![]() ![]() In addition to the standard hardcover, the collection will also be available in a gorgeous slipcase edition with altermative cover from the 2000 AD webshop. Published as a full colour hardcover omnibus for the first time in January, The Ballad of Halo Jones: Full Colour Omnibus Edition will feature artwork restored and lovingly coloured by Barbara Nosenzo, new introductions by Kieron Gillen (The Wicked & The Divine) and original commissioning editor Steve MacManus, and some of Alan Moore's original scripts. ![]() ![]() Rebellion is proud to offer the ultimate edition of Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s ground-breaking feminist space opera and science fiction classic, The Ballad of Halo Jones. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I would allow myself to be waterboarded to the tune of a 24-hour loop of Ben Shapiro reciting the lyrics to Cardi B’s “WAP”…before I sully myself by doing even $5 and a Walmart gift card’s worth of business with you or your sunken place succubus wife.Īnyway, Owens is pretending she suddenly cares about racism in suggesting that Netto’s response was discriminatory. I would rather listen to an entire audiobook narrated by Ben Carson while trying my hardest to stay awake during a cross-country road trip… I would sooner spend eight hours watching paint dry on the side of a grass-growing museum… “Dear Candace’s tragically unfortunate husband, Seriously, my only critique is that I don’t feel Netto took enough time to write something a little more creative in expressing unpleasant alternatives he would prefer to working with Owens or her hubby. In the immortal words of Larry the Cable Guy: “That’s funny there, I don’t care who you are!” “I’d rather get beat in the a** with a wooden plank than ever go near either of you. ![]() “Dear George, thank you for your inquiry,” Netto reportedly wrote. Netto, is, apparently, not a fan of Owens or her spouse (and, I mean, I can’t imagine why), and he did not bother being shy about that fact when he responded to the email inquiring about his services. Owens said that her husband sent “the most polite email” to David Netto, “whose design wizardry and writing appears in Architectural Digest and Elle Decor,” among other publications, according to UPROXX. ![]() ![]() As the Sheriff faces the consequences of his own curiosity and grief, his Undersheriff is tasked to speak with a courageous but troublesome female protagonist by the name of Juliette. ![]() Through the story one gradually learns that any talk of the outside world is quickly and brutally punished by giving the speaker the knowledge they desire – sending them outside. The reader is drawn in from the very beginning as they meet Holston, Sheriff of an underground Silo where the last of humanity is confined due to a worldwide disaster that occurred in the distant past. The series starts off with Wool, and it is full of mystery and marvelous world-building. It is a tale of survival, struggle, power, questioning authority, and hope. The trilogy, consisting of Wool, Dust, and Shift, made for entertaining and gripping reading during the last year. ![]() After hearing a podcast interview with author Hugh Howey, I immediately ordered the first book of the Silo Series. Staff Thoughts:ĭuring the pandemic, I was hungry for new books to read and was looking for something that fit the mood – post-apocalyptic, tense, and with a touch of mystery. An ongoing storyline of the series is the focus on the mystery behind the Silo and the secrets it holds. The series initially follows the character of Holston, the sheriff of the Silo, with subsequent volumes focusing on the characters of Juliette, Jahns, and Marnes. ![]() Humanity clings to survival in the Silo, a subterranean city extending one hundred forty-four stories beneath the surface. ![]() ![]() Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling to start a family of their own and the quiet, elderly Portuguese couple who care for their adult son with a developmental disability, and who pass the long days on the front porch, watching their neighbors go about their busy lives. The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. From the author of THE PUSH, a pageturner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens-and what is lost when good people make unconscionable choices ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is a superb vision of future technology and ancient religions, of scientific revelation and timeless mystery, of transcendent joy and mind-bending horror. ![]() Something is drawing the Hegemony, the Ousters, the Als, the entire universe to the Shrike. His genesis could mean annihilation for man. The Ousters are laying siege to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence God. The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. ![]() The pilgrims have resolved to die before discovering anything less than the secrets of the universe itself. On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set fourth on a final voyage to the legendary Time Tombs on Hyperion, home to the Shrike, a lethal creature, part god and part killing machine, whose powers transcend the limits of time and space. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer. Lt is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Together in one volume for the first time, the first two novels of the Hyperion Cantos. ![]() ![]() Determined to possess him, she begins to study what it means to be human, performing the fox’s mysterious magic in order to have that which she most desires. Meanwhile, one of the foxes, a young female called Kitsune, is equally fascinated by the humans who have unexpectedly invaded her domain and falls in love with Yoshifuji. But Yoshifuji’s wife, Shikujo, fears the countryside, the foxes in particular, and their effect on her husband, whose erratic behaviour is becoming ever more incomprehensible to her. He is fascinated by the foxes who live in the garden, and who seem to represent the freedom which is missing from his own life, rigidly governed as it was by the protocols of court and city. Having inadvertently fallen from favour at court, Yoshifuji has returned to his neglected country estate to ponder his future. ![]() ![]() The world of the Japanese court is equally subtle, with a wealth of meaning made manifest in the manner of a gesture or the colour of a robe. In the fox’s world, nothing is ever quite as it seems. ![]() ![]() To the Japanese, the fox is a subtle creature, a shape-shifter, an illusionist whose magic is the stuff of deception. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leonie feels guilty about not being a good mother, and her emotions often manifest in physical abuse. Her addiction is fueled by her grief following the death of her brother, Given. Due to her addiction, she is unable to provide adequately for her children. Leonie works as a bartender and is addicted to meth. The fact that Leonie and Michael have different racial backgrounds complicates their relationship dynamic, as it challenges social norms and is disapproved of by Michael's family. She is Jojo and Kayla's mother, and she lives with her parents "Mam" and "Pop." Her boyfriend, Michael, is currently imprisoned at Parchman and is the father of her children. Leonie is another one of the story's narrators. Later in the story, we learn that Jojo has the ability to see ghosts. Their nurturing allows him to be healthy and well-adjusted. Although Jojo's family life is not easy, he is deeply loved by his grandparents, Mam and Pop. Due to his mother's drug abuse problem, Jojo cares for himself and for his younger sister, Kayla. ![]() His father, Michael, is imprisoned and has been mostly absent throughout Jojo's life. ![]() He lives in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi with his mother, sister, and grandparents. Jojo, one of the novel's three narrators, has just turned thirteen years old. ![]() ![]() Ernest's work had always been his first priority, and with a baby in-tow the marriage became strained. Living on a pittance the two bounced from one experience to another, but when Hadley fell pregnant there was a shift in the relationship. ![]() However, whilst Ernest was flourishing under the friendship and tutorship of such minds, Hadley was sidelined, and felt out of place in the stimulating atmosphere, where artists openly experimented creatively and sexually. ![]() Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and Ford Maddox Ford. Jazz-age Paris was a strange and alluring place, and Hemingway fell quickly into intellectual circles with the likes of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. A troubled war-veteran, upcoming writer, and dashing gentleman, Ernest instantly captivated the inexperienced Hadley, and the two were quickly married, and set out for Paris in pursuit of a creative atmosphere where Hemingway's writing could flourish. The novel is written from Hadley's perspective and describes her childhood before meeting Hemingway, and their infamous whirlwind romance, which took place in 1920 when Hadley was twenty-eight and Hemingway was just twenty-one. ![]() The Paris Wife (2011) is a piece of historical-fiction about Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. David Walliams now part of the "Puffin Modern Classics" series. It's the prize of a lifetime! Gobstoppers, wriggle sweets and a river of melted chocolate delight await - Charlie needs just one Golden Ticket and these delicious treats could all be his. And Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is a much-loved story by Roald Dahl, full of snozzberries, rainbow drops, luminous lollies and hair toffee! Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Resistance opens, massive monsters (kaiju) habitually slump toward innocent cities, gifted tech-youngsters suppress them in Transformer-like formation, superheroes and villains vie for primacy, and a shadowy corporation appropriately named Utopic is misruling the world. In his treatment of a world gone posthuman, Basu raises subtle questions about the nature of government, the limits of control, and the future of a world that is messed up already. It all takes place in the same superpowered future of its predecessor, the well-received Turbulence some can suddenly clone themselves or fly, others are indestructible and godlike, and still others are simply very ugly. ![]() His second adult novel, Resistance, delivers cinematic sequences and colorful supercharacters duking it out in a smoldering, crowded world. Samit Basu is a wunderkind when it comes to action. Self-referential humor creates a refreshing metafictional world that paves the way for a well-balanced and entertaining superpowered adventure. ![]() |