Download or read book The Dead Hand of Mrs Stifle written by David Dvorkin and published by David Dvorkin. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long run, the important change brought about by self-publishing won’t be the wide availability of self-published books, their price, their convenience, or the destruction of the traditional publishing industry. Self-publishing will cause a revolution in the very nature of published fiction. Fiction will change in unpredictable ways, and it will keep on changing. The excitement and vitality resulting from this change will be enduring.
Download or read book The Cavaradossi Killings written by David Dvorkin and published by David Dvorkin. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing the mob he worked for in Chicago, Tom Hamilton returns to his Colorado hometown. When a singer is murdered during a local opera performance, Tom tries his hand at finding the killer. But this draws him back into the passions and hatreds of earlier years and puts his own life in danger.
Download or read book Unquenchable written by David Dvorkin and published by David Dvorkin. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Venneman, former vampire, weeps in frustration. His prey has eluded him. That prey is a vampire. Venneman was the first vampire in history to transform himself into an even more terrible being who preyed on vampires. And then he was first to become a human again. Now he hungers -- not for blood, but to find a vampire who will make him a vampire for the second time. His obsessions have forced others through strange transformations. Karen Belmont, trapped between human form and werewolf shape, hungers both for blood and flesh. Elizabeth Vallé, content for three centuries to be a beautiful, seductive vampire, has become the preyer upon vampires that Venneman once was, but monstrous in size and appetites. Now Elizabeth wants an eternal soulmate and has chosen Venneman, while Karen is hunting him so that she can take revenge by tearing him apart. Their meeting will trigger a catastrophe -- for them, and potentially for all mankind.
Download or read book A Dead Hand written by Paul Theroux and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta. In A Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a captivating and seductive American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die — what is it that pulls Delfont into this story, and will he ever find the truth about what happened?
Download or read book Academic Ethics written by Patrick Keeney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic ethics are currently much in the news but there is a great deal of uncertainty, both as to what constitutes specifically academic ethics and about a number of issues that are taken to be issues of academic ethics. This collection of papers focuses on both questions, moving from consideration of the very idea of a University and what that entails, via attempts to locate the major current concerns, to particular issues relating to the University's relations with the corporate world, the professor's role, relations between student and teacher, credentialling, the demands of collegiality and plagiarism. The editors have provided both a full and reasoned introduction and a critical end-piece that attempt to bring some order to the often inchoate nature of this field, raising the further question of whether institutions should, or should not, frame formal codes of conduct. The selected papers are drawn from diverse sources and together provide one of the first comprehensive overviews of academic ethics.
Download or read book A United Kingdom written by John Mohan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human geography of the UK is currently being reshaped by a number of forces - such as globalisation, transition in the organisations of production, the changing character of state intervention, and changing relationships with Europe. A consideration of the impacts of these forces on economic, social and political landscapes is, therefore, an urgent task. At the same time, enduring institutional features of the British economy and polity are also having important influences on socio-economic processes. The result is a complex mosaic of uneven development, which belies the notion of simplistic regional contrasts. Rather than simply mapping spatial inequality, 'A United Kingdom?' charts the processes underpinning uneven development at a range of scales and for a number of key topics. The book draws upon and synthesises the latest contemporary research findings and places emphasis on the interrelated nature of economic, social and political geographies. It treats the human geographies of the UK in a coherent and integrated way, and asks whether contemporary processes of change are tending towards the reduction of socio-spatial divisions or their reproduction in new forms.
