![]() ![]() I love Green Mars because it offers the most dramatic lifestyle change compared to poor Matt Damon's "The Martian" character's lonely and dangerous existence. Please help these small subreddits grow by subscribing, upvoting, and contributing!ĭid you all know Mars already has its own (pop-culturally derived) flag? (No legal clout until there's a population with their own government there.) It’s based on the Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, and is an ambitious statement about the journey towards terraforming Mars into another Blue īut this got me to wondering how you all would define "Green" Mars, the second stage of terraforming. Content must be relevant to Planet Mars. ![]() With conditions colder, but otherwise similar to that of Earth, the red planet is anticipated to be the second best possible location for supporting human habitation in the Solar System. Mars is the fourth planet orbiting the Sun. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While the emperor regroups, the allies have an opportunity to strike first and defeat him once and for all-if internal struggles and petty squabbles don’t tear them apart.Īware of his weakened position, Napoleon has promised the dragons of every country-and the ferals, loyal only to themselves-vast new rights and powers if they fight under his banner. William Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the retreating enemy through an unforgiving winter, Napoleon is raising a new force, and he’ll soon have enough men and dragons to resume the offensive. Napoleon’s invasion of Russia has been roundly thwarted. It was released by Del Rey Books on June 14, 2016. League of Dragons is the ninth and final novel in the Temeraire alternate history/ fantasy series by American author Naomi Novik. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has degrees in economics from Harvard University and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently an adviser to several hedge fund groups, including the Rock Creek Group and the Rohatyn Group, is a director of Aspen Insurance Co., is on the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution and is involved with the New America Foundation. ![]() where he headed the bank’s investment division, and the New York-based partnership of Fischer Francis Trees and Watts a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, where he served as Chief Investment Officer and from 2001-2004 as Chief Executive. He has worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Liaquat Ahamed is an award-winning author and has been a professional investment manager for twenty-five years and currently serves as Director of Putnam Funds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I argue that Hull's representation of androgynous and cross-dressing women allows for her heroines to inhabit positions of relative power in relation to their male counterparts.ĪB - In 1919 the now largely forgotten popular novelist E.M. My aim here is to broaden the focus on Hull away from the much maligned novel, The sheik, by suggesting that Hull's subsequent novels, though never straying very far from the lucrative formula she cultivated with her first novel, were, in part at least, written in reaction to the uproar caused by this novel. The obsession with the genre, fuelled by the release of Melford's 1921 film adaptation of the book, saw women swooning in the aisles at ‘screen god’ Rudolph Valentino's starring role. ![]() Hull sparked a decade of infatuation with the ‘desert romance’ on the publication of her first book, The sheik. N2 - In 1919 the now largely forgotten popular novelist E.M. Hull and the Valentino cult: gender reversal after The sheik ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s interesting to see them using the venerable old Cessna 170 – albeit with ‘big engines’ and fat tyres. Crystal clear air, remote airstrips, carry everything with you, enjoy a campfire with friends and share stories of grizzly bears and derring-do. ![]() And looking at this short video, I can see how the bug (and maybe the mosquito) can bite you. It encapsulates all those ‘freedom’ and ‘adventure’ urges which drive some people. Now that’s my kind of tent! Although there’s more than one mention of mosquitos…I didn’t think those little ******s could survive in such a cold climate but they obviously do.īush flying is one of those activities to which quite a lot of pilots aspire. Well, I say ‘camping’ but these flyers stay in ‘public use cabins’ provided and maintained by the Alaska Parks Service. Here’s another one for all you aspiring and actual bush pilots – a video about flying and camping in outback Alaska, courtesy of Backcountry Pilot (as usual, click on the picture for the video link). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So many books and authors have inspired and sustained me over the years, it's impossible to pick just one. It has been an amazing, humbling experience to connect with readers, both those who love these ancient stories, and those who are coming to them for the first time. Although I've been writing since I was young, I rarely shared it with anyone other than close family or friends. The biggest change is having my writing be public for the first time. What has changed for you since it was first published? Ten years in all, from when I first sat down at the computer to when I finished the final draft for the publisher. Getting to spend so many years with characters and stories that I loved. Once I understood that Patroclus saw the world more like Sappho and Catullus than Homer, things began to flow. Ancient lyric poetry is the poetry of the personal: of love and friendship, beauty and pleasure. I originally started off by writing very much in epic mode, but realised about halfway through the process that though the story was epic, Patroclus's vision of the world was essentially lyric. ![]() ![]() ![]() She likes watching people lie, so to have this felt like a real break. ![]() She’s not really interested in superstition and religion and things like that. She doesn’t really normally write about things like that. She looked at nobody, but just before she went out, she raised her eyes and took a speedy glance at me. I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable. Speaking about her decision to adapt The Pale Horse, screenwriter Sarah Phelps explained: "The deciding factor was that actually, The Pale Horse is stranger because it’s a real conflict between science and rationality, and paranoia and superstition, and also three witches. What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking. Who wrote the list, and what does it mean. READ: Margot flies high and Renée goes over the rainbow: James King's Week in Movies When a young woman is murdered, a mysterious list of names is discovered. ![]() And THE most divine cherry print frock I’ve ever seen #ThePaleHorse." This England of sinners and psychopaths is building from Christie’s work feels as distinct as Greeneland." Another added: "A little bit Hitchcock. Despite surprise over the language, the show appeared to be a universal hit, with one person writing: "Loved #ThePaleHorse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Something in Slade’s eyes tells Parker the young man might be in real trouble though–especially after the recent spate of sex worker killings from a rival prostitution ring.The two men’s lives become intertwined when Slade is almost beaten to death. His heart breaks every time he sees someone so young being exploited. His evil keeper has even threatened to sell Slade overseas as a sex slave.It’s another typical night on the Strip when Parker comes across Slade. As soon as he hit Vegas, Slade was lured into the hopeless world of prostitution where he’s become a virtual prisoner to his pimp, the ruthless Julio Estevez. At the age of twenty, he’s had to survive any way he can since being thrown out of his home for being gay. ![]() Unfortunately, so does Slade’s pimp who wants to sell him overseas in the sex trade.Hustler Slade Wolfgang has little choice over his fate. Vegas is filled with human cast-offs, yet officer Parker McLean sees something special in hustler Slade Wolfgang. You can read this before Copping an Attitude (Sin City Uniforms, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Copping an Attitude (Sin City Uniforms, #2) written by Morticia Knight which was published in January 9, 2015. Brief Summary of Book: Copping an Attitude (Sin City Uniforms, #2) by Morticia Knight ![]() ![]() ![]() This would seem to be where she first introduced her now-signature motif of handwritten annotations on painterly or otherwise tactile grounds. ![]() The drawing was appended with a list of words and phrases such as PRODIGAL RETURNS. ![]() The works here, most of which hadn’t been shown since they were originally made-and some of which had never been seen before-included Glimmer, 1973, a gouache-and-pencil drawing on paper of sharp-tipped cacti leaves, one spraying blood. Schor’s show “California Paintings: 1971–1973” brought us back to the beginning of her career trajectory namely, her graduate-school years at CalArts. A keen feminist analysis is as present and salient in her images as it is in her thoughtful, clear-sighted essays. Her gestural renderings of text are as tactile as her fluid, figurative imagery, treating language and bodies as constitutive elements of consciousness. As a painter, writer, teacher, and recipient of this year’s Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award-in addition to being a dedicated cultural commentator on her blog, -Mira Schor freely roams between art criticism and artmaking. ![]() ![]() Portraying a Nazi in film can be difficult as they can often come off as cliched. This is quite touching for an Indiana Jones film." They just bumped into it occasionally, which I thought was great because if it was too much, it would be annoying. And they took into consideration his age in really appropriate ways. I did read the script, but on the first instinct, it was like, "Yeah, you want to be part of that." Then I read it and then I thought that the adventure was there, the charm was there. And then a week later, I got that call, so I couldn't wait to hang up to tell him. What the fuck? How did that happen? And then he said, "So now all you need to do now is Indiana Jones," and he laughed. ![]() He was like, "surreal." I've been in that and that and that. I have a funny story because the week before, a friend of mine was just listing the franchises I've been in as a baddie. ![]() |