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Descubre La Selva Tropical/ Discover the Rain Forest (Yellow Umbrella Books. Science. Spanish.)
Lisa Trumbauer
Manufacturer: Red Brick
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- Treadway-Rains family
- Carter-Rains Family
- Henry Rains 1767-1838
- Delighted and very Pleased!
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Henry Rains, 1767-1838: The Rains Family of Yellow Creek, Kentucky
David S. Rains
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
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Henry Rains left North Carolina about 1780, for what became Tennessee, with his mother, Mary Ingram, and his stepfather Captain Thomas Lee. Henry Rains settled on what was then Indian land in the Yellow Creek Valley before 1790. Henry Rains' children married into the Turner, Marsee, Denny, Davis, King, Kellems and Lane families. Henry Rains' descendants are still in the Yellow Creek Valley, in what is now Middlesboro, Kentucky. This history is about them, as well as Henry Rains.
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Treadway-Rains family.......2006-01-03
This is an excellent book that has been well researched. I am a decendant of Henry Rains on my mother's side and have been trying to find out a lot more about my mom's side of the family. This book saved me countless hours of research and I haven't found anything so far in my research that disagrees with what is written in this book.
Thanks David for writing this wonderful book!!!!!
Carter-Rains Family.......2005-12-01
This is an excellent book. I am a decendant of Solomon Carter and Elizabeth Gibson-Fuson-Carter. There daughter, Jane Carter married Milton Lane Rice Rains.
Thanks for the wonderful book.
Wayne Carter
Henry Rains 1767-1838.......2003-04-17
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this well researched book written by David S. Rains. It is easy to follow the journey this family made. I am a Rains descendant who is searching for my roots, but alas I was not connected through Henry Rains lineage. I would recommend this book to anyone searching the Rains line and to those that are collectors of historical families.
Delighted and very Pleased!.......2003-01-15
I must say this book was very insightful and met all my expectations. Especially knowing my uncle David Rains wrote this
book. Comming from a hard working man who I know put 100% effort into obtaining all the historical facts, Must of dedicated all his time to research the information. I have no doubt in my mind that every thing in this book is accurate. It was so nice to sit back and read a book about my ancestors. I would have never known any these things if my uncle David Rains didn't write this book. I encourage all family members and non-family members as well to purshes this book.
Lisa Kapahua
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One Green Frog (Yellow Umbrella Books)
Susan Ring
Manufacturer: Yellow Umbrella Books
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ASIN: 0736829172 |
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- Delightful novel - Romantic - Witty and a Mystery to solve
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Seasons: Book Two: Spring Rains & Summer Heat (Seasons (Yellow Rose))
Anne Azel
Manufacturer: Yellow Rose Books
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ASIN: 1930928084 |
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Delightful novel - Romantic - Witty and a Mystery to solve.......2005-08-16
This story gives you everything you want in a novel. Great writing, wonderful characters and a terrific story. The secondary characters are as interesting as the main characters. The story is a real page turner but the characters are so endearing (and hilariously funny) that you don't want it to end. This isn't a lightweight romance. The characters suffer through some pretty serious tragedies, none of them gratuitous but all very well written.
from the publisher's web site - As a highly successful film star and director, Robbie Williams is used to leading a wild and comfortable life. Headstrong, ambitious, intelligent and self-centered, she is used to everything always going her way. But when she falls in love with her brother's widow Janet, things are about to change. Life with Janet means settling down and domesticity, and Robbie finds herself jointly responsible for the parenting of a pair of dynamic and sometimes willful children. Family life brings new challenges - serious illness, abuse and kidnapping are just a few of the problems the Williams family must deal with. But through it all, two strong women find their way to a loving family and a supportive community.
This thoroughly revised and re-edited version of the previously published Seasons brings fresh insight into the lives of these well-loved characters.
The book I have was published in 2005 and contains both Seasons One and Two (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter) plus an epilogue.
I have the author's other novels (Journeys and Encounters) and hope that her other novel 'Murder Mystery Series' will be re-issued so I can read that also!
