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On board the generation ship Matilda (named for the Clotilda), [1] where the passengers have formed a society stratified along racial lines such that those with dark skin are relegated to lower-deck lives of servitude and harsh behavioral restrictions, Aster Gray is a lower-decks healer who must discover the hidden connection between her mother's suicide decades ago and the mysterious death of ...
Far from being an eternal part of the makeup of human life, wars only started in the very recent history of our species. Permanent settlements provided the context necessary for private property, which in turn provided the circumstances needed for inheritance and the generational accumulation of wealth, whose required protection provided ...
Rivers Solomon is an American author of speculative and literary fiction.In 2018, they received the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Firecracker Award in Fiction [2] for their debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, and in 2020 their second novel, The Deep, won the Lambda Literary Award. [3]
One of the main themes of An Unkindness of Magicians is power and exploitation, examining how the powerful are knowingly or through purposeful ignorance led into exploiting others to gain or hold onto power (Gray Prospero and Miles Merlin intentionally cause death and destruction for power, while Miranda Prospero turns a blind eye and tries not to think about the high costs paid by others for ...
It also commented on the "often-dated feminist themes". Ruth Rendell later reported in an interview with Anthea Davey for Red Pepper that she had "had a go at dotty militant feminism" in An Unkindness of Ravens and as a result "I was described by one women's magazine as the greatest anti-feminist since Dashiell Hammett". [2]
No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.
Sometimes, real life is stranger than fiction — and it's even better when one leads to the other. Bestselling author Tova Mirvis got the idea for her new slow-burn, literary thriller from the ...
The stories flow into each other with the mention of the next hero. George Shevelov called this text an anti-novel and a "river novel". [2] Mystical events happen to many characters and the events are described with the author's characteristic surrealistic style. The novel begins with a conversation between two guardian angels about human destiny.