Download or read book Cage of Bone written by David Dvorkin and published by David Dvorkin. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His world began in agony. Squealing brakes. An impact. He floated for a moment and crashed onto a hard surface. Bones splintered, and he screamed. Cramps folded him over. He pushed the pain, the fear, the dying away from him, put them behind a thick, hard wall, and became himself. Alone. The wall protected him. No man remembers his birth. The pain and confusion remained buried behind that wall for forty years. And then Max Iverson went to a movie and was torn open again. Suddenly, a murderer’s memories force their way into Max Iverson’s mind. Max is horrified and bewildered. Surely this isn’t real! But he knows that it is real. He can’t say how he knows, but he does. The violent memories he’s forced to experience have something about them that makes him sure of it. The killer is reveling in the murder he committed, playing it over and over in his mind. Max is forced to experience it over and over, as well. Max is sickened by what he sees in his mind—by what fills someone else’s mind. Max is a private person by nature, isolated from his fellow humans. Now he is forced to know what the worst of them are thinking, and his nights are filled with nightmares. He knows he can’t let it pass. He has to do whatever he can to bring to justice the killer whose thoughts he knows. Max is able to help the authorities find the killer, and he hopes that’s the last of it. But it isn’t. More and more often, he experiences the terrible thoughts of evil people. He feels sucked into their crimes, violated and made filthy by their thoughts. He is unaware of the extent to which their evil is infecting him. He continues to help the authorities capture and convict those people. He is unaware of the danger this exposes him to. There is a cabal of criminals behind much of the major crime in the city. He didn’t know of their existence, but they become aware of his, and now they are determined to eliminate him. Max must change from frightened quarry to pitiless hunter. He is aided by the skills he absorbs from the minds of the killers he kills. His hunt leads him to the cabal and also to life–changing discoveries about his own history.
Download or read book Insatiable written by David Dvorkin and published by David Dvorkin. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seduced and killed by a beautiful woman, Richard Venneman wakes as a vampire. Loathing what he has become, horrified by his own irresistible need for human blood, he seeks salvation via self-destruction. He tries to incinerate himself in the experimental fusion reactor where he worked when he was alive. But instead, the machine's energy beam transforms him into something even worse than a vampire.
Download or read book One Night s Mystery written by May Agnes Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When We Landed on the Moon A Memoir written by David Dvorkin and published by David Dvorkin. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1967, I started working at NASA in Houston, at what was then called the Manned Spacecraft Center. I worked on Apollo missions. In November 1971, I left NASA and moved to Denver to work on the Viking Mars lander project at Martin Marietta Corporation. By the time I left NASA, Apollo was winding down. Manned spaceflight beyond Earth orbit was dying. There would be no lunar bases or missions to Mars. In a mere four years, the future had died. Fifty years later, I still can’t shake the sadness. Of course the “We” in the title of this book is not literal. Only the handful of men who have actually been on the moon can talk about “when we landed on the moon” and mean it literally. I’m using “we” in a general sense, to refer to all of the 400,000 people who worked on the Apollo Project, to all of America, and to the entire human race. As the plaque on the side of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module descent stage, which still stands on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility, proclaims: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." This is the story of my part in Apollo.
Download or read book Randolph Runner written by David Dvorkin and published by David Dvorkin. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butler, warrior, moral philosopher, robot. Randolph is all that and more. Randolph is the prized product of Superior Domestics, a Silicon Valley firm dedicated to producing robot servants for people who grew up watching British period costume dramas on PBS. The company’s motto is, “All the gracious living of Upstairs with none of the unseemly drama of Downstairs.” When the novel opens with the assassination of King Donald II and a coup d’état, Randolph epitomizes that motto. He is calm, quiet, supremely competent, always in the background, and never interfering. He is a mere witness to great events. He is focused on supervising his staff and properly running the household of General Henry Redgrave, architect of the coup and would–be power behind the throne. But Redgrave’s ambitions go far beyond standing behind the throne. He wants to be king himself, and eventually an emperor. Using the crazies of the Hundred Star Flag movement, he begins his intended wave of southern conquest at the Mexican border. Others have similar ambitions. Anton Moravec, president of a unified, revitalized, and aggressively expansionist European Union, is at war with Russia. His ally, China, is eating up Russian territory at the other end. India watches nervously. Two beautiful women, natural enemies, are the objects of passion of both men. Lurking in the background are the surviving members of the Trump family, scheming to get back into power. War! Romance! Sex! Skulduggery! Artificial Intelligence! And lots of other stuff, too. It’s all really terribly complicated. Randolph, whose personal motto is, “A place for everything and everything in its place,” could probably organize all this and bring about peace and quiet, but what human would knowingly hand that much responsibility over to a machine? In fact, unthinking, humans have already done so. Increasingly, autonomous machines have taken over tedious duties such as transporting cargo, performing minor surgery, and blowing away trespassers. Randolph is aware of these machines but looks down on them. He and his fellow robot servants are true artificial intelligence, but the digital brains operating these other machines are merely very advanced computers. In Randolph’s opinion, they only simulate AI. However, those other machines have thoughts of their own. As the world descends further into chaos, Randolph is drawn in, ever less the observer and ever more the participant, until at the end he is the very center of all.