Book Description
While writing these children's books I mixed fact with fiction, reality with fantasy, and the will to overcome near-impossible problems with creative solutions. Since children need positive encouragement, optimism, hope, and, most of all - love, I've created stories using animals - who are true to their particular nature. I chose animals which children can both relate to and understand by their own unique behaviors, but sometimes with a little humor and a few unexpected happenings. Positive reading for positive readers!
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- Death Stalks through a Book
- An elegy for a vanished way of life---a modern Spanish classic.
- A modern classic, an elegy for a vanished way of life.
- A Haunting Story
- A Good Subject Badly Done
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The Yellow Rain
Julio Llamazares
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Ainielle is a village high in the Spanish Pyrenees. Its houses are mostly deserted ruins and have been for years. Ainielle's last surviving inhabitant, an old man at death's door, lingers on, and as the "yellow rain" of leaves flutters around him and the first snows of the year fall, he recalls the life he lived and the ghosts-once his friends and neighbors-who have taken possession of his solitude.
Hailed on first publication and continuously reprinted in Spain, The Yellow Rain is a haunting ode to the power of memory, an elegy for a landscape and a way of life.
Customer Reviews:
Death Stalks through a Book.......2007-09-22
Although it is a short book, I found it difficult to get through. It is very morose, though the writing is good. There is zero humor or good feeling, so do not try to read it if you need those things. It gives you a feel for death and the loss of all that is dear to you, or just familiar, so it is for those of us who seek the darker side of human existence. What it is, it is something different, apart from the feel-good melodramatic muck that passes for modern literature. I only give it 3 stars, though, since it does not lift us past the dark side, only allows us to wallow in it awhile.
An elegy for a vanished way of life---a modern Spanish classic........2005-12-08
This powerful and richly atmospheric novel, a classic in Spain for the past fifteen years but only now translated into English, captures the love of an old man for his land and for the village in which he and his ancestors were born. It is also a study of the inexorable effects of time and the pressures it exerts on isolated communities and the human inhabitants who lack direct connection with a wider world. Told from the point of view of the elderly Andres, the last remaining inhabitant of a crumbling village in the Pyrenees, the novel details his physical and emotional deterioration as he observes the parallel collapse of the town, "whole buildings kneeling like cattle," the village itself a mangled and sad "unburied corpse."
As the novel opens, Andres tells us that this is the last day of his life, describing what the men approaching from the nearest town will discover when they come to Ainielle for the first time in ten years. Gradually, Andres reveals the history of the village and of his own family, capturing his own desolation and possible madness. His confrontations with ghosts--of his mother, his three children, and wife Sabina--slowly reveal his life as a family man, along with his disappointments, his sometimes self-defeating behavior, and his never-ending desire to keep alive the village in which his ancestors worked the land. He knows that when he dies, any remaining vestiges of the village and its way of life will disappear from the earth.
Andres's memories and his confrontations with ghosts add color, variety, and a sense of drama to what would otherwise be an interior monologue, showing the conflict between Andres and the forces of change. His preparations for his own death and description of the images the approaching visitors will see on their arrival constitute the quiet climax. The imagery is breath-taking. Realistic and grounded in the stark reality of farm life in a poor, nearly dead village, the nature imagery reveals parallels between the inner forces which have driven Andres to become the last human in Ainielle, and the passage of time and the seasons--deep snow, the rushing water of spring, and the falling poplar leaves, which he sees as "the yellow rain."
A haunting memorial to those people who are incapable of accepting the changes of time, the novel forces the reader to consider those values and aspects of the past which are lost from our heritage when the memories and experiences of the elderly are not preserved, when old villages disappear, and when future generations do not care. Mary Whipple
A modern classic, an elegy for a vanished way of life........2005-09-14
This powerful and richly atmospheric novel, a classic in Spain for the past fifteen years but only now translated into English, captures the love of an old man for his land and for the village in which he and his ancestors were born. It is also a study of the inexorable effects of time and the pressures it exerts on isolated communities and the human inhabitants who lack direct connection with a wider world. Told from the point of view of the elderly Andres, the last remaining inhabitant of a crumbling village in the Pyrenees, the novel details his physical and emotional deterioration as he observes the parallel collapse of the town, "whole buildings kneeling like cattle," the village itself a mangled and sad "unburied corpse."
