The Pasts Revenge (Hidden Destiny Book 2)
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More donnish in tone, this fantasy follows Alice into a mirror world in which everything is reversed. Her journey is based on chess moves, during the course of which she meets such figures as Humpty Dumpty and the riddling twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee. More challenging intellectually than the first instalment, it explores loneliness, language and the logic of dreams. The year is - and other times. Fevvers, aerialiste, circus performer and a virgin, claims she was not born, but hatched out of an egg.
She has two large and wonderful wings. In fact, she is large and wonderful in every way, from her false eyelashes to her ebullient and astonishing adventures. The journalist Jack Walser comes to interview her and stays to love and wonder, as will every reader of this entirely original extravaganza, which deftly and wittily questions every assumption we make about the lives of men and women on this planet.
Carmen Callil Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. The golden age of the American comic book coincided with the outbreak of the second world war and was spearheaded by first- and second-generation Jewish immigrants who installed square-jawed supermen as bulwarks against the forces of evil. Chabon's Pulitzer prize-winning picaresque charts the rise of two young cartoonists, Klayman and Kavalier. It celebrates the transformative power of pop culture, and reveals the harsh truths behind the hyperreal fantasies.
XB Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Clarke's third novel fuses science and mysticism in an optimistic treatise describing the transcendence of humankind from petty, warring beings to the guardians of utopia, and beyond. One of the first major works to present alien arrival as beneficent, it describes the slow process of social transformation when the Overlords come to Earth and guide us to the light.
Humanity ultimately transcends the physical and joins a cosmic overmind, so ushering in the childhood's end of the title EB Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop.
Chesterton's "nightmare", as he subtitled it, combines Edwardian delicacy with wonderfully melodramatic tub-thumping - beautiful sunsets and Armageddon - to create an Earth as strange as any far-distant planet. Secret policemen infiltrate an anarchist cabal bent on destruction, whose members are known only by the days of the week; but behind each one's disguise, they discover only another policeman.
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At the centre of all is the terrifying Sunday, a superhuman force of mischief and pandemonium. Chesterton's distorting mirror combines spinetingling terror with round farce to give a fascinating perspective on Edwardian fears of and flirtations with anarchism, nihilism and a world without god. Clarke's first novel is a vast, hugely satisfying alternative history, a decade in the writing, about the revival of magic - which had fallen into dusty, theoretical scholarship - in the early 19th century.
Two rival magicians flex their new powers, pursuing military glory and power at court, striking a dangerous alliance with the Faerie King, and falling into passionate enmity over the use and meaning of the supernatural. The book is studded with footnotes both scholarly and comical, layered with literary pastiche, and invents a whole new strain of folklore: This classic by an unjustly neglected writer tells the story of Drove and Pallahaxi-Browneyes on a far-flung alien world which undergoes long periods of summer and gruelling winters lasting some 40 years.
It's both a love story and a war story, and a deeply felt essay, ahead of its time, about how all living things are mutually dependant. This is just the kind of jargon-free, humane, character-driven novel to convert sceptical readers to science fiction. Coupland began Girlfriend in a Coma in "probably the darkest period of my life", and it shows. Listening to the Smiths - whose single gave the book its title - can't have helped. This is a story about the end of the world, and the general falling-off that precedes it, as year-old Karen loses first her virginity, then consciousness.
When she reawakens more than a decade later, the young people she knew and loved have died, become junkies or or simply lost that new-teenager smell. Wondering what the future holds? It's wrinkles, disillusionment and the big sleep. It's not often you get to read a book vertically as well as horizontally, but there is much that is uncommon about House of Leaves.
It's ostensibly a horror story, but the multiple narrations and typographical tricks - including one chapter that cuts down through the middle of the book - make it as much a comment on metatextuality as a novel. That said, the creepiness stays with you, especially the house that keeps stealthily remodelling itself: Carrie O'Grady Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop.
It wasn't a problem at first: But the changes don't stop there: A curly tail, trotters and a snout are not far off. Darrieussecq's modern philosophical tale is witty, telling and hearteningly feminist. Joanna Biggs Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. The setting is a post-apocalyptic future, long past the age of humans.
Aliens have taken on the forms of human archetypes, in an attempt to come to some understanding of human civilisation and play out the myths of the planet's far past. The novel follows Lobey, who as Orpheus embarks on a quest to bring his lover back from the dead. With lush, poetic imagery and the innovative use of mythic archetypes, Delaney brilliantly delineates the human condition. Dick's novel became the basis for the film Blade Runner, which prompted a resurgence of interest in the man and his works, but similarities film and novel are slight.
