After the collapse: Magonia
After the collapse: Magonia

Author: Christophe Martinolli

Publisher: Christophe Martinolli

Published: 2022-04-21

Total Pages: 165

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Year 817. After an unexpected jump in time, the stellar Ark Magonia orbits the Earth of our ancestors. Damaged, it lost a graviton tank, which crashed in the Alps... A first mission is organized to recover the precious fuel. Indispensable to the intergalactic journey of the Ark, it is the only chance to reach their new planet. Enzo and his family then discover that their return to the past is not an accident, but a willful diversion, and the plotters have just left for Earth. Enzo and his family decide to go find the lost tank themselves. How will our ancestors, and the prelate Agobard of Lyon, react to these beings from Magonia?

After the collapse: Elon
After the collapse: Elon

Author: Christophe Martinolli

Publisher: Christophe Martinolli

Published: 2022-04-20

Total Pages: 31

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« ELON » is a short story, prequel to the series AFTER THE COLLAPSE A seven-year-old boy follows his parents into the mountains in search of refuge. He was born during the collapse of civilization in France. His family was denied boarding the Ark which will leave Earth for good in seven days, hours before the impact of the killer comet. Hope is stronger than fear, but until when?

After the collapse: Final departure
After the collapse: Final departure

Author: Christophe Martinolli

Publisher: Christophe Martinolli

Published: 2022-04-15

Total Pages: 135

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2101. A comet will annihilate life on Earth. Humanity has had 75 years to prepare for it. The ruling classes have together built stellar Arks capable of colonizing a new planet. A damning truth quickly emerges: we cannot save everyone. Only select few elites will soar into space. One by one, the Arches took off. Humanity was going to be able to leave the Earth. Humanity yes, but not all humans. 4 days before impact. One of the gigantic Arches has not yet taken off. Outside its fortified base, civilization has already collapsed for fifty years. Aelys is one of the elites. She was born inside the base, 23 years ago. Convinced that she must help the survivors after the impact, she flees. Her family has only 72 hours to find her before the final departure. The last Ark will not wait for them. IMAGINARY PRIZE discovery "The Little Words of Booksellers" 2020

The Last President: The Complete Trilogy
The Last President: The Complete Trilogy

Author: Christophe Martinolli

Publisher: Christophe Martinolli

Published: 2020-07-07

Total Pages: 234

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Sunday May 8th Reelected French President dies Erwan is a parliamentary assistant. He is the only one who knows that this was an assassination sponsored by the highest state bodies. Claire, his wife, is pregnant and they are expecting their first child. The couple will have to unite to foil the plot. Will she have to choose between saving her family or the French Republic?

The Myth of Disenchantment
The Myth of Disenchantment

Author: Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 022640336X

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A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted? Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and spiritualist revivals. Indeed, Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines’ founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world. By providing a novel history of the human sciences and their connection to esotericism, The Myth of Disenchantment dispatches with most widely held accounts of modernity and its break from the premodern past.

The End of the Sentence
The End of the Sentence

Author: Maria Dahvana Headley

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781596066793

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It begins with a letter from a prisoner As he attempts to rebuild his life in rural Oregon after a tragic accident, Malcolm Mays finds himself corresponding with Dusha Chuchonnyhoof, a mysterious entity who claims to be the owner of Malcolm's house, jailed unjustly for 117 years. The prisoner demands that Malcolm perform a gory, bewildering task for him. As the clock ticks toward Dusha's release, Malcolm must attempt to find out whether he's assisting a murderer or an innocent. The End of the Sentence combines Kalapuya, Welsh, Scottish and Norse mythology, with a dark imagined history of the hidden corners of the American West. Maria Dahvana Headley and Kat Howard have forged a fairytale of ghosts and guilt, literary horror blended with the visuals of Jean Cocteau, failed executions, shapeshifting goblins, and magical blacksmithery. In Chuchonnyhoof, they've created a new kind of Beast, longing, centuries later, for Beauty.

Truth and Consequences
Truth and Consequences

Author: Mike Miley

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2019-12-30

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1496825403

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Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty years, the game show’s reputation has remained both remarkably stagnant and remarkably low. Scholarship on game shows concerns itself primarily with the history and aesthetics of the form, and few works assess the influence the format has had on American society or how the aesthetics and rhythms of contemporary life model themselves on the aesthetics and rhythms of game shows. In Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film, author Mike Miley seeks to broaden the conversation about game shows by studying how they are represented in fiction and film. Writers and filmmakers find the game show to be the ideal metaphor for life in a media-saturated era, from selfhood to love to family to state power. The book is divided into “rounds,” each chapter looking at different themes that books and movies explore via the game show. By studying over two dozen works of fiction and film—bestsellers, blockbusters, disasters, modern legends, forgotten gems, award winners, self-published curios, and everything in between—Truth and Consequences argues that game shows offer a deeper understanding of modern-day America, a land of high-stakes spectacle where a game-show host can become president of the United States.

Calling the Spirits
Calling the Spirits

Author: Lisa Morton

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2022-10-10

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1789142814

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From Halloween expert Morton, a level-headed and entertaining history of our desire and attempts to hold conversations with the dead. Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism—when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born. Among our cast are the Fox sisters, teenagers surrounded by “spirit rappings”; Daniel Dunglas Home, the “greatest medium of all time”; Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose unlikely friendship was forged, then riven, by the afterlife; and Helen Duncan, the medium whose trial in 1944 for witchcraft proved more popular to the public than news about the war. The book also considers Ouija boards, modern psychics, and paranormal investigations, and is illustrated with engravings, fine art (from beyond), and photographs. Hugely entertaining, it begs the question: is anybody there . . . ?

Shapeshifters
Shapeshifters

Author: John B. Kachuba

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2019-06-10

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1789140978

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There is something about a shapeshifter—a person who can transform into an animal—that captures our imagination; that causes us to want to howl at the moon, or flit through the night like a bat. Werewolves, vampires, demons, and other weird creatures appeal to our animal nature, our “dark side,” our desire to break free of the bonds of society and proper behavior. Real or imaginary, shapeshifters lurk deep in our psyches and remain formidable cultural icons. The myths, magic, and meaning surrounding shapeshifters are brought vividly to life in John B. Kachuba’s compelling and original cultural history. Rituals in early cultures worldwide seemingly allowed shamans, sorcerers, witches, and wizards to transform at will into animals and back again. Today, there are millions of people who believe that shapeshifters walk among us and may even be world leaders. Featuring a fantastic and ghoulish array of examples from history, literature, film, TV, and computer games, Shapeshifters explores our secret desire to become something other than human.