Lords of Rainbow
Title | Lords of Rainbow PDF eBook |
Author | Vera Nazarian |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2004-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1930997884 |
Imagine a world without color, illuminated by a gray sun.... Imagine a sudden brilliant flash -- an artificial orb ignites, filled with peculiar impossible light. . . . The nature of this light bears no description. It lingers in dreams, inciting an unrequited love for a goddess. A corrupt city is shaped like a perfect wheel, and is ruled by a sister and brother, Regent and Regentrix, by perverse desires, and by a secret. . . . A loyal warrior woman swears to serve a mysterious lord. At the same time, an epic invasion is precipitated by a being of utter darkness, who is the one absolute source of black in a monochrome silver world. And amid all this, flickers an ancient memory of a phenomenon called Rainbow and of those who had once filled the world with an impossible thing called color. . . . Lords of Rainbow.
Lords of Rainbow
Title | Lords of Rainbow PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 430 |
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ISBN | 7770041910 |
Rainbows End
Title | Rainbows End PDF eBook |
Author | Vernor Vinge |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2007-04-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781429991896 |
Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he's starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access—through nodes designed into smart clothes—and to see the digital context—through smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert's son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Rainbow's Hidden Treasures
Title | Rainbow's Hidden Treasures PDF eBook |
Author | Kyle Walker |
Publisher | Tate Publishing |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2011-05 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1617772216 |
Just like the rainbow has no end, God's promise has no end Just like the rainbow will last forever I want us to last Forever in a bond of unbreakable love sent from the Father in Heaven There is more to the rainbow than the pot of gold at the end. What if we have been looking at the wrong place and the treasure that we seek is not at the end of the rainbow, but within the rainbow itself? Join Kyle Walker on a journey to find this true treasure as he explores themes of faith and love in inspirational verse.
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power
Title | Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Sonnie |
Publisher | Melville House |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1935554662 |
The historians of the late 1960s have emphasised the work of a small group of white college activists and the Black Panthers, activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries and even racists. Tracy and Amy Sonnie have been interviewing activists from the 1960s for nearly 10 years and here reject this narrative, showing how working-class whites, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, fought inequality in the 1960s.
The Spectator
Title | The Spectator PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1064 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Rainbow Milk
Title | Rainbow Milk PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Mendez |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385547099 |
Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing. "The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for." —Marlon James In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient, but are all too aware that their family will need more than just hope to survive in their new country. At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community and his depressed hometown in the industrial Black Country. But once he arrives he finds himself at a loss for a new center of gravity, and turns to sex work, music and art to create his own notions of love, masculinity and spirituality. A wholly original novel as tender as it is visceral, Rainbow Milk is a bold reckoning with race, class, sexuality, freedom and religion across generations, time and cultures.