The Braided World
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Download The Braided World PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Braided World book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Braided World
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Kay Kenyon
language : en
Publisher: Worldbuilders Press
Release Date : 2008
The Braided World written by Kay Kenyon and has been published by Worldbuilders Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
When you get a message from deep space, should you answer? Earth has cause to believe that the universe is not a friendly place. But one woman, a singer well past her performance years, and seeking one last adventure, funds the mission that will accept an ambiguous invitation. . . to the stars. Bailey Shaw chooses the young and untested Anton Prados to lead the interplanetary expedition. But when they make first contact with the alien Dassa, she and Anton receive a troubling reception. The Dassa appear human. But they are badly altered humans, and the crew increasingly finds them disturbing, even revolting. And the Dassa in turn are appalled by them. As Bailey makes inroads with the commoners and Anton navigates the intrigues at court, the clash between the cultures escalates, bringing the crew, one by one, to the most difficult choice of their lives. To survive, they must unravel the mystery of the Dassa, and of human--and alien--existence.
Braided World
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Kay Kenyon
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2003-02
Braided World written by Kay Kenyon and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02 with Fiction categories.
Heeding a cryptic message from space, the crew of the "Restoration" travels to a distant planet to find humanity's last genetic diversity. When the ship arrives, its captain is dead and its crew demoralized. A young untested officer presides over humanity's first contact with an alien race who look exactly like humans, but who possess highly unusual breeding habits. Original.
The Weavers Of Saramyr
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Chris Wooding
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-08-26
The Weavers Of Saramyr written by Chris Wooding and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-26 with Fiction categories.
A richly textured, darkly evocative fantasy set in a beautifully realised fantasy world, the Saramyr trilogy tells the story of an empire that rules over a land being overwhelmed by evil. An evil that comes from within the empire's centre, a sect of magicians close to the throne intent on killing any child born with magical powers. But now the empress has given birth to just such a child and revolution is brewing. Akin to the works of Robin Hobb, this is a hugely involving fantasy set in a world with an enticing oriental flavour.
Braided Worlds
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Alma Gottlieb
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-09-15
Braided Worlds written by Alma Gottlieb and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-15 with Social Science categories.
In a compelling mix of literary narrative and ethnography, anthropologist Alma Gottlieb and writer Philip Graham continue the long journey of cultural engagement with the Beng people of Côte d’Ivoire that they first recounted in their award-winning memoir Parallel Worlds. Their commitment over the span of several decades has lent them a rare insight. Braiding their own stories with those of the villagers of Asagbé and Kosangbé, Gottlieb and Graham take turns recounting a host of unexpected dramas with these West African villages, prompting serious questions about the fraught nature of cultural contact. Through events such as a religious leader’s declaration that the authors’ six-year-old son, Nathaniel, is the reincarnation of a revered ancestor, or Graham’s late father being accepted into the Beng afterlife, or the increasing, sometimes dangerous madness of a villager, the authors are forced to reconcile their anthropological and literary gaze with the deepest parts of their personal lives. Along with these intimate dramas, they follow the Beng from times of peace through the times of tragedy that led to Côte d’Ivoire’s recent civil conflicts. From these and many other interweaving narratives—and with the combined strengths of an anthropologist and a literary writer—Braided Worlds examines the impact of postcolonialism, race, and global inequity at the same time that it chronicles a living, breathing village community where two very different worlds meet.
The Braided Path
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Donna Glee Williams
language : en
Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, Incorporated
Release Date : 2014
The Braided Path written by Donna Glee Williams and has been published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Science fiction categories.
" ... Williams achieves an authentic voice with consistent flow and subtle yet substantive imagery. The reader's investment is secured and the compelling nature of the work really begins to factor into the pace of the reading."--Jay Joslin, reviewer
Braided Worlds
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Alma Gottlieb
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-09-05
Braided Worlds written by Alma Gottlieb and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-05 with History categories.
In a compelling mix of literary narrative and ethnography, anthropologist Alma Gottlieb and writer Philip Graham continue the long journey of cultural engagement with the Beng people of Côte d’Ivoire that they first recounted in their award-winning memoir Parallel Worlds. Their commitment over the span of several decades has lent them a rare insight. Braiding their own stories with those of the villagers of Asagbé and Kosangbé, Gottlieb and Graham take turns recounting a host of unexpected dramas with these West African villages, prompting serious questions about the fraught nature of cultural contact. Through events such as a religious leader’s declaration that the authors’ six-year-old son, Nathaniel, is the reincarnation of a revered ancestor, or Graham’s late father being accepted into the Beng afterlife, or the increasing, sometimes dangerous madness of a villager, the authors are forced to reconcile their anthropological and literary gaze with the deepest parts of their personal lives. Along with these intimate dramas, they follow the Beng from times of peace through the times of tragedy that led to Côte d’Ivoire’s recent civil conflicts. From these and many other interweaving narratives—and with the combined strengths of an anthropologist and a literary writer—Braided Worlds examines the impact of postcolonialism, race, and global inequity at the same time that it chronicles a living, breathing village community where two very different worlds meet.
