![]() COMIC BOOK DEATH MATCH: Swamp Thing vs. This would pair nicely with DC’s House of Secrets #92 Facsimile Edition from a few years back, would it not? The underappreciated Nestor Redondo took over the art with Issue #11 and Wein left after #13. A lot of folks forget that Wrightson worked on only the first 10 issues of the series. ![]() This is a terrific, all-in-one package. This oversize edition includes Swamp Thing’s first appearance in The House of Secrets #92 plus Swamp Thing #1-13. Created by comics legends Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, the muck monster from the bayou would go on to become one of DC’s premier horror characters. ABSOLUTE SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND BERNIE WRIGHTSONĪrt by BERNIE WRIGHTSON and NESTOR REDONDOĪt long last, DC Comics is proud to present the original early appearances of Swamp Thing in prestigious Absolute format. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The initial chapters cover the Kinnison genetic line during the fall of Atlantis and Nero's (Gharlane of Eddore) reign in Rome. This alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch enemy, the Eddore. ![]() The novel covers several episodes in an eons-long eugenics project of the super-intelligences of the Arisia. It was put into Gutenberg just last year. He added 6 new chapters, doubling it in size and it's really a different book from the serialized novel, being published 14 years after the first. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and turned it into the first of the Lensman series, using it as a prequel to give the back story for the protaganists in the Lensmen series. Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert Triplanetary, First in the Lensman Series ![]() ![]() ![]() (Turns out, during the first years of their marriage, every time they had sex, Poppy was thinking about how she could not wait to take her hair down, so could Fletch stop messing around and just finish already.) Poppy’s insistence on dressing at the height of fashion – no matter what – also leads to one of the best scenes in the book, when Fletch washes her hair and discovers bits of feathers and glue and tangles in the back. ![]() ![]() So Poppy always looks like a proper Duchess (even though it means she is frequently horrendously overdressed) because she is desperately trying to show Fletch that he married the right girl. Maybe it’s the clothing – we’re solidly in the Georgian period, so the men wear purple velvet and wigs and the women have all the feathers in their hair and lace and ruffles and panniers.įurthermore, James’ characters are deeply interested in fashion, mainly because of what their clothes can convey. Ok, she’s French, but our English duchesses ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then Croy Esca comes crashing into his life, and it doesn't take long before he's struck by how desperate he is to make sure the fixer doesn't become the one that got away. What he ends up with, however, is far more than he bargained for.įBI Special Agent Dallas Bauer is good at what he does some might even say he's consumed by his work, to the point of insomnia and at the cost to anything resembling a full life. When Croy is assigned to act as bodyguard to a billionaire during a long weekend trip to Las Vegas, he expects another in and out job made all the more tedious by the company he'll be keeping, and his loathing of Sin City. Professionally, Croy goes in, gets the job done, and doesn't allow for anything that might resemble interest - which mirrors the way he handles his personal life as well. ![]() Croy Esca is a fixer at Torus Intercession, paid to guard, advocate for, and help those in need of the services his boss, Jared Colter, provides. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a sense, we can't lose sight of what happened in late 17th century Salem, a small village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, because - contenting ourselves with Miller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and a few other writers, mostly of fiction - we never had an accurate view of it in the first place. ![]() To indulge in the witch-hunt metaphor now, however, would be to lose sight of the all too literal events on which it's based. (He isn't, but even if he were - well, that's another essay.) The witch hunt, exploited so memorably in Arthur Miller's The Crucible as an allegory of McCarthyism, might legitimately be used to describe to any number of the ongoing follies of our national life, from Internet bullying to anti-immigrant prejudice to the persistent speculation that President Obama is a Muslim. It's tempting to use historian Stacy Schiff's revelatory, sumptuously written new book, The Witches: Salem, 1692, as yet another occasion to apply American history's favorite metaphor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has three children, Lauren, Alexander, and James, and resides on Long Island.ĭeMille's first major novel was By the Rivers of Babylon, published in 1978, and is still in print as are all his succeeding novels. He saw action in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader with the First Cavalry Division and was decorated with the Air Medal, Bronze Star, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.Īfter his discharge, DeMille returned to Hofstra University where he received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History. He graduated from Elmont Memorial High School, where he played football and ran track.ĭeMille spent three years at Hofstra University, then joined the Army where he attended Officer Candidate School and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the United States Army (1966-69). Nelson Richard DeMille was born in New York City on Augto Huron and Antonia (Panzera) DeMille, then moved with his parents to Long Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks so much, I hope that you keep putting out your wonderful books, and as long as you do, I'll continue to be your constant reader. Your a wonderful author, I am super duper glad that I stumbled upon your work and I appreciate the time and effort that must go into being able to relate such things that make you care about the characters who struggle with life and death in the landscape of their world. I truly enjoyed finding you, I've read every book by Laurell K.Hamilton in the Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series, Kim Harrison and Keri Arthur, part of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, everything by Steven King and Dean Koontz,Max Brooks plus whatever I am able to get my hands upon that is among some of the best writers who populate the genera. Apparently I need to get the Indian Hill series and Tim books so I have the complete work of the things you've written, for the most part. ![]() So late last night, I downloaded the whole rest of the series, the Riley books, and the Lycan series as well. I paused at the three quarter point in the third because I didn't want to finish it and not know the fate of the Talbot clan. I read the first three books in less than a week. But I just picked up the app and put everything where I have it with me at all times. Hey there Mark, I've had the first three books on my Nook since I got it probably four years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Then we can decide how we make sure that those people have – and retain – a seat at the table.”Īntarctica was first sighted in January 1820 by a Russian expedition to the far south, and the first women to visit the region did so with husbands working on whaling vessels during the first half of the 20th century. “We need to decide what kind of a future we want to see for Antarctica, and which people we want making decisions about that future,” said Dr Hanne Nielsen, a lecturer in Antarctic law and governance at the University of Tasmania. ![]() Reports uncovering sexual harassment and assault in overwhelmingly male environments, combined with a drive to recognise women’s contributions and efforts to overcome barriers to entry have all contributed to a gradual cultural change. Today, women lead expeditions and research stations, make up large parts of support teams on the continent, and are active in leading policy conversations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please ensure that we have your card number, expiry date, 3 digit security code(from the reverse of your card) and name and address that pertains to the card. Customers remitting in their own currency should remember that negotiation fees are around twenty dollars and this cost will be added to the invoice total. PAYMENT: May be made by any conventional means such as personal cheque, international money-order or by direct transfer to our bankers: Barclays Bank PLC, Sudbury Branch, Market Hill, Sudbury, Suffolk. If packages are sent via airmail, the package can be insured at the customers expense. Packages sent overseas can be sent by surface-mail or airmail. addresses will go first-class unless otherwise agreed. ![]() All books are checked, and carefully packed before despatch. For considerations of time and safety, please contact us. POSTAGE: Will be charged extra for both home and abroad deliveries. ![]() ![]() ![]() Time travel in fiction is a pesky thing filled with contradictions and complexities, but Toshikazu lays out a system of time travel that is unconvoluted and beautifully simple: there are just five rules. Toshikazu plays with science fiction and fantasy artfully, outlining a simple and easily comprehensible magic system that gives way to much larger stories of life, grief, and regret. “If you could go back, who would you want to meet?” This epigraph is simply all that needs to be asked before stepping into the cafe depicted in “Before the coffee gets cold.” Written by former producer, writer, and director for the Sonic Snail theatrical group Toshikazu Kawaguchi, this breakout semi-anthological novel portrays a cafe where it is possible to return to the past. ![]() |