As the novel opens, Andres tells us that this is the last day of his life, describing what the men approaching from the nearest town will discover when they come to Ainielle for the first time in ten years. Gradually, Andres reveals the history of the village and of his own family, capturing his own desolation and possible madness. His confrontations with ghosts--of his mother, his three children, and wife Sabina--slowly reveal his life as a family man, along with his disappointments, his sometimes self-defeating behavior, and his never-ending desire to keep alive the village in which his ancestors worked the land. He knows that when he dies, any remaining vestiges of the village and its way of life will disappear from the earth.
Andres's memories and his confrontations with ghosts add color, variety, and a sense of drama to what would otherwise be an interior monologue, showing the conflict between Andres and the forces of change. His preparations for his own death and description of the images the approaching visitors will see on their arrival constitute the quiet climax. The imagery is breath-taking. Realistic and grounded in the stark reality of farm life in a poor, nearly dead village, the nature imagery reveals parallels between the inner forces which have driven Andres to become the last human in Ainielle, and the passage of time and the seasons--deep snow, the rushing water of spring, and the falling poplar leaves, which he sees as "the yellow rain."
A haunting memorial to those people who are incapable of accepting the changes of time, the novel forces the reader to consider those values and aspects of the past which are lost from our heritage when the memories and experiences of the elderly are not preserved, when old villages disappear, and when future generations do not care. Mary Whipple
A Haunting Story.......2005-04-24
The Yellow Rain is a brief novel, the recollections of an elderly man slowly dying in an abandoned village in the Spanish countryside. He imagines his own demise and tells us about it, as he imagines that the village itself is haunted by the ghosts of those who have gone before him. He, like many others he tells us about, has slowly lost his mind, the solitude has gotten to him. Llamazares' novel is eerily entertaining, moody, evocative, with a touch of the gothic. It is an enjoyable brief read.
A Good Subject Badly Done.......2004-04-06
No matter how I tried, I could not enjoy this book. I love ghost towns, ruins, sequestered villages and have logged many travel miles to visit them. This book should have been right up my cobblestone alley. Unfortunately, it is a very boring read. There isn't much description of the town beyond everything is crumbling and rotting away, there is no glimpse into the village's hey-day so we really have no sense of loss, just a drawn-out, really dull account of the last few years of the town. It's like listening to someone on his deathbed moan and groan for days on end until you know it would be a mercy for him to die. There's just no atmosphere, no nostalgia, no--as I said--genuine sense of loss.
To top it all off, the book is full of dumb cliches (some cliches ARE dumber than others), like "I was staring death in the face" or "death was laughing at me", etc. I really wondered how this thing made it into print. There's no story, not a hint of humor, no characters that come off the pages, really nothing to get attached to. I couldn't even read it all the way through although its not even 150 pages long and the type is BIG. All I can say is if you enjoy forlorn places, as I do, and you enjoy history brought to life--or at least to art--you will be really disappointed with this one.
Book Description
EX MACHINA tells the story of civil engineer Mitchell Hundred, who becomes America's first living, breathing super-hero after a strange accident gives him amazing powers. Eventually Mitchell tires of risking his life merely to maintain the status quo and runs for mayor of New York City, winning by a landslide.This new collection features three unique storylines of the Eisner Award-winning series which Playboy calls "a two-fisted blend of super-hero action and political debate!"
Customer Reviews:
More development in a good comic.......2007-09-08
Despite its slight super-hero flavor, Ex Machina sustains a fairly believable story line - NYC's new mayor, an ex-engineer, in way over his head and trying to apply rational logic to political machinery. His super-thing isn't what keeps the reader interested, it's his very human doggedness and determination to do what he thinks is right in problems with no right answers.
This time, that includes the everyday drama of jury duty (with a wild turn of plot), family revelations, and flashbacks to the kind of scene that no one could ever forget. The artwork excels, not in an out-there and edgy way, but as a vehicle for carrying the story across a jagged and varied terrain. Color sets moods well, but the dynamic and varied figures and faces really make it work.
Ex Machina doesn't blaze new trails in visual storytelling or exotic conjecture. Instead, it delivers credible characters and recognizable-enough situations - an enjoyable moment away from my otherwise busy world.
-- wiredweird
Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
Mayor Hundred is getting pretty stressed about doing this whole running a huge city thing. First, the weather has turned very bad, which an extremely bad storm leaving the city snowbound. To cap that off another killer is running around bumping off snowplough drivers, of all people.
It is tempting to break out the superpowers when something like this happens.
The Likable Unlikely Premise.......2007-06-27
In the twenty plus years I've collected comics the writing has improved by leaps and bounds. The likes of Alan Moore, Frank Miller, and Neil Gaiman have not only pushed the envelope, they've blown it apart. Brian K. Vaughn is one of those taking advantage of the more sophisticated bounds available. He gets the unlikely premise out of the way up front. Once you accept that premise (which is easy as pie for a comics reader), Vaughn gives us real life problems to deal with. He shows us shades of gray, that not all problems can be solved easily or satisfactorily. Be sure to start with Vol. 1, but then you'll definitely want Vol. 2 and this one and so on...
Trial and Error.......2007-02-25
The third Ex Machina graphic novel unfortunately trots out the tired old story of an imposter of the Great Machine running around New York. Fortunately that isn't all this volume has. The story of Mitchell serving Jury Duty is an excellent plot that helps make up for some of the obviousness of the imposter story.
The volume also includes a two part story where we meet Mitchell's mother and learn about the death of his father which sheds some new light on the background of our protagonist. Not the best of this series by a long shot but still worth reading.
fact:.......2006-12-08
vaughan is the world's biggest poseur and the worst writer in the history of the english language
Book Description
Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.
From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology fully charts the themes, trends, thoughts, and traditions that comprise the challenging yet rich literary form known as "hard SF."
Customer Reviews:
Not Free SF Reader.......2007-08-01
This is a monster collection. Also a very impressive anthology, as it weighs in at a 3.81 story average. This is after over SIXTY stories, that have been put together to illustrate different styles of hard SF story and story telling, put together in three sections.
There is commentary on each author and their manner of writing and career in general.
The editor also gives a different style grouping at the end, if you decide to look at it this way. A 1000 page tome basically that is a must have for those interested in the subject.
Ascent of Wonder : Nine Lives - Ursula K. Le Guin
Ascent of Wonder : Light of Other Days - Bob Shaw
Ascent of Wonder : Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ascent of Wonder : The Star - Arthur C. Clarke
Ascent of Wonder : Proof - Hal Clement
Ascent of Wonder : It's Great to Be Back - Robert A. Heinlein
Ascent of Wonder : Procreation - Gene Wolfe
Ascent of Wonder : Mimsy Were the Borogoves - Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
Ascent of Wonder : Davy Jones' Ambassador - Raymond Z. Gallun
Ascent of Wonder : The Life and Times of Multivac - Isaac Asimov
Ascent of Wonder : The Singing Diamond - Robert L. Forward
Ascent of Wonder : Down and Out on Ellfive Prime - Dean Ing
Ascent of Wonder : Send Me a Kiss By Wire - Hilbert Schenck
Ascent of Wonder : The Xi Effect - Philip Latham
Ascent of Wonder : A Descent into the Maelstrom - Edgar Allan Poe
Ascent of Wonder : Exposures - Gregory Benford
Ascent of Wonder : The Planners - Kate Wilhelm
Ascent of Wonder : Beep - James Blish
Ascent of Wonder : Drode's Equations - Richard Grant
Ascent of Wonder : The Weather Man - Theodore L. Thomas
Ascent of Wonder : Transit of Earth - Arthur C. Clarke
Ascent of Wonder : Prima Belladonna - J. G. Ballard
Ascent of Wonder : To Bring in the Steel - Donald M. Kingsbury
Ascent of Wonder : Gomez - C. M. Kornbluth
Ascent of Wonder : Waterclap - Isaac Asimov
Ascent of Wonder : Weyr Search - Anne McCaffrey
Ascent of Wonder : Message Found in a Copy of Flatland - Rudy Rucker
Ascent of Wonder : The Cold Equations - Tom Godwin
Ascent of Wonder : The Land Ironclads - H. G. Wells
Ascent of Wonder : The Hole Man - Larry Niven
Ascent of Wonder : Atomic Power - John W. Campbell
Ascent of Wonder : Stop Evolution in Its Tracks - John T. Sladek
Ascent of Wonder : The Hungry Guinea Pig - Miles J. Breuer
Ascent of Wonder : The Very Slow Time Machine - Ian Watson
Ascent of Wonder : The Beautiful and the Sublime - Bruce Sterling
Ascent of Wonder : The Author of the Acacia Seeds - Ursula K. Le Guin
Ascent of Wonder : Heat of Fusion - John M. Ford
Ascent of Wonder : Dolphin's Way - Gordon R. Dickson
Ascent of Wonder : All the Hues of Hell - Gene Wolfe
Ascent of Wonder : Occam's Scalpel - Theodore Sturgeon
Ascent of Wonder : giANTS - Edward Bryant
Ascent of Wonder : Time Fuze - Randall Garrett
Ascent of Wonder : Desertion - Clifford D. Simak
Ascent of Wonder : Kyrie - Poul Anderson
Ascent of Wonder : The Person from Porlock - Raymond F. Jones
Ascent of Wonder : Day Million - Frederik Pohl
Ascent of Wonder : The Cage of Sand - J. G. Ballard
Ascent of Wonder : The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats - James Tiptree Jr.
