![]() ![]() ![]() And amid criticisms that Game of Thrones was too white, what better way to answer that craving than by setting an epic in a mystical African past? Audiences are craving the next big fantasy epic. It’s no surprise that a concept like “the next Game of Thrones” would garner a lot of enthusiasm - especially as the HBO series comes to a close. ![]() James’ novel, about a young man named Tracker who joins a team of supernatural figures to search for a missing boy, has already been optioned for the big screen. If you were to google “African Game of Thrones,” the vast majority of hits would stem from Marlon James’ recent press blitz for his new fantasy novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They will just delight you and they will surprise you. And it's not what you think of when you watch Robert Downey Jr or even Benedict Cumberbatch, so they will delight you. ![]() ![]() ![]() His descriptions of London, the atmosphere of the world, the sense of the streets, the fog, all that stuff. They may surprise you because there are very few murders in Sherlock, the stories are much more peculiar than that.ĭoyle is an extraordinarily clever writer. The stories are, like the Bond novels, waiting to be discovered: the quality of the writing, the joy of the world, the uniqueness of what has been created. The birth of the modern detective story is with Sherlock Holmes. Guinness World Records lists Holmes as the most portrayed literary human character on screen (Dracula is first but undead) – and then you have the stage adaptations, the radio plays, the computer games, the comic books.From four novels and 56 short stories, one writer created an entire cultural universe.Īs the author of two Holmes novels – The House of Silk and Moriarty – Anthony Horowitz is the perfect guide to the world of Conan Doyle.Īnd remember: when you have eliminated the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth…įirst of all, this is where all modern detective fiction begins. With fans like these, eh? Of course, Holmes was back within a decade and he has never left us since. The Strand Magazine subsequently lost 20,000 subscribers and Doyle gained a whole postbag of hatemail. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Fans have been clamoring for Hugo winner Bujold to pen a new Vorkosigan Saga novel. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping–something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and Miles is up to his neck in trouble and adventure once more. On Kibou-daini, Miles unearths a war of generations as the oldsters in charge refuse to die and their descendants threaten outright patricide, matricide and maybe even genocide-the prize being a big fat slice of the immortality pie. ![]() But now the Kibou-daini are attempting to franchise out their Fountain of Youth wares to the rest of the galaxy and the Barrayar Galactic Empire is none too pleased with the implications.Ĭue Miles Vorkosigan, malformed royal troublemaker-but also heir and savior of empire. All well and good, so long as they kept to themselves. ![]() Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Miles Vorkosigan, troubleshooter for the Barrayaran Galactic Empire, takes on the corrupt and dangerous ruling elite of a world where immortality is a commodity to be bought, sold and bartered for power. A New York Times hardcover bestseller, this is the long-awaited NEW installment in the hugely-popular, award-winning science fiction adventure series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah is none other than a young lady, who is into witchcraft, and Sarah has caused everything thats gone wrong in the neighboorhood. Later Rachel finds out that the real Julia, was the one that died in the car accident with her parents, not the housekeeper, and the girl pretending to be Julia is actually Sarah, the housekeeper. When Rachel tries to convince her family that Julia is a witch, they don't beileve her. Shorly after Julia arrives strange things start happening, like the family dog, Trickle, get's sick and dies, and the Professor down the street has a stroke. Rachel grows really jealous of Julia, after she steal's her boyfriend and best friend. Rachel's cousin, Julia comes to live with the Bryant family. 15 year old Rachel Bryant expects her summer to be like any other summer, until she finds out that her mother's only sister, her husband, and housekeeper die unexpectly in a car crash, that leaves her cousin homeless. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During in vitro gametogenesis, researchers create gametes (sperm and egg cells) from induced pluripotent stem cells, which are unspecialized cells converted from body tissue that researchers can then manipulate into, say, blood cells or neurons. It’s a new variation on what scientists call in vitro gametogenesis. The new announcement marks the first time that researchers have managed to turn a stem cell from an adult male mouse into an egg. Katsuhiko Hayashi, a stem cell biologist at Kyushu University in Japan, presented the new research on March 8 at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the Francis Crick Institute in London. For the first time, researchers have created mice with two biologically male parents by manipulating the chromosomes inside a stem cell. