Venus on the Half-Shell
Title | Venus on the Half-Shell PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Jose Farmer |
Publisher | Titan Books (US, CA) |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2013-12-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1781163073 |
Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of the multiverse, to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Title | Voyage of the Sable Venus PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Coste Lewis |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2017-11-21 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1101911204 |
This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.
The Complete Venus Equilateral
Title | The Complete Venus Equilateral PDF eBook |
Author | George O. Smith |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1980-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780345289537 |
Venus in the Kitchen
Title | Venus in the Kitchen PDF eBook |
Author | Pilaff Bey |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Aphrodisiac cookery |
ISBN | 9780747562030 |
An exquisite, beautifully produced little book, illustrated throughout with charming line drawings and the perfect gift for lovers of all ages.
Tales of the Wold Newton Universe
Title | Tales of the Wold Newton Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Jose Farmer |
Publisher | Titan Books (US, CA) |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2013-10-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1781163057 |
A collection of Wold Newton-inspired short stories by Farmerphiles, experts, and the Grand Master of SF himself.A real meteorite fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, and was found to be radioactive, causing genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good, or, as the case may be, evil deeds.
Hadon of Ancient Opar
Title | Hadon of Ancient Opar PDF eBook |
Author | Philip José Farmer |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2024-01-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504090160 |
In this classic fantasy novel a warrior sets out to win a deadly contest to rule a prehistoric empire—and take the hand of its beautiful priestess. The lost city of Opar was first introduced to readers in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Hidden deep in Africa, it is a place shrouded in mystery and awash with incredible riches. In Hadon of Ancient Opar, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Philip José Farmer reimagines this forgotten land, revealing the heroes who lived in its prehistoric golden age . . . A poor young man of great ambition, Hadon leaves his village to enter the great games of Klakor—a bloody contest in which only the strongest and most cunning warrior will survive. He seeks the ultimate prize: to rule the Khokarsan Empire alongside the powerful High Priestess. But his quest for the throne leads him beyond the empire’s edge, where he finds himself embroiled in civil war.
The Girl on the Half Shell
Title | The Girl on the Half Shell PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Ward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780615975924 |
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