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With no cheat codes, guidebooks, save points, or do-overs, they’ll need all their cunning and video-game hacks to beat the game … and survive in real life.Īction-packed and unputdownable, Dragon Ops will thrill gamers and reluctant listeners alike with high-tech adventure and electrifying twists and turns. Set on a once-deserted island, our three beta players-classic gamer geek Ian his adventure-seeking sister, Lily and their too-cool-for-gaming cousin, Derek-have been lucky enough to score an invite to play before the fully immersive experience opens to the public.īut once inside, they find themselves trapped in a game taken over by a rogue AI dragon called Atreus, and suddenly the stakes go beyond the virtual world. Welcome to DRAGON OPS, the world's first augmented-reality video-game theme park. Welcome to Dragon Ops, the world’s first augmented-reality video-game theme park. Dragon Ops by Mari Mancusi Also by this author: Frozen 2: Dangerous Secrets: The Story of Iduna and Agnarr, New Dragon City on Genres: Middle Grade, Fantasy Pages: 384 Format: eARC Source: NetGalley One wrong move, and it's game over. From the beloved author of The Once and Future Geek comes this action-packed adventure set in a futuristic world filled with magic, monsters, and high-tech video gaming. She feels trapped in a life of futility, just as a prisoner can only walk in circles without actually being able to walk freely around. The comparison of pigeons to prisoners also works to show Nazneen's mood. The simile conveys that the city is not welcoming or beautiful to Nazneen she finds it to be a cold and forbidding place. This simile appears in a description of London when Nazneen goes out by herself for the first time. "Pigeons turned weary circles on the grass like prisoners in an exercise yard" (pg. This simile shows that even while she is delayed in her self-awareness, she will eventually have to learn to take responsibility for her own decisions and be an active participant in her own life. However, just as a baby inevitably gains more skills and grows up, Nazneen cannot be passive forever. She leads such a sheltered and controlled life that even as a wife and mother, she is unaware of her own power. The simile compares her to a baby, which highlights how innocent and unaware Nazneen is. This simile is used at the start of the novel to foreshadow the events that will take place when Nazneen eventually has an affair after years of being passive and submissive. "She was as startled by her own agency as an infant who waves a clenched fist and strikes itself upon the eye" (pg. In the same year Steven Lisberger’s Tron explored Computer space as a new spatial dimension, imagining what lied “beyond the screen”. Ridley Scotts Blade Runner was released in 1982 and set the tone for a dark and gritty Cyberpunk future where the line between real and artificial was blurred. The hopeful utopias of the 60s and 70s, where technology had propelled societies beyond basic needs, were replaced by dystopias, based on a deep-rooted cynicism against technology and capitalism. Meanwhile, science fiction expanded from outward-looking space operas ( Star Trek, Space: 1999, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica and others) to explore inward-looking, earth-bound futures narratives. The wave of love and flower power came, broke, and vanished and was replaced by a darker and angrier culture of punk, rap +hip hop and early electronic / Techno. Instead, it became clear that the current technological progress was polluting cities and the environment. We went to the moon but didn’t colonize it. We had nuclear power but didn’t drive nuclear powered flying cars. Computers became affordable but our homes didn’t evolve into Jetsons-like computer-aided boredom. The 1980s were a reality-check for the technology-utopia-optimism of the sixties and seventies. To be clear, Penryn is a 17 year old girl and Raff is not only immortal but has been alive since before Lucifer was cast out of heaven. It made absolute sense to me that Raff is resistant to a relationship with Penryn for much of the book. There are plenty of instances where the typical YA HEA just doesn't make sense and End of Days is certainly an example of this. End of Days ended abruptly after a large battle scene and Ee swiftly brought about the HEA as though there was always one way for this book to end - Penryn and Raffe becoming a couple. I wanted End of Days to be absolutely epic, particularly given that World After ( book 2 in the series) felt like a placeholder. I really went into End of Days hopeful but alas it seems that my hope is sadly misplaced. Penryn has fallen deeply for Raffe but after seeing that he hasn't always been faithful to his friends, Penryn