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Doc Immelman is alombekend vir sy avontuur- en jagverhale. Erns Grundling noem hom “Namibië se eie Hemingway”. Bloed op die duine en ander verhale is ’n keur uit sy kortverhale wat tussen 1955 en 1963 in Die Huisgenoot en Die Brandwag verskyn het. Die bundel sluit verder die novelle “Koms dans, Klaradyn” in, wat oorspronklik in ’n Seisoen vir Romanse (1966) verskyn het.
An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an
assassin and a telepath! Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when
it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the
betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate
assignment-to get married and have a kid-he may finally be in over
his head! Yor is assigned to be bodyguard to a mafia family on a
cruise ship by the secret organization Garden. But with Lloyd and
Anya also on board thanks to a giveaway they won, Yor is starting
to have doubts about her secret life as an assassin...
"A war's on and a murder has been committed-and we sit here talking
nonsense about almond whirls and mince pies!" Good old Uncle
Willie-rich, truculent and seemingly propped up by his fierce
willpower alone-has come to stay with the Redpaths for the
holidays. It is just their luck for him to be found dead in the
snow on Boxing Day morning, dressed in his Santa Claus costume and
seemingly poisoned by something in the Christmas confectionery. As
the police flock to the house, Willie's descendants, past lovers
and distant relatives are drawn into a perplexing investigation to
find out how the old man met his fate, and who stands to gain by
such an unseasonable crime. First published in 1944, Murder After
Christmas is a lively riot of murder, mince pies and misdirection,
cleverly twisting the tropes of Golden Age detective fiction to
create a pacey, light-hearted package admirably suited for the
holiday season.
Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which
the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities.
Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a
fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate
nature in the interests of survival.
"Wonderful, mind-expanding stuff, and well written too."-The
Guardian Axiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short
stories by Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan. The stories in this
collection have appeared in such science fiction magazines as
Interzone and Asimov's between 1989 and 1992. From junkies who
drink at the time-stream to love affairs in time-reversed galaxies;
from gene-altered dolphins that converse only in limericks to the
program that allows you to design your own child; from the brain
implants called axiomatics to the strange attractors that spin off
new religions; from bioengineering to the new physics; and from
cyberpunk to the electronic frontier, Greg Egan's future is
frighteningly close to our own present. Included in this collection
are such wonderful stories as: "Axiomatic" "Into Darkness" "The
Safe-Deposit Box" "Blood Sisters" And many more! Axiomatic is the
perfect collection for any science fiction fan, especially one who
enjoys Greg Egan's work. The stories are imaginative and
insightful, and written only the way that Greg Egan can do so.
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is
proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in
science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion,
near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery,
contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and
horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and
much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York
Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula
award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a
diverse group of authors.
Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way -
except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary
college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first
half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must
survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master
his new powers. Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the
beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she's only interested in his
body - eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue
transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is
drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists
alongside our own.
Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska
youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets
of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold
the Pacific War as fought by "Frogs" and "Toads," humanoid
creatures brutally committed to a kill-or-be-killed struggle. The
history of American youth depends primarily on adult reminiscences
of their own childhoods, adult testimony to the lives of youth
around them, or surmises based on at best a few creative artifacts.
The survival then of such a large collection of adolescent comic
strips from America's small-town Midwest is remarkable. Michael
Kugler reproduces the never-before-published comics of his father's
adolescent imagination as a microhistory of American youth in that
formative era. Also included in Into the Jungle! A Boy's Comic
Strip History of World War II are the likely comic book models for
these stories and inspiration from news coverage in newspapers,
radio, movies, and newsreels. Kugler emphasizes how US propaganda
intended to inspire patriotic support for the war gave this young
artist a license for his imagined violence. In a context of
progressive American educational reform, these violent comic
stories, often in settings modeled on the artist's small Nebraska
town, suggests a form of adolescent rebellion against moral
conventions consistent with comic art's reputation for "outsider"
or countercultural expressions. Kugler also argues that these
comics provide evidence for the transition in American taste from
war stories to the horror comics of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Kugler's thorough analysis of his father's adolescent art explains
how a small-town boy from the plains distilled the popular culture
of his day for an imagined war he could fight on his audacious,
even shocking terms.
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Lumbung Stories
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Panashe Chigumadzi; Edited by harreit c. brown; Contributions by Yasnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, Uxue Alberdi, Cristina Judar, …
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Tequio in Mexico, auzolan in Basque Country, lumbung in Indonesia,
ubuntu in South Africa, mutirao in Brazil - all terms used around
the world to describe the concept of collective work. Bringing
together 8 publishing houses and 7 writers, each writing in a
different language, Lumbung Stories is a true product of communal
action. From speculative essays and experimental texts to intimate
stories that portray collective work as something every day and
habitual, each writer presents their unique take on what a "lumbung
story" is. These tales take us from olive groves in Andalusia to
tiger-filled forests in Indonesia; from youths fumbling through
adolescence together in the Basque country, to outsiders uniting
through vibrant rituals in Sao Paulo, and from explorations of
intergenerational and transhistorical struggle in South Africa, to
an academic text from a society rebuilding in a post-Capitalist,
post-climate-crisis future. Blurring the lines between realism and
fiction, the past and the future, this unique and powerful
collection brims with life and is a vital reminder of the ties that
unite us all.
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