Vespera Luminaire is a pioneering radio engineer at the BBC, blessed-or cursed-with synesthesia: she sees electromagnetic waves as ribbons of color and light. Alone in her laboratory one midnight, Vespera intercepts a signal that defies all science: the voices of the recently deceased.She learns a terrifying truth: consciousness survives death as electromagnetic energy, and a mysterious figure known only as The Collector is trapping these souls to power a dark machine called the Et...

A road trip through Steinbeck’s America—revisited, reimagined, and reinterpreted.Steinbeck’s Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck’s best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America’s troubadour of ordinary people, the conscience of the country. But weakened by two sma...

In this imaginative and philosophic collection of poems, Charles Etheridge recollects growing up in rural, spacious Columbus County, in Southeastern North Carolina. He envisions the people, woods, and waters as lyrical or narrative embodiment of both beauty and imperfection, both complete and incomplete because each relies on the nature and balance of the others.

In the year 2255, of all the sentient beings in her universe, it was a woman named Salma, twenty years old, who was the first fully to see the object called Planet Nine. See with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments. If not to recognise what it was, not yet.Not that the object turned out to be a planet, or the 'ninth' of anything. Briefly thought to be a black hole, it suddenly changes, expands and sends a message. There is something waiting on its service. Some...

The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, Introduct...

The Nurture of Loving is an incredible free-form poetry compilation which takes the reader through a reflective journey encompassing the Inspiration, Loving, Loss, Pain and Redemption of one's heart. This book composes feelings that many have had but did not have the words to express. If you have experienced love, loss, or the hope of one's affection this is the book for you.Selectively taken from his poetic memoirs written over the past 20 years, this collection highlights the aut...

A breathless drama set in the depths of space. Aboard a ship that has travelled beyond the reach of human knowledge, Corbyn discovers he is not as alone as he ought to be.An intense hard SF novella from Simon Morden (B.Sc. Hons., Sheffield, Ph.D, Newcastle), a bona fide rocket scientist with degrees in geology and planetary geophysics who also writes science fiction.The author of a dozen novels and collections, Simon won the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award. At the Speed of Light ...

' I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay' A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon'A wake-up cal...

Timothy Donnelly’s brilliant, breakneck and beautiful poetry has been hailed as some of the most original and exciting new work to emerge from the US in several years. In The Cloud Corporation, Donnelly shows how a wholly engaged poetic sensibility can uncover both beauty and meaning within the bewilderments and complexities of contemporary life, without simplifying either its subject or its own investigative approach. In a Donnelly poem, the reader is never sure quite where the n...

A meditation on indigenous humanoids and the aliens among us.“If evidence for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis has failed to surface—despite decades of hard work and diligent investigations—then maybe we should consider the notion that we are looking for the answers in all the wrong places. Instead of looking up, maybe we should be looking around us. And, perhaps, even below us, too," writes Nick Redfern in the foreword to THE CRYPTOTERRESTRIALS. And that i...

"Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to t...

Discover Extraordinary Stories Of UFO EncountersIs it possible for other-worldly life to exist? Are there aliens from outer space? Are they capable of communicating with us? Are they interested in our planet and our lives? Most sceptics will deny the possibilities.But, according to first hand witnesses of Alien encounters, it's not just possible: it has already happened. This book will show you some of the world's most famous Alien encounters-- from just mere sightings to am...