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.

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 ...

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...

In this compelling biography of a book, Susan Shillinglaw delves into John Steinbeck's classic to explore the cultural, social, political, scientific, and creative impact of The Grapes of Wrath upon first publication, as well as its enduring legacy. First published in April 1939, Steinbeck's National Book Award-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to ...

The Book This book exists because I do not speak well, often I do not speak and when I say I am not understood. Writing is one of the few forms I know of that expresses me, although I believe that every word I write is abstract, but perhaps the feeling that each word creates is the same for everyone without any difference in the origin of that feeling. In the first book I was another, I wanted to express everything that displeased me and I know I will not be the same in the next book, tryi...

"Faithfully emulates van Vogt's labyrinthine plot twists and energetic prose while answering questions. . . . that have burned in fans' minds for decades." — BooklistIn this heart-stopping sequel to A.E. van Vogt's World of Null-A, Gilbert Gosseyn, the superhuman amnesiac with a double brain, must pit his wits once more against the remorseless galactic dictator Enro the Red and the mysterious shadow-being known as The Follower. And he must do it while he is...