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22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations. In these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps of the past; and - in the case of Robert Macfarlane - along the ridges of the South Downs.

From Savage Realms Press comes a truly disturbing collection of gruesome tales definitely not for the faint of heart! A man’s decision to care for his ailing parents quickly turns into a nightmare Two friends working at a chocolate factory find new and interesting ways to pass the time A man purchases a sex robot promising the ultimate in human realism It’s a match literally made in hell when two of history’s most notorious serial killers end up as roommates in the afterlife A woman returns to her grandparents’ home after a funeral, only to discover a dark and terrible family secret...

Michael Owen's new autobiography will enable him to open up about his football life for the first time and set the record straight once and for all. It promises to make for an explosive listen and one of the most hotly anticipated football books of the year. The legendary striker published his first book, Off the Record, in 2004 but feels he didn't have a voice during his playing days, and now, six years after hanging up his boots, he can finally lift the lid on what really happened during his career.

Developed from a personal interest in American witchcraft, Raffaelle Pezzella has brought together a gifted group of authors whose interests lie in a similar field. Here you will find a wealth of interesting short stories that draw as much on historical documents as they do folklore, classic novels, and short stories or even modern cinema. In his previous volumes of short stories, Raffaele Pezzella, through his measured curation has developed a back catalogue of wonderful stories from a magnificently diverse group of writers. His volume of Lovecraftian tales, The Black Stone: Stories for ...

Few films in the history of cinema have achieved the haunting, meditative power of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972). This masterpiece of science fiction transcends the genre’s typical preoccupation with technology and speculative futures, reaching instead into the depths of human consciousness, memory, and the aching poetry of the unknown. Adapted from Stanisław Lem’s novel of the same name (in turn, one of the greatest masterpieces of speculative science fiction narrative), Solaris eschews the cold rationalism of many sci-fi narratives in favor of a contemplative, almost mystical ...

Stories by: Glynn Owen Barrass, Andrew Coulthard, Richard Alan Scott, Sarah Walker, J. Edwin Buja, David Agranoff, Anthony Trevino, Michael Housel, John Chadwick, David Voyles, Nora Peevy, B.E. Dantalion. Second volume by Eighth Tower Publications, in a series of anthologies revolving around genre writers and artists who set the parameters and frameworks of the kind of tales that we prefer to read (the first volume was dedicated to HP Lovecraft). Here you will find another varied selection of interpretations inspired by the Gates of Hell film trilogy by the Italian legendary director Lucio ...

"The Stalker" is Eighth Tower's tribute to the cinematic masterpiece "Stalker" (1979) by Russian director Andrej Tarkowskij. Tarkowskij 's second science fiction film after Solaris, "Stalker" is based on a novel by the Strugackij brothers, Arkadij and Boris, renowned authors of Soviet science fiction. The novel, titled "Roadside Picnic," was released in 1971. Tarkovskij adapted the basic literary work, written in the form of dispatches and intelligence reports, inspired by the Tunguska event of 1908—a probable impact in a remote Siberian area of a meteorite or possibly a comet. The Zone ...

The future William Gibson imagined in Neuromancer didn’t just reimagine the landscape of science fiction, it redefined how we think about the intersection of humanity and technology, and about the power of narrative to explore the consequences of living in a world dominated by digital networks, cybernetic enhancements, and artificial intelligence. In this anthology, we explore stories inspired by Gibson’s cyberpunk universe—a place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the machine, are constantly shifting, often with unsettling results. They are steeped ...

TerrorVision is a unique blend of horror and science fiction which pays homage to some of the best movies and franchises cinematic and televisual horror history. During the course of my writing career, I have been fortunate to have worked on franchises such as The Terminator, Doctor Who, Dracula, Hellraiser and my own creations. With this in mind I believe that I can say with some authority that each of the stories present in this anthology will take you on a wild ride. The genesis of this book came from the current trend to write narratives inspired by cinema. Expanding upon the universes ...

