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Kentucky was only ever going to be a summer job. Come fall, Blue Riley would be back in North Carolina, in college. But one job led to another, one town led to another, and one woman led to another. Now, after twenty years Blue faces the hardest question of all - is it time to go home?

The story of a truly galactic civilization with more than 6,000 inhabited worlds. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science-fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues - technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism - have only become more pressing with the passage of time.

Le podcast du Festival Vo-Vf, avec la Revue CAFÉ. Un grain de VO, c’est, chaque mois, une lecture bilingue avec un·e traducteur·ice de la Revue CAFÉ - Collecte aléatoire de fragments étrangers. Une plongée sonore dans des textes littéraires inédits - nouvelles, poèmes, extraits de romans, publiés dans la revue CAFÉ, lus dans leur langue d’origine puis en français par leur traducteur·ice et leurs invité·es. Podcast réalisé et monté par Roxane Nabavian. Musique : AZËL Partenariat entre le Festival Vo-Vf (https://www.festivalvo-vf.com/) et la Revue CAFÉ - Collecte ...

From the fantasy epics of the Cosmere to the defunct mobile game companion books, Graham, Jack, and Taylor attempt to read every published work by Brandon Sanderson, in publication order. We hope to gain a better understanding of who he is as an author, how his writing changes over time, and his broader effect on the fantasy genre. Starting with Elantris and finishing half a decade from now, please join us as we travel out of the wardrobe, and onto the wagon train.New episodes the second Tuesday of the month.

My show’s title comes from the William Blake line about how you can see the entire world in a grain of sand. I believe that. Always have. And I know that ordinary sounds and vernacular speech hold the very truths of existence. All stories of merit—not simple anecdotes—contain hints of the universal. And I’ll go anywhere for a story and listen to anyone, and I do believe these stories exist everywhere and with everyone. I’ve heard it said that not everyone has a story. I just don’t believe that. Sometimes it’s hard to extract that story. Sometimes the teller has a hard time ...

Against Nature was one of the most shocking French novels of the 19th century. When it was published in 1884, it thrilled the aesthetes, the poets, and the intellectuals of Europe on both sides of the Channel (notably Oscar Wilde) because for all its lofty tone, it had, as its core, an unbridled decadence, and it was this same character that challenged, even horrified, established bourgeois society.

Kurz nachdem Xaver von Mephis mit dem Fragment des Invasionskometen aus Ägypten zurückkehrt, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Infolge einer Wallfahrt auf die Sanktuariumswelt des raubtiergesichtigen Seuchenherdregenten des dritten Tores wird die Wochenendplanung des kuriosen Gentlemans über den Haufen geworfen. Ein Umstand, der nicht ohne Konsequenzen bleibt.

While not being not particularly scary by the standards of today many of the ghost stories of the Victorian Era are very entertaining, and represent escapist literature of the highest quality. In To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt, which first appeared in the 1865 Christmas Edition of All the Year Round, the master novelist presents a lively portrait of the spectre of a murder victim with a desire for vengeance.

This is a story from the Classic Ghost Stories collection.

“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult novel of 1884, which is also routinely called the Bible of Decadence. Accurate descriptions, both, of this bizarre masterpiece which has reverberated ever since through high and popular culture.“Against Nature” (or in this version “Against The Grain”) explores to the furthest limit the life of the world-rejecting aesthete living a reclusive existence devoted entirely to artificial paradises of his own devising. This is no solemn tract, however:...