![]() In January 2015, it was announced that Sony Pictures had acquired the film rights to the series with the intention of creating a feature film adaptation. The first issue was published on April 24, 2019, by Image Comics. A sequel series, titled Ascender, taking place ten years after the events of Descender was announced in 2018. Descender ran for a total of 32 issues, with the final issue of the series released on July 25, 2018. The first issue of the series was released on March 4, 2015, and received critical acclaim for Lemire's writing as well as for Nguyen's artwork, with the latter winning an Eisner Award for his artwork on the series. ![]() The story follows a young android, TIM-21, trying to survive endless bounty hunters in a universe that has outlawed all robotics and artificial intelligence. ![]() ![]() The series was published by Image Comics. Descender is a Science fiction/ Space opera comic book series written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Dustin Nguyen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I am a man in his fifties who has never felt much of an affinity with maths – but that doesn’t mean I can’t find The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl interesting. I am not a 12 year old girl with social anxiety and incredible abilities in maths. That’s alright, except for the fact that novels are also useful in finding out about people who are not like ourselves. The categorisation of novel by age group started developing in earnest in the 1960s, so that today there’s a feeling that people have to read novels featuring characters who are like themselves. ![]() I don’t think The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl is a good middle grade novel, I think it’s a good novel, which just happens to have children as its characters. ![]() After a period of home schooling, her grandmother/guardian decides that attending a regular school will help Lucy develop social skills. This middle grade novel is about Lucy, a 12 year old girl who, when struck by lightning, develops an incredible ability in mathematics. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty published in 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I could just sit in my chair and do a virtual thing and talk to people on the computer and that felt really great. I had a book come out at the beginning of the pandemic, and I didn't have to go anywhere to sell it to anyone. As an inside person, I thought I was made for quarantine, right? Like, I hate going places. ![]() But no, it's a lot of stuff that I do, like glamorous hoarding and ruminating on the same thought for two years.Īuthor Interviews Samantha Irby: 'This Is The Glamorous Life Of A Writer' I thought it was just, like, hand-washing and checking the light switch a million times. some of my habits, and she was like, "Yeah, that's OCD.". And we talked, and I described the way I think and. So I found a psychiatrist who's really great. In the grocery store, I'd feel like people were chasing me, or in the car I always thought people are trying to run me off the road. I didn't leave the house at all, like, for two years, and I sort of regressed into this feral creature who all of a sudden was terrified of everything outside. Just thinking about it, I'm going to break out in a cold sweat. Like, I will pass away on stage if I get heckled. it's the only medium where the audience is encouraged to be rude to the person on stage, and I can't get heckled. ![]() ![]() By the end of his life he was professor of anthropology at Yale, where he never really fit in. He was offered a professorship at the University of Chicago, and stayed for several years continuing to work for the professionalization of the discipline of linguistics. He was employed by the Geological Survey of Canada for fifteen years, where he came into his own as one of the most significant linguists in North America, the other being Leonard Bloomfield. he went to California to work with Alfred Kroeber documenting the indigenous languages there. ![]() He studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia, where he came under the influence of Franz Boas who inspired him to work on Native American languages. Sapir was born in German Pomerania his parents emigrated to America when he was a child. Edward Sapir (/səˈpɪər/ 1884–1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems wrong to enjoy anything particularly dark when so much bad is going on already. For the most part, I’ve been focused on my own writing, trying to find a space to create where I don’t feel guilty for not constantly fighting the patriarchy or not having my eye on a certain human troll’s Twitter account (lest we all die in inevitable nuclear destruction). But none of that gritty, dark goodness I really love. I’ll occasionally pull out a trusty Stephen King book – something as safe as milk and cookies. Seeing that the world is currently a shit show full of living horror, I’ve taken a long break from my love of horror films and books. Each poem centers on a fictional character from horror cinema, and explores the many ways in which women find empowerment through their own perceived monstrousness. From the white picket fences of 1970s Haddonfield to the apocalyptic end of the world, I Am Not Your Final Girl confronts the role of women in relation to subjects including feminism, violence, motherhood, sexuality, and assault in the world of Trump and the MeToo movement. ![]() ![]() Holland, a timely collection of poetry that follows the final girl of slasher cinema – the girl who survives until the end – on a journey of retribution and reclamation. ![]() ![]() ![]() I saw this book being described as the most Slytherin romance ever. ![]() Unfortunately for her, Alessandra is not the only one trying to kill the king and she soon finds herself trying to keep him alive long enough for him to make her his queen – while struggling not to lose her heart. No one knows the extent of the Shadow King’s power, but Alessandra will do anything she can to get what she knows she deserves. Woo the Shadow King, marry him, then kill him and take his kingdom for himself. ![]() In the meantime, you can enjoy this review of Tricia Levenseller’s The Shadows Between Us, which was in the February Fairyloot box!Īlessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan. Hi everyone! How are you doing? I hope you’re safe and healthy, and surrounded by books! I’m currently working on a post in which I look back at the books I read in the first six months of the year, you can expect that next Tuesday. ![]() ![]() ![]() His house is a hoard of books and antiques, and yet unlike all the stories about vicious, possessive dragons, he seems to have no problem with Arthur taking over the clutter and setting the house to rights. Philbert “Bertie” Jones is a brilliant historian, but he can’t keep track of the days of the week, much less find his own notes without help. Jones is a dragon, one of the most powerful and least understood of the beings, he didn’t anticipate what that could mean-or that he would be so immediately attracted to his boss.ĭr. Jones is a chance for Arthur to, sort of, live his dream again. Before Arthur dropped out of school to support his younger sister, he loved being a research assistant at the university, and becoming a personal assistant to a famous historian like Dr. ![]() ![]() Arthur MacArthur is in desperate need of a better paying job. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a fascinating and completely credible account." "Weir takes on this delicious mystery with a fearsome vengeance. ![]() A masterpiece of historical research and a riveting story of conspiracy and deception, The Princes in the Tower at last provides a solution to this age-old puzzle. ![]() We are witnesses to the rivalry, ambition, intrigue, and struggle for power that culminated in the imprisonment of the prince and the hushed-up murders that secured Richard's claim to the throne as Richard III. Did Richard III really kill "the Princes in the Tower," as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as dozens of modern accounts, English historian Alison Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder. brilliantly illuminates the nature of late-medieval political power."ĭespite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. ![]() "A SURPRISINGLY FRESH AND TREMENDOUSLY THOROUGH CONTRIBUTION to the debate.Weir's book is, no doubt, not the last on this subject, but it might be the best. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vector of the life cycle that includes the spice and the makers. ![]() ![]() “Spreading death among the little makers, killing a Jessica weighed his words, suddenly saw through to his meaning. Life above a pre-spice mass, do you know what will happen?” Paul took a deep breath, said: “Mother, you must change a quantity of In the first book, the scene after Paul's transformation by the spice essence gives away a possible mechanism: The number of worms dwindled and the reproductive lifecycle of the worms was disrupted.Ģ - He poisoned them with the Water of Death. It's not explicitly stated in the book during either Children of Dune or God Emperor of Dune in precise terms how this came to be - however the first novel, Dune itself alludes to a possible mechanism.ġ - The Planet would no longer support the lifecycle of the worm and they just died out:Įven before Leto's reign, there was open water on the face of Dune because of his father's reign and choices.įirstly, the worms-sand was shrunk by the application of technology, Leto's weather-control satellites, which he also employed to maintain the dryness of The Sareer (somewhat imperfectly). ![]() The only place where desert remained was Leto's Sareer, the little desert, 1,500 by 500 km. It's not explicitly stated, but there are two potential reasons the sandtrout disappeared.Īs you know, the planet Arrakis was now a verdant lush place full of life. They're all gone, except those being the skin of Leto. ![]() ![]() and other Western countries, we expect things to remain as they are right now. When financial stocks go up, they expect them to tumble imminently when they plummet, they expect those stocks to appreciate in value when it’s rainy they expect it to be sunny tomorrow. I discovered in East Asia-China, Japan, and South Korea, for example-people expect change all the time. ![]() Forecasting change is the first step to getting unstuck.Ībout fifteen years ago I was studying how people around the world perceive change. Listen to the audio version-read by Adam himself-in the Next Big Idea App. ![]() Adam Alter is a professor of marketing and psychology at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and the New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink.īelow, Adam shares five key insights from his new book, Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck and Thrive When It Matters Most. ![]() |