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Christianity just about dies out, Judaism is a minority cult, and, after many barbarous and pointless struggles between petty warlords, the New World is discovered by the Chinese Navy, and the Renaissance is played out as a conflict between a Middle Eastern Islam and Chinese Buddhism. Her charming though ponderous study in comparative religions opens with wandering Mongol scout Bold Bardash stumbling through an abandoned Athens, where the Black Death has wiped out everyone. Hugo winner Robinson ( Antarctica, 1998, etc.) follows three characters over seven centuries on an alternate Earth in which Islam and Buddhism are the dominant religions. It is very efficient, and it can also be very profitable because as the construction profession calls it, you can “blow and go”. It was, and is, the placement of people on the landscape at an industrial-scale. Mass development in the United States started around that time, and many people my age remember it. In the beginning, prior to any environmental regulation of any kind, it was the installation of the “planned” community–massive, controlling, with complete disregard for the environment. The most famous example or “archetype” in the United States is Levittown, New York, built in the 1950’s. Virginia: Many people remember mass development, or mass local extinction, with the onset of the subdivision. It’s an awful story, but it looks like it motivated you to do something positive with your life! Mary: I read about an incident when you were age eight, which turned you into an environmentalist. It is an ecological journey, but also woven through it is Ellowyn’s deep emotional experience of being a human being in the modern world–and struggling with the reality that when a human being falls in love with its own planet, its society may not understand and may even ostracize those that care about the planet a very strange paradox when you think about it: a dead planet means a dead human race. Mary of Eco-fiction interviews Virginia Arthur, teacher, field biologist, and author of the novel Birdbrain. According to Marya, she would not breast-feed “because it made her feel as if she were being devoured.”Įmotional abandonment seems to have been the keynote of Marya’s existence from earliest childhood, when, she recalls, her mother would look at her with what “I would later come to think of as the bug-zapper face, as if by looking at me, she could zap me into disappearance.” Mother and child spent their quality time together at a gym with others not so different from them: Her mother, who also worked in the theater, was another matter. Her father, a theater director, seems to have had moderately affectionate feelings for his daughter but to have been at a loss as to how to act on them. An only child, Marya was born in California to middle-class, baby-boomer parents whose attention was mostly elsewhere. From her account here, it is easy enough to appreciate why. Written in jaunty, direct prose, it tells a story that is heartbreaking.įor most of her life, Marya Hornbacher has suffered from various eating disorders that have caused her weight to fluctuate between a normal 135 and a decidedly abnormal 52 pounds. Paul Magazine that led to an award and eventually to this book. She does not have a college degree, and “technically” she never graduated from high school, but in 1993 she wrote an essay about herself for the Minneapolis-St. It’s fairly well-known that a few years ago, Slootman put up a post on LinkedIn with the title “Amp It Up.” It generated so much buzz and requests for Frank’s time that he decided the best way to efficiently scale and share his thoughts on how to create high performing organizations was to publish a book. My first question to Slootman was: Why did you write this book and how the heck did you find time to do it? How does a busy and active CEO find time to write a business book? You’ll hear directly from Slootman himself with excerpts from my one on one conversation with him. Even if you have read it, in this Breaking Analysis we’ll dig deeper into the book and share some clarifying insights and unpublished nuances of Frank’s philosophy. I’ve read it several times and if you haven’t picked it up, you should. It’s called “Amp it Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency and Elevating Intensity.”Īt Snowflake Summit last month, I was invited to interview Frank on stage about his book. This is the fundamental premise of a hard hitting new book written by Frank Slootman, chief executive of Snowflake Inc., and published earlier this year. What you need is to immediately ratchet up expectations, energy, urgency and intensity. You don’t need a slew of consultants to tell you what to do. Organizations have considerable room to improve their performance without making expensive changes to their talent, structure or fundamental business model. While "Eon" really is dated in terms of the Cold War geopolitics and the social organization of the various teams involved, it is perhaps more dated in the advances that have occurred within published SF since 1985. "Eon" suffers clearly from these weaknesses: it's difficult to feel for characters that are wireframes with specific job skills, and more words are used to describe devices that don't exist than to the actual motions people are taking within the scenery. But, much like