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![]() Ross informs Jeffrey that Artis is to be frozen and preserved until such time as her medical condition can be cured, and she can be restored to life. Ross, an extremely wealthy businessman, abandoned Jeffrey and his mother, Madeline, when Jeffrey was very young. Upon arrival at the facility, called The Convergence, Jeffrey meets his father, Ross Lockhardt. Artis is much younger than his father and suffers from multiple sclerosis. As the book opens, he is traveling to a mysterious, isolated location to pay his final respects to his stepmother, Artis. He is a disaffected, aimless man who has worked several meaningless, unsatisfying jobs and engaged in several meaningless and unsatisfying relationships. Zero K explores themes of mortality and fear, which DeLillo has explored before (most notably in his novel White Noise) but inverts them here so that the fear is not of death and the unknown that follows, but of life and the unknown future. ![]() The story involves a billionaire, his estranged son, Jeffrey, from a first marriage (who is also the narrator), and a mysterious, unnamed organization running an isolated facility where people are frozen and preserved before they die, in the hope of being revived later. Zero K (2016), a dark, post-modern science fiction novel by Don DeLillo, uses a sense of disconnection and an aura of oppressive paranoia (as in most DeLillo novels) to interrogate the fundamental fact that human beings are incapable of truly understanding their existence. ![]() ![]() For women and gender minorities - half of our population - it can change the trajectory of their lives,” said Chelina Odbert, founding principal of the Kounkuey Design Initiative, which developed the structures with input from female transit riders. “The lack of essential amenities like shade and lighting isn't just a simple inconvenience. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation said the 6,000 new shelters for stops with narrow pavements were vital to protect women using the transport network and hailed it as “low cost” infrastructure. It has been mooted as potentially the most pointless piece of civic architecture in the world, rivalling anything produced by Britain’s councils. ![]() ![]() ![]() The so-called Sombrita, which cost $10,000, is essentially a pole with a lip that provides some shade, or a solar-powered light at night-time. A Los Angeles bus shelter with no seats has drawn ridicule after claiming its purpose was to provide potentially ‘life-changing’ shade to women and minorities. ![]() ![]() It was merely a few words of encouragement, the sort of words that are uttered in the din of battle, not distinguishable individually but restoring confidence by the fact of being spoken. Nobody heard what Big Brother was saying. But in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black-haired, black mustachio’d, full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen. Then the sheep-face melted into the figure of a Eurasian soldier who seemed to be advancing, huge and terrible, his submachine gun roaring, and seeming to spring out of the surface of the screen, so that some of the people in the front row actually flinched backwards in their seats. ![]() Sheep’s bleat, and for an instant the face changed into that of a sheep. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Every interaction with Wei-Chen results in them getting humiliated in public. Wei-Chen’s outspoken confidence and unawareness constantly conflict with Jin’s desire for unwanted attention. Jin's hopes shatter once he's assigned to guide new Chinese exchange student Wei-Chen (Jimmy Liu) through his school. He also hopes to get his crush, Amelia (Sydney Taylor), to notice him. As he enters the tenth grade, Jin is desperate to assimilate into the school’s homogeneous system, play for the school soccer team, and befriend his obnoxious jock teammates. At his predominantly white high school, he disregards everything he considers embarrassing about himself: His love for manga and anime, his Chinese heritage, and his nerdy/cosplaying best friend Anuj (Mahi Alam) are all banished from his orbit. At home, the marriage between his mom Christine (Yeo Yann Yann), and dad Simon ( Chin Han), hangs by a thread. Developed by “Bob’s Burgers'' writer/producer Kelvin Yu, the series centers on Jin Wang (Ben Wang), a second-gen Chinese American teenager in suburban California who wants to lead an ‘American’ life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can Caleb save her or will they be forced to live without each other after just finding one another? ![]() Now, not only has her dad come out of his depression to be a father again, and a pain as well, but Caleb’s enemies know he’s imprinted and are after Maggie to stop them both from