Nova Swing

Author: M. John Harrison
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553904299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Years after Ed Chianese’s fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways we never could have predicted—and, even more terrifying, parts of it have actually begun to fall to Earth, transforming the landscapes they encounter. Not far from Moneytown, in a neighborhood of underground clubs, body-modification chop shops, adolescent contract killers, and sexy streetwalking Monas, you’ll find the Saudade Event Site: a zone of strange geography, twisted physics, and frightening psychic onslaughts—not to mention the black and white cats that come pouring out at irregular intervals. Vic Serotonin is a “travel agent” into and out of Saudade. His latest client is a woman who’s nearly as unpredictable as the site itself—and maybe just as dangerous. She wants a tour just as a troubling new class of biological artifacts are leaving the site—living algorithms that are transforming the world outside in inexplicable and unsettling ways. Shadowed by a metaphysically inclined detective determined to shut his illegal operation down, Vic must make sense of a universe rapidly veering toward a virulent and viral form of chaos…and a humanity almost lost.

Light

Author: M. John Harrison
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 057510662X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and a human skeleton. What they are and what they mean are the mysteries explored and unwrapped in LIGHT, M. John Harrison's triumphant novel.

Up in the Middle of Nowhere

Author: Blair Bryan
Publisher: Teal Butterfly`Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Inspired by True Events One mother. One daughter. One adventure of a lifetime that will change their relationship forever. When her troubled teenage daughter, Nova, is hell-bent on self-destruction, Tessa Donahue makes a desperate bid to save their future. Together they will leave behind the familiar and step into a world of whimsical wonder. Nestled amidst the lush greenery of the Great Smoky Mountains, four unique treehouses offer a breathtaking escape as they embark on a journey filled with self-discovery and reconnection. It will force Tessa and Nova to face their demons and fight for understanding as they realize this may be the last chance to repair their relationship before Nova graduates from high school. This poignant and heartwarming contemporary women's fiction novel of a mother’s unconditional love and a child’s fight for independence will remind you that life’s greatest adventures are often found in the most unexpected places. For fans of Kristin Hannah, Sherryl Woods, Barbara O’Neal, Mary Kay Andrews, Jennifer Weiner, Emily Giffin, Pamela Kelley, Mary Ellen Taylor and Colleen Hoover. This best selling contemporary women's fiction novel features lovable characters over 40 in the prime of midlife.

Jazz

Author: Eddie S. Meadows
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136776028
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 782

Book Description
Jazz: Research and Pedagogy is the third edition of an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 1995, the quantity and quality of books on jazz research, performance, and teaching materials have increased. Although the 1995 book was the most comprehensive annotated jazz bibliography published to that date, several books on research, performance, and teaching materials were omitted. In addition, given the proliferation of new books in all jazz areas since 1995, the need for a new, comprehensive, and annotated reference book on jazz is apparent. Multiply indexed, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the last decade.

Jazz Singing

Author: Tish Oney
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538128462
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
Tish Oney merges the worlds of jazz and classical singing in a comprehensive guide for those teaching and singing jazz. Legendary jazz singers’ performance strategies are discussed providing unique insights. Jazz Singing combines jazz stylization and improvisational techniques with classic voice pedagogy to outline a method that builds the jazz voice upon a strong foundation of proper alignment, efficient breathing, healthy phonation, a clear understanding of vocal anatomy, and the physics of singing. Various strategies to enhance improvisation and artistry are presented, and mindful coordination of all aspects is emphasized to create authentic, healthy jazz singing in this groundbreaking book.

Settling the World

Author: M. John Harrison
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 1912697440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Throughout his career, M. John Harrison’s writing has defied categorisation, building worlds both unreal and all-too real, overlapping and interlocking with each other. His stories are replete with fissures and portals into parallel dimensions, unidentified countries and lost lands. But more important than the places they point to are the obsessions that drive the people who so believe in them, characters who spend their lives hunting for, and haunted by, clues and maps that speak to the possibility of somewhere else. This selection of stories, drawn from over 50 years of writing, bears witness to that desire for difference: whether following backstreet occultists, amateur philosophers, down-and-outs or refugees, we see our relationship with ‘the other’ in microscopic detail, and share in Harrison’s rejection of the idea that the world, or our understanding of it, could ever be settled.

The Ice Monkey and Other Stories

Author: Michael John Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description

Soft Machines

Author: Richard Anthony Lewis Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198528558
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Enthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information but is their vision realistic? 'Soft Machines' explains why the nanoworld is so different to the macro-world that we are all familar with and shows how it has more in common with biology than conventional engineering.

The One Who Wrote Away

Author: Joanna Alonzo
Publisher: Hineni Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
CALEB He is enamored by a damsel-in-distress dressed as a superhero. When Nova leaps into Caleb Grant’s life wearing a superhero costume and performing parkour stunts, she leaves him undone. The more he discovers about her, the more he wants to pursue her. The only problem is she is on a mission to avoid him at all costs. NOVA She has admired him since they were kids, but she doesn’t want him to know that. One silly bet drives Nova Stone into a chance encounter with her ideal(ized) man. Afraid Caleb will be nothing like the great man she built him up to be, she has been avoiding him out of a sense of fear and unworthiness. But now that she’s on his radar, she can’t escape him, and he may well turn out to be much better than she had first imagined. Same school. Same church. Same office. He never noticed her until one day, like a gazelle, she leaped into his radar, and he could no longer unsee The One Who Wrote Away.

Starcombing

Author: David Langford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809573482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Starcombing contains eighty-five newly collected pieces of David Langford's witty commentary on the SF/fantasy scene - columns, articles, reviews, essays, even a few short-short stories from the famous 'Futures' page in Nature. Compulsive reading, crammed with insights and laughs.