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![]() Gibson has been at the forefront of cyberpunk fiction for 40 years. ![]() This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. ![]() Smith discusses how his team created the screen version of “The Peripheral” - and how Gibson’s world of the future squares with the challenges of the present - in the latest episode of Fiction Science, a podcast that focuses on the intersection of science and technology with fiction and popular culture. And we felt like we were watching that happening in real time.” “There’s something called ‘the Jackpot’ in the story, which involves a kind of multi-vector apocalypse. “We initiated our writers’ room three weeks before the pandemic hit and the country shut down,” series producer/writer Scott B. Now the novel has been turned into a streaming-video series distributed on Amazon Prime Video, and it turns out that Gibson’s future is more like the present than it was when the book was published in 2014. The future may not be evenly distributed, but there’s a dystopia-inducing concentration of it in “The Peripheral,” a science-fiction novel by cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson. (Photo by Sophie Mutevelian / Prime Video) ![]() Chloe Grace Moretz stars in “The Peripheral,” a video series based on William Gibson’s novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here.Ĭhange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. ![]() Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. ![]() ![]() I set the font size a bit larger, and used the OpenDyslexic font with a sepia background. To get started, we are reading The Red Pony in Kindle format. The conversations we have include not only word study (the 4 questions of Structured Word Inquiry), but online searches for photos and videos to help immerse my budding scholar in the world of horses while she reads this book. The vocabulary and sentence structure are unfamiliar, as are the experiences of horses (and pearl diving). ![]() While she is driven to improve her reading fluency and vocabulary, these short stories are a stretch. *Lenaya, a rising 7th grader, is spending the summer with Steinbeck, reading The Red Pony now (and The Pearl later). ![]() ![]() ![]() Without concern for his social standing, he marries the daughter of an impoverished miner who has been working for him as a housemaid and kitchen assistant for several years. ![]() While by virtue of his birth and land ownership, he is a member of the gentry, his attitudes about justice generally are at variance with those of his peers. Poldark stands up for the impoverished and attempts to protect the vulnerable. Poldark's character emerges throughout the book in a number of subplots involving his relatives, women with whom he has romantic entanglements, the local gentry, servants, tenants, miners, poachers and competitors. When he returns, he discovers that his father has died, his family home has fallen into disrepair, the hard-drinking servants are selling off the household items, and the woman he loves is engaged to marry his cousin. ![]() The war has left him with a prominent facial scar and a pronounced limp. Poldark returns to Cornwall after serving with the British army in the American Revolutionary War. Ross Poldark is the protagonist of the novel. Sales of the novel increased by 205% after the premiere of the 2015 television adaptation. The novel has twice been adapted for television, first in 1975 and then again in 2015. Ross Poldark is the first of twelve novels in Poldark, a series of historical novels by Winston Graham. ![]() ![]() ![]() This authoritative and engaging book presents a fascinating portrait of a woman who was variously darling of the London stage, a poet whose work was admired by Coleridge and a mistress to the most powerful men in England, and yet whose fortunes were nevertheless precarious, always on the brink of being squandered through recklessness, excess and passion. She later used his copious love letters for blackmail. On her release, Mary quickly became one of the most popular actresses of the day, famously playing Perdita in The Winter’s Tale for a rapt audience that included the Prince of Wales, who fell madly in love with her. His dissipated lifestyle landed the couple and their baby in debtors' prison, where Mary wrote her first book of poetry and met lifelong friend Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire. ![]() After being raised by a middle-class father, Mary was married, at age fourteen, to Thomas Robinson. From the privileged yet unequal lives of Dido and her cousin Elizabeth, to the horrific treatment of African slaves, Paula Byrne - the bestselling author of. One of the most flamboyant women of the late-eighteenth century, Mary Robinson's life was marked by reversals of fortune. Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late-eighteenth-century England. ![]() ![]() Bunting has taught writing classes at UCLA. She felt the desire to write about her heritage. A few years later, Bunting enrolled in a community college writing course. In 1958, Bunting moved to the United States with her husband and three children. Maybe I’m a bit of a Shanchie myself, telling stories to anyone who will listen.” This storytelling began as an inspiration for Bunting and continues with her work. In Ireland, “There used to be Shanachies… the shanachie was a storyteller who went from house to house telling his tales of ghosts and fairies, of old Irish heroes and battles still to be won. Eve Bunting has won several awards for her works.īunting went to school in Ireland and grew up with storytelling. Her books are diverse in age groups, from picture books to chapter books, and topic, ranging from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. ![]() Bunting.Īnne Evelyn Bunting, better known as Eve Bunting, is an author with more than 250 books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Essays and a translation of Euripides’ tragedy reads as a companion to the play, that is a work which not only opens new horizons to Greek theatre specialists but which also guides non-specialists and students into the play. Both scholarly and didactic, Looking at Medea. Is it possible, in 2014, to offer new significant insights into Euripides’ most discussed play? Founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus, editor or author of several books on Ancient Greek drama and translator, David Stuttard, and the twelve contributors to the collection do meet the challenge to provide their readers with compelling and original outlooks about the theatrical, historical and political qualities of the work. Essays and a translation of Euripides’ tragedy raises great expectations. 1 "Euripides’ Medea is one of the most often read, studied and performed of all Greek tragedies": such an introduction of the great Greek classics by Bloomsbury, the publisher of Looking at Medea. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Passionate Winter tells the story of Leigh, who falls in love with Piers-the wise and sophisticated father of her boyfriend, Gavin. This would start the career of a truly innovative pioneer in the romance literary genre and sub-genres. However, a later attempt was ultimately published by Harlequin Mills and Boon as The Passionate Winter in 1978. She sent her manuscript to the Harlequin Mills and Boon publisher in the UK, but this first attempt was rejected. ![]() She became infatuated with this literature, and always had a deep-seeded intention to create fiction such as this. ![]() She initially studied nursing, but soon left her studies on account of a back injury to work as a supervisor for a stationary company, where she began writing her first manuscript at a very young age.Ĭarole grew up reading Harlequin Mills and Boon fiction, allegedly starting to read their romance novels at around the age of eleven years old. She was the youngest of three children, with two older brothers. ![]() She has authored dozens of novels and several series, as well as contributing to several multi-author collections.Ĭarole Mortimer was born in a very rural section of east England. She was born in or around 1960 in England, and grew up to be a prominent voice in the romance literary genre. A Puppy for Christmas (With: Myrna Mackenzie,Nikki Logan)Ĭarole Mortimer is a prolific British author who has been active since about 1978. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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