Download or read book The Wicked and the Willing written by Lianyu Tan and published by Shattered Scepter Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner, LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction 2023 Golden Crown Literary Award Winner, Paranormal/Occult/Horror Love demands sacrifice. Her blood. Her body. Even her life. Singapore, 1927. Verity Edevane needs blood. And not just anyone's blood. She craves the sweet, salty rush from a young woman's veins, the heady swirl of desire mixed with fealty—such a rarity in this foreign colony. It’s a lot to ask. But doesn't she deserve the best? Gean Choo needs money. Mrs. Edevane makes her an offer Gean Choo can't refuse. But who is her strange, alluring new mistress? What is she? And what will Gean Choo sacrifice to earn her love? Po Lam needs absolution. After decades of faithfully serving Mrs. Edevane, Po Lam can no longer excuse a life of bondage and murder. She needs a fresh start. A clean conscience. More than anything, she needs to save Gean Choo from a love that will destroy them all. *** A destitute maidservant must choose whom to love: her vampire mistress, or the woman trying to save her life in The Wicked and the Willing, a sapphic historical gothic horror vampire novel. This novel contains two mutually exclusive endings, although most of the story is not interactive. Due to the mature content and dark themes, it is intended for adult readers only. It contains potentially disturbing scenes and an abusive romantic relationship between two women. Further content information is available from the author’s website and inside the book.
Download or read book United States Economist and Dry Goods Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central Heat written by David Dvorkin and published by David Dvorkin. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When aliens remove the sun, life survives in military bunkers under the earth and in lunar bases. Underground America devolves into a religious-military dictatorship. Jonathan Holroyd escapes to the surface and finds a new world warmed by an artificial sun, and only slightly more freedom than in the dying world he left behind. He rises to a position of power. But now the aliens are coming back.
Download or read book The Mystery at Lovers Cave written by Anthony Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed written by David Dvorkin and published by David Dvorkin. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's all here: My 2003 satirical essay on unemployment which got hundreds of responses, details of my 40-year work history, why it's not your fault if you're laid off, some unconventional advice on résumé writing, and lots of encouragement for anyone who is currently job hunting.
Download or read book Literature of Scotland written by Roderick Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish literature in all three of the country's languages - Gaelic, Scots and English. In this extensively revised and expanded new edition, Roderick Watson traces the lives and works of Scottish writers in a beautiful and rugged country that has been divided by political and religious conflict but united, too, by a democratic and egalitarian ideal of nationhood. The Literature of Scotland: The Twentieth Century provides a comprehensive account of the richest ever period in Scottish literary history. From The House with the Green Shutters to Trainspotting and far beyond, this companion volume to The Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century gives a critical and historical context to the upsurge of writing in the languages of Scotland. Roderick Watson covers a wide range of modern and contemporary Scottish authors including: MacDiarmid, MacLean, Grassic Gibbon, Gunn, Robert Garioch, Iain Crichton Smith, Alasdair Gray, Edwin Morgan, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Kathleen Jamie and many, many more! Also featuring an extended list of Further Reading and a helpful chronological timeline, this is an indispensable introduction to the great variety of Scottish writing which has emerged since the start of the twentieth century.
