Before She Kills (The Fredric Brown Pulp Detective Series, Vol 2)
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    Before She Kills (The Fredric Brown Pulp Detective Series, Vol 2)
    Fredric Brown
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    Before She Kills: Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps Volume 2
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      Fredric Brown
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      Changing Planes
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • Fun if not quite brilliant collection of witty stories about alternate societies
      • More enjoyable if you don't read between the lines
      • Quirky and beautiful
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      • Ursula strikes gold for me...
      Changing Planes
      Ursula K. LeGuin
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      The National Book Award-winning author takes flight with this bestselling collection of speculative fiction where a woman visits fifteen otherworldly-- yet familiar--societies.

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Fun if not quite brilliant collection of witty stories about alternate societies.......2006-08-06

      Ursula Le Guin's new book is Changing Planes, a collection of anthropologically oriented stories about the inhabitants of various different "planes" reached by people sufficiently bored by waiting in airports for delayed flights.

      On the whole, it's pretty fun stuff, if rarely brilliant. The best of the stories are mostly those already published, such as "The Seasons of the Ansarac", "Social Dreaming of the Frin", and "The Royals of Hegn". In the best of these Le Guin's imagination regarding alternate social structures, and her wit, are both on display. Some of the new stories are similarly fine. Others are simply routine, or take an okay idea and run too long with it, or in one case, simply reek of contempt for people who don't have Le Guin's taste -- i.e., people who might be so crass as to live in the Midwest or the South, or to have religious beliefs that differ from hers.

      Taken as a whole, it's a pretty good book, though as you will gather I wasn't completely pleased. But the stories I've mentioned, and new stories like "Confusions of Uñi", about a constantly-changing world, and "Porridge on Islac", about a plane in which genetic engineering went a bit wild, are very nice stuff.

      2 out of 5 stars More enjoyable if you don't read between the lines.......2006-05-06

      Changing Planes is a compilation of loosely connected short stories describing a variety of worlds or "planes." Islac, the first plane visited, is a place where genetic engineering has gone haywire and every type of gene splice has occurred (plant-human, human-fish, human-animal, etc). This world is fun, colorful, and bittersweet in a way that gave me great hope for the rest of the collection.

      While most of the worlds are interesting, it becomes increasingly clear as you progress through them that each story is a satirical projection against something Le Guin finds distasteful about the modern world. The most obvious satire is found in the plane of Great Joy where a corporation has subjugated a whole people to create a type of Disneyland for shallow American tourists. Goodness is finally achieved when the Great Joy Corporation has been destroyed and the workers socialize the means of production. High five for socialism!

      In "Seasons of the Ansarac," a humorless, overbearing industrial civilization tried to impose its culture on a peaceful, celebratory, pre-industrial culture. What a relief that they failed! In each of the planes, the simplistic pre-industrial cultures are in tune with the world around them and their environment. How sweet. The cultures that have gone through industrialization are found in their post-apocalyptic state. I guess that doesn't bode well for our world.

      Le Guin's approach often comes across as a lecture because most of the stories are written less like a travelogue and more like an anthropological treatise. Only rarely are individual characters fleshed out -- and in these stories the writing sparkles. As I turned the last page, I wished Le Guin had focused her substantial imagination on inventing compelling new worlds instead of preaching.

      PS: If you listened to the audio book, you missed out on Eric Beddows' illustrations for each world. Check out the Ursula Le Guin web site where they have been reproduced.

      5 out of 5 stars Quirky and beautiful.......2006-02-25

      Oh, why didn't I think of it first? The idea of changing physical planes when waiting in an airport is wonderful! I loved the book, some stories better than others. I've read every one of her adult books I can get my hands on (I own 90%) of them. It is amazing how Le Guin manages to be new every time. What a mind the woman has!

      After reading Le Guin, the next book I read has to be a masterpiece not to suffer by comparison. It isn't that Le Guin writes good books. Every sentence she writes is beautiful. And then that they fit together and tell a story is just icing on the cake.

