a sleepwalker, and he's sent to a revolutionary new sleep clinic for assessment. Jake is convinced he didn’t kill his wife, and is intent on finding answers. But locked away in a clinic, he’s impeded at every turn. Is his incarceration accidental, or part of a larger web of lies? And worse still, is he losing his mind or the unwitting victim of something far more sinister? A dark and twisty psychological thriller that'll have you guessing right up until the end, perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, The Silent Patient and Anna O Praise for M. A. Hunter: 'A brilliantly unique storyline - I loved it' Valerie Keogh 'Clever and compelling! I loved everything about this one: the concept, the setting, the structure...' Lesley Kara 'Fresh, pacey, and exciting! You’ll be racing to the finish at breakneck speed!' L C North 'A rollercoaster of a read! Kept me gripped until the very last page.' J A Baker 'I sprinted to finish this heart pounding tale of deception, a real nail biter!' Gemma Rogers 'A fast-paced psychological thriller that will keep you up all night!' Diana Wilkinson 'Clever and original. An exceptional, dark and tense read, with breath-taking twists. Highly recommended!' D. E. White
Book Synopsis Sleep Walking Out of Afghanistan by : Harold Phifer
Download or read book Sleep Walking Out of Afghanistan written by Harold Phifer and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I found myself caught in the middle of the biggest vehicle explosion to ever hit Afghanistan. While dealing with injuries and destruction my mind kept spinning out of control from horror to horror to my dysfunctional past. I did my best to replay my personal ordeals and the reactions of the people around me as accurately as possible. The journey starts out in a tropical country of Thailand where I was living a carefree life with no worries or drama. By happenstance I came across another retiree (Dylan) that took advantage of my drunken state while easily coercing me to dive into my life’s history. It was a life that I buried deep below the surface away from my kids, my family, my friends, my co-workers, and mainly myself. Each story is sure to affect you differently than the previous one. Dealing with what I had viewed as an imminent death helped to bring closure to where I was once open and exposed. The book touches on the sad, the shocking, and the schizophrenic behaviors that surrounded me until later into my adulthood. I tried to ratchet down those experiences with my sense of humor and creative out-takes. You are guaranteed to read this book over and over again! You may find yourself identifying with many of the events or characters. But undoubtedly, some of the stories will stick with you like nothing you have ever read or ever heard of before.
Download or read book To Besiege a City written by Prit Buttar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material. '[An] excellent account.' - Richard Overy, The Telegraph This new history of the first two years of this crucial battle for the heart and soul of Russia is the first in over a decade and also the first to look comprehensively at the wider military strategies of both sides. At a huge cost, the Red Army and the civilian population of Leningrad ultimately endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against constant bombing, shelling, and starvation. Throughout the siege, Soviet forces tried to break the German lines and restore contact with the garrison. To Besiege a City charts the first of these offensives which began in January 1942 and was followed by repeated assaults. Acclaimed Eastern Front historian Prit Buttar details how although the Red Army suffered huge casualties in the swampy and forested terrain, the German infantry divisions were also steadily eroded. Indeed, by keeping control of parts of the shores of Lake Ladoga, the Soviet Union was able to sustain Leningrad through the winters of the siege via the 'road of life', constructed across the frozen lake. This epic history details the dramatic race to create the road across the ice and first-hand accounts from both Soviet and German soldiers, many never previously translated, bring the horrific series of battles and assaults to life. Ultimately the determination of the defenders to hold out during this first phase of the siege and the desperate attempts to break it became a hugely significant part of Russian wartime history. The echoes of the battle persist to this day helping to define both a country and its politics. There is no better time to fully understand this history and To Besiege a City is the most comprehensive account to date.
