Download or read book In the Corridors of Elysium written by Chowdhury I. Zaman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is all about the author’s journey to and from his school. The author explains that such a journey is, in fact, much more than just a physical one. It is a journey of lessons, learning and growth which germinates at home, gets refined along the way, and blossoms at school. Through his own example, the author illustrates how members of a family are instrumental in modulating and refining an individual’s overall academic journey and experience. He also indicates how teachers and friends at school seem to seamlessly take on the roles and responsibilities of parents and siblings at home. Besides, the author recollects the sights, sounds and situations he encountered on way to school and back while travelling across the city in a rickety and overcrowded public transport. He also provides a vivid description of edifices from almost half a century ago, including those at his school and the house he grew up in – most of which do not exist anymore. At the same time the author recounts his school activities, both curricular and extra-curricular, including playful misdemeanors. He explores the depths and values of childhood friendships and pays a fitting tribute to his teachers for their relentless and selfless efforts in building worthy future generations. And just as importantly, the author has successfully enriched the narrative with refreshing humor and amusing anecdotes.
Download or read book Elysium s Awakening written by Matthew Munson and published by Inspired Quill. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republic history shows that the science vessel Ulysses was claimed by a black hole whilst on a routine research mission. The truth is harder to swallow. Already reeling from the loss of a security team under her command, first officer Sara May wants nothing more than an uneventful conclusion to their simple fact-finding duties. But when the Emperor sends his chief science advisor to rendezvous with the vessel, their expedition comes to a stand-still. Literally. While their ship quietly orbits the planet Elysium, May has no cause to suspect that her Captain has become an unwilling participant in a crime that would shake the Republic to its core if it were ever revealed. But then she discovers the truth, and has to choose between doing the right thing or following the Emperor's direct orders. Her decision will have far-reaching consequences, and she doesn't have time to consider her options. Set before the events in the highly-acclaimed novel 'Elysium's Shadow', this novella reveals the secret of what actually happened on the far-flung world of Elysium when it was first discovered. The Republic is determined to stand - but when Elysium awakens, justice will be sought.
Download or read book Elysium s Shadow written by Matthew Munson and published by Inspired Quill. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s been a hell of a first day.” Jon May has been the Governor of Elysium for a few hours, and he’s already facing a belligerent Chief of Security, an ex-Operations Manager imprisoned for killing the previous Governor, and an amorphous energy mass that has its own agenda. So now Jon has to decide who to trust; his Security Chief will barely talk to him, and his only allies are people who, according to the Republic, are dangerous criminals. With less than 48 hours to delve into the shadows surrounding Elysium’s recent but tumultuous past, May is about to uncover more about this job than he bargained for.
Download or read book The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia written by Josephine Machon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia is the definitive book on the company’s work to date, marking eighteen years of Punchdrunk’s existence. It provides the first full-scale, historical account of one of the world’s foremost immersive theatre companies, drawn from unrivalled access to the collective memory and archives of their core creative team. The playful encyclopaedic format, much like a Punchdrunk masked show, invites readers to create their own journey through the ideas, aesthetics, contexts, and practices that underpin Punchdrunk’s work. Interjections from Felix Barrett, Stephen Dobbie, Maxine Doyle, Peter Higgin, Beatrice Minns, Colin Nightingale and Livi Vaughan, among others, fill out the picture with in-depth reflections. Charting Punchdrunk’s rise from the fringe to the mainstream, this encyclopaedia records the founding principles and mission of the company, documenting its evolving creative process and operational structures. It has been compiled to be useful to scholars and students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, from secondary level through to doctoral research, and is intended for those with a fascination for theatre in general and immersive work in particular. Ultimately it is written for those who have dared to come play with Punchdrunk across the years. It is also offered to the curious; those adventurers ready and waiting to be immersed in Punchdrunk worlds.