      4 out of 5 stars Fun Read!.......2006-01-19

      This book makes me think of Douglas Adams and Jonathan Swift. It has the appeal and fun of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" through the protagonist's (Sita) travels to varied societies (worlds) which are similar to the many places in "Gulliver's Travels".

      The book is written as a pun about the miseries of air travel. The first page will strike a definite chord for anyone who has flown very much. Le Guin calls the worlds she visits "planes" (another little joke here I believe) where the protagonist(Sita Dulip) meets a variety of people. In all Sita goes to 15 different worlds where she meets societies to include a world where applied genetics had gone wrong; a society where the older the people got the less they spoke; another society talks but their words have meanings that change all the time; another world is one of migratory people who like many animals of our own planet trek long distances to mate.

      This book is funny, ironic, intelligent, thought-provoking and the ultimate in escapism reading. Even if you've never read Le Guin before, you will be delighted with this book. The only complaint I have with the book is that the drawings in the book are distracting. The artist does a fine job, but I prefer to have my own mental pictures from a book; otherwise, it's a lot of fun to read!

      5 out of 5 stars Ursula strikes gold for me..........2004-11-20

      I have had a life long love affair with Ursula K LeGuin's writing, though I have not read all of her works, and what I have read of this slim volume so far is absolutely delicious. The chronicles that flow out of the premise are poignant and engaging. I'm already anticipating many more exciting journeys to come. If you haven't read Le Guin before try exploring her Earthsea Series. My mother read it to me as a child and I couldn't thank her enough.
      Changing Planes: Stories
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • Delightful, but not perfect
      • Too Good to be Read in an Airport
      • Gulliver's New Travels
      • Good But Not Outstanding
      • Good for waiting
      Changing Planes: Stories
      Ursula K. Le Guin
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      At first, readers may find Ursula K. Le Guin's collection Changing Planes rather light, if not slight. However, as the reader continues through its sixteen stories (ten of which are original to this volume), the collection achieves considerable weight and power.

      A punny conceit links the stories and provides the title of Changing Planes. Conceived before September 11, 2001, this conceit now, unfairly, looks odd. Trapped too many times in the misery of pre-terrorist airports, Sita Dulip discovered how to change planes: not airplanes, but planes of existence. Now the people of Sita's earth travel between alternate universes.

      The stories in Changing Planes are strong expressions of Le Guin's considerable anthropological and psychological insight. However, these tales don't follow traditional plot structures or character-development methods. They read more like travelogues, or socio-anthropological articles on foreign nations or tribes. They explore exotic literary planes lying somewhere between Jorge Luis Borges's ficciones and Horace Miner's anthropological satire Body Ritual Among the Nacirema. However, unlike Miner's parody, Le Guin's wise tales are rarely satirical, though "The Royals of Hegn" sharply skewers the absurdity of royalty-worship, and "Great Joy" rightly attacks the boundless corporate criminality familiar to anyone who's read a newspaper since 2001.

      One of America's greatest authors, Ursula K. Le Guin has received the National Book Award, the Newberry Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, five Nebula Awards, and five Hugo Awards. --Cynthia Ward

      Book Description

      "Then came a child trotting to school with his little backpack. He trotted on all fours, neatly, his hands in leather mitts or boots that protected them from the pavement; he was pale, with small eyes, and a snout, but he was adorable."
      --from Changing Planes

      The misery of waiting for a connecting flight at an airport leads to the accidental discovery of alighting on other planes--not airplanes but planes of existence. Ursula Le Guin's deadpan premise frames a series of travel accounts by the tourist-narrator who describes bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own, and sometimes open puzzling doors into the alien.


      Winner of the PEN/Malamud for Short Stories

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Delightful, but not perfect.......2006-07-16

      This is a delightful little book that takes you on a journey to other planes of existence, other universes, other worlds that are similar to ours.

      The best chapter/story in the book is the first one - "Sita Dulip's Method", in which we are told that Sita discovers the "trick" to changing planes - while waiting in an airport for a plane. The description of an airport is great - and absolutely true - especially the line: "In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell."

      There are not really any characters, save Sita Dulip, who we don't learn much about, and the narrator, whose name we never learn. We also never learn much about the narrator - except for his? her? curiosity - until the last chapter, when we learn that he? she? is quite the coward.