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Here California is under-populated and most animals are extinct; citizens keep electric pets instead. In order to afford a real sheep and so affirm his empathy as a human being, Deckard hunts rogue androids, who lack empathy. As ever with Dick, pathos abounds and with it the inquiry into what is human and what is fake. Much imitated "alternative universe" novel by the wayward genius of the genre. The Axis has won the second world war.
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Imperial Japan occupies the west coast of America; more tyrannically, Nazi Germany under Martin Bormann, Hitler having died of syphilis takes over the east coast. The Californian lifestyle adapts well to its oriental master. Germany, although on the brink of space travel and the possessor of vast tracts of Russia, is teetering on collapse. The novel is multi-plotted, its random progression determined, Dick tells us, by consultation with the Chinese I Ching. Foucault's Pendulum followed the massive success of Eco's The Name of the Rose, and in complexity, intrigue, labyrinthine plotting and historical scope it is every bit as extravagant.
Eco's tale of three Milanese publishers, who feed occult and mystic knowledge into a computer to see what invented connections are created, tapped into the worldwide love of conspiracy theories, particularly those steeped in historical confusion. As "The Plan" takes over their lives and becomes reality, the novel turns into a brilliant historical thriller of its own that inspired a similar level of obsession among fans.
Nicola Barr Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. A woman drives around the Scottish highlands, all cleavage and lipstick, picking up well-built male hitchhikers - but there's something odd behind her thick pebble glasses Faber's first novel refreshes the elements of horror and SF in luminous, unearthly prose, building with masterly control into a page-turning existential thriller that can also be read as an allegory of animal rights.
And in the character of Isserley - her curiosity, resignation, wonderment and pain - he paints an immensely affecting portrait of how it feels to be irreparably damaged and immeasurably far from home. Determined to extricate himself from an increasingly serious relationship, graduate Nicholas Urfe takes a job as an English teacher on a small Greek island. Walking alone one day, he runs into a wealthy eccentric, Maurice Conchis, who draws him into a succession of elaborate psychological games that involve two beautiful young sisters in reenactments of Greek myths and the Nazi occupation.
Appearing after The Collector, this was actually the first novel that Fowles wrote, and although it quickly became required reading for a generation, he continued to rework it for a decade after publication. David Newnham Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Before long, he is embroiled in a battle between ancient and modern deities: A road trip through America's sacred places is spiced up by some troublesome encounters with Shadow's unfaithful wife, Laura.
She's dead, which always makes for awkward silences. The author of such outstanding mythical fantasies as Elidor and The Owl Service, Garner has been called "too good for grown-ups"; but the preoccupations of this young adult novel love and violence, madness and possession, the pain of relationships outgrown and the awkwardness of the outsider are not only adolescent. The three narrative strands - young lovers in the s, the chaos of thebetweenalcoholics, English civil war and soldiers going native in a Vietnam-tinged Roman Britain - circle around Mow Cop in Cheshire and an ancient axehead found there.
Dipping in and out of time, in blunt, raw dialogue, Garner creates a moving and singular novel. This classic of cyberpunk won Nebula, Hugo and Philip K Dick awards, and popularised the term "cyberspace", which the author described as "a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions". A fast-paced thriller starring a washed-up hacker, a cybernetically enhanced mercenary and an almost omnipotent artificial intelligence, it inspired and informed a slew of films and novels, not least the Matrix trilogy.
When three explorers learn of a country inhabited only by females, Terry, the lady's man, looks forward to Glorious Girls, Van, the scientist, expects them to be uncivilised, and Jeff, the Southern gallant, hopes for clinging vines in need of rescue. The process by which their assumptions are overturned and their own beliefs challenged is told with humour and a light touch in Gilman's brilliantly realised vision of a female Utopia where Mother Love is raised to its highest power.
Many of Herland's insights are as relevant today as when it was first published a hundred years ago. Joanna Hines Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. The shadow of the second world war looms over Golding's debut, the classic tale of a group of English schoolboys struggling to recreate their society after surviving a plane crash and descending to murderous savagery. Fat, bespectacled Piggy is sacrificed; handsome, morally upstanding Ralph is victimised; and dangerous, bloodthirsty Jack is lionised, as the boys become "the Beast" they fear.
