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I kneel before his grave, scanning the name-Lawrence “Law” Hamilton, President, husband, father, son-on his tombstone. As I walk up to my father’s grave, I know the silence will soon be broken by the twenty-one rifle shots from the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The wind is freezing, flapping my gabardine at my calves. My father is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, one of three presidents there. The day I become the forty-sixth president of the United States. It seemed fitting that I pay a visit to my father today. I grab my long black coat and slip my arms into the sleeves, nodding at Wilson at the door. “Likewise.” I shake his hand, then the senior officer’s hand as the nuclear codes are handed to me, and they leave.Ĭustomarily, the departing president holds a brunch for the incoming president on Inaugural Day. With him is an aide with the nuclear football that will be passed on to me-as of noon, the man who carries it will be my shadow for the next four years. And step out to the living room of Blair House to greet the senior officer from White House Military, who’s here to hand over the top-secret codes in case of a nuclear strike. Mulloy shows us that the radical right has been a long and active part of American politics during the twentieth century. The rise of the alt-right alongside Donald Trump's candidacy may be seem unprecedented events in the history of the United States, but D. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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The first pulse was a profound shock, as how could it not be, raising sea level by 10 feet in 10 years. PALMER: Kim Stanley Robinson, please could you read for me from page 139, begins with the words "first pulse". Kim Stanley Robinson spoke with Living on Earth’s Helen Palmer. ROBINSON: In my novel, New York 2140, I postulate a fairly rapid and severe sea level rise in the next 120 years, and I postulated that the big slides in Antarctica would come in pulses so that for ten years there’d be very rapid rise and then for 30 years not much at all and then a second pulse comes that’s even worse than the first as things get hotter and wetter.ĬURWOOD: Kim Stanley Robinson has won the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, and many of his science fiction books, such as the Mars Trilogy, deal with ecological themes. “Love Fantasies” seems to describe a heterosexual woman’s experience: “Then I ride it like a cowgirl to reach as far as I can be. He switches between male and female perspectives, describing the joys of being taken and taking. “Just feel the words because these poems are written not to be understood by the mind but to be felt by the heart,” Jha writes. The bulk of these poems describe various acts of sexual congress in non-explicit ways while trying to capture the rich emotional tenor of lovemaking as opposed to casual sex. Jha’s collection of concise, warm, and erotic poetry explores the delights of physical love from (primarily heterosexual) male and female perspectives. He promises to protect her, but when soldiers begin hunting them, Eve must choose between true love and her life. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her trust… and her heart. Along the way she encounters Arden, her former rival from school, and Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. But the night before graduation, Eve learns the shocking truth about her school’s real purpose and the horrifying fate that awaits her.įleeing the only home she’s ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. Eighteen-year-old Eve has never been beyond the heavily guarded perimeter of her school, where she and two hundred other orphaned girls have been promised a future as the teachers and artists of the New America. Sixteen years after a deadly virus wiped out most of Earth’s population, the world is a perilous place. Feeling invisible as the middle child in the wake of trauma, Ivy ponders the mystery of herself. She explores her identity through art. I can’t think of a better term to encapsulate what this book does. Queer Rep: Ivy and her best friend Taryn have a term for what happens when silence grows between them when they’ve spent a lot of time together: “pondering mysteries” (265). Ivy writes back, wondering if (read: hoping that) this pen-pal is the girl from her drawings. Along with notes urging Ivy to talk to someone, Ivy’s treasured drawings begin to resurface page-by-page in her locker. Pictures of herself and another girl holding hands. Meanwhile, Ivy also loses her secret journal-her “portable, papery hope chest” (2)-in which she has drawn pictures that no one else has seen. Displaced by the disaster and disconnected from her family, Ivy begins to feel isolated. Plot Summary: A tornado interrupts twelve-year-old Ivy’s world, destroying her family’s home. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake She recently broke up with/was dumped by her first proper boyfriend, so surely it’s fate when she meets Harry at the local cinema – a budding director who just happens to needs a lead actress in his new zombie movie… It follows Audrey, a feminist teenager whose family life is falling apart. ‘It Only Happens In The Movies’ was brilliant – I’m worried I won’t be able to do it justice. It features pain and confusion and hope and wonder and a ban on cheesy clichés. The greatest love story ever told doesn’t feature kissing in the snow or racing to airports. Nobody expects Audrey and Harry to fall in love as hard and fast as they do. But there she meets wannabe film-maker Harry. Since her parents’ relationship imploded her mother’s been catatonic, so she takes a cinema job to get out of the house. Scientists scramble desperately to understand what is on the big red moon and how it got there. While coastlands flood by the new gravitational forces, millions of people die. In the year 2015 a red moon appears in the Earth’s brooding, multitextured, beautiful, and alive. Claiming the legacy of Heinlein and Asimov, Baxter now returns with his third Manifold novel–in which he uses an astounding adventure story to posit a breathtaking vision of the origin of species. Heralded by Arthur Clark as “a major new talent,” Baxter stands time and space on their collective heads, envisions the future reflected in the past, and the past in the galaxy’s most distant reaches and unformed speculations. Stephen Baxter’s Manifold novels have struck the world of science fiction like a meteor. He believes and promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. A transhumanist and a vegan, Pearce believes that we (or future evolutions of humans) have a responsibility not only to avoid cruelty to animals within human society but a David Pearce is a British independent philosopher. His book-length internet manifesto The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmacology, and neurosurgery could potentially converge to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience among human and nonhuman animals, replacing suffering with gradients of well-being, a project he refers to as "paradise engineering". David Pearce is a British independent philosopher. |