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from a certain point of view

Revisado: 02-05-25

Those Fatal Flowers (Paperback)
by Shannon Ives
wow what a great fractured mythology. The monsters, women cursed by the gods to live forever have to risk so much to find forgiveness. A monster Thelia left Scopuli the isle of the lily eaters to find food and forgiveness. Thelia finds herself in Roanoak, with a girl similar to her beloved Proserpina. She has to struggle against the needs of humans, the gods, and legends. She has to find her place in the world, and find sustenance for her remaining aging sisters.

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love the voice

Revisado: 01-03-25

Best of Walter Jon Williams

610 pages, Hardcover

First published February 28, 2021

This edition
Format
610 pages, Hardcover
Published
February 28, 2021 by Subterranean Press
ISBN
9781645240020 (ISBN10: 1645240029)
ASIN
1645240029
Language
English


Daddy's World: Published in 2000, this story won a Nebula Award
This is a story that shows the nature of ethics and technology. If we could, should we download a person's personality in an attempt to save them from death. What are the repercussions? How do we keep them the same? Should we keep them the same? What is our legacy? It's an ethical conundrum and a wonderful masterpiece of storytelling.

The golden age
Walter and the narrator of his audible version take the fans on a hysterical look at the California gold rush. His quirky tale adds to the genre expanse of the author but entertainment in general.


Dinosaurs: Published in 1987, this story was nominated for a Hugo Award
A quirky science fiction jaunt into the story tellers imagination
The advantage of time and technology over others has been a fact of colonial contact. What if first contact was with a less advanced alien culture.? What is our role in contact and how do we cope? The idea that we can decide the persona of man to his basic parts, hunger. Sex or intellect by use of AI and computers is a fearful concept on its own.
Walter looks into all aspects of personality and the humerus of man's control.

Surfacing: Published in 1988, this story was nominated for a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award
What is intelligence? Could we through our work connect not only to the intellectual aspects of earth based creatures but of alien creatures. If we could live lifetimes without regard to span or death could we find our lives work to bring these things to pass. In a world we're death is conquered, what is our mental limit?
If we could talk to whales.

Video star
The life of gangs is fluid, one asymmetric episode at a time, one gang in charge. Each overcrowded by new blood, new groups over and over again. He knew it was time to leave before it destroys him , Ric is poisoned in transit. His cure is more costly than the retaliation of the gang.


The millennium Party
A story of love and time as a man remembers his one Millennium anniversary of his marriage. The story shows the evolution of man. Using memory saved by Technology, “Brain” can save only what he wants. This method that can create duplicates that complete tasks the original could not, exploring the universe.

The bad twin
Time travel is a hard thing to do. Having the ability to replicate yourself and then eliminate them when you find a problem with current events. This historical mystery shows the nature of what is crime and what is investigation. How time travel was used to plunder history? It returns to create a law system to protect history

The Green Leopard Plague: Published in 2004, this story won a Nebula Award and was nominated for a Hugo Award
A very marvelous story that has many artistic descriptions of mermaids, and the changes of mankind. He used some of the Philippines mythology to create a remarkable story of mankind and adaptation.

Diamonds from Tequila
An investigator looks into the world of drugs, and vacation and movie creation. The story shows how invested the industry is in cartel behaviors.

Margaux the adventure of Lady Sula as Gredel assumes her identity. Those who have read praxis would appreciate the information in this story. Since this episode is referred to in the novel series but not explained.

Prayers on the Wind: Published in 1991, this story was nominated for a Nebula Award Looking at a future where Buddist ideology is changed by technology. A reincarnated buddha is tested and left to overwhelm the retreat with changes that abandon many of the main disciples to question their beliefs.

Wall, Stone, Craft: Published in 1993, this story was nominated for a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award
A remake of Mary Shelly and her Frankenstien story. The perspective of Mary, and her triumph and struggles in finding a story and her own voice. The dark stories of the Italian countryside that she finds on her trip.

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haunting

Revisado: 08-07-24

What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
by T. Kingfisher
the audible performance was great. I loved the expression of the reader.
Another dark look at the mysterious world of legends and haunting history. The book shows how our perception of darkness is influenced by our culture. Easton and Angus have returned to Galicia in an attempt to provide Mrs Potter access to mushrooms. They find a mystery in the old hunting lodge that is more dangerous than two old soldiers were prepared for.
I really like the characters and the mystery they set up.

