On television, there are some older central characters within the Star Trek franchise and on Battlestar Galactica, but few female characters who are retirement age and older (which will be my focus in this essay). One significant exception is Cocoon (1985), which stars a cast of older actors and takes concerns of ageing seriously. There are a few instances of science fiction film and television where age is thematically significant or where there are older protagonists, but these are rare as well. Few representations of old age spring to mind within the genre, particularly within written works of science fiction. Discussions of the politics of science fiction literature often consider gender, sexuality, race, class, and, more recently, disability age, however, is far less present within science fiction and science fiction criticism.
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Gauguin's rejection of his European family, society, and the Paris art world for a life apart, in the land of the "Other," has come to serve as a romantic example of the artist-as-wandering-mystic. He had already abandoned a former life as a stockbroker by the time he began traveling regularly to the south Pacific in the early 1890s, where he developed a new style that married everyday observation with mystical symbolism, a style strongly influenced by the popular, so-called "primitive" arts of Africa, Asia, and French Polynesia. He famously worked one summer in an intensely colorful style alongside Vincent Van Gogh in the south of France, before turning his back entirely on Western society. As the Impressionist movement was culminating in the late 1880s, Gauguin experimented with new color theories and semi-decorative approaches to painting. 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Ahmed and Faheemeh have a blatant relationship, yet must hide it from Faheemeh’s protective family. Four people, Pasha, Ahmed, Zari, and Faheemeh all become friends over the summer of 1973. “Rooftops of Tehran” by Mahbod Seraji is a coming-of-age novel fraught with issues concerning love, friendship, trust, and relationships, only a few years shy of Iran’s 1979 revolution. The rooftop that Pasha and Ahmed contemplated their lives and loves on was in Tehran quite unconventional for many American readers, yet it is the most familiar story to anyone regardless of heritage. The rooftop wasn’t in Paris, Los Angeles or Barcelona. Photo from “Rooftops of Tehran” official site, used with permission under fair use. The world worships them, but the world believes a lie. They were kids, just like her, who lost everything in the war, and were stolen and augmented and tortured into becoming supersoldiers. Until a chance encounter with a SpecOps operative in the game leads Mal to a horrifying discovery: the real-life operatives weren’t created by Stellaxis. The best part of the game isn’t killing enemy combatants, though-it’s catching in-game glimpses of SpecOps operatives, celebrity supersoldiers grown and owned by Stellaxis, the corporation that runs the America she lives in. And the job she’s best at is streaming a popular VR war game. As an adult, she lives in a cramped hotel room with eight other people, all of them working multiple jobs to try to afford water and make ends meet. As a child, she lost her parents, her home, and her entire building in an airstrike. Like everyone else she knows, Mallory is an orphan of the corporate war. In this book it's Death (in his genuine stereotype glory replete with robes and scythe) replacing Hogfather (Pratchett's Discworld answer to S. My favourite bit in this one is probably the part with Hex – the thinking machine. I can't really compare it to the other Discworld stories, as it's been to long since I read any of the other stories, but the stories staring DEATH are certainly among my favourite Pratchett stories and this is no exception. Hogfather is just as funny as the other Discworld books and just as crazy. The wizards of Unseen University is getting ready for the traditional Hogwatch eating frenzy and… Meanwhile DEATHs granddaughter tries to find the real Hogfather and/or Teatime. I'll try anyway: Then Hogfather is "killed" by the assassin Teatime, DEATH (that's his name) decides to take over and try to keep up the faith, by putting on a white beard, delivering gifts and doing the old "Ho Ho Ho" bit. I kind of overdosed on Pratchett a few years ago and haven't read anything of his for a while.Īs it often is with Pratchett's books, they are rather hard to describe or even retell – it's very easy to fail miserably to convey just what really goes on and just how funny it all is. The first Pratchett book that I've read in a long time. Yes, at the most basic level, social media and the news cycle take away our ability to reflect and think deeply about what’s actually happening underneath the status updates and headlines. The bulk of this book is about the things that we are unable to do when our attention is tied up in social media or the news cycle. There is really no how-to in this book, and I don’t think Odell’s work here can be even halfway summarized with buzzwords like “mindfulness” or “digital detox” or whatever. Instead it’s a really well-researched book on some abstract and sometimes seemingly esoteric concepts: the self, attention, bioregionalism, what it means to refuse/resist in place, and the effects of late stage capitalism on all of the above. The title is misleading as this is not at all a how-to on unplugging or leaving social media (for that, maybe read Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism or Catherine Price’s How to Break Up With Your Phone). First, I understand the negative reviews of this book. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. You won't want to miss inspiring your precious little one with this brilliant ocean tale! Help Kaleisha, the mermaid, see the differences between plastic bags and jellyfish!.Read an exclusive page the real-life adventures of the author and her efforts to Save the Ocean!.Color a page of bonus sketches from renowned illustrator Bethany Stahl!.Discover hidden elements in a Search and Find game!.From exciting and adventurous to educational and captivating, Bethan. Save the Ocean has a heartwarming lesson of recycling and conservation that will stay with the reader for a lifetime. Read 54 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. With beautiful and charming illustrations, as well as a lovable sea turtle named Agwe, this is a book adults will love reading over and over again with their kids. 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Timekeeper is Tara Sim’s debut novel and with a starting point that is this good, I’m definitely reading more of her books. I’m safe now.Īn alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, where a damaged clock can fracture time-and a destroyed one can stop it completely.Ī prodigy mechanic who can repair not only clockwork but time itself, determined to rescue his father from a Stopped town.Ī series of mysterious bombings that could jeopardize all of England.Ī boy who would give anything to relive his past, and one who would give anything to live at all.Ī romance that will shake the very foundations of time.īlurb from Victoria Schwab: “An extraordinary debut, at once familiar and utterly original.” |