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![]() ![]() Or rather, it is a constellation of miseries, unevenly distributed, like everything else, that results from the gross exploitation of nature and people necessary for supplying profitably our pleasures and comforts. It is a misery particular to global capitalism. But our own unhappiness remains strikingly similar to what Morris had in mind. ![]() The environmental destruction produced by diesel-fueled trucks, rare earth mining, and rocket fuel were also in the future. ![]() In 1890, the year News from Nowhere was published, twenty-four-hour deliveries, video calls, and space travel were fictional. “You belong,” explains Ellen, “so entirely to the unhappiness of the past that our happiness even would weary you.” Not because of any fictional science of time travel, nor because he poses a threat to this particular future’s social harmony, but because his very being has been so thoroughly deformed by the social conditions of nineteenth-century industrial capitalism that he is incapable of experiencing the pleasures and desires of a world freed of competition, exploitation, and suffering. At the end of William Morris’s News from Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest (Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance), a woman named Ellen explains to the visitor, William Guest, that he cannot stay in this perfect place of clean air, meaningful work, and satisfying leisure. ![]() ![]() ![]() The level of vetting around the engineering and hard science throughout the scriptwriting process is something that we are proud of - and it's part of what makes this series unique. ![]() In the foreword to the book, Howard wrote that he is "very appreciative to National Geographic for being incredibly rigorous in its demand for authenticity and scientific accuracy. Both the book and the new television series aim to represent those challenges as accurately as possible. Developing the technology to get to Mars is just one of the many challenges that humans will face in future missions to the Red Planet, David's book explains. The book not only examines the technological challenges of going to Mars, but also looks at life-science issues, psychological and philosophical issues, and even some of the ethics involved, David explained. Rob Manning, Mars engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Nick Kanas, psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco.Jim Pass, CEO of the Astrosociology Research Institute.Bret Drake, space systems architect at the Aerospace Corporation.Pascal Lee, co-founder of the Mars Institute.Penelope Boston, director of NASA's Astrobiology Institute.NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin and brothers Scott and Mark Kelly.The docudrama intertwines a theatrical reenactment of the first crewed mission to Mars with expert interviews.ĭavid's book also incorporates interviews with some of those Mars experts, such as: ![]() ![]() ![]() This is where all the character descriptions come from. Zachary Ying: A 12 year-old descendent of Qin Shi Huang, has theFirst Emperor possessing his AR gaming headset instead of his body. Yeah, he knows better! Every artifact in here is a priceless part of our heritage! ![]() Won't Jing Ke get you? Really? He wouldn't? Also secretly sealed the biggest portalbetween the spirit and mortal worlds so malicious spirits would no longer roam the lands and cause conflict.DIDN'T KNOW MERCURY WAS POISONOUS, SO STOPASKING HIM ABOUT IT. Built the Great Wall,commissioned the Terra-Cotta Army, standardizedChinese writing and measuring systems, invented theHuangdi emperor title that all you losers used for the next 2,133 years. ![]() Qin Shi HuangThe First Emperor of ChinaReal Name: Ying ZhengGlorious unifier of China. Just grab it and jump out with your teleporting power. Listen, Yaojin, we need Shang Yang's measuring vessel. Besides, he wouldn't fight us in a musuem. ![]() Cover me.īy the command of you emperor - Arise Di Renjie, detective of legend! We can't, but Wu Zetian can summon someone who could. ![]() ![]() ![]() A battery of medical and psychological tests can’t explain Josh’s baffling symptoms. As Josh recovers, his mind is increasingly invaded with thoughts that have the emotion, the intensity, the ‘intimacy’ of memories. ![]() ![]() From that instant nothing would ever be the same. Too late she realizes she’s ventured into dangerous even deadly territory.Ī bomb in Rome, a flash of bluish white light, and photojournalist Josh Ryder’s world exploded. Instead, she begins her own investigation into Cleo’s disappearance and is shocked by how much the intimate sexual details of another woman’s life affect her own. ![]() Morgan Snow for insight, but Morgan refuses to breach patient confidentiality. When a missing person’s report is filed on Cleo Thane, Noah wonders if she, too, has fallen prey to the psycho’s wrath. When she asks Morgan to read her unpublished tell all book about her exclusive clientele, Morgan realizes that what she has in her hands could be explosive.ĭetective Noah Jordan is trying to stay one step ahead of a serial killer who has been targeting prostitutes, killing them with ritualistic precision. A high priced prostitute, Cleo is desperate to reconcile her successful professional life with her neglected personal one. Morgan Snow, one of New York’s top sex therapists, sees everything from the abused to the depraved, from couples grappling with sexual boredom to twisted sociopaths with dark, erotic fetishes.Ĭleo Thane is one of those special patients Morgan connects with immediately. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade. Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. He was supposed to be a myth.But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell……he was, quite simply, mine. Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1) by Katee RobertĪlso in this series: Electric Idol, Wicked BeautyĪlso by this author: The Marriage Contract, The Wedding Pact, Fool Me Once, An Indecent Proposal, A Fool For You, The Devil's Daughter, The Hunting Grounds, Electric Idol, Wicked Beauty, Court of the Vampire Queen ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1961 he designed and made a 12-bore shotgun, and during 1960-67 operated a small shotgun cartridge loading business. Not acceptable to his father, Smith's first job was in banking. Shooting (hunting) had always been an interest of Smith's, and he would have liked an apprenticeship in the gun trade. His mother always encouraged his writing and he was first published at the age of 12 in The Tettenhall Observer, a local newspaper. Smith was educated at Lichfield Cathedral School and Wrekin College. Smith's father was a bank manager, his mother a pre- World War II historical novelist (E. ![]() Guy Newman Smith (21 November 1939 – 24 December 2020) was an English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror, though he also wrote non-fiction, softcore pornography, and children's literature. ![]() Horror fiction, Fantasy, Children's literature, Non-fiction ![]() |