Lila Makindi grows up in East Africa in a peaceful and harmonious 22nd century world, which has succeeded our own age of extravagance, environmental damage, and warfare. Its citizens know that the Space Communications Administration, better known as Bardo, is guiding the planet benevolently,
What on Earth is the Doughnut?… Humanity’s 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet. In other words, to ensure that no one falls short on life’s essentials (from food and housing to healthcare and political voice), while ensuring that collectively we do not
This is a book that will be welcomed by social scientist and economist as well as by historians and demographers. It's range is vast - the history of the world's population from early man to the twenty-first century AD (by projection). But it is so silfully and clearly organized that reading it is
Tracing the industrial emergence of transmedia storytelling―typically branded a product of the contemporary digital media landscape―this book provides a historicised intervention into understandings of how fictional stories flow across multiple media forms. Through studies of the storyworlds
Collecting the critically acclaimed miniseries by GREG RUCKA and LEANDRO FERNANDEZ. Old soldiers never die…and some of them don’t even fade away. Cursed with immortality, Andromache of Scythia and her comrades-in-arms ply their trade for those who can find—and afford—their services. But in the 21st
Would you want your son to marry a girl nine feet tall? Sena, the heroine of this remarkable novel, is a tetraploid giantess - taller, stronger, longer-lived than normal men and women... For Sena, who was not yet thirty, the whole small world was in the endless throes of an endless springtide; a
From the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the eastern Byzantine Empire and the Near East, were
The famous psychic novel that explores the luminous realms revealed by Seth! Oversoul Seven is a pupil unlike any you've ever met--in your waking hours. His schoolroom is all of time and space; his subjects, Reincarnation, Dreams, and Out-of-Body Travel. On Wednesday and Friday, he is a man; on
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.
This Modern Love is a unique crowdsourced book of letters, stories, and photographs about the state of modern romance by YouTuber Will Darbyshire. ‘Question 1. What would you say to your ex, without judgement?’ Seeking closure after a tough break-up, Will Darbyshire was driven to strike up an
