A solar flare destroys all life on two habitable planets in the HD110067 solar system. The Solar flare leaves the six planets in its solar system with a high level of background radiation.A spaceship lands on one of the two previously habitable planets known as RauthianThe astronauts, from an advanced race, decide to seed the ocean with multi-organism genetic material so that life can develop along a similar path to their own planet’s evolution.The background radiat...

In a startling twist of fate, a series of nuclear explosions at three separate test sites, each coincidentally positioned above a hidden tunnel beneath the Earth's crust, triggers a catastrophic event. These explosions, unexpectedly intersecting, create a tear in the fabric of space-time, giving birth to two volatile portals – one leading back to the past, and the other hurtling into the future.As the world teeters on the precipice of catastrophe, Doctor. John Williams, a brilliant...

When a spaceship from a distant galaxy crash-lands on Earth in 4000 BC, it changes the course of human history forever. Four of the five surviving astronauts use their advanced technology and knowledge to shape the rise of the Sumerian civilisation, leaving behind a legacy of secrets and mysteries.Their descendants play a crucial role in the invasion of Mesopotamia, spreading their influence across the region. But the fifth astronaut has a different fate. She is left in a state of ...

Inanna is a dying planet, ravaged by a clone war, pollution, and overpopulation. Its people have one last chance to survive: the Star Born Explorers space program, or Star-born-e for short. The program aims to send six spaceships into space, each with a mission of colonising a new world. But the launches face many difficulties, and only four spaceships manage to escape the planet’s atmosphere. And only three of them make it to their destination.The Star-born-e Descendants tells the...

An unassuming man named Ethan unearths a discovery of cosmic significance near a remote meteor crash site in Georgia, USA. Within the remnants of a celestial visitor lies maleknite, a rare element forged in the heart of the sun itself. This extraordinary substance holds the key to temporal manipulation, possibly sending individuals 24 hours into the past.Ethan's life is instantly transformed as he becomes the unwitting custodian of this incredible power. But his discovery has not g...

Hidden in plain sight, she has lived as one of us for years, since the day the world nearly ended when she had prevented an extinction event.When melting ice in Earth’s polar regions unleashes ancient alien creatures she again intervenesFinally using advanced technology, she helps others save Earth from annihilation. The world is spared, but her anonymity is destroyed.Now hunted by clandestine Earth authorities who see her not as a saviour but as an asset, she must ...

She came from a dying world, hoping to find a new home among the stars. But her journey ended in tragedy. Her colony ship crashed on Earth, leaving only five survivors. She was injured and left in stasis. She remained asleep for 6000 years, oblivious to the influence of the other four survivors on the planet’s history.When she finally woke up, she found herself in a world that was both strange and familiar. Humans had evolved and progressed, but they also faced many threats and con...

She fled a dying alien world in search of a new home among the stars—but her journey ended in disaster.Her colony ship crashed on Earth, leaving only five survivors. Gravely injured, she was placed into stasis, sleeping through 6,000 years of human history, unaware of how the other survivors shaped the fate of the planet.When she awakens in the modern world, Earth feels both alien and familiar. Humanity has advanced, fractured, and survived countless conflicts. Forced to hi...

Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, troupes and companies across the Atlantic, there is little in Britain to match the scholarship of blackface studies in the States. This book concentrates on the distinctively British trajectory of minstrelsy. The historical study and cultural analysis of minstrelsy is important because of the significant role it played in Britain as a ...

Originally published in 1982. The songs on which this study is based were once vibrant in the throats and ears and minds of living people. This book examines the songs and their meanings in relation to the lives of those people, and relates them to the cultural tradition and practice of which they were an integral part. The art of village song represents a sense of cohesiveness and mutual identity around local patterns of kinship, social groupings, territorial orientations and cultural rel...

′There have been few critical engagements with the concept of creativity in recent years, so the authors provide an important contribution in drawing attention to what is arguably at the heart of much of what we most value in culture′- Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles′In this important book, Keith Negus and Michael Pickering challenge commonplace assumptions about creativity and casual invocations of genius. They give comfort...

This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key concepts: vernacular memory and the mnemonic imagination.