When the adults finally arrive, childish tears on the beach hint less at relief than fear for the future. NB Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Originating as a BBC radio series in , Douglas Adams's inspired melding of hippy-trail guidebook and sci-fi comedy turned its novelisations into a publishing phenomenon.
Non-Stop Aldiss's first novel is a tour-de-force of adventure, wonder and conceptual breakthrough. Foundation One of the first attempts to write a comprehensive "future history", the trilogy - which also includes Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation - is Asimov's version of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, set on a galactic scale. The Blind Assassin On planet Zycron, tyrannical Snilfards subjugate poor Ygnirods, providing intercoital entertainment for a radical socialist and his lover. The Wasp Factory A modern-gothic tale of mutilation, murder and medical experimentation, Banks's first novel - described by the Irish Times as "a work of unparalleled depravity"- is set on a Scottish island inhabited by the ultimate dysfunctional family: Frank's victims are mostly animals - but he has found time to kill a few children … Phil Daoust Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Iain M Banks: Consider Phlebas Space opera is unfashionable, but Banks couldn't care less.
Weaveworld Life's rich tapestry is just that in Clive Barker's fantasy. Darkmans Nicola Barker has been accused of obscurity, but this Booker-shortlisted comic epic has a new lightness of touch and an almost soapy compulsiveness. Darwin's Radio Bear combines intelligence, humour and the wonder of scientific discovery in a techno-thriller about a threat to the future of humanity.
Lost Souls Brite's first novel, a lush, decadent and refreshingly provocative take on vampirism told in rich, stylish prose, put her at the forefront of the s horror scene. Rogue Moon Al Barker is a thrillseeking adventurer recruited to investigate an alien labyrinth on the moon. The Master and Margarita When the Devil comes to s Moscow, his victims are pillars of the Soviet establishment: The Coming Race In this pioneering work of British science fiction, the hero is a bumptious American mining engineer who stumbles on a subterranean civilisation. A Clockwork Orange One of a flurry of novels written by Burgess when he was under the mistaken belief that he had only a short time to live.
The End of the World News In one of the first split-screen narratives, Burgess juxtaposes three key 20th-century themes: A Princess of Mars John Carter, a Confederate veteran turned gold prospector, is hiding from Indians in an Arizona cave when he is mysteriously transported to Mars, known to the locals as Barsoom. Naked Lunch Disjointed, hallucinatory cut-ups form a collage of, as Burroughs explained of the title, "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork".
Kindred Butler's fourth novel throws African American Dana Franklin back in time to the early s, where she is pitched into the reality of slavery and the individual struggle to survive its horrors. Erewhon The wittiest of Victorian dystopias by the period's arch anti-Victorian. The Baron in the Trees It is The Influence Campbell has long been one of the masters of psychological horror, proving again and again that what's in our heads is far scarier than any monster lurking in the shadows.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The intellectuals' favourite children's story began as an improvised tale told by an Oxford mathematics don to a colleague's daughters; later readers have found absurdism, political satire and linguistic philosophy in a work that, years on, remains fertile and fresh, crisp yet mysterious, and endlessly open to intepretation. Nights at the Circus The year is - and other times. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay The golden age of the American comic book coincided with the outbreak of the second world war and was spearheaded by first- and second-generation Jewish immigrants who installed square-jawed supermen as bulwarks against the forces of evil.
Childhood's End Clarke's third novel fuses science and mysticism in an optimistic treatise describing the transcendence of humankind from petty, warring beings to the guardians of utopia, and beyond. Humanity ultimately transcends the physical and joins a cosmic overmind, so ushering in the childhood's end of the title EB Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop GK Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday Chesterton's "nightmare", as he subtitled it, combines Edwardian delicacy with wonderfully melodramatic tub-thumping - beautiful sunsets and Armageddon - to create an Earth as strange as any far-distant planet.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Clarke's first novel is a vast, hugely satisfying alternative history, a decade in the writing, about the revival of magic - which had fallen into dusty, theoretical scholarship - in the early 19th century. Hello Summer, Goodbye This classic by an unjustly neglected writer tells the story of Drove and Pallahaxi-Browneyes on a far-flung alien world which undergoes long periods of summer and gruelling winters lasting some 40 years.