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difficulty of being out matched

Revisado: 07-24-24

Chains of Command (Frontlines, #4)
by Marko Kloos
The problems of war are expounded by the Chains of Command. The idea that the leadership and their favored few would abandon the world to invasion and conquest for their own hides is a fear of every war time population. The ex-leadership of many countries have left their troops and people over the centuries. Would it change in alien warfare? I doubt it. Marko Kloos in his military science fiction stories looks at how we regain ordinance and ships from this type of situation. Andrew and Hallie are finally married, just before they risk everything to help the surviving human resistance.

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facing the odds

Revisado: 07-24-24

Fields of Fire (Frontlines, #5)
by Marko Kloos (Goodreads Author)
The struggle of recovery has caused a unified front as earth faces the lanky threat. The problem of Mars and the lanky colony there is immediately the problem for earth. The lankys have had a year to dig in. The personal price of war is shown in the story. The young men and women filling the roles of the military will pay a high price for earths safety. The book shows the difference in the cost of war, than the media perception of war.

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the cost of war

Revisado: 07-24-24

Points of Impact (Frontlines, #6)
by Marko Kloos
The aftermath of Mars events the characters have to reconcile the lost of the initiative to save the colony. The program of warfare development has created some resources. The trial operation has more then just proving the feasibility of the developments. The Lankies attack one of the last colonies, its lost is even more devastating in its lost. The military science fiction shows the nature of a loosing war. How the soldiers and the administration reconcile loss, and set backs. It shows the nature of warfare even if its in a science fiction space warfare.

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addiction

Revisado: 06-13-24

Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by Rebecca Yarros (Goodreads Author)
The powerful second year of the Empyrean series. The Secrets that have been hidden from Violet Sorrengail are bigger and larger than what she learned in her first year. Her love, her family, and her world will face the biggest conflicts and sacrifices. The story shows the nature of love, acceptance, and sacrifice. The Venin have found a weakness in the wards that protected Basgiath War College, and plan a way to destroy the world.

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how do you turn the tide

Revisado: 06-13-24

Angles of Attack (Frontlines, #3)
by Marko Kloos
Dealing with the chaos of New Svalbard, after the last attack of the colony by the Lanky space aliens. The book shows how the Lanky blockade, changes mans return to earth. The home system lost Mars to the Lanky invasion. The idea of military space pursuit is phenomenal. The character development and growth and Andrew and Hallie though this event make each story intriguing. The overwhelming strength of the Lanky forces makes a great protogynous to the military struggle. The evidential problem of wealth and politics that leave most of the colonies, and earth denizens to invasion and subjugation.

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surviving colony

Revisado: 06-13-24

Scorpio
By Marko kloos

The look at teens during war times is remarkable in this book when connected to the series of military space battles unsurmountable odds. A lone colony is holding out against the Lanky invasion. Using every resource they hold out for 8 years against phenomenal odds. A young teen not only loses her parents in the initial invasion. But services for nearly a decade by helping out any way she could. Being close to shelter is all that saved this colony.
With military resources, ingenuity and creative uses they survive not only the invasion. But every day after be the skin of their teeth.
A great story of human creation and the strength in small numbers.

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new look

Revisado: 04-26-24 El oyente recibió este título gratis

A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
by Jonathan W. White
A philosophical and historical look at first person accounts of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. The problem of historical understanding of events is that it can change with the concept of the time. The prejudice and usage of political ideology can change the observation of history. Current ideology about Lincoln has been fluid. Some of the conceptions and misconceptions about Lincoln, and his white house is controversial, and contradictory. Many of the disruptions in his history come from the fluid nature of racial interactions. Stories printed directly in his times, or just after his murder are different from those during racial equality, or during the race problems after covid. The difference can be the miss conception of Lincoln and his polices, or just the misconceptions of the people he interacted with at his time. The great emancipator has been loved and villainized by many in the times since his death. Many of these contradictions are addressed in this book, going from first sources as much as possible. The author brings a compelling look at Lincoln's time, how he was viewed in office and how political ideals and interest influence the viewers of his time.

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