Download or read book Shadows of the Farthest Stars written by Charles Eugene Anderson and published by Mad Cow Press. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranded in the vast cosmos after a disastrous first encounter, Captain Lira Kael and her valiant crew aboard the Elysium must navigate through the uncharted territories of a strange and treacherous universe. Beyond the farthest stars, pursued by implacable foes and wrought with unforeseen dangers, they are fueled by a single, burning imperative: find a way back to Earth. As they forge ahead, the awe-inspiring mysteries of the cosmos unveil themselves—both wondrous and horrifying in equal measure. Each trial they face is not just a test of survival but an opportunity to display the indomitable human spirit in their relentless quest—light year by relentless light year. For Star Trek: Voyager fans, Shadows of the Farthest Stars offers a thrilling odyssey that echoes the heart of exploration and resilience. Join Captain Kael, akin to Captain Janeway, as she grapples with the responsibility of guiding her crew through the unknown, fostering unity amongst disparate characters, and encountering civilizations that challenge their very conception of life and morality. Embark on this starfaring adventure and witness the birth of legends in the deepest, darkest thralls of space—where every decision can mean the difference between the warm embrace of home and the cold infinity of the void.
Download or read book In Fury Born written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Captain Alicia DeVries, Imperial Cadre, has been many things in her life. An Imperial Marine, dedicated to the protection and preservation of the Terran Empire she loves. An Imperial Cadre drop commando, personal liegewoman of Emperor Seamus II, whom she honors and reveres. Hero of the Terran Empire, one of only three living holders of the Banner of Terra. And now, outcast, rogue, pirate ... and madwoman." "From the time she graduated from high school, Alicia DeVries knew what she wanted to do with her life, and she did it well. On planets like Gyangtse, Chengchou, Fuller, and Louvain - in cities like Zhikotse and Shallingsport - she's put her life on the line in defense of her Empire and Emperor again and again. She's given her blood, and the lives of men and women closer to her than brothers and sisters." "But her dead have been betrayed in the name of political expediency. The justice they deserved has been denied, and a brokenhearted Alicia DeVries has resigned her commission and retired to the colony world of Mathison with her family to begin a new life." "Yet Alicia is still a warrior, and the pirates who attacked Mathison, tortured and murdered her family, and left her for dead, are about to discover just how big a mistake they made." "Imperial Intelligence can't find them. The Imperial Fleet can't catch them. Local defenses can't stop them. But Alicia has stolen an imperial A1 starship from the bleeding edge of technology and set out to teach them what vengeance truly is." "Her fellow veterans think she's gone mad, the Fleet has shoot-on-sight orders, and the "pirates" have allies at the highest levels of the Imperial government. But Alicia DeVries has two allies of her own. Allies no one knows about. Allies as implacable as she is: a self-aware computer, and a creature from the mists of Old Earth's most ancient legends."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Dark Metropolis written by Bill Valiontis and published by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dimly lit streets of the Lower Districts, Nyx stumbles upon a cryptic message embedded within the city's central network. The message hints at a covert government experiment, threatening the very fabric of reality. Intrigued, Nyx seeks out Quade, hoping to uncover the truth. Together, they join forces with Melina's resistance, only to discover that Dr. Octavia Kane's experiment has unleashed an otherworldly force that could reshape the destiny of Neo-Veridia.
Download or read book Space Tourism written by Erik Cohen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary work on the emergent phenomenon of space tourism. It is written by leading specialists and covers a wide spectrum of topics including space history and technology, the environmental, social, and legal aspects of the development of a future space tourism industry, and space tourism marketing.
Download or read book Beckoning Star written by Eric Jerpe and published by 1st Impression Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pharaonic concept of afterlife becomes reality in the Earth-imitation world of Ormuzad, where the post-mortem brain of Gausifer, an interstellar despot preserved in liquid Nitrogen, is kept functioning via linkage to an omnipotent computer. This demonic mind spawns the creatures of classical mythology through genetic engineering, generates holographic phantoms, fiats breeding and tyrannizes over a population of submissive humans. In this world of lush paradises and horrific infernos, Tristan and Miranda, a betrothed couple within a population matrix, reach adulthood having been raised in a state of computerized ignorance. As newlyweds, they journey throughout the biospheres, witnessing amazing and often terrifying truths about the world they live in. Innocent and kind-hearted, the couple discovers the evil nature of Gausifer, who stages human sacrifices in the form of gladiatorial spectacles and uploads computerized egos of the slain onto the omnipotent mainframe. Choosing good over evil, Tristan and Miranda valiantly resist the Totalitarian Will.