      The chapters/stories are mostly narration & description of the various planes. Some of the stories are veiled commentary on our society, and some are just fun descriptions of a different place.

      What makes this collection so special is the author's beautiful writing, and the trips you take to these other worlds.

      4 out of 5 stars Too Good to be Read in an Airport.......2003-11-02

      This book starts off with a light-hearted introduction, but quickly plunges the reader into a maze of possibilities. It is a book to be read slowly, thinking about each plane as it is presented. The best part of the book is it's concluding story, which is something like a metaphor for Le Guin's life to this point, a blur of possibilities, imaginings, and outcomes. This book is highly recommended for Le Guin fans or as an introduction to her work.

      5 out of 5 stars Gulliver's New Travels.......2003-09-25

      Waiting in airports can be interminable tedium, OR, a passage to other planes of existence, fascinating new worlds. In fact there is a whole world of such worlds, linked by a loose-knit Interplanary Agency, with Interplanary Hotels for travelers, and Rornan's Handy Planary Guide for guidance. Such is the premise for this collection of fantastic allegorical stories.

      Strange stories they are, too, stories of people just a little different from ourselves, people whose foibles and fallacies are just a little different from our own. Stories of people wracked by pointless ethnic conflicts that go on for centuries; people who have ruined their worlds and destroyed their ecologies; worlds in which ancient cultures and traditions are fading away. There is a quality of wistful longing in these stories, longing for a simpler, saner world that has been lost or ruined. LeGuin's beautiful writing is complemented by the inventive, Escher-like drawings of Eric Beddows.

      Author Ursula K. LeGuin is a master story-teller. These stories are easy to read, compelling, humorous, engaging, and hard to forget. They will get you to thinking and they will haunt you. I recommend this book highly. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber

      3 out of 5 stars Good But Not Outstanding.......2003-09-13

      This is a collection of sketches based on the clever conceit that bored airplane travelers can move from tedious airports to parallel worlds (planes). Each of the stories is a sketch of some key feature of the plane being visited. Several of the stories have a bit of an allegorical flavor, some are mildly satirical, and others feature interesting psychological issues. LeGuin is an extremely talented writer and several of these stories are very enjoyable and all are worth reading. None of these stories, however, comes close to LeGuin's best work. For readers familiar with LeGuin, this is something of a disappointment. Readers new to LeGuin who find this book enjoyable should pursue the LeGuin's older collections of stories, particularly those written 20 to 30 years, such as Orsinian Tales or the Compass Rose.

      3 out of 5 stars Good for waiting.......2003-09-09

      Ursula K. Le Guin's Changing Planes was somewhat of a homecoming for me, as I've read little speculative fiction lately. I have always enjoyed her style, and this book was no exception.

      On the darker side, the introduction bills this as a good airport book (changing planes -- get it?), and its construction as a travelogue, combined with the relatively light-weight stories, bear that out.

      Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Marvellous! Sexy AND well-written!
      Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction

      Manufacturer: Eos / Harper Collins
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      ASIN: 0739430459

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      5 out of 5 stars Marvellous! Sexy AND well-written!.......2007-04-28

      Most erotica is rather sloppily written, on the theory that the people who are interested in it are not, in fact, interested in literary value, but in sexual arousal; the authors and editors of this book understand, delightfully, that there are those of us out here who enjoy an arousing story who are sufficiently literate as to be completely distracted from our arousal by poor writing, and they have written a wonderful anthology of extremely arousing stories with plot, characterization, and coherent language. If that's what you want, this is the book for you!
      Sirens & Other Daemon Lovers
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
      • What WAS this??
      • It was alright.....
      • OKAY, KIND OF WIERD
      • A great collection of erotic stories
      • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE EVER READ
      Sirens & Other Daemon Lovers
      Ellen Datlow , and ed., Terri Windling
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      Obsessions, lust, passion, and ecstacy are the subjects of this excellent anthology edited by the talented, award-winning, and prolific team of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. With uninhibited stories from heavy-hitters such as Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Pat Murphy, Jane Yolen, and Michael Swanwick, Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers won't fail to capture your attention and hold it. These authors and many more take readers on a journey to the boundaries of love and sex, jumping freely into the abyss of magical fascination and strange desire. Highlights include Oates's Oedipal story of a teenage sex object, Kelley Eskridge's tale of a wanderer who only finds release and love in the heart of violence, and Tanith Lee's look inside Little Red Riding Hood's secret fantasies.

      Book Description

      Prepare to be seduced by powerful magic -- the sorcery of lust, need, and sensuality. Multiple award-winners Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together twenty-two tales of unearthly temptations wickedly concocted by some of today's most potent literary conjurers -- including Neil Gaiman, Jan Yolen, Michael Swanwick, and Joyce Carol Oates. Here are stories of incubi and succubi, of forbidden fruits harvested in erotic gardens, of pleasures that persist beyond death. So heed the sirens' song. Lie back, relax, and submit to the darkest delights you have ever experienced.

      Customer Reviews:

      1 out of 5 stars What WAS this??.......2005-04-06

      Magical tales of love and seduction, the cover promises. Stories of sirens and other daemon lovers. On the back cover, we're told `Prepare to be seduced by powerful magic... twenty-two tales of unearthly temptations wickedly concocted by some of today's most potent literary conjurers... Lie back, relax and submit to the darkest delights you have ever experienced.'

      Can I sue for misrepresentation??

      To say that this book failed to live up to expectations is putting it mildly. I should have known when the editors' introduction put me to sleep after only a page. Then I began reading the novellas... and couldn't believe what I was reading. The first was just weird, and with a writing style which completely failed to capture my attention. The second had a potentially interesting story, but written in such awful purple prose that I wanted to scream at the author to learn to write. And then there was Joyce Carol Oates' effort... WHAT the heck was that supposed to be? It had no beginning and no ending. It just started and finished. As for the content, I was left shaking my head, and even after I read the final half-page again was still baffled as to what it was supposed to be. In the authors' notes at the end of the book, I discovered that this was actually part of a novel. Huh? What was the point of that? I thought this was supposed to be a collection of novellas, not extracts!

      Unfortunately, Oates' contribution was not the worst, or the most boring. Several others nearly sent me to sleep; others still left me rolling my eyes or wondering where the ending was when I read the final line. Why do these writers not seem to have a clue how to finish a novella? Is the reader supposed to invent an ending? And then there were the stories which just made me go `Huh? What the hell was that all about?' - Persephone and The Light That Passes Through You being examples. O For a Fiery Gloom and Thee and Taking Loup had me skimming after a few tedious paragraphs.

      A small handful of stories were somewhat enjoyable - The Eye of the Storm, though it took too long to get going and ended too soon; A Wife of Acorn Leaf and Stone had potential, but again was under-developed. The Scent of Bitter Bark and Clove and The House of Nine Doors both needed to be full-length novels; both were promising, but ended far too soon and with inadequate character development.

      Don't waste your money. This book should be advertised as offering Tedious Unfinished Meanderings of Weirdness and Drug-Induced Insanity.


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      3 out of 5 stars It was alright............2003-02-11

      This is not a terrible anthology, but it wasn't great. Many of the 22 stories were forgetable, but a few were good, such as Bird Count by Jane Yolen, Persephone by Wendy Froud (I wish this had been longer), and The House of Nine Doors by Ellen Kushner. Most of the other stories were mildly erotic at best. Still, they were all pretty creative. If you're into sci-fi and fantasy stories, you'll probably enjoy it. If you only want good erotica, you might want to pass this by.

      2 out of 5 stars OKAY, KIND OF WIERD.......2003-02-01

      Not quite what I expected. The stories were a little wierd. There was quite a bit of sex, but towards the end, it seemed tedious. There really wasn't any point in the act. Some of the stories were good. I enjoyed the one about the Acorn, Leaf woman. Mainly because of the Sidhe being in "our time" and known and descriminated against. I also like the Vampire one (there was only one Vampire story), but it ended abruptly. There was one about a "bird man" it was very short but cute. As for the book being "erotic", it didn't give me a rise. The stories were either humiliating and mean (the one about incest), or you just couldn't feel for any of the characters in any of the stories. If your a romance reader, or a lover of paranormal stories, save your money. There just doesn't seem to be any substance in any of these stories to warrant a good read. If you like off-the-wall stuff, then maybe this is for you.