Girlfriend in a Coma Coupland began Girlfriend in a Coma in "probably the darkest period of my life", and it shows. House of Leaves It's not often you get to read a book vertically as well as horizontally, but there is much that is uncommon about House of Leaves. Pig Tales It wasn't a problem at first: The Einstein Intersection The setting is a post-apocalyptic future, long past the age of humans. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Man in the High Castle Much imitated "alternative universe" novel by the wayward genius of the genre. Too soon in IBR and too salacious in both of them for me.
A real turn off. Maxs' plan was terrible although I did get his reasoning. Very disappointed in Keishas' acceptance of Rachel's lies Personally, l was looking for more action. Being that we dealing with two Mob Families. It was pretty tame to me But it was okay. The second Love story was okay. I love how Keisha was a Mama Lion trying to save her some. But the only thing that bothered Me about story. Was that l wanted find out why Mike killed himself.
I know how cruelly he treated Keisha. That she was the one to dress him for funeral. I don't how she found the strength to do that. I was disappointed that didn't find out about Personally, l was looking for more action. I was disappointed that didn't find out about Mike's sucide. Jun 08, Bibliophile rated it liked it Shelves: Dec 15, Shauntavia Mcintyre rated it liked it Shelves: This book made me mad for so many reasons why would he make Denora pay for her father David James being one of his father's enemies and the person he for a long time thought had his twin sister and his brother in-law murdered.
It was wrong that he lied to her from the very beginning of their "relationship", he planned their first meeting, buying the magazine where she worked,having her embarrassed. It was wrong on so many levels, he should've just been honest and ever used her to get to her fath This book made me mad for so many reasons why would he make Denora pay for her father David James being one of his father's enemies and the person he for a long time thought had his twin sister and his brother in-law murdered.
Justin and even Destiny warn Lexi of her fate. She still has yet to learn, your past can and will affect your future. What she doesn't know is if you're not paying. The Beginning (Hidden Destiny, #1) and The Past's Revenge (Hidden Destiny, # 2) Book 1. The Beginning. by Lilibeth Muscato. · 1 Ratings · 1 edition.
It was wrong on so many levels, he should've just been honest and ever used her to get to her father who she was estranged from David James and his dealing for eleven years until he showed up in Ireland and told her what his associates found out while following her. Apr 22, Hazel Robinson rated it it was amazing. Great story Really enjoyed this book, there was a bit of mystery and suspense. Maxwell lost his sister and brother in law in an automobile accident. He blamed Denora and he was determined to make her pay.
Funny how it works sometime when you decide to get revenge, you have planned it all out but do really have all the information. Great story about love, loss, feuding families and the ones that get caught in between. Jun 09, Gayle Roberson rated it it was amazing. Max, son of top mafia boss in Ireland, vows to avenge his sister's death by going after Denora, daughter of man responsible for his sister's death.
Will love keep Max and Denora together? You must read this exciting story to find out. Apr 18, evette w rated it liked it. Really Good This was a very good fast paced sexy grown-up romance with suspense thrown in for good measure. The two main characters are really likable that you want to cheer for them and you want a happy ending. This was such a fun read and very entertaining. May 10, Paulette Hilton rated it it was amazing.
I've looking for you This author did a great on weaving story that kept me reading to the end and I enjoyed every minute of it. It needed edging a little but it didn't take away from t great plot of the story. I will buy other boos by this author. May 27, Velma Michelle rated it did not like it. One dimensional I personally did not care for this book. I found the characters to be very one dimensional, and the dialogue between characters to be bland at best.
Apr 18, Letitia Day rated it it was amazing. Good read I liked how there was a little bit of mystery, romance and how true love won out in the end despite all the obstacles! Apr 25, Celina rated it it was amazing. Aug 24, Max rated it did not like it. Apr 25, Tangela rated it it was ok. Revenge Not a good read. The main characters acted like a child. Hey it was free. Apr 13, Tess Michaels rated it it was amazing.
Along the way he joins up with a group of vampires, finds his true family and discovers what he really values, amid much blood, sex, drugs and drink. I would also liked if the romance was at a slower pace. There see various locations in the Dreaming City where Ascendant chests reside. The rewards appear to be set around a cap of but have been known to give players swords, guns, cloaks, and power weapons. This small hope flickers in a world where no apocalyptic event is specified. Shu Lien fights the enchantress and kills her, using her skills to see through the witch's illusions. Only Cronenberg could have filmed it in , and even he recreated Burroughs's biography rather than his interior world.
Quite entertaining I particularly liked how for once the guy wasn't picture perfect. The characters were actually quite relatable. May 02, Alesia Guest rated it it was amazing.
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