There is nothing more American than saying f*ck this sh*t and crossing the Atlantic to give your children a better life. Luckily that door swings both ways, because life in North America has taken a turn for the worse over the last generation. Half memoir and half manual, this book tells the story of a single mom’s move from the suburbs of Washington, DC to the southern coast of Spain in plain language and easy to follow steps to help you recreate this journey for your own family.

Fulfilling her mom’s dying wish, Maisy goes to live with her dad on the Citadel, a fancy name for an ore processing plant built into the side of an asteroid. There, she discovers the terrible truth.

Moskau, 1962. Alexander Wassin ist der Top-Agentenjäger des KGB. Als es gilt, einen Maulwurf im Kreml aufzuspüren, kommt nur er dafür infrage. Während die Spannungen zwischen Chruschtschow und Kennedy zunehmen und die Kubakrise auf ihren Höhepunkt zusteuert, ahnt Wassin nicht, dass das Schicksal der Welt bald vom Erfolg seiner Mission abhängt - und von der Geduld des Kapitäns einer sowjetischen U-Boot-Flotte, der weit unter dem Meer auf die Befehle seiner Kommandanten wartet, zu denen er den Kontakt verloren hat.

Do you ever feel like you cannot understand what you are reading? Or, that you feel like reading takes up much of your time even when it's actually not supposed to? Well, maybe, it's high time that you learn how to read faster, or in other words, learn the technique of speed reading. Speed reading denotes collective techniques that are used to help you read faster while still being able to understand what you are reading. Back in the day, education specialists and psychologists used devices called tachiotoscopes to determine how fast people read.

Mitchell Irwin isn’t the sort of a man who believes in second chances. Once upon a time, this respected Shakespearean actor sold his soul to Hollywood in exchange for fame and fortune. Ignoring a warning to be careful what you wish for, he has become a cynical, world-weary celebrity searching for escape from rumors of another scandal. He finds sanctuary in a remote little fishing village populated by artists, poets, and fishermen who don’t know who he is.

“Does the past change the future or does the future change the past?” Romance. Suspense. Mystery. Set in the Ireland, early 1970s. Strangely, for more than a year, photo-journalist Natalie McKenna has been dreaming of another woman’s life. This no-nonsense 30-year veteran of armed conflicts arrives in Ireland prepared to document “the troubles” in Northern Ireland, but totally unprepared to fall in love with a man she was predestined to meet.

The JuntoCast is a monthly podcast about early American history. Each episode features a roundtable discussion by academic historians, Ken Owen, Michael Hattem, Roy Rogers, and guest panelists, exploring a single aspect of early American history in depth. The JuntoCast brings the current knowledge of academic historians to a broad audience in an informal, conversational format that is intellectually engaging, educational, and entertaining.

Building perspective can only happen from understanding multiple points of view. This podcast aims at helping people grow through reinterpreting the reality we experience.

Sowjetunion, 1961: Major Alexander Vasin, Agent des KGB, wird mit einem Spezialauftrag in die isolierte Stadt Arsamas-16 geschickt. Er soll dort den mysteriösen Tod des jungen Physikers Fyodor Petrov untersuchen. In Arsamas-16 herrscht höchste Geheimhaltungsstufe, denn dort wird gerade die Testzündung der größten Wasserstoffbombe der Welt vorbereitet. Bei seinen Ermittlungen stößt Vasin auf eine Wand des Schweigens. Was versuchen die Forscher zu verbergen?

An aquaponic system basically involves a troika of organisms that live in harmony and support each other. You have the fish that create the ammonia, the bacteria that feed on this ammonia and turn it into nitrites, and the plants which benefit from the nutritious water and can also be converted into fish food and a source of ammonia. You are basically creating a balance and self-sustaining eco-system that can produce everything you and your family need to have a nutritious and balanced diet.

Your Nerdy Obsession podcast will excite, educate and examine hobbies or pursuits that preoccupy the guests time. The definition of nerdy is an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit. The definition of obsession is an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind.