Download or read book Insatiable Machine written by Zoë Robertson and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wave goodbye to the American dream. Just a heartbeat into the future, America is being dragged to its knees by social unrest and economic inequality. The furious pace of technological advancement has made medicine capable of near-miracles but has also enabled the widespread displacement of workers by automated systems. As unemployment and poverty levels rise to dangerous heights, those with fortunes to lose are pitted against those with nothing left. The threat of rebellion looms greater every day. When a chance meeting in a Washington, D.C., slum leads journalist Richard LaPointe to a heinous discovery, he and his wife, internationally respected physician and medical technologist Allie MacKay, start down a path that exposes just how far those in power will go to protect themselves from the impending crisis. When their daughter, Skyie, an online video activist sensation, gets involved after pulling off a spectacular protest stunt, they are all plunged into a world in which no one is safe. What they find behind the curtain is not an America made great again. It is an empire in ruin.
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction written by Jerrold E. Hogle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
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Download or read book I m the Bomb written by Morgan Hobbs and published by Morgan Hobbs. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the most successful film studio in Hollywood is racked with failed projects, financial reversals and bizarre accidents, rumors swirl that legendary long-time studio head Nero is on the chopping block. The notorious and increasingly erratic Nero engineers a pre-emptive strike against the studio’s parent company by staging a star-studded film shoot in the desert and then orchestrating a series of increasingly traumatic accidents—prematurely triggered pyrotechnic effects, blanks switched out for live ammo, and worse—guaranteed to make the project fail so lethally that it brings down the very studio that he created. The cast and crew settle into their temporary desert home blissfully unaware that the entire location sits on top of a radioactive waste dump. As the film’s magnetic lead actor Tony Billings scrounges for drugs and cheap thrills, he is stalked by an obsessive entertainment journalist, Frederick M Barclay, who pursues his ultimate objective to once and for all lay open his subject in the most gruesome possible way.
Download or read book The Revenant Express written by George Mann and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grand adventure continues in George Mann's Newbury & Hobbes steampunk mystery series, as a Victorian special agent races across a continent to save his beloved's life on board The Revenant Express. Sir Maurice Newbury is bereft as his trusty assistant Veronica Hobbes lies dying with a wounded heart. Newbury and Veronica's sister Amelia must take a sleeper train across Europe to St. Petersberg to claim a clockwork heart that Newbury has commissioned from Faberge to save Veronica from a life trapped in limbo. No sooner do they take off then sinister goings-on start to plague the train, and it is discovered that an old villain, thought dead, is also on board and seeking revenge. Can Newbury and Amelia defeat him and get the clockwork organ back to the Fixer in time to save Veronica? And can they do so without Newbury going so far into the dark side of occult magic that he can never return? Meanwhile, Sir Charles Bainbridge is the only one of their team left in London to struggle with a case involving a series of horrific crimes. Someone is kidnapping prominent men and infecting them with the Revenant plague, leaving them chained in various locations around the city. But why? It's a rousing chase to save both London and Veronica. Will these brave detectives be up to the task? Newbury & Hobbes Investigations #1: The Affinity Bridge #2: The Osirus Ritual #3: The Immortality Engine #4: The Executioner's Heart #5: The Revenant Express
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Download or read book Celebrity Clone Wars written by Bill Valiontis and published by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2024-03-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Celebrity Clone Wars": A satirical take on Hollywood's obsession with fame and vanity, where celebrities start cloning themselves to stay relevant, leading to chaotic and hilarious consequences. The Cloning Mishap: One celebrity accidentally creates a faulty clone that has all their worst traits amplified, causing havoc in both their personal and professional life. The Clone Rebellion: A group of celebrity clones decides they're tired of living in the shadows of their originals and stage a protest demanding equal rights and recognition. The Secret Clone Society: A clandestine organization of celebrity clones operates behind the scenes, pulling the strings and manipulating events to further their own agenda in Hollywood. The Clone Identity Crisis: A clone struggles with their own sense of self-worth and identity, grappling with the notion that they are merely a copy of someone else rather than an individual. The Celebrity Clone Black Market: A seedy underworld emerges where clandestine cloning techniques are sold to aspiring celebrities, leading to a wave of poorly made clones wreaking havoc in Tinseltown. The Talk Show Showdown: A popular talk show host discovers their guests are all secretly clones of themselves, leading to a comedic showdown as each clone vies for the spotlight. The Clone Therapy Session: A group therapy session for celebrity clones delves into the emotional toll of constantly living in the shadow of their originals, resulting in hilarious and heartwarming moments. The Clone Celebrity Couple: Two celebrity clones from different originals fall in love, sparking a media frenzy and paparazzi obsession that threatens to expose the truth behind their identities. The Clone vs. Original Rivalry: A bitter rivalry erupts between a celebrity and their clone, each trying to outdo the other in a series of outlandish stunts and publicity stunts.
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Download or read book Obscure Narrative written by Heider Broisler and published by Heider Broisler Falcao. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Obscure Narrative, we come across psychosocial fragments that fuel the mental combustion responsible for the feelings and sensations that blind our most subtle perceptions, transforming us into nefarious and underhanded actors, acting on an immense stage called life, which transits through a fine line between the genius and the execrable; however, the author warns that these poems may cause discomfort in sensitive reactionary people.
