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Unknown Voice: I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly.Another man's distorted voice from a blue-white pillar of light on a balcony quoted a passage in Ecclesiastes. A man in white robes stood closely surrounded by six women who sought his attention and flocked beside him wherever he went. After it loaded the genetic memory sequence, he was transported to an open courtyard garden full of faceless courtesans under a flashing red sky. It would be a gross error to say, though, that Shakespeare wholeheartedly endorses complete male rule. When we look at The Taming of the Shrew in this light, we see the main action of the play takes its cue from a long tradition of works dealing with shrews and shrew tamers. Although today The Taming of the Shrew might seem chauvinistic to us because it celebrates the merits of male power and dominance, we must consider it within its historical context in order to distill the most meaning from the play. In addition to being linked to a specific source or two, though, Shrew is linked, as well, to literature, ballads, and courtesy books that council how to deal with a shrewish woman. The Taming of the Shrew, popularly regarded as rather sophisticated for such an early Shakespearean comedy, joins the rest of the works in the Shakespeare canon in its ability to extend its roots back to early sources. He doesn't allow you to look away."- Robin Hobb, " The Blinding Knife is a wonderful work of high fantasy with engaging characters facing the perfect antagonists, set in a creatively-wrought and increasingly chaotic world brimful of imaginative magic and interesting politics. "Brent Weeks has a style and immediacy of detail that pulls the reader relentlessly into his story. Find out how it all started in this brilliant Night Angel novella Night Angel The Way of Shadows Shadow's Edge Beyond the Shadows Night Angel: The Complete Trilogy (omnibus) Perfect Shadow: A Night Angel Novella The Way of Shadows: The Graphic Novel Lightbringer The Black Prism The Blinding Knife The Broken Eye The Blood Mirror But when Gaelan must take a job hunting down the world's finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena, what he finds may destroy everything he's ever believed in. Over the centuries, he's worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity, and all too often he's become a hero, his very names passing into legend: Acaelus Thorne, Yric the Black, Hrothan Steelbender, Tal Drakkan, Rebus Nimble. He's also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father a careful, quiet, simple man. Also includes the short story, I, Nightangel. For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint. Seamlessly blending a retelling of his on-field career with anecdotes on the love, leisure and losses of his personal life, “Believe It” should satisfy the true NFL fan’s thirst for behind-the-scenes notes on Foles’ move from team to team, all while serving as a reminder of the real, human struggle beneath the game. Best of all, though, it is powered by Foles’ true, wholesome story, all but convincing you he was destined for Super Bowl stardom just so he could tell it. Candid in its tone and enrapturing in its delivery, it is ferociously readable, particularly for Eagles fans. If there’s one sports book you’re going to read in 2018, make it “Believe It,” which arrives just under five months after its author, Nick Foles, captained the first Super Bowl win in Philadelphia Eagles history. 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While the ostensible purpose of these fictional interviews is to determine the impact of “objects” collected from a new planet on the titular employees who work in their presence, benign observation soon gives way to poignant consideration of what humans are capable of feeling for those who are made and not born, what it means to be alive, and what it means to be human, a separation this tale is keen to probe. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken, is a meditation on living, conveyed fragmentally, through a series of numbered statements given by workers-some of whom are human while others are humanoid artificial intelligence-on a space vessel called the Six Thousand Ship. |