Download or read book Surviving the Evacuation Book 13 Future s Beginning written by Frank Tayell and published by Frank Tayell. This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For good or ill, the future has begun. After the outbreak came the nuclear war. The blasts killed millions. Chaos followed. Most of those unlucky enough not to succumb to starvation and disease joined the ranks of the living dead. Fleeing the impossible nightmare, ten thousand, from nations across the Atlantic seaboard, found refuge on the Welsh island of Anglesey. There, they should have been safe. There, they should have been able to rebuild. There, they were betrayed. Forced to flee once more, a hasty exodus was planned, but those plans were sabotaged. The survivors became scattered across the island of Ireland. Old-world supplies are scarce, hope is running out, and safety is just a memory. The snow has come, and though rain will soon follow, winter has truly begun. In Dundalk, eight hundred survivors have occupied a local college, but the campus is too dispersed to defend. As they scour the snow-covered town for a safe route to the sea, they find signs of long-fled survivors and answers to a question they hadn’t asked. In Belfast, the situation is increasingly precarious. There are saboteurs in their midst. As the investigation into their identity slowly progresses, the terrorists continue to plot. Rumours of a mutiny escalate into a riot, while an unseen clock ticks ever closer towards humanity’s destruction. Set in Belfast and Dundalk, over three days that change everything.
Download or read book Greek and Roman Necromancy written by Daniel Ogden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civilizations flourished, including Egypt, from the Greek archaic period through the late Roman empire, this book is the first comprehensive survey of the subject ever published in any language. Daniel Ogden surveys the places, performers, and techniques of necromancy as well as the reasons for turning to it. He investigates the cave-based sites of oracles of the dead at Heracleia Pontica and Tainaron, as well as the oracles at the Acheron and Avernus, which probably consisted of lakeside precincts. He argues that the Acheron oracle has been long misidentified, and considers in detail the traditions attached to each site. Readers meet the personnel--real or imagined--of ancient necromancy: ghosts, zombies, the earliest vampires, evocators, sorcerers, shamans, Persian magi, Chaldaeans, Egyptians, Roman emperors, and witches from Circe to Medea. Ogden explains the technologies used to evocate or reanimate the dead and to compel them to disgorge their secrets. He concludes by examining ancient beliefs about ghosts and their wisdom--beliefs that underpinned and justified the practice of necromancy. The first of its kind and filled with information, this volume will be of central importance to those interested in the rapidly expanding, inherently fascinating, and intellectually exciting subjects of ghosts and magic in antiquity.
Download or read book Volcanoes of the Solar System written by Charles Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated tour of recently discovered volcanic features of the Solar System.
Download or read book Renegade written by J. A. Souders and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.A. Souders's haunting debut—Renegade Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she's believed that everything is perfect. Her world. Her people. The Law. But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into Elysium's secluded little world, Evelyn comes to a startling realization: Everything she knows is a lie. Her memories have been altered. Her mind and body aren't under her own control. And the person she knows as Mother is a monster. Together with Gavin she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb...and Mother has one last secret that will destroy them all. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Things as They are in America written by William Chambers and published by Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo. This book was released on 1854 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving the Evacuation Book 12 Britain s End written by Frank Tayell and published by Frank Tayell. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglesey became a refuge for survivors from across the world, but living in the shadow of a decrepit nuclear power station was always a precarious existence. There is only one destination for their final exodus from Britain, but Belfast won’t become their new home. There are fewer undead on the island of Ireland, but their numbers still count in the millions. With farming impossible, with the weather worsening, with ammunition exhausted, desperation turns to despair. All seems bleak, but the survivors don’t know how truly desperate their situation is. During the chaos that ensued after the calamitous election, they misjudged the evidence. Their true enemy is still among them, and that enemy is about to act. Set nine months after the outbreak, in Britain and the island of Ireland, when humanity is at a crossroads. Either all will survive, or our species will die.
Download or read book Bards and Sages Quarterly July 2022 written by Carol Scheina and published by Bards and Sages Publishing. This book was released on with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in our 14th year of publication, the Bards and Sages Quarterly strives to bring fans of speculative fiction a variety of new and established voices to enjoy. Each issue features an eclectic range of styles and voices to delight audiences. This issue features work by Gregory Alan Burhoe, John Didday, Peter M. Floyd, Charlotte H. Lee, Susan Meyer, Carol Scheina, and KT Wagner. In this issue: A biological occultist needs to figure out a way to appease the moon after it moves out of orbit in search of its missing spider in The Moon Spider. A young woman inadvertently discovers the strange goings-on in her father’s funeral home in The Mortician’s Daughter. A child employs a new invisible friend to achieve revenge against those who bullied him in Hully.
Download or read book The Children s Hour written by Eva March Tappan and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
