![]() ![]() Over a century’s worth of cases, from Conan Doyle’s 1890s parodies of his own creation to Neil Gaiman’s “The Case of Death and Honey” (2011) ![]() No matter if your favorite Holmes is Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey, Jr., or Benedict Cumberbatch, whether you are a lifelong fan or only recently acquainted with the Great Detective, readers of all ages are sure to enjoy The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories. Henry, not to mention genre-bending cases by science-fiction greats Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock. Hughes, Kingsley Amis) and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, Colin Dexter) and parodies by Conan Doyle’s contemporaries A. King, Lyndsay Faye and Daniel Stashower pastiches by literary luminaries both classic (P. Featuring pitch-perfect cases by acclaimed modern-day Sherlockians Leslie S. John Watson, published over a span of more than a hundred years. Here, Otto Penzler collects eighty-three wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. ![]() Presenting Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, the largest collection of Sherlockian tales ever assembled-now in a deluxe hardcover edition, perfect for the collector and gift markets.Īrguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him almost as much as writers have loved writing about him. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Being different gave me a voice and made me a fiction writer. But the depression and anxiety made me different, gave me an atypical point of view, and ultimately drove me to the page and kept me there. ![]() I didn't know what those things were back then I just felt embarrassingly odd. When I was a teenager, I was struggling with anxiety and depression. They see and convey what the herd cannot. Traditionally, artistsa shockingly large number were/are also members of the mental health communityhave stood on the fringe of society and looked back from a different vantage point. I write about people who see the world in unique, deceptively simple, wise, and often hilarious ways. What draws you to writing about characters with mental health issues? Interview Matthew Quick discusses The Good Luck Of Right Now, movies, synchronicity and fate. ![]() ![]() I think neither the published order nor the chronological order do the series justice. This list from Prelude to Foundation (1988) is also reproduced online here. Foundation and Earth (1983) The seventh Foundation novel.Foundation's Edge (1982) The sixth Foundation novel.Second Foundation (1953) The fifth Foundation novel, comprised of 2 stories originally published in 19.Foundation and Empire (1952) The fourth Foundation novel, comprised of 2 stories originally published in 1945.Foundation (1951) The third Foundation novel, comprised of 5 stories originally published between 1942-1949.(Not in Asimov's list as it had not been written yet.) Forward the Foundation (1992) The second Foundation novel.Prelude to Foundation (1988) The first Foundation novel.Pebble in the Sky (1950) The third and final Empire novel.The Stars, Like Dust- (1951) The second Empire novel.The Currents of Space (1952) The first Empire novel.Robots and Empire (1985) The fourth (final) Robot novel.The Robots of Dawn (1983) The third Robot novel. ![]() ![]() The Naked Sun (1957) The second Robot novel. ![]()
![]() For decades, children showing TP (telepathic) or TK (telekinetic) abilities have been stolen from their homes and transported to the Institute Facility, and subjected to tests and experiments to increase their powers. ![]() Both don’t meet until the climax of the book, but we’re aware from the start that’s where they’re both headed. Little does he know that far away, child-genius Luke has been kidnapped from his home, his parents murdered and transported to the super-secret Institute in Maine. The first chapter follows Tim as he acts on a gut feeling and disembarks a plane to travel to DuPray, South Carolina, and get a job as a night knocker. The theme for ‘The Institute’ seems to be that great events turn on small axes. I have the one on the right – which do you prefer? It’s the ending I wished I’d seen for ‘ The Nickel Boys’ by Colson Whitehead, if only to satisfy my bubbling rage and resentment for their captors. I’m a full-on Stephen King fan-girl, and I have a slightly obsessive relationship with the TV series Stranger Things – and ‘The Institute’ is a Halloween mixed punch delight of King’s distinct and digestible writing style, and a storyline where kids with special powers rise up against the injustice of the adults around them. ![]() ![]() This turned out to be my book-equivalent-woman-equivalent of a wet dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the mid-1700s, he became interested in electricity. He was interested in many areas of science, made many discoveries, and invented many things, including bifocal glasses. Most people give credit to Benjamin Franklin for discovering electricity.īenjamin Franklin had one of the greatest scientific minds of his time. It did, however, have to be discovered and understood. Since electricity is a natural force that exists in our world, it didn't have to be invented. Electricity does exist and it allows us to enjoy life in so many ways. Just think…without electricity, you wouldn't be able to enjoy your daily Wonder of the Day! What a horrible thought! But don't worry. Do you rely on electricity like you do food and water? What would life be like without electricity to power your favorite video games, television shows, telephones, and even the lights you read by at night? ![]() ![]() ![]() Gifted pianist Valentine Windham, youngest son of the Duke of Moreland, has little interest in his father’s obsession to see his sons married, and instead pours passion into his music. Starred review for The Soldier:’Captivating…īurrowes’ sensual love story is intelligent and tender.’ Publishers Weekly starred reviewA genius with a terrible loss… ![]() As the two draw closer and begin to lose their hearts to each other, Anna’s secrets threaten to bring the earl’s orderly life crashing down and he doesn’t know how he’s going to protect her from the fallout…Ī captivating love story that will have readers eagerly awaiting the planned sequels.’ Publishers Weekly starred review ‘Burrowes’ outstanding debut is a witty, sensual, Regency romance featuring complex characters who ring to to the time period, leaving readers saying huzzah!’ Booklist starred review 20100901 To escape his father’s inexorable pressure to marry, he decides to spend the summer at his townhouse in London, where he finds himself intrigued by the secretive ways of his beautiful housekeeper…Īnna Seaton is a beautiful, talented, educated woman, which is why it is so puzzling to Gayle Windham that she works as his housekeeper. Gayle Windham, earl of Westhaven, is the first legitimate son and heir to the duke of Moreland. ![]() ‘A dazzling debut brim*ming with passion, romance, and wit.’ Sophia Nash, RITA ward winning author of Secrets of a Scandalous Bride An earl who can’t be bribed… ![]() ![]() The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading.īrilliant book, heroic reader, better in print? And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: Aficionados of bits and bytes. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. ![]() The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality - the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The typical dystopian novel is at least as much about the world it’s set in as it is about the characters who inhabit it. The novels extrapolate from a very real prospect of curtailed rights, especially reproductive rights, to imagine what it would be like to live in a society of forced marriages and pregnancies. Not surprisingly, feminist dystopian narratives are now enjoying a boom, from Hulu’s television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, “ The Handmaid’s Tale”-Atwood recently announced that she is writing a sequel-to several books by both new and established novelists, including Louise Erdrich’s “ Future Home of the Living God,” Christina Dalcher’s “ Vox,” and Leni Zumas’s “ Red Clocks.” These writers depict a range of inventively punitive societies: in one, women are punished for speaking more than a hundred words per day in another, the government takes pregnant women into custody to manage a fertility crisis. ![]() Like all dystopian narratives, the feminist variety uses stories about how bad the world might become to point out how bad it already is. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Heretic Queen Michelle Moran has written an intriguing tale of love, loss, family, honour, value and mystery which is sure to have you mesmerised until the very last page. Destined to be the most powerful pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the crown prince, and despite her family’s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. ![]() ![]() But all of this changes when she is taken under the wing of pharaoh’s aunt, and brought to the Temple of Hathor where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. The girl’s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A devastating palace fire has killed the 18th dynasty’s royal family - all with the exception of Nefertari, niece of the reviled former queen Nefertiti. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family’s past, and remake history. ![]() |