Ascent of Wonder : In the Year 2889 - Jules Verne
Ascent of Wonder : Surface Tension - James Blish
Ascent of Wonder : No No Not Rogov! - Cordwainer Smith
Ascent of Wonder : In a Petri Dish Upstairs - George Turner
Ascent of Wonder : With the Night Mail - Rudyard Kipling
Ascent of Wonder : The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told - Arthur C. Clarke
Ascent of Wonder : The Pi Man - Alfred Bester
Ascent of Wonder : Relativistic Effects - Gregory Benford
Ascent of Wonder : Making Light - James P. Hogan
Ascent of Wonder : The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
Ascent of Wonder : The Indefatigable Frog - Philip K. Dick
Ascent of Wonder : Chromatic Aberration - John M. Ford
Ascent of Wonder : The Snowball Effect - Katherine MacLean
Ascent of Wonder : The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck - Hilbert Schenck
Ascent of Wonder : Tangents - Greg Bear
Ascent of Wonder : Johnny Mnemonic - William Gibson
Ascent of Wonder : What Continues What Fails... - David Brin
Ascent of Wonder : Mammy Morgan Played the Organ; Her Daddy Beat the Drum - Michael F. Flynn
Ascent of Wonder : Bookworm Run! - Vernor Vinge
Clonepacks come in tens.
4 out of 5
A sad story of a use for 'slow glass' technology that traps light for an extended period of time.
3 out of 5
Chastity death touch defence.
3.5 out of 5
Jesuit crewing for amusement finds supernova technology treasure cache is Star of Bethlehem reference point.
3.5 out of 5
ET space chemistry tale.
4 out of 5
Groundhogs too dumb for lunar couple.
4 out of 5
Microverse maker.
4.5 out of 5
A technology discovery is beyond the adults, but definitely not the children, with unforeseen results.
4.5 out of 5
Busted bathysphere first contact prison escape passenger.
3.5 out of 5
Supercomputer overlord subservience breaking point.
4 out of 5
Asteroid music and metal from micros
4 out of 5
Drifters and grifters dragooned due to space station rain problem.
3.5 out of 5
Giant squid shagging.
4.5 out of 5
Spectrum shrinking supremely serious.
4 out of 5
Sea storm spinning around survival.
3.5 out of 5
Astronomical observations.
3 out of 5
Monkey brain business.
3 out of 5
Spook space tricks and tech of time communication.
4 out of 5
Mathematical understanding.
3.5 out of 5
Meterological political power struggles.
4 out of 5
Marsnaut's useful ending.
3.5 out of 5
Mutant girl, plant music, big spider.
3 out of 5
Whore governess troubleshooter happiness hire finds out space can be interesting.
4.5 out of 5
Unified field theory discovery lost in hormone wash, perhaps.
4 out of 5
Outer space undersea visit has terrorist plan. Extemporaneous Jupiter project plan convinces laser wielder to desist.
4 out of 5
Teleportin' time-shiftin' meteor shootin' dragon recruitin'.
4.5 out of 5
Lower down stranding.
3.5 out of 5
Kid is a waste of oxygen.
5 out of 5
Give tanks a try.
