Karola is willing to do anything to get on the expedition to Pax and so escape the fate that the Earth government has in store for her … and she does. But Karola has an especially compelling reason to escape Earth: she’s discovered that she’s a secret clone of a now-dead woman who is so hated on Earth for her crimes against humanity that men create clones of her for the sole purpose of psychologically torturing this woman in effigy, so to speak, until the clone dies. Different members of the expedition have varying reasons for going, ranging from scientific curiosity to a desire to escape the culture of Earth, where women are confined to submissive, secondary roles. In this sequel, Interference, a scientific expedition of thirty people from Earth makes plans to travel to Pax to see what has become of the colony. So it’s out of the question to return to or even communicate with Earth, which is 55 light years away. Their technology now is more Stone Age than Information Age Pax is deficient in metals. The small colony of humans on the planet Pax, who left Earth a couple of hundred years earlier, have established a cooperative relationship with at least some of the sentient plant life on Pax, as well as a group of nomadic aliens called the Glassmakers, as related in Semiosis. Full review, finally! First posted on FantasyLiterature:
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Octavo, original brown cloth, folding map. Signed by Author(s).įirst edition of the author's first and most beloved work. The publisher's printed price of £3.50.net is present to the front flap. There is a small strip of archival tape to the verso of the dust wrapper where the corner of the bottom flap fold is present. The dust wrapper is in very good condition with two closed tears to the base of the spine with a smaller closed tear to the spine tip.There is a small area of faint red staining to the corner of the rear panel with a small patch of soiling to the spine tip.Lightly faded to the spine. Signed and inscribed by the author one year after publication, the inscription reads - TO RUFUS AND PANDORA / VAUGHAN / WITH BEST WISHES FROM / RICHARD ADAMS / AUGUST 1973. The book is free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. Internally, the pages are clean but there is some foxing to the page block, also with a couple of faint spots to the first two or three pages. The boards are clean, but there is a little spotting to the corner of the spine and front panel. HARDBACK - A very good book, bound in the publisher's brown cloth boards with bright gilt lettering present to the spine. His collection contains “whimsical paintings of people carrying their own baffling little monsters.” To her, this embodies how she feels about her battles with depression and anxiety. In the last two pages of “Broken (In the Best Possible Way),” Jenny Lawson explains that the cover illustration was done by an artist named Omar Rayyan. And of course, Jenny’s long-suffering husband Victor―the Ricky to Jenny’s Lucille Ball―is present throughout.Ī treat for Jenny Lawson’s already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter when we all need it most. From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing to the imagination in the most satisfying way. With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.Īs Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. This new critical edition, ideal for classroom use, includes the full text of Douglass's fictional recounting of the most successful slave revolt in American history, as well as an interpretive introduction excerpts from Douglass's correspondence, speeches, and editorials short selections by other writers on the Creole rebellion and recent criticism on the novella. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washington, who, along with eighteen others, took control of the slave ship Creole in November 1841 and sailed it to Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas, where they could live free. Frederick Douglass's only work of fiction-an imaginative retelling of the most successful slave revolt in American history-accompanied by an interpretive introduction, notes, and a selection of related writings by Douglass and others First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. |