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1933, Clarice Lispector encountered Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, which convinced her that she was meant to write. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually sailed to Brazil. References to her literary work pervade the music and literature of Brazil and Latin America. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are.Ĭlarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. ![]() ![]() It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the 'little egg' who writes poems for her father, through her marriage to the faithless Otávio and on to her decision to make her own way in the world. Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anthropomorphism is an unforgivable, career-endangering sin. It wants to assert a belief about the specialness of humans that is very akin to the theological belief of the monotheisms that it loudly despises. ![]() But try to say that we share with nonhumans the building blocks of our behavior and our cognition, as we share the building blocks of our biochemistry, and the biological establishment starts to get uneasy. We are happy to accept that we got our bowels and our muscle metabolism from our nonhuman ancestors and even that the depolarizations in our brain neurons that let us love Shakespeare are caused by the same ion tides, surging through sodium and potassium gates, that let a rat home in on a piece of stale cheese. These conclusions are supposed to be accepted by all educated people as unimpeachable scientific orthodoxy. Darwin told us, over 150 years ago, that we came from the natural world that in our family albums there are, not many pages back, furred and feathered and scaly faces that we are in unbroken continuity with nonhumans. ![]() ![]() Q: What are some key goals you hope to achieve for the SUAA during your tenure? We want to create opportunities for ongoing, authentic dialogue between SUAA, alumni and students to understand what the community expects from their alumni association and to build programming that supports and enriches our alumni throughout their lives-at whatever stage they are in. Whitlock Baker: A key focus for us this year and in the future is to center our community’s voices in engagement work. ![]() How does the SU Alumni Association grow and evolve with that community? What have been or will be important guides and adaptations for the SUAA in its work with this ever-growing, rapidly changing community? ![]() Q: Seattle U’s alumni community is comprised of alumni living locally, regionally, across the country and world. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Whilst the abridgement reduces the length of the text, all of Webster's gory details are preserved - which is more than can be said for the principals. The news sets the Duke and Cardinal into such a rage that nobody escapes unscathed. They set the loyal but troubled Bosola to spy on her, and he discovers that the duchess has, in secret, married Antonio, her steward. Her brothers - a duke and a cardinal - want control of her wealth and so have forbidden her from marrying. ![]() (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) ![]() In addition to the text, the "Producer's Copy" of the Script includes the following:Ībridgement of John Webster's 'The Duchess of Malfi', with the original text cut down to 50 minutes or so. We therefore invite you to read the text on-line.) We have not identified any instances of bad language in the text. The script includes characters in the following age range(s): Setting: Bedroom, Wilderness, Castle Interior, Castle Exterior and A Room More about John Webster More about Bill Tordoff 1 His life and career overlapped with Shakespeare s. 'A Fifty-Minute Duchess of Malfi' by John Webster abridged by Bill Tordoff 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like writers of all ages, I didn't feel like I fit in. I’d rush to my room to write stories, and, on long car rides, I’d look out at the northern California hills and try to make sense of the world around me. ![]() My mother says there were several years where they never saw me, they just shoved reading material and food under my door (not really, but pretty close). They may have been right when they said I’d ruin my eyes. My parents would always tell me to put my book away when we were in the car driving at night, as I would read every few words when we passed streetlights. Now they give prizes, but I was happy with the hole punch around the rocket ship. I loved the summer reading programs at the library, where they’d give you a stamp for every book you finished. We lived in California and moved cities (and schools) every few years. I had one older sister, my best buddy, even though she wouldn’t let me play Barbies with her and her friends (I would have been Ken, sis), and a cat named Luigi, who would come home all battered up as if he’d had a rough night on the town. ![]() My father was in the optometric field, and my mother worked in the school district, was a painter, and later, a business owner. I was born at a very young age in San Raphael, California. ![]() |