must decide if she can trust him not with her heart but with the fate of all humanity. Pookie Bear the ancient sword is determined to through it's own issues into the mix by delving into Raffe's past. For his part, Raffe knows he is forbidden from the daughter of man and with an impending fake apocalypse in the works by Uriel. As an archangel Raffe is a member of the invading army, yet Penryn is drawn to him. Penryn, Raffe and Paige are on the run after an epic showdown with angels. Part of the expanding universe of The Incal, soon to be a major motion picture from Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Our Flag Means Death). However, Kaimann’s past is catching up with him, and Aurora’s future With his passions renewed, Kaimann hatches a bold plan to find a cure for his mutation and a future with his newfound love. The filmmaker is attached to direct and co-write a feature adaptation of The Incal, the. Just when it seems like despair may overtake him, a chance encounter with a strange violin connects him to Aurora, a woman living in a future where she is staring down almost certain destruction. After making his mark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Taika Waititi is diving into a new comic book world. Luz, the love of his life, is dead, his home of Tortuga destroyed, his crew ghostly apparitions, and his crocodilian mutation taking over more and more of his body - Kaimann is fighting for his life on multiple fronts. Taika Waititi is apparently the new Guillermo del Toro. Things are not going well for Commander Kaimann. or will all fall to the rot and the worm? A millennium away, a Sister of Entropy faces certain death. A mutant commander leads a desperate mission of revenge. With hundreds of thousands of books for sale on Amazon the competition would be stiff. The rub was that I would have to lay out the money to accomplish the transformation, and once the book was in print, market it myself. It was a no-brainer, and I established Cloudsplitter Press. I also discovered that for very little money, I could transform my manuscript into a real book and have it available on Amazon, which would pay me royalties on sales. With a little research I discovered that even if I was lucky enough to find a publisher, more than likely my book would languish without yielding fame or fortune. After a few futile months, I concluded that I could be dead before I found one. "Before my seventy-seventh birthday, I tried to locate a literary agent who would find a traditional publisher to handle the printing, publicity, distribution, and sales of Axton Landing, my first novel. not "TIL something interesting about bacon"). 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You learn something new every day what did you learn today? In Silver Springs, everyone knows your name… and your business. Scroll up to read this fun, quirky romance today. If you like quirky characters, panty-melting fated mates, and wonky magic, you’ll love this steamy, laugh-out-loud paranormal romance with all the feels!Īmber is part of the Silver Springs universe and comes complete with a happily-ever-after. They don't even seem to mind that I randomly shift (and half-shift) into everyone I meet.īut can I handle more than one mate? And can we find a way to save our magical cafe before another spell tears us apart? A sexy bunny shifter offers me his carrot. One taste-test and the sweetest bear shifter is drawn to me like honey. And if we don't get customers soon, our cafe will go out of business.Īs a last ditch effort, we create a signature drink. Hiding my feelings for him is getting harder and harder. It's hard enough being a shifter with wonky powers, but opening a magical cafe with my secret crush? Maybe not the best idea. But one sip of a spelled latte, and two shifters are calling me their mate. Later in the war Roald Dahl was sent to America. Roald wrote about these experiences in his books Boy and Going Solo. Tragically of the 20 men in his squadron, Roald Dahl was one of only three to survive. But being nearly two metres tall he found himself squashed into his fighter plane, knees around his ears and head jutting forward. With the outbreak of the Second World War Roald Dahl joined the RAF. In Africa he learnt to speak Swahili, drove from diamond mines to gold mines, and survived a bout of malaria where his temperature reached 105.5 degrees (that's very high!). He seems incapable of marshalling his thoughts on paper!' After finishing school Roald Dahl, in search of adventure, travelled to East Africa to work for a company called Shell. When he was at school Roald Dahl received terrible reports for his writing - with one teacher actually writing in his report, 'I have never met a boy who so persistently writes the exact opposite of what he means. |