3.5 out of 5
Quantum black hole is ridiculous overkill.
3.5 out of 5
Gravity busted = very bad.
4 out of 5
Creationists are boring nerds.
3.5 out of 5
Pet. Very large.
3 out of 5
Step back before forward.
4 out of 5
Copying what a dragonfly does is rather complex.
3.5 out of 5
Lower order communication.
3.5 out of 5
Irradiated recollections.
4 out of 5
Interspecies communication has much wider importance.
5 out of 5
Physical ambiguity.
4 out of 5
People alteration protection.
3 out of 5
Bigger mutants the solution.
4 out of 5
Supralight supernova situation.
4.5 out of 5
Altered man mission adds a mutt.
4.5 out of 5
Supernova human alien telepathic communication ending prolonged.
4 out of 5
Alien scientific interference.
5 out of 5
Stored love.
3.5 out of 5
Cape Kennedy beached red.
4 out of 5
People experiments maybe more fun.
3.5 out of 5
Future seems like the same old, if you are there.
3 out of 5
Mini water men fancy space travel.
3.5 out of 5
Soviet science couple's brain needle journey.
4 out of 5
Orbital-Earthworm relationships and differences with brainwashing meltdown muscular mayhem.
4 out of 5
Postal progress still has the odd issue.
4 out of 5
Recursive rejection.
4 out of 5
Prose patterns.
3 out of 5
Jury rigged for continuing speed perhaps pointless.
4 out of 5
World project.
3.5 out of 5
Immortal humans breed too fast for the universe.
4 out of 5
Zeno even immune to amphibian Atom.
3.5 out of 5
Colors and war.
3 out of 5
Sociology maybe can do something.
3 out of 5
Chrononauts sea save.
3.5 out of 5
Tesseract visions.
3.5 out of 5
Memory boy, samurai girl, cyborg dolphin hook up.
4 out of 5
Black hole and baby making.
4 out of 5
Ghost physics.
4 out of 5
Chimp gets computer brain, leaves because he prefers sf and Tarzan to history.
4 out of 5
The Definitive Hard Science Fiction Collection.......2007-02-20
If you're a fan of hard science fiction, you need to own "The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF." Period. Even if you have, as I do, a large collection of hardcover and paperback science fiction books that collectively contain many of the stories reprinted in this volume, you still need it.
As you might expect, many of the stories are from the "Golden Age" of the 1940's and `50's: you'll find classics such as Hal Clement's "Proof" (1942), James Blish's "Surface Tension" (1952) and Tom Godwin's haunting "The Cold Equations" (1954). Representing later years are such riveting tales as Theodore L. Thomas' "The Weather Man" (1962), Bob Shaw's "Light of Other Days" (1966) and Donald Kingsbury's "To Bring In the Steel" (1978). The 67 stories in "The Ascent of Wonder" make up a fantastic smorgasbord of the best hard science fiction of all time. But wait, there's more...there are three essays, totaling about 30 pages, on hard science fiction, written by editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer and noted author Gregory Benford. Each story also contains a relatively short (half a page or so) but exceptionally insightful introduction. These alone make "The Ascent of Wonder" worth having.
With 990 pages of small, dense type, this volume is big and heavy. But even if you have to put an extra brace on your bookshelf to hold the weight, you should buy it. Quite simply, there is no better compilation of the imaginative, speculative, science-based stories that form the genre's "visionary core."
Semi-Hard Sort-of New Wave Science Fiction.......2007-02-20
This is a massive and ambitious work. High quality and a lot for the money. I felt somewhat deceived by the title though. Many of the stories seem to define Hard Science Fiction by illustrating an exception to the rules. The editors seem to have gone out of their way to include nontypical examples and surprise us with authors that we didn't expect. H.G.Wells? OK. Rudyard Kipling? I don't think so. J.G.Ballard. Not really. At least, not MY definition. See my list: The Scientist/Engineer/Inventor Hero in Science Fiction
This book ROCKS........2005-08-17
Excellent!!!! WELL worth the money. I've been slowly chipping away at it for over a year now. You really get alot of book for the money here, and most of the stories are very interesting. The editor's notes/prefaces are also very good and informative, I've learned alot about the genre. Don't even try to get it from the library, you have to buy it to savor it in stages. Good luck, it's a mind-blower!