The Skein Of Lament
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Chris Wooding
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-08-26
The Skein Of Lament written by Chris Wooding and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-26 with Fiction categories.
The second book in the acclaimed new fantasy trilogy The grip of the Weavers on Saramyr's rulers has grown ever tighter. And all the while the blight that they have brought to the land grips ever more harshly. This cannot last and, sure enough, the land is slipping into civil war. In the growing chaos Kaiku and the orphaned heir-Empress must fight for their destiny and their survival as Saramyr succumbs to the twisting of the Weave and the unknowable ambitions of the secretive Weavers. Chris Wooding has created a vivid and turbulent world with an authentic oriental air and its own rich and ancient history. Across this world plays an action packed plot of politics, violence and betrayal. This is an extraordinary fantasy for the 21st century.
A World Too Near
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Kay Kenyon
language : en
Publisher: Pyr
Release Date : 2010-01-28
A World Too Near written by Kay Kenyon and has been published by Pyr this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-28 with categories.
In Bright of the Sky, Kay Kenyon introduced a milieu unique in science fiction and fantasy: The Entire, a five-armed radial universe that exists in a dimension without stars and planets and is parallel to our own universe. Stretched over The Entire is a lid of plasma, called the bright, which ebbs and flows, bringing day and twilight. Under the vast canopy of the bright live many galactic species, copied from our own universe. Former star pilot Titus Quinn loves The Entire, but now he must risk annihilating it by destroying the fortress of Ahnenhoon. To sustain a faltering Entire, Ahnenhoon's great engine will soon reach through the brane separating the universes and consume our own universe in a concentrated ball of fire. Quinn sets off on a journey across The Entire armed with the nan, a small ankle bracelet containing nanoscale military technology that can reduce Ahnenhoon and its deadly engine to chaos. He must pursue his mission even though his wife is held prisoner in Ahnenhoon and his own daughter has sent the assassin MoTi to hunt him down. As he traverses the galactic distances of The Entire, he learns more of the secrets of its geography, its fragile storm walls, its eons-long history, and the factions that contend for dominance. One of these factions is led by his daughter, who though young and a slave, has at her command a transforming and revolutionary power. As Quinn wrestles with looming disaster and approaches the fabled concentric rings of Ahnenhoon's defenses, he learns that in the Entire, nothing is what it appears. Its denizens are all harboring secrets, and the greatest of these is the nature of the Entire itself.
The Braided Dream
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Randolph Paul Runyon
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-15
The Braided Dream written by Randolph Paul Runyon and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Robert Penn Warren's reputation as a poet, though always considerable, has soared in the last decade, as indicated by his recent selection as America's first poet laureate. The Braided Dream is one of the first book-length studies of the poetry that has led to Warren's recent rise to eminence and the first to consider his final collection, Altitudes and Extensions. In a communicable, jargon-free style that will appeal to the nonacademic reader as well as the serious scholar, Randolph Paul Runyon provides a detailed and illuminating guide to a body of poetry that, despite its greatness, has until now seemed resistant to full understanding. Every poem of Warren's last four sequences -- Now and Then, Being Here, Rumor Verified, and Altitudes and Extensions -- is given a close reading, with a precise laying-out of words, phrases, and recurring images that not only enrich the texture of the poetry but are themselves the texture. Runyon demonstrates the relevance of Freud's concept of the dream work of the unconscious to a reading of this tightly interwoven poetry. He shows how Warren's poems assume additional meanings by the poet's very arrangement of them, deepening his thesis by arguing that "poems eat poems" as each reuses and reconceptualizes the imagery of its predecessor, frequently with ironic or parodic effect.
The Braided Path
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Chris Wooding
language : en
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Release Date : 2006
The Braided Path written by Chris Wooding and has been published by Victor Gollancz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
The story of an exotic oriental world. The empire of Saramyr has relied on the secretive sect of Weavers for far too long. Now the Weavers, manipulating space and time through the Weave of existence, are plotting the overthrow of the families. Their motives twisted by the Witchstones they draw their power from. As the empire crumbles the disowned abbearant daughter of the empire and a few scattered rebels must find out the secret of the true nature of the witchstones and rescue the empire from depravity and the rule of demons. Chris Wooding has an unrivalled flair for Machiavellian plotting, explosive description and memorable young characters. This is the ideal first adult fantasy for his teenage fans.