gaining their abilities and take her from him. She herself is experiencing supernatural changes unlike anything she’s ever felt before and she needs the touch of his skin to survive. She learns that not only is she his soul mate, and can feel his heartbeat in her chest, but there is a whole other world of people with gifts and abilities that she never knew existed. They imprint with each other and she sees their future life together flash before her eyes. But things change when they touch, sparks ignite. She saves his life and instantly knows there’s something about him that’s intriguing but she is supposed to be on her way to a date with his cousin. Lately she thinks life is all about hanging on by a thread and is gripping tight with everything she has. She was smart and on track but then her mom left, her dad is depressed, she’s graduating, barely, and her boyfriend of almost three years dumped her for a college football schalorship. ![]() Maggie is a seventeen year old girl who’s had a bad year. ![]() ![]() “We are too hasty when we set down our ancestors in the gross for fools for the monstrous inconsistencies (as they seem to us) involved in their creed of witchcraft.” Shaw, for their kindness in reading the proof sheets, and suggesting emendations. ![]() The writer’s best thanks are due to his friends Mr. ![]() The Shakespeare references in the text are made to the Globe Edition. ![]() This Essay is an expansion, in accordance with a preconceived scheme, of two papers, one on “The Witches in Macbeth,” and the other on “The Demonology of Shakespeare,” which were read before the New Shakespeare Society in the years 18. An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding with Special Reference to Shakespeare and His Works byīarrister-at-Law, Honorary Treasurer of The New Shakespeare Society ![]() ![]() ![]() "The sense of play-of allusion, homage, and, forgive the pun, adaptation-with source materials like the typical "YA love triangle" and the conspiracy-SF narrative empire of The X-Files makes this book read almost like a love letter to genre, while it is at the same time clearly having a roaring good time fooling around with the things it's built on."- Tor. "Could this be your new paranoid crack?"- io9.com Her mysterious neighbor, the curmudgeonly and reclusive art photographer Essie East, has died and left Leah a very strange inheritance. "Lo invokes a paranoid X-Files sensibility here, layering conspiracy atop conspiracy and balancing ambitious twists with nuanced relationships that are ultimately as important to the sci-fi plotting as they are to the character development." - BCCB ".Slot this on the shelf between Cory Doctorow's Little Brother and The X-Files."- Kirkus Reviews ![]() Praise for Adaptation:"Suspenseful, girl-powered, contemporary science fiction full of realistically diverse characters making realistic contemporary use of technology- plus hot kissing-make this book hard to resist."- VOYA "Lo's layers of conspiracy that were so effective in Adaptation continue to surface here, and the development and revelations of what's lurking under the surface of this alien encounter will continue to set readers on edge."- The Bulletin "Readers may find Reese.just as memorable as the clever plot and strong world-building that are the strengths of this novel."- The Horn Book Praise for Inheritance:"The characters are appealing.the alien and political machinations provide menace, a brisk page-turning plot and lots of fun."- Kirkus Reviews ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are a non-EU customer, please see our returns policy. 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Told in staccato bursts of memory and history illuminating the present, “The Push” details the courtship, marriage and undoing of Blythe and Fox Connor - the woman in the car and the man in the window. More importantly, the narrator has an overriding desire to set the record straight, evidenced by the manuscript she’s about to give the man: “my side of the story.” ![]() I imagine the warm, butter-yellow glow of your house turn to a hot, crackling red.” Loss, envy and retribution play out in the scene. The narrator’s longing - and something more dangerous - is palpable, especially when the wife lights candles nestled among the fir boughs on the mantel: “I let myself imagine, for a moment, watching those boughs go up in flames while you all sleep tonight. ![]() Through the picture window, she tracks the husband’s dance moves, the wife’s loving touch, the teenaged daughter and the young son in matching plaids. In the opening pages of her debut novel, “ The Push,” Ashley Audrain indelibly implants her narrator in the reader’s mind as the woman sits in her car, watching a happy family at Christmastime. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]() |