Excellent Hard Science Fiction Anthology.......2005-01-07
Perhaps the best of its kind, "The Ascent of Wonder" is quite large, but full of thoughtful and thought-provoking stories, all based in scientific fact (or widely accepted supposition). Clearly these stories are all fiction, playing out ideas that science has created and extending them into the realm of the "what-if?" I was immensely impressed by the range of authors, dates of pubication -- ranging from 1800's pioneers Verne, Wells, and Kipling through to modern-day masters such as Clarke, Dick, Gibson, and Benford -- and variety of stories. Truly a fine example of the growth of Science Fiction through history. A must-read for those interested in the exploration of science and the future.
Book Description
The interfaith movement, which began with the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, has grown worldwide. Although this movement has been largely unknown to the public, it now provides a spiritual face for globalization, the economic and political forces leading us all from nationalism to "One World". The most ambitious organization in today's interfaith movement is the United Religions Initiative (URI), founded by William Swing, the Episcopal Bishop of California. Investigative reporter Lee Penn, a Catholic ex-Marxist, exhaustively documents the history and beliefs of the URI and its New Age and globalist allies, the vested interests that support these movements, and the direction they appear to be taking. The interfaith movement is no longer merely the province of a coterie of little-heeded religious idealists with grandiose visions. The URI's proponents have ranged from billionaire George Soros to President George W. Bush, from the far-right Rev. Sun Myung Moon to the liberal Catholic theologian Hans Küng, and from the Dalai Lama to the leaders of government-approved Protestant churches in the People's Republic of China. The interfaith movement, including the URI, is being promoted by globalist and New Age reformers who favor erosion of national sovereignty, marginalization of traditional religions, establishment of "global governance", and creation of a new, Earth-based "global spirituality" -- in effect, a one-world religion. Therefore, the URI and the interfaith movement are poised to become the spiritual foundation of the New World Order: the "new civilization" now proposed by Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union. In The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, French metaphysician René Guénon spoke of the "anti-tradition" (the forces of materialism and secular humanism) finally giving way to the "counter-tradition" (the satanic inversion of true spirituality), leading to the regime of Antichrist. The "anti-tradition" weakens and dissolves traditional spiritualities, after which the "counter-tradition" sets up a counterfeit in their place. Since Guénon's time, as is well known, anti-traditional forces have greatly advanced worldwide. It is less well-known that counter-traditional movements have also made great strides, and now stand closer to the centers of global political and religious power than ever before. The "counter-tradition" is making inroads on the political and cultural Right, as much as it is doing on the Left. False Dawn painstakingly documents these trends, and speculates on their future development. In so doing, the author takes investigative reporting to the threshold of prophecy, and gives us a stunningly plausible picture of the global religious landscape of the 21st century.
Customer Reviews:
False Dawn -- An indispensable addition to your study library.......2006-04-04
Lee Penn has followed a significant networking "religious" member of the New Age community. He has painstakingly with great and verifiable detail followed up on what I like to call "the hidden dangers" of the New Age religious rainbow. That alleged rainbow is a 'dawn" of false and soon to be dashed utopian politico/spiritual "spiritual/messianic" hopes. United Religions is not the only religious front in the syncretistic battle to marginalize and ultimately eliminate followers of orthodox religious tenets. However, as Lee Penn so ably shows, it is politically powerful, very well funded and well-focused on its disturbing agenda. In addition to being highly readable, FALSE DAWN is indispensable as a reference. If you have limited library dollars to spend to ascertain the New Age religious landscape, this book will give the most bang for the buck. I heartily both Lee Penn for his painstaking research and his book as its fruit. It belongs on the shelf of every library and definitely of every truthseeker in this disturbing religious arena.
A Must Read.......2005-07-31
Thought provoking and deeply researched, False Dawn is a chilling look at our future if the Gadarine rush toward globalism is not averted. Opening with a lengthy explanation of the United Religions Initiative, Lee Penn then discusses and documents the horrifying implications of the New Age movement and the totalitarian intentions of its political allies and adherents. The Forward states, "Everyone, whether you consider yourself liberal or conservative, secular or devout, should heed its warning." This reader wholeheartedly agrees.
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