War

The Fires of Autumn

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A series of books on the Eastern Front by Sven Hassel is worth a read, told from the German side and pulls no punches. Susan Wittig Albert’s Loving Eleanor, which beat the two biographies to press by over six months, is an engrossing novel about the same determined women covered in Quinn’s work Lorena Hickok broke the glass ceiling as the first female reporter for the Associated Press, and in Albert’s novel, “Hick” narrates the story of how her career and life were deeply affected by her three-decades-long relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt.

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An American girl abroad

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Make Room! (1966) by Harry Harrison, Stand on Zanzibar (1968) by John Brunner and The World Inside (1971) by Robert Silverberg. Forced to flee into hiding, Allegra enlists a young assistant to help her in testing the damaged system. 97 min. Because his view of the world existed at an intersection of sociology, politics, and technology, Wells was able to create complex geopolitical and social contexts for his fiction— indeed, after he abandoned science fiction, Wells’s later novels were those of a social realist, dealing with societal injustice, among other topics.

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The Happy Life of Preston Katt: A Novel

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They’ll raise children to do the same and by the time this second generation comes of age the dream should be a reality. Buy this book More focussed (its emphasis is on women characters and women writers) if slightly less entertaining (some of the occasionally awkward feminist flag waving wears a little thin) than its prececessor, this 1979 sequel nonetheless remains a fascinating and invaluable reference work. Goals can range from reaching a certain position, theft, sabotage, etc.

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Jackals' Revenge

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This page is focused upon literary and genre fiction only. Conformity is a key theme and is evident throughout, either via costume or setting.... [tags: Papers] Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in The Shell - Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in The Shell Science fiction has been a staple of film entertainment since George Melies first explored the genre in his 1902 Le Voyage Dans La Lune. Instead, focus the story on a specific practice that raises your ire. I was flunking everything by the middle of my junior year.

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The story of Dr. Wassell

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In international science fiction, the first English translations of the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem began to appear in the 1970s (for example, Solaris [1961, translated 1970] and The Invincible [1964, translated 1973]). But it’s his monsters that always get me. A good third of all the monsters in media, movies, comics, books, etc, owe something to old Herbert George. Maybe you can see the shore, or a ways ahead down the river gorge, but any ideas of having control are pretty much an illusion.

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Savannah Tempest: A Novel

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Dozens of ideas that are thought of as products of modern space science were first proposed in the pages of early science fiction. He lunged for it; a short, hoarse cry came from his lips as he realized he had reached too far and had lost his balance. The other factor in the divide between literary fiction and genre occurred because of the trajectory of literary fiction in the twentieth century. He is chained, tied with barbared wire, padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water, tied beneath a descending elevator, strapped to an electric chair, and bound in an elaborate Oriental torture chamber. 238 min.

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Survival

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An example of a historical fiction that I have just read is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, a story about the life of a German boy who becomes friends with a Jewish boy in a concentration camp during the holocaust.... [tags: Historical Fiction, Nazi Germany] The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War - In the beautiful Southern autumn days, a war was becoming bloodier and bloodier by the day.

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Ramage: Volume 1 (The Lord Ramage Novels)

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He was able to quantify and fully realize extrapolations about the future and explore the iniquities of modern industrialization in his fiction. Cast: Bruce Boxleitner, Megan Gallagher, Lin Shaye, Jeffrey Combs, Thomas Wright, Matteo Crismani, Dan Luria. Runners up: the Hammer's Slammers books by David Drake, Babylon 5, Harry Turtledove's World War series, some of Iain M. As a matter of fact, they were probably killed or captured by Patton’s Third Army within the next few days.

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Standoff In The Ashes

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For an Australian story (and they were the first to inflict a defeat on both the Japs & the Germans on land) try Twenty Thousand Thieves by Eric Lambert, about Tobruk. Russell, David L. “Characteristics of Historical Fiction.” Literature for Children: A Short Introduction. Cast: Tor Johnson, Vampira, Tom Keene, Gregory Walcott, Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Dudley Manlove, Mona McKinnon. WALL-E himself has since joined an elite club of memorable movie robots that includes 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL, Star Wars ’ R2-D2, and Short Circuit’s Johnny 5.

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The Crooked Maid: A Novel

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In the Genre Prompting Guides, Fountas & Pinnell have organized prompts by genre, and also literary elements and structure. For example, Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) argues that fear of the unknown is a flaw in human nature and criticizes the social paranoia of post-war, 1940s America.... [tags: science-fiction, film, human society] Differences and Similarities Between Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood - The purpose of this essay is to analyse and compare the narrative situations proposed by Franz Stanzel in the dystopian novels Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.

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