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Book Synopsis Monstrum ex Machina by : Gareth Lewis
Download or read book Monstrum ex Machina written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is changing, in ways it shouldn't. Even on the mindscape, things don't just happen. Someone must think them. So monsters of fable, and haunted houses, must be thought into being. Theresa wants to arrest those responsible, for whatever their crime is. Alex is happy to have a mystery. Then things get violent. Can they solve it before the nightmare plague becomes uncontrollable? A 33,000 word sf novella.
Book Synopsis All Roads Lead to Hell by : Gareth Lewis
Download or read book All Roads Lead to Hell written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazelrock, Alabama, is a failing small town, propped up by a drug operation. Its sheriff is unable to do anything about it without killing the town. But when a stranger arrives intent on causing trouble, a small town might not leave anywhere to hide from that trouble. A crime thriller novella.
Download or read book The Redacted Man written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a cap that steals witnesses’ memory of the wearer, reducing them to little more than a shadowy on the periphery of perception. Even the wearer barely recalls himself. But he recalls his mission. Half stuck in a hidden world that might not be covered by the law, Detective Cassie Kinsala struggles to find a way back to normal. Doing her job becomes harder when she’s forced onto a taskforce jointly run by one of the secret societies she wants to arrest. And if the danger of getting stuck in a war between secret societies wasn’t enough, there’s an untraceable someone out there eliminating threats to this hidden world.
Book Synopsis The Book of a Thousand and One Destinies by : Gareth Lewis
Download or read book The Book of a Thousand and One Destinies written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paranoid Sultan, an Assassin found only in stories, and a Storyteller caught up in their battle. Once upon a time, a great Sultan was plagued by an Assassin who struck at him with stories and lies. A young Storyteller is gathered with her colleagues, and forced to share her stories with the Sultan before their voices are stilled forever. In a war of destinies, enslaved jinn, and comparative truths, the Storyteller must tread dangerous ground in what may be her final recital. A fantasy novella.
Download or read book The Ghost Gun written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghost Gun kills what it hits, its ghost bullets ensnaring the victim’s soul to their killer. Except that nothing is that simple. Certainly not an apparently simple theft that leads detectives into a war between secret societies over artifacts which have been around for millennia, their origin unknown, their abilities inexplicable. Demoted to Vice due to departmental politics, Detective Cassie Kinsala sees an opportunity to restore her career path. But what looks like it might offer a decent arrest soon turns into a quagmire the law might not cover, and might not protect her from. Jimmy Bancroft used to be a cop. Working for the other side lets him avoid paperwork. Investigating rumours of a competitor moving in on his employer’s interests, he becomes entangled in a war between criminals and a secret society. And someone might be trying to set him up.
Download or read book After Beowulf written by Nicole Markotić and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN POETRY BOOKS OF 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD hwæt, another Beowulf translation? Not exactly... Welcome to Denmark’s Heorot Hall, where King Hrothgar invites to his banquet table everyone but Grendel, Saxon’s cradle-made monster. Dissing this ur-outsider initiates a predictable and monstrous backlash, a Mediæval fracas that only the eponymous Beowulf can quash. Sailing across the whaleroads, he arrives to “quell and queltch and quatch the Grendel beast.” Beowulf, that still-recognizable hero, embodies a “blank” function, a motive-driven yet motiveless megastar. He’s the young, fit, male, self-sacrificing protagonist-interloper who will fight any monster to protect his people. Or to defend strangers. Or to gain a reputation. Or because he just really wants to... In her rendering of Beowulf, Nicole Markotić offers a rollicking cover song of fantastical text. These pages will surprise readers as they introduce new ways to embrace, challenge, or click with Anglo-Saxon heroics. Writing original poems, Markotić de-stories the story of one man, who mostly does not play well with others, who fights monsters (and defeats their mothers, too), and who practically invents the poetic tradition of entitled bravery Upending the tale with her fresh and enchanting style, Markotić gives a nod to previous translations, winks at canonical critics, bares historical biases, all while gifting transmogrifying pages that will whet your whimsy! "Nicole Markotić takes the original English-language epic and reprocesses it. That is, she rereads, rewrites, reimagines, rethinks, and retells it, all at the same time. The result is the story