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When Sannah the Storyteller, a descendant of environmental refugees
from drowned Pacific islands, finds a White stranger on her
domestep, she presumes he's a political prisoner on the run seeking
safe passage to egalitarian Aotearoa. However, Kaire's unusual
appearance, bizarre behaviour, and insistence he's a pilgrim
suggest otherwise. Appalled by apartheid Australia, Kaire uses his
White privileges to procure vital information for Sannah and her
group of activists regarding new desert prisons that are to be
built to house all political prisoners. The group plans sabotage
but needs help, and Kaire is a willing accomplice. But when Sannah
turns Truthteller and threatens to reveal the country's true
history, even Kaire's White privilege and advanced technology
cannot save Sannah and her daughter from retribution.
Paasion, an anthology of the world's greatest stories is full of
invention, imagination, and originality The stories communicatean
idea which will engage the reader's attention fromt he first to the
last
In the late nineteenth century, Mexico and France laid claim to
Clipperton Island. In 1908 Mexico places a garrison of men and
their families on the island to reinforce their claim.
All goes well until 1914 when, because of the revolution that
tears Mexico apart, the garrison is no longer supplied. Scurvy
claims many of their lives and in a desperate attempt to save those
that are left, the Captain tries to row a boat for help. He
perishes along with three men he took with him.
The lone man, left on the island, goes crazy and declares himself
king. For twenty-two months he rapes, tortures and murders some of
the women and children of the garrison. Finally, two of the women
are successful in killing him.
A United States warship, looking for Germans, rescues the
survivors and returns them to Mexico and safety.
From the savage death pits of the Ortung Vandals, to the murderous
intrigues of the imbecile Emperor's court, to the perfumed cages of
the luscious willing slaves, the giant Otto is carving a legend
across the stars. When this gladiator and chieftain of the Wolfung
worlds seeks to form a frontier legion of space barbarians, the
nobles dare not refuse him; they have only the courage to try to
murder him. But can even an empire's might stop such a man?John
Norman, born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1931, is the creator of the
Gorean Saga, the longest running series of adventure novels in
science fiction history. Starting inDecember 1966 withTarnsman of
Gor, the series was put on hold after its twenty-fifth installment,
Magicians of Gor, in 1988, when DAW refused to publish its
successor, Witness of Gor. After several unsuccessful attempts to
find a trade publishing outlet, the series was brought back into
print in 2001. Norman has also produced a separate, three
installment science fiction series, the Telnarian Histories, plus
two other fiction works (Ghost DanceandTime Slave), a nonfiction
paperback (Imaginative Sex), and a collection of thirty short
stories, entitledNorman Invasions.The Totems of Abydoswas published
in spring 2012.All of Norman's work is available both in print and
as ebooks. The Internet has proven to be a fertile ground for the
imagination of Norman's ever-growing fan base, and at Gor
Chronicles(www.gorchronicles.com), a website specially created for
his tremendous fan following, onemay read everything there is to
knowabout this unique fictional culture.Norman is married and has
three children."
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