      5 out of 5 stars A great collection of erotic stories.......2000-01-08

      Definitely a worthwhile book to read if you enjoy both SF/fantasy and erotica. I thought the stories were well written and posed some interesting scenarios. I think the editors did an excellent job putting together this collection of sexy stories. My favorite story was "The Eye of the Storm" by Kelley Eskridge and I look forward to reading more of her work in the future. In many ways I felt that this was the most original story in the book and I find myself going back to reread it often.

      5 out of 5 stars ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE EVER READ.......1999-03-06

      I stumbled across this book by chance, and I'm SO glady I did. It's extraordinary, sensual, and a completely wonderful read from start to finish. There's not a bad story in the book, and all of them are of the highest literary quality -- so much so that it's a shame this was published as "fantasy" and may not reach a wider mainstream audience. Whether you love fine literary fantasy or fine mainstream literature of an Angela Carter or Joyce Carol Oates calibre (Oates actually has a great new tale in the book), I can't recommend this one highly enough.
      Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
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        Ellen & Windling Terri (edited by) Datlow
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          On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge
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          • On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge (Paperback)
          • A fascinating, seminally important and timely contribution
          On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge
          Daisaku Ikeda , Rene Simard , and Guy Bourgeault
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          This exploration of what it means to be healthy from a physical, mental, and spiritual standpoint discusses Western humanism, Japanese Buddhism, and modern science from three divergent, yet expert, perspectives. Seeking common ground through dialogue, this ambitious work broaches questions about issues that face today's society, such as cancer, AIDS, death with dignity, in vitro fertilization, biomedical ethics, and more. The discussions cut through linguistic and cultural barriers to present a vision of the potential-and the inherent challenges-of being human. Avoiding scientific jargon, the book begins with a medical discussion of cancer and AIDS, as well as the problem of social discrimination against those infected. Questions about the fundamental nature of a harmonious existence are considered, as are specific issues such as the nature of brain death and ethical problems relating to fertility and childbirth. The origins of life, evolution, and the birth of humanity are also discussed.

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          5 out of 5 stars On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge (Paperback).......2006-03-19

          This is a wonderful, thought provoking essay. It gives you a look at what is the responsiblity of men and women who choose to affect the lives of humanity as human beings. Each of us is a member of the HUMAN family first. It is so important that people who have the special mission or gift to affect lives of others remember that one of the most important basis for the interaction should be LIFE TO LIFE first before anything else.

          5 out of 5 stars A fascinating, seminally important and timely contribution.......2003-10-07

          Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda (President of the Soka Gakkai International), molecular biologist Rene Simard, and Guy Bourgeault (a professor specializing in bioethics and education) are three of the world's most eminent educators, philosophers, and scientists. The come together in mutual conversations to offer expert but divergent viewpoints (Japanese Buddhism, Western Humanism, and Modern Medical Science) in their diverse explorations of contemporary issues involving human health, disease, death, and modern philosophies on living. From controversial issues such as cancer, AIDS, Death with Dignity, in virtro fertilization, and more, these three articulate and erudite men provide a commentary hallmarked with insight, experience, and expertise as they explore the ethics of a rapidly evolving medicine and biotechnology and their effect on people and people's lives. On Being Human is an inherently fascinating, seminally important and timely contribution to the study of ethics, medicine, and contemporary spirituality.
          Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death: Buddhism, Bioethics, And Death
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            Karma Lekshe Tsomo
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            A fascinating look at Buddhist, especially Tibetan, views of death and their implications for a Buddhist bioethics.
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                Title: Buddhism and Bioethics. (book reviews)
                Author: Leslie Rezac
                Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
                Date: January 1, 1998
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                  Title: Thailand: refining cultural values. (Bioethics on the Pacific Rim)
                  Author: Pinit Ratanakul
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                  Date: March 1, 1990
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