re-understood. The phrasing and incantation is Markotić’s own (and our era’s own), deployed with deliciously textured and diverse registers of language. Blake saw infinity in the palm of his hand. Markotić puts a millennium in yours." —Wayde Compton, author of The Outer Harbour "Beowulf, with its unfathomable monsters and monster-slaying hero, its bro world of mead, boasting, weapons, and booty, remains a stubbornly relevant template for much of our contemporary scene. Nicole Markotić’s After Beowulf handles all this with dazzling sprezzatura. It is a pleasure to follow the narrating, condensing, commenting voice as it sashays through a range of verbal registers from high Olsonic to comic book pratfall, snark to scholarship. After Beowulf provides an up-to-date reading of Beowulf through the eyes of a feminist poet. And it continually suggests what things might be like after Beowulf." —Bob Perelman, author of Jack and Jill in Troy "The collision of ancient and colloquial language creates bursts of humour as my dude Beowulf makes his way into the banquet hall and beyond. Linger here to experience the aesthetics of poetry in action: vibrant and intensely moving, we feel the wrenching pain of Grendel’s mother. Markotić’s language is thick with meaning and light with humour: a creation of the most projective of verses." —Jacqueline Turner, author of Flourish
Book Synopsis The Darkness Below by : Gareth Lewis
Download or read book The Darkness Below written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Harriet Marks has advised the British security services on science for too long, when even gathering forensic evidence at a remote science-terrorist safehouse arouses little professional excitement. But as a snowstorm closes in, her team realise they’re not alone. While some dangers might have once been human, there’s also a darkness below that’s less recognisable. A darkness as potentially dangerous as the one already within her. A speculative novella.
Download or read book The Abyssal Box written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artifact is stolen, and seemingly destroyed. That shouldn’t be possible. The taskforce hunt for the possibly destroyed artifact, and given the theft might have included inside help, they must also investigate the dangerous secret society with its fingers in everything. In an increasingly compromised position, Cassie questions who she really is, and if she’s still serving the law as part of the taskforce. With potential enemies all around, was the artifact that lets the user adopt the identity of others really destroyed?
Download or read book Classics For All written by Dunstan Lowe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical culture belongs to us all: whether as academic subject or as entertainment, it constantly stimulates new ideas. In recent years, following Gladiator’s successful revival of the ‘toga epic’, studies of the ancient world in cinema have drawn increasing attention from authors and readers. This collection builds on current interest in this topic, taking its readers past the usual boundaries of classical reception studies into less familiar—and even uncharted—areas of ancient Greece and Rome in mass popular culture. Contributors discuss the uses of antiquity in television programmes, computer games, journalism, Hollywood blockbusters, B-movies, pornography, Web 2.0, radio drama, and children’s literature. Its diverse contents celebrate the continuing influence of Classics on modern life: from controversies within academia to ephemeral pop culture, from the traditional to the cutting-edge. The reader will find both new voices and those of more established commentators, including broadcaster and historian Bettany Hughes, Latinist Paula James, and Gideon Nisbet, author of Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture. Together they demonstrate that rich rewards await anyone with an interest in our classical heritage, when they embrace the diversity and complexity of mass popular culture as a whole.
Download or read book Glyphwar written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Society and Alliance in decline, the monarchs unite to depose the usurpers. They're hardly powerless, and growing threats from outside the kingdoms and within could be enough to send everything spiralling towards war. And that's before Thjorn's plans reach fruition.
Book Synopsis Shadows of the Heavens by : Gareth Lewis
Download or read book Shadows of the Heavens written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not even half-way into its first century the empire is riven by strife hidden behind a polite facade. With political factions vying for imperial influence, regional politics subverting imperial law, and society still recovering from recent wars, how much is due to mythic beings many no longer believe in? A scholar's death triggers a series of events which could unravel the tenuous empire, drawing into the deadly game a young enforcer searching for his childhood friend; an examiner who desperately wants to avoid politics; a masked woman whose curiosity could cost her everything; and a prince with nothing better to do. This volume collects the fifteen part story.
Book Synopsis Once Upon a Time in Faerie by : Gareth Lewis
Download or read book Once Upon a Time in Faerie written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demons inhabit stories and force their readers to live out the narrative. Selne and Grela know how to adapt demons so they don’t take over, instead turning them into wearable stories. Others try to duplicate their process, some for profit, some to unleash horror. Their secret sees them drawn ever deeper into the volatile politics of Faerie as it recovers from a failed coup, trapping them between revolutionaries and a paranoid Queen. Those aren’t even the true danger, as everyone wants to weaponize demons. Grela must decide what she’ll be without fate choosing her role for her, while Selne resists the destiny laid upon her by family. And both question the stories they tell themselves about their relationship. A standalone sequel to the Border Guards trilogy.
Book Synopsis The Unchanging Stone by : Gareth Lewis
Download or read book The Unchanging Stone written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a stone that never changes, but which warps everything around it. It should be locked away, where it can never challenge the status quo, but it went missing a while back. Now there are hints it’s being used, and that could change everything. Cassie knew she wasn’t free of that world, but at least she hadn’t been stuck in it. Then a nuisance call turns out to be a murder with links to the factions, threatening to drag her back in. There’s a conspiracy within a secret society, determined to regain their former secrecy, and restore what they believe was. But change isn’t easy to control, nor the future easy to fight.
Download or read book The Border Guard written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Border Guards serve the fae council by covertly policing fae activity on the quarantined Earth. After absolutely not illegally visiting Earth and seeing one murdered, Aelik Swiftthorne is framed for a crime he might have committed, and recruited as a replacement Border Guard. While the indifferent story of science that governs Earth is preferable to the meddling one of Faerie, he’s still at the mercy of narrative winds. And in the sights of the human military. Freedom becomes even more elusive when an invasive story sees Earth, and him, as its playthings. The best he can hope for might be to avoid becoming either a disposable supporting character, or a puppet-like hero. Winner of the SelfPubCon22 First Line Competition.
Download or read book Glyphmaster written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has been averted, the Society's power diminished, but peace has yet to reach the shores of the Scarred Sea. As unrest spreads, there remain a few finishing touches to making the world as Thjorn wishes it to be. But the hallucination of his dead friend won't let him work, and others have their own ideas about how things should be. The final plays are being made, as pawns and players alike are moved into place.
Book Synopsis The Monster in the Mirror by : Gareth Lewis
Download or read book The Monster in the Mirror written by Gareth Lewis and published by Gareth Lewis. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder is an aberration, and unsolved murders were once considered impossible in a society where everyone is watched inside their own head. Until a murder occurred that required detective Alex's mind to be revived to find the killer. It was solved, the killer stopped. Now there's another unidentified killer, targeting representatives of society's failings. Wary of being shoved back in a box, the mystery is still more than Alex can resist. A 36,000 word novella.
Download or read book Love at a Crux written by Cameron Cross and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love at a Crux presents the emergence of versified love stories in the New Persian language as a crucial event in the history of romance. Using the tale of Vis & Rāmin (w. 1054) as its focal point, the book explores how Persian court poets in the eleventh century reconfigured "myths" and "fables" from the distant past in ways that transformed the love story from a form of evening entertainment to a method of ethical, political, and affective self-inquiry. This transformation both anticipates and helps to explain the efflorescence of romance in many medieval cultures across the western flank of Afro-Eurasia. Bringing together traditions that are often sundered by modern disciplinary boundaries, Love at a Crux unearths the interconnections between New Persian and comparable traditions in ancient and medieval Greek, Arabic, Georgian, Old French, and Middle High German, offering scholars in classics, medieval studies, Middle Eastern literatures, and premodern world literature a case study in literary history as connected history.