Clarke before him, he paints watercolor characters and anchors to sociopolitical systems of quickly-dated structures and, like Niven, he buries the Sense of Wonder he tries to foster with imaginary-but-overexplained technologies and numbing technobabble. So, Bear is gifted at conceiving brilliant, large-scale ideas and wrapping them with conceptual breakthroughs this is fact. The set-up prepares the reader for a great trip. There is a great BDO here, and a fairly rich puzzle-box involving the builders and their potential nature and needs. The time was ripe for a revisit this summer. I was in my mid-twenties and it seemed smart hard-SF as a genre was coming of age. I love Big Dumb Object stories, and it's hard to resist gateway-to-multiverse passageways it's no surprise I devoured this book when it first came out. In Transylvania, Emilia discovers her ability to perform a rare magic, and learns that she may be related to the prophetess Grizelda. Armed with their skills and wit, the couple embarks on a dangerous and mysterious journey beyond England.Įmilia and V journey to Transylvania, Venice, Austria and then to Prague, facing dangers and secrets along the way. Odin charges them to find the Moribund Sword and stop Loki, who has been manipulating the prince. During the event, an old Viking man named Odin teleports them to Norway where an ancient force of evil, Loki, has unleashed his anger on V’s kingdom. Our story begins with Emilia and V’s wedding. In this vampiric prequel of the Ripper, we follow Emilia and the vampire prince V, as they travel across Europe to retrieve a powerful artifact-the Moribund Sword-in order to defeat an ancient evil. Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco is the thrilling conclusion to her Stalking Jack the Ripper series. So I think what I’ll do is just call you a storyteller.”īrown said the “insecure” part of her was hesitant to adopt the title because she was a serious academic researcher. She said, “I’m really struggling with how to write about you on the little flier.” And I thought, “Well, what’s the struggle?” And she said, “Well, I saw you speak, and I’m going to call you a researcher but I’m afraid if I call you a researcher, no one will come because they’ll think you’re boring and irrelevant.” And I was like, “Okay.” And she said, “But the thing I liked about your talk is you’re a storyteller. She began her presentation with a short anecdote: A couple of years ago, an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event. It’s a pretty big subject area to squeeze into 18 minutes, yet Brown did it so well that her presentation has been viewed 15 million times and has turned Brown into a New York Times bestselling author. As a professor at the University of Houston, Brown studies vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. Brené Brown delivered a presentation on “The power of vulnerability” at TEDx Houston. There, Leah met her best friend, Natalie Blake, at the age of 4, when both girls were residents of Caldwell, a council estate - the British equivalent of a housing project. The novel takes its title from London's northwest postal sector, specifically the neighborhood of Willesden, where Smith herself grew up. Leah can't write the motto down, however all she's got is a pencil and a "pencil leaves no mark on magazine pages." Fitting, since the rest of "NW" is devoted to showing how few of us get to write our lives at will, and how even those who seem to have managed it find the results unsatisfying. It looks like Smith made the line up, but it's already pinging around the Internet, one of those inspirational maxims that so many people like to post to their Tumblrs and blogs. The sentence is "I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me," and for all I know it's taken from a recent popular song - "NW" is judiciously sprinkled with glancing references to such things - so I googled it. In the opening paragraph of "NW," Zadie Smith's first novel in seven years, Leah Hanwell, one of the book's central characters, hears a line on the radio and tries to write it down on the back of the magazine she's holding. Over the 9 books in the series, both have gone through a roller coaster of experiences and emotions, falling deeper in love each time. While skipping backwards & forwards in time can sometimes be confusing, this is written clearly and done incredibly well.īen & Nikolas/Aleksay are the definition of couples goals. While we’ve wondered at times whether the depth of love was reciprocated, we see that they’ve been in sync most of the time over the years. That closes the loop on both perspectives about their relationship, which is great to read. And while the initial books & the development of the relationship was written from the POV of Ben, this book is written from Nikolas/Aleksay’s POV. This is structured & written beautifully, going backwards and forwards in time from present day, to when the boys first met, and significant events involving them both over the years. And it’s pretty dramatic so I had tears in the first few pages. This has been used well in previous books, by giving you brief insight into an event then going back in time to slowly tease you until the resolution. The prologue kicks you in the guts from the outset. 5 (hundred) glorious stars for a perfect ending to a series I have loved SO MUCH, and a couple who will stick with me forever. |