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Produces Web multimedia layouts by developing and enhancing multimedia concepts and layouts; managing multimedia design team.
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Location: On the road
The goons run away seeing rahat, and then as he turns to haya, she composes herself, and eyes him with consternation, as he asks her to get in the car. she resignedly complies. As he sits too, he gets Sanam's call, and he apologises for not being able to come as haya and he have a very improtant work. He then cancels the call. haya sits mute. He tells haya not to hurt herself or trouble herself, to hurt him. she doesnt respond. As they drive off, faiz eyes them angrily.
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Location: Rahat's residence
faiz accuses rahat, as he eyes haya blissfully sleeping, of hiring goons and then being the saviour. he is disgusted with faiz's mind. faiz asks him not to dream, as haya would never be his, as he wont let it be. rahat tells him that it doesnt make any difference what he does, as haya is his, and their being together can be stopped by noone, not even he himself, irrespective of whay haya feels or is going through. He leaves. faiz smiles evilly.
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Location: Ahil's residence
Seher is about to take the tampered drink, when ahil asks her for a dance. She gets disturbed seeing rehaan and remembering their carefree night together. Azhar's parents are disappointed. she tells ahil that she isnt in the mood. he is surprised. she says that its nothing like that, but she just doesnt feel like it. He is distraught and hurt, and says that he feels that she is changing and that she isnt the same. before seher can clarify, tanveer comes and asks seher to excuse ahil for sometime, for a meeting with the mayor. Ahil and tanveer leave. Seher stands tensed, and longingly eyes rehaan. Finally she takes the drink, much to azhar's parents' delight. tanveer makes ahil meet the mayor, who asks about his wife. He is about to look for her, when he is shocked to find the music on and someone playing. An inebriated Seher, under the influence of the tampered drink with medication, starts dancing around, oblivious that her dupatta is falling around. Tanveer thinks that now sanam is inebriated and hence soon she shall ignite her own death literally, and wishes that she keeps dancing like this. Ahil and rehaan are shocked to find her dancing like this. Azhar's parents keep running away from seher, as she draws close, and tries to get them to dance, scared of all the lights around. Ahil tries to come close to her, but she involves him too in her dance, as he stands frustrated and helpless, trying hard to compose her. Her eyes fall on rehaan and she dances around with him too, while he stands tensed. Finally, she drags tanveer too to dance with her, while she is frustrated. Finally, her dupatta waives around, as she takes a twirl, and it flows past a candle.
Meanwhile, in a locked door, Dilshad keeps desperately trying to get the door to open and is finally successful. She eyes the decoration outside, and is shocked to find the place lit with candles, and scared for seher, she thinks that she would have to do something. She comes to the gallery, and wonders how to go next, down the flight of stairs. She is scared and shocked to find seher, dancing around the millions of candles. She is finally taken by ahil forcibly, while she keeps complaining that she still needs to dance more. dilshad thanks the lord, that seher was saved. Azhar's mother asks whats in that medicine. tanveer says that it got the desired result, and that she wanted ahil to get angry at sanam, and take her inside, so that they can light her afire herself. She thinks that people would feel that in her inebriated state, sanam committed state.
Ahil takes sanam in the room, and starts reprimanding her for being so rash and irresponsible, and highly demeaning to the family. she says that she wants to go to the party. But he refuses her not to, and then locks her inside and leaves. She falls asleep on the bed. Ahil comes out findiong people gossiping and defaming sanam and his family. He shuts them and they leave. he gets frustrated and starts breaking things around.
As seher lies in her sleeping state, tanveer and azhar's parents ignite the end of the xplosive, and once it starts burning, waiting to reach the explosive crackers, they evilly smile, and then leave, closing the door, while sanam is blissfully asleep, unaware of the danger
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After a quick flashback hinting that there's more back story to the vanilla character of Dr. Jean Grey than we'd previously thought, Last Stand picks up shortly after the end of X2. Grey (Famke Janssen) is gone, crushed beneath the waves that flooded through the dam at Alkali Lake as she tried to save her X-friends. We can tell Cyclops (James Marsden) is still grieving because his hair is messy and he hasn't shaved in days. Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) grouchily fills in for him as a substitute teacher at the school for the gifted, headmastered by Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) ' although how Wolverine can weather soul-killing Storm (played by diva Halle Berry, who unfortunately negotiated a bigger role post-Oscar) is beyond comprehension. (At least he's got a cigar to chomp on in frustration; the audience is just stuck with her.)
Soon enough, though, our wonderful walking set of steak knives has bigger problems ' word of a mutant "cure" begins to circulate, a government-administered serum that will erase all mutations and thus restore harmony to the races. Of course, it will do this by completely eliminating one of them for all intents and purposes, but really, who's counting? Interestingly, this development occurs nearly simultaneously with the resurrection of Jean Grey as her raging, red-haired alter ego, Phoenix. Coincidence? Perhaps, perhaps not. But aren't we lucky that she comes back early enough to do in Cyclops and put audiences out of his moping misery? Oh yes, mild-mannered Jean's gotten a new groove, and this time she's a vampy, trampy, all-powerful sidekick to Magneto (Ian McKellen). Nobody ' particularly Xavier ' puts this baby in a corner. The series' other fatal femme, Mystique (Rebecca Romijn), should feel threatened.
As usual, the mutants can't band together and combat this notion of a cure because they're too busy fighting with each other. Magneto, predictably, goes on an unrighteous rampage ' "never again" is tattooed on his soul at least as indelibly as the concentration-camp number on his wrist. And so it's up to the X-Men to once again stand between Magneto's rabble-rousing forces and trouble-making mankind, even if some in their number ' the untouchable Rogue (Anna Paquin) ' contemplate the cure. Oh, yeah, and Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) and Pyro (Aaron Stanford) still hate each other.
All of which is all over the map, but wouldn't be so awful if the script, penned by Zak Penn and Simon Kinberg, weren't so awful itself. Major questions about the cure ' and its subsequent use ' remain unanswered. A young boy (Jimmy, aka Leech, played by Cameron Bright) whose superpower is to block other mutant's superpowers is introduced as the source of the cure, but common-sense questions abound on this front as well and are never addressed. Worse, the writers miss a chance to tell a relevant story about tolerance and diplomacy that's just crying to be crafted. Instead, the writing is sloppy, a mishmash of too-many-to-name X-Men characters (including Kelsey Grammer as Beast) who are introduced only to be thrown away.
And the supposed-to-be-heart-stopping second-to-last scene is a yawner, which is further undercut by the utter nonsense of the happy-ending conclusion that comes on its heels. (Although ' in Ratner's defense ' the final, final shot of the film piques audience interest once again.) But for a movie that ultimately kills off a handful of crowd favorites, Last Stand elicits few emotional responses other than indignation. Singer brought life and atmosphere to his two films, even if neither was exactly plot perfect.
Ratner makes his fake and automatic, as simulated as the war games that train the younger X-Men.
Last Stand feels like the troubled, artistic orphan it became when Singer jumped ship to spearhead the Man of Steel movie. So here's hoping this is indeed the last stand of the title, twisty ending notwithstanding. Judging from this effort, it's the last of the X-Men that we can actually stand. Superman Returns better be great, Bryan Singer. You owe us.
NOV 21 Bobby Jindal is headed to Iowa again, the Des Moines Register reports here. The paper outlines what's going on with Bobby's non-campaign for president, and there's a lot of stuff here -- too bad none of it sounds like somebody running Louisiana. Hey, wasn't that the job he wanted?
NOV 21 The end of the term has come for the grand jury investigating a lucrative Medicaid contract and a former state health official's ties to the company that won it, the Advocate reports here, but that doesn't mean the investigation into this stinkiness is over. There are still some things to look into, the lead prosecutor says.
NOV 21 With the passage of two amendments to Louisiana's much-amended constitution (it has been amended almost 200 times now) higher education has an even bigger target on its collective back, columnist Jim Beam opines in this post. Higher ed used to share the spotlight with health care, but that has changed, he says.
NOV 21 Here's a weird one: The Louisiana Cannabis Industry Association has endorsed Bill Cassidy for the U.S. Senate. Apparently, Mary Landrieu said she wouldn't consider support of medical marijuana but Cassidy said he would, WWL reports here.
NOV 21 Solange Knowles, possibly best-known for assaulting her brother-in-law in an elevator while wearing an ugly dress after the Met Ball, got married in the Marigny Opera House this past weekend, the New York Times reports here. Knowles, who has a house in the Faubourg Marigny district and owns a boutique in the Quarter, married Alan Ferguson.
NOV 21 This post on the Fuel Fix blog outlines a $1.4 billion move announced this week by the Apache Corp. that includes the sale of assets in south Louisiana. The company's interests in more than 90,000 acres in south Louisiana are some of the assets being sold, the post reports.
NOV 21 One (possible) positive from Hurricane Katrina is a comprehensive zoning ordinance for New Orleans. Nine years later, we're getting closer to that being finalized, but the current version has some problems. Here's the latest in a series of posts on The Lens in which residents give their views of the draft; this one is more amusing than most.
NOV 21 The new NOLA smoking ordinance is going to harsh your (nicotine) buzz, man. This post on Gambit outlines the high (or low, as the case may be) points: it includes electronic cigarettes and hookahs in its bans; eliminates smoking within 25 feet of any building's public entrance and in any public space - or near any public space - operated by the city.
NOV 20 Here's an interesting article in the New York Times. The authors have picked one dish to represent each state in a Thanksgiving meal. Louisiana's dish? Shrimp stuffed mirlitons.
NOV 20 Politico reports here that Bobby Jindal won't be kept out of the presidential race by anyone else's candidacy. (If he's running, which he's not, 'cause he's not done prayin' on it) So he's not interested in who is running, or what the polls say, or how much money he's got? K.
NOV 20 NOLA Defender's Tiny Daiquiri has a little fun with Bobby Jindal's Meet the Press appearance in this post. Bobby is still prayin' on whether or not he'll run for the job he's been running for over the past three years, Tiny says.


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Saturday, 22 November 2014
Review: Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #1
Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #1 by Isaac Asimov
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
In brief: The story selection is excellent. The copy-editing, however, is nonexistent. I marked 180 errors, which even in such a long book is a great many - far too many.
Like the companion fantasy volume, it only has one story I didn't think was good, and again, it's a piece of Lovecraft fanfiction. Lovecraft's overwrought prose doesn't do much for me even when Lovecraft himself writes it, and much less so when it's attempted by imitators. And Lovecraft's stories at least have something frightening that happens in them; these two stories (in this volume and the other) only have visions of aspects of the Mythos and crazy people ranting, which isn't scary or interesting.
Everything else was good, occasionally even amazing.
Again like the fantasy volume, it more or less alternates between recent stories and classics by the greats of the field. Unlike the fantasy volume, it contains at least two (and perhaps three or four) stories which I'd read before. It's a rare pleasure, though, to find this many excellent stories that are new to me. I do tend to prefer fantasy to SF, and maybe that's why I preferred the other volume slightly, but I enjoyed this too.
"The Cold Calculations" by Michael A. Burstein is a sad story of an AI whose life is messed up by a human. There's a clear nod to "The Cold Equations".
"They Twinkled Like Jewels" by Philip Jose Farmer starts out dystopian and ends up sci-fi horror. It's well told.
"Lingua Franca" by Carole McDonnell is a lovely social SF story which takes as its springboard the way that some people in the deaf community feel about hearing restoration and its impact on their culture.
"Dawn of Flame" by Stanley G. Weinbaum is post-apocalyptic, far from my favourite subgenre, and the protagonist is pigheadedly fighting against a warlord who seems to be doing a pretty good job of reunifying people and creating peace. It uses the trope of a woman so beautiful that men constantly fail their Stupidity save around her, which annoys me.
"Don't Jump" by Warren Lapine is a classic asteroid-miner tale, the kind of "clever engineer" story that dominated the field for so long, but with a post-New-Wave second layer about what's truly important in life. I think it succeeds, despite the occasional comma splice and other editing issues (Warren Lapine is the editor of the book, and reading this helped me realise why the copy editing has so many problems).
"Youth" by Isaac Asimov is one that I think I've read before, many years ago (I read a lot of Asimov as a teenager, and that's now 30 years in the past). I certainly tumbled to the twist ending very early on. Asimov has to maneuver awkwardly around his exposition in order to avoid giving the twist away too soon, and I didn't think it was a great story.
"Digger Don't Take No Requests" by John Teehan is in the blue-collar SF subgenre dominated by Allen Steele. The main character kind of gets his resolution handed to him, rather than achieving them through his own cleverness and effort, which reduces the effectiveness of a story with an enjoyable voice.
"Lighter Than You Think" by Nelson Bond is the story I've definitely read before, a jokey mad-science-gizmo-goes-wrong tale in the tradition of Fredric Brown. It was a bit of light fun.
"Garden of Souls" by M. Turville Heitz is a medium-future-Earth tale which asks some good questions about home and family.
"The Variable Man" by Philip K. Dick is set against an interstellar war, but is basically a mad-science-gizmo/clever-engineer story with a bit of politics thrown in. It's better than that makes it sound.
"Starwisps" by Edward J. McFadden III is a kind of psychic/magic powers story, rather a lovely one, though I thought the ending came a bit too easily and the mixture of names from our world with completely made-up names didn't really work.
"Gorgono and Slith" by Ray Bradbury is a bizarre drug-trip story about the author putting together a magazine. I didn't think much of it.
"I Was There When They Made the Video" by Cynthia Ward is a near-future story, written in that very thin slice of time between people being aware of cyberspace and its possibilities and the demise of CD stores. The music club culture is alien to me, so I didn't identify that well with the characters, but the ideas it raises (but only minimally explores) are good ones to think about.
"The Perfect Host" by Theodore Sturgeon is a brilliant piece of writing, despite, or even because of, the author self-insertion. The voices of the different narrators are distinct (Scalzi should take notes), and the sci-fi horror is genuinely disturbing.
"That Universe We Both Dreamed Of" by Jay O'Connell is a hopeful alien-contact story. I liked it.
"The Lake of Light" by Jack Williamson reads as if it was written based on a pulp cover of a scantily-clad woman singing to lobsterlike monsters while two rugged male adventurers await their chance to rescue her. It's about as good as it sounds. It's followed by a strange nonfiction piece on "The Menace of the Insect" which seems to have been scanned by accident from the same magazine and not edited out.
"Lies, Truth and the Color of Faith" by Gerri Lean is another psychic-powers story, well written and poignant as a woman discovers that her lover is using her on behalf of the enemy.
"The Second Satellite" by Edmond Hamilton is a pulp adventure on an undetected second satellite of Earth (yes, I know, it's really just a device to get the heroes to another world, where they defeat the evil race that looks less like them than the other race). Again, there's what seems to be an accidental scan of another nonfiction piece at the end.
"Hopscotch and Hottentots" by Lou Antonelli shows us a planet colonised by (South African) humans many generations ago, encountering newly arrived people from Earth, and a situation that parallels the history of South Africa - but resolves much more hopefully. I'm generally all for the hopeful ending, but with the setup it had, it fell a bit flat for me.
"No Place to Hide" by James Dorr shows us revenge gone very bad. The science is a bit dubious, but the story is strong.
"Industrial Revolution" by Poul Anderson starts as a club story, becomes the tale of the revolution against the nasty liberal government that hates capitalism, and ends with the hero getting, in my view, the wrong girl.
"The Visitor" by Ann Wilkes manages to do something new with first contact, which is hard. It also has an ending that makes you wonder which parts of the earlier story were accurate.
"Travel Diary" by Alfred Bester is a lovely feat of writing, alternating the kind of dry, high-level political history that you get in academic books with the diary of an oblivious, self-obsessed weathy airhead travelling around and missing or misinterpreting the political events.
"Encounter in Redgunk" by William R. Eakin is a Southern US story with a lot of emotional power.
"The Indecorous Rescue of Clarinda Merwin: Or, Reader, I Laid My Eggs in Him" by Brenda W. Clough combines first contact with the early-19th-century novel and makes it work.
"Lost Paradise" by C.L. Moore is one of her Northwest Smith stories, involving a kind of time travel and the end of a civilization. It's her usual powerful writing and lush description.
"Siblings" by Warren Lapine is another first-contact story, in which first contact almost goes terribly bad and then goes extremely well. It reminded me of Murray Leinster's "The Aliens", one of my favourite classic stories.
"Gun for Hire" by Mack Reynolds is one I may have read before, or the twist at the end may just be that obvious. It's a time-travel story, a mob hit man abducted into a peaceful future.
"The Answer" by H. Beam Piper is a postapocalyptic tragedy, rather beautifully done.
"Pythias" by Frederik Pohl is a scary tale of what happens when a man develops ultimate power.
"Arm of the Law" by Harry Harrison shows a robot cop cleaning up a backwater town on Mars. It's amusing and has its ideals written all over it in big, bold letters, like most Harrison stories.
"The Good Neighbours" by Edgar Pangborn is a story almost entirely in "tell" mode and without any real characters, and given those limitations it's surprisingly successful.
"The Intruder" by Emil Petaja is the Lovecraft fanfic I referred to earlier. The English isn't good, and nor is the story.
"The Six Fingers of Time" by R.A. Lafferty I have read before, fairly recently, so I remembered the ending. The journey was still worthwhile.
"An Ounce of Cure" by Alan Edward Nourse is a satire on medicine and its specialization.
"The Hoofer" by Walter M. Miller, Jr. is a blue-collar-SF tragedy, though the SF part is window dressing, and it would have worked just as well without.
"The Stellar Legion" by Leigh Brackett is good old planetary-romance pulp, basically a British colonial boys'-own-paper tale translated to Venus. For what it is, it's good.
"Year of the Big Thaw" by Marion Zimmer Bradley has hints of the Superman origin story. It finishes with the kind of soft ending that Bradley herself famously condemned, which is an unfortunate way to end the volume, perhaps.
The book closes with some repetitious and typo-ridden boilerplate background on the authors, clearly a rush job.
Now, I face a conflict of interest here, since I aspire to be published in the magazine that's partly funded by sales of this anthology. Having announced that conflict, I'll say: If you can deal with the many editing issues, the stories themselves are, on average, well above average, and they offer a wonderful smorgasbord of SF in many subgenres, representing every decade (except the 1970s) since 1930. There are a lot of them, too, and so I'd say it's worth the price.
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Review: Engines of Empathy
Engines of Empathy by Paul Mannering
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The blurb compares this book to Pratchett and Douglas Adams, and there is some resemblance. I know why they picked those names - everyone knows them - but it's really more like two other writers: Jasper Fforde and Tom Holt.
It has the slightly-off-from-our-world feel, and the silly names, of Fforde, both of them turned up beyond 11. Perhaps too far; I kept tripping over the world's oddities (is the row of cinnamon in the herb garden a difference, or a mistake, since cinnamon is made from tree bark?), and the silly names are extremely silly: EGS Benedict, Anna Colouthon, and Spaniel Pudding all make an appearance. I'm no fan of punny or silly names, especially when taken so far. I put up with them in Pratchett and Adams because they do everything else so well.
It also has the setup of a Tom Holt story, or rather, of the Tom Holt story, since all Tom Holt's books are essentially the same. Loserish Britishish person's dull life is abruptly complicated by supernaturalish events. Helped by another loserish person of the opposite gender, main character overcomes the supernatural problem, and they hook up.
Having said all that, I enjoyed this much more than I've ever enjoyed a Tom Holt or Jasper Fforde book. It makes up for the silly names (just; they are extremely silly) by some beautiful passages. "Driving less like the wind and more like a sea fog..." "'I have a plan,' Drakeforth grinned. 'Did you ever think that life would be so much easier if you had a hamster called Clarence instead?' I asked hopefully."
Also, the plot is not what I expected. There's some depth to it; it manages to have some more serious and even dark moments without descending into Holtean cynicism, and the ending took me by surprise, in a good way.
With all the language play it's hard to be sure, but I did spot one definite error: "illicit" for "elicit". The ebook is also full of unexpected hyphens in the middle of words, as if it's been scanned from a print version. Otherwise, the editing is largely clean.
This is the first of a trilogy, and I'l be watching out for the others. I found out about it on the SpecFicNZ forum thread for Sir Julius Vogel Award nominations, and I'll be adding my nomination. Silly names notwithstanding.
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Review: The Silk Code
The Silk Code by Paul Levinson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This... well, it's not open to the accusation of being the same-old same-old. Amish bioengineers help protect a New York forensic scientist from a kind of retrovirus created by Neanderthals. Who are still around, and still fighting us. In the middle of the book, we go back to the 7th century, where a Tocharian druid, a Jew, a Byzantine Greek and a Moslem walk into a bar... sorry, I mean, circumnavigate Africa in search of the Singers, another name for the Neanderthals. Silk is all over the place, and the codes in DNA, music, language, and woven fabrics are freely convertible into one another (which is pretty obvious nonsense).
The science is... unlikely, and I found my suspension of disbelief tested beyond destruction a few times. I chose to regard it as more a technothriller than SF (the echo in the title of another well-known thriller involving dubious ancient mysteries helped with that). As a thriller, it kind of works. As a mystery, it very much doesn't; we're not given the clues to figure it out, and it has to be unwound in a big infodump at the end. There are scientific, or scientific-adjacent, infodumps throughout, usually short enough not to be too tedious.
The main character, the forensic scientist, unfortunately isn't very protagonistic. The author even hangs a lampshade on this early on, pointing out that he's just been reacting to events, but it doesn't improve all that much. Secondary characters drop dead around him with alarming frequency, he is apparently given a lot of latitude by his department to investigate the mystery, but his inquiries are not that effective, hence the need for the final infodump. He falls back on wild speculation as a substitute for any kind of scientific effectiveness (for a forensic scientist, he's very bad at finding evidence).
This isn't remotely a feminist book. A couple of the older female characters manage to be actual characters, but the younger ones are mainly objects of the male gaze. That includes Jenna, the MC's girlfriend, who, to me, never seemed to have any characteristics of her own; she was someone for him to have sex with, worry about and engage in expository dialog.
Nothing really hung together for me. Were the Neanderthals 30,000 years old, or was it just some technobabbled effect of the virus that made Neanderthal remains look that age? Apparently, both. Was the main Neanderthal character 300 or 30? What was the deal with the silk? Butterflies to carry messages, really?
Adding to the annoyance, I listened to this in the Podiobooks version. The narrator frequently fumbles words, and should not attempt an English accent; his attempt sounds like nothing on earth, but the closest comparison I can make is a Bostonian who's just lost a drunken brawl. The author shows off how well-connected he is in the SFF world by having well-known writers introduce each chapter.
That all makes it sound as if I hated it, and I didn't. I listened all the way through, and was entertained. It's just that the many issues eventually outweighed the entertainment factor, and apart from the chutzpah of even attempting something like this, there wasn't much to make it stand out.
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Saturday, 1 November 2014
Review: Kill School
Kill School by Gregory Lynn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Full disclosure: I know the author on social media. He's a fan of my books, and we've beta-read for each other (I beta-read this book). However, all of this is because we have a lot in common in our tastes and the way we think.
The voice of Hobbes the goblin, the narrator of this book, is Gregory Lynn's voice. I've always enjoyed that voice, and here I get a whole novella of it. It's snide, with the world-weary-decent-guy-just-trying-to-make-it-through vibe of [a:K.J. Parker|240708|K.J. Parker|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-ccc56e79bcc2db9e6cdcd450a4940d46.png]. It's not, however, just an amusing style with no substance. There's a plot, and a good one: Hobbes makes the mistake of defending himself too vigorously against a bully, with fatal results, and is faced with the choice of a horrible death or assassin school (without actually being told it's assassin school).
Something bad is about to go down, too, planned by the hobgoblin bosses. We don't find out what in this first novella, and if I had to quibble I'd say that the story is too evidently Episode 1, though the final test at Kill School is a good place to break it. I certainly didn't mind, though, and I look forward to the continuation of Hobbes' adventures.
I received a copy from the author as thanks for being a beta reader.
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Sunday, 26 October 2014
Review: Owl and the Japanese Circus
Owl and the Japanese Circus by Kristi Charish
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I received a pre-publication copy via Netgalley for purposes of review. (Accordingly, there is a chance that the editing issues I mention will be resolved before publication.)
This is an action-packed urban fantasy starring an antiquities thief, something between Indiana Jones and Lana Croft, only more obviously outside the law than either. It's fast-paced and entertaining, though the bits about translating the scroll are obvious technobabble to anyone who knows anything about linguistics, and there are a few other issues.
Firstly, there are some very strange vocabulary errors: summarized/surmised, appraise/apprise, enacted/enforced, distinct/distinctive, lead/led, glazed over/glossed over, damper down/damp down, you're/your, up/us, my/me and check/cheek (typos), friend's/friends', one/one's, consciously/in good conscience, reprise/reprieve, anymore/any more, succubi or incubi/succubus or incubus, conjugated/I have no idea, but probably not conjugated. As I say, hopefully these will be resolved before publication. I suspect that they're the remainder of a much larger number that have mostly been corrected. There are a few fumbled full stops and quotation marks, about the usual percentage.
More significant, to me, were the character issues. The story, as usual with urban fantasy, is told in first person by the protagonist, and the protagonist, also as usual, is a smart-mouthed woman who keeps getting herself in trouble by making stupid decisions. She tells us so over and over again, in fact. Now, I'm fine with all of this except the stupid decisions part. I never have much respect for female characters who make stupid, headstrong decisions that keep placing them in need of rescue by their sketchy-seeming, more powerful, more skilful, all-around more awesome love interest (who has A Secret that will Shock You, though it will probably be obvious to you a lot earlier than it is to the protagonist). It's true that she's competent in her field (perhaps unbelievably so; archaeology, like any discipline, has many parts to it, and people specialize early, so it's not really credible that she knows so much about so many different times and places and languages). What she's not competent at is doing anything remotely sensible that would keep her from getting beaten up or killed. And since she doesn't have the power of, for example, Harry Dresden, but is just a vanilla human, her survival to the end of the book is... let's say unlikely on the face of it.
I liked the cat, though. The cat rocked. Even if, in one scene, she started out with the cat on a leash accompanying her, and by the end of the scene he'd been with her friend the whole time. And even if he can open a window on the 23rd floor of a Vegas casino hotel (which generally don't have opening windows, do they?).
I did enjoy it, in a popcorn sort of way, and I've seen much worse. In all honesty, though, with so many problems I can't bring myself to give it four stars. It's a high three.
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Friday, 24 October 2014
Review: Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1 by Robert E. Howard
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This enormous collection of 34 stories presumably showcases the taste of the editor of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, a relatively new prozine. As I'm interested in submitting to the magazine, I picked it up, and thoroughly enjoyed most of the stories, none of which I remembered reading before, though I'd heard of several of them.
I like stories that have a narrative arc, that build tension and then resolve it at the end, more than the currently-fashionable type of story that just stops at a thematic moment (or, I often suspect, when the author runs out of ideas). Based on this collection, this editor also likes the narrative-arc kind of story. Some of the stories had fairly predictable endings, I found, one or two fluffed about for a while before getting to the ending, and there were comparitively few twists (though there were a couple), but usually the tension was well maintained and satisfactorily resolved.
The editor is also clearly fond of the old Weird Tales style, and the Cthulhu Mythos in particular. This may account for the appearance of what I consider the one bad story in the bunch, Colleen Douglas's "Beyond Kadath", an almost plotless piece of amateurish Lovecraft fanfiction, rife with comma-splices.
The editor, in fact, is clearly better at picking good stories than at copy editing. Some of the stories have obviously been set from old printed books by optical character recognition, because they have the characteristic errors that that process produces, sitting there uncaught. There are, in several stories, missing or misplaced quotation marks. There are missing words, homonym errors (discrete/discreet, illusive/elusive, chords/cords, wretched/retched), and so forth. It's not in every story - most of the writers are good enough not to make the mistakes, but when they make them, or the OCR process makes them, the editor misses them, at least some of the time.
Leaving those cavils aside, especially for the price this is an excellent anthology, almost a quarter of a million words and, in my opinion, only one really bad story in the bunch.
This isn't just a fantasy collection. There are science fiction stories, and, as I mentioned, horror of the Weird Tales kind, mostly ghost stories and Mythos. There's sword and sorcery (Robert E. Howard's "Red Nails", for example, a Conan story with the trademark adolescent wish-fulfilment of the all-powerful, muscular barbarian picking up busty women, but the man could certainly write action). There's humour. Several of the stories involve time travel, while others deal in one way or another with the Fae, and might be called urban fantasy. There are a couple of post-apocalyptics, some of what I call "fantastica" (more or less surreal stories where the magic isn't rational), even a couple where the fantastical element is arguably in the mind of the viewpoint character. These disparate elements form a rich gumbo in which no two consecutive stories are alike. The more so since older stories are intermingled with more recent ones (in strict alternation, at first, though that pattern later breaks down); the most common decades represented are the 1950s, the 1930s, the 1990s and the 2000s, but every decade since 1910, except for the 1970s and 1980s, has at least one story. There's one original story in the volume, the rest are reprints. There's a mix, too, of famous writers like James Blish, Frederik Pohl, Philip K. Dick, Fritz Leiber, Stanley Weinbaum, Clifford Simak, Philip Jose Farmer, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Lester Del Rey and, of course, H.P. Lovecraft, alongside writers I hadn't heard of, but whose stories mostly stood up to the high company they kept.
Older stories, of course, tend to be about straight white men, so it's not a big surprise to find a lot of those. Some of the newer stories feature more women or non-white characters, but I didn't spot any gay characters, if that's something you look for in your stories.
Inevitably, the older stories in particular sometimes fall into classic trope patterns: the deal with the devil that goes wrong ("No Strings Attached"), the equivalent of the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court ("A Knyght Ther Was"), comic trouble with fantasy critters ("Pest Control"). The authors usually do something interesting and different with the trope, though, and in a few cases I suspect that the trope became popular originally because of the story represented here, such as "Worlds of If" (1935), an alternate-worlds tale by Stanley Weinbaum.
Overall, a varied and enjoyable collection, which makes me want to subscribe to Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. I suspect that's part of the point; if so, mission accomplished.
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Review: Time Travel: Recent Trips
Time Travel: Recent Trips by Paula Guran
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I received a pre-publication copy of this book via Netgalley for purposes of review.
Anthologies are usually a mixed bag, and this one is no exception, but, like the same editor's [b:Magic City: Recent Spells|20299673|Magic City Recent Spells|Paula Guran|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1391041549s/20299673.jpg|28133245], in this one the good outweighed the bad for me.
The time travel methods varied, from handwavium to technobabble to believing really hard, but I don't go to a time travel anthology looking for hard science.
Personally, I didn't get a lot from the overly academic survey of time travel literature that forms the editor's introduction, mire because of its dry style than because of its content.
Bandana Singh's "With Fate Conspire" is set in a post-apocalyptic (cli-fi) India, where scientists are using the abilities of an illiterate woman to connect to an earlier time in case that will help change history for the better. It's a story more enjoyable for its journey than its destination, a "soft ending" story, but well told.
Steve Rasnic Tem's "Twember" could have done with more polishing (and will hopefully get it before the final version is released); it has a few minor errors and awkward phrases. There's a passage of philosophical musing which doesn't fit the character speaking it at all, and overall I found it one of those dreary stories in which unhappy characters don't do anything.
Ken Liu's "The Man Who Ended History: a Documentary" has all the elements I've come to expect from a Liu story. Not only the East Asian setting and characters, but the importance of family, the heartrending events, and the infodumps. This one was so heartrending that I couldn't read much of it (I have a low tolerance for torture and grimness), but I read enough to encounter an odd moment. It's cast as a documentary, as the title suggests, and one of the things about writing in this format is that you have to show, not tell (even if the characters are telling, they're doing so in dialogue). Yet Liu manages to slip a "tell" passage in anyway. Describing one of the interviewees, he gives us information about the man's motivation for teaching that we could not possibly get by watching a documentary, where all we have is people's appearance and their words. It's a strange slip from such a skilled craftsman, but if Liu has a fault, it's infodumping.
Kage Baker's "The Carpet Beds of Sutro Park" takes an apparently trivial topic - a public park, its decline, and the woman whose passion for it takes over her life - and, observing it through the eyes of a man who has been rendered effectively autistic by an immortality treatment, makes me care. That takes skill, and I applaud it.
Dale Bailey's "Mating Habits of the Late Cretaceous" was, I felt, two stories. One was a "literary" story of a woman whose marriage is failing for reasons she can't understand (probably her own selfishness and emotional ineptitude), and which she seems unable to do anything about, and the bad decisions she makes. It wasn't to my taste; such stories aren't. The other is an SF story about a resort in the Late Cretaceous where, for obscene amounts of money, one can see dinosaurs. It wasn't filled out enough to stand on its own, but the two stories, like the couple in them, seemed separated by an unbridged gulf and never really worked together.
Yoon Ha Lee's "Blue Ink" felt, to me, incomplete and inconclusive, a slice of life with little plot. That's not to say I disliked it; it just left me not fully satisfied.
John Shirley's "Two Shots from Fly's Photo Gallery" is one of the "travel in time by believing really hard" stories, but the story itself is well handled. A man who has lost his wife to suicide goes back to the gunfight at the OK Corral to save one of her ancestors, in the hope that this will change her family history for the better, and discovers that ultimately you can't save people.
Tom Purdom's "The Mists of Time", by contrast, provides a counter to the prevailing cynicism of our culture that says that everyone has base motives, no matter what it looks like, and there are no real heroes. It's also a good story in the interesting-plot sense.
Howard Waldrop's "The King of Where-I-Go" surprised me, and not in a good way. I don't expect a story by an old hand like Waldrop to be dull, rambling and confused, but this was. It needed a good cut and polish. I'm reasonably sure it doesn't get the science right, either, in terms of how long it takes for polio vaccine to provide protection.
Genevieve Valentine's "Bespoke" may have had a point, but I didn't notice it. It might have been something about fiddling while Rome burned. Competently written, but landed very softly.
Mary Robinette Kowal's "First Flight" has a good premise: you can only time travel within your own lifetime, so to go back to the Wright Brothers' first sustained flight you need a feisty grandmother. She gets off a great zinger at the end. Needs a few phrases corrected or polished.
Charlie Jane Anders' "The Time Travel Club" is, as I now expect from Anders, clever and funny and about losers. Not hopeless losers, though, not completely. I enjoyed it.
Paul Cornell's "The Ghosts of Christmas", though littered with interrobangs and confusing the terms schizoid and schizophrenic, is a fascinating story about memory, about how we change over our lifetimes, and about how we influence our families (especially at memorable times like holidays). Good premise, too.
Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette's "The Ile of Dogges" is a new take on the old idea of using time travel to rescue lost art, in this case an Elizabethan satire. The censor who can't quite bring himself to destroy a seditious play because it's so good is a wonderful character.
Kristine Katherine Rush's "September at Wall and Broad" is another piece that needs correction and polishing before publication, to smooth some awkward phrases and correct the mispunctuation of "United State's" and the misspelling of "chauffeur". I usually find that stories that have a lot of copy editing errors don't work well for me in other ways, and this is an example. The mystery ends up only half solved, and neither candidate for protagonist does much that's protagonistic.
Eileen Gunn's "Thought Experiment" is another think-yourself-through-time story. I felt the ending was a touch rushed, but generally enjoyed it.
Suzanne J. Willis's "Number 73 Glad Avenue" is surreal, but in a way I enjoyed. It's the lead-in to a novel, and I'll be watching for that.
Michael Moorcock's "The Lost Canal" is another disappointment from a master from whom I expect better. Full of telling and infodumping and references to stories that aren't this story and probably don't exist, its premise full of absurdities, its prose littered with exclamation points, it wasn't a good way to close the volume. I felt much the same way about the Ian McDonald story from the same retrofuture-Mars anthology ([b:Old Mars|15849699|Old Mars|George R.R. Martin|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1360812677s/15849699.jpg|21595902]).
Speaking of sources, this is a reprint anthology. I was initially surprised, given the large number of mentions of Lightspeed, Strange Horizons and Clarkesworld in the resumes of the authors (and the soft endings of some of them, which I associate with those magazines), to read that more of these stories came from Asimov's than any other source. But then, where would you send a time travel story?
I've been critical of the individual stories in this volume, and some didn't work for me at all, but the collection as a whole I enjoyed. If, like me, you like to explore the idea of time travel, it's a good way to do so.
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Baited black traps in a pyramid shape attract significantly more brown marmorated stink bugs than other traps, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
BELTSVILLE, Md. — Baited black traps in a pyramid shape attract significantly more brown marmorated stink bugs than other traps, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. Evaluating stink bug responses to different visual stimuli may help manufacturers design better traps for monitoring the bugs.
Entomologist Tracy Leskey at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, W.V., focused on visual stimuli that can attract the stink bugs to traps that will help farmers monitor the level of infestation in their fields and orchards.
ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency, and this research supports the USDA priority of promoting international food security. In field trials in 2009 and 2010, Leskey and her colleagues found that significantly more stink bug adults and juvenile bugs, called nymphs, were captured in the baited black pyramid traps than in other traps. The researchers also found that more adults and nymphs were captured in a trap placed on the ground than in a commercially available trap hung from a tree limb.
These prototype pyramid traps may serve as monitoring tools to assess the presence, abundance and seasonal activity of pests and natural enemies to determine the need for insecticide applications.
Leskey and her colleagues also found that in 2010, 2011 and 2012, stink bugs produced two generations in one year in Kearneysville, based on the presence of eggs and newly molted adults in field cage experiments. Although it has been reported that these bugs produce only one brood annually in eastern Pennsylvania, it appears that in more southerly locations within the Mid-Atlantic region, they can produce two generations per year, according to Leskey.
Results from 2010 were published in the Journal of Entomological Science. A more extensive study is being replicated in several states on the East Coast to determine how many generations may be produced annually in those locations.
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Last updated at 17:07, Friday, 07 December 2012
BARROW AFC manager Dave Bayliss says tonight's televised home clash against Hereford United is a must-win game (kick-off 7.45pm).
The relegation-battling Bluebirds have won just one out of 10 league matches at Holker Street this season and possess the worst home record in Blue Square Bet Premier.
That victory came two months ago when they beat Southport 3-2.
Since then Barrow have, however, won three cup ties on their own turf, against Tamworth and Guiseley in the FA Cup and Hyde in the FA Trophy, and are currently unbeaten in their last five outings, home and away.
Tuesday night's 1-1 draw at AFC Telford United, when super-sub Joe Jackson snatched his side a share of the spoils with a stoppage-time equaliser, kept the Bluebirds off the foot of the table by virtue of goal-difference.
But a win tonight against mid-table Hereford in front of the Premier Sports TV cameras would see second-bottom Barrow leap up two places in the table, ahead of the weekend's remaining fixtures tomorrow.
After tonight the Bluebirds face back-to-back second round cup ties against Macclesfield Town in the FA Cup on Tuesday and Chesham United in the FA Trophy four days later and Bayliss knows the importance of signing off from league duty with a victory.
"It's a massive game," said the Holker Street boss.
"To be honest, we would have settled for a point at Telford on Tuesday. Now we are back home, where we are unbeaten in our last three (Guiseley 1-0, Forest Green Rovers 2-2, Hyde 1-0) and it's a must-win game because we don't want to be falling behind in terms of the league going into the two cup games that follow next week.
"Hereford are a good side and it's a game we are really looking forward to.
"When the top sides come to Barrow in midweek it always seems to draw the best out of us and that's what we want to see happen again."
On-loan Barrovian teenage striker Jackson, who now has three goals this season, is pushing for a start following his late heroics at Telford, while attacking midfielder Sean McConville will also be hoping for a recall.
Winger Danny Rowe, who has not played since breaking his toe a month ago, could return to the bench.
Hereford, relegated from the Football League at the end of last season, will make their first trip to Holker Street in 14 years on a high after drawing 1-1 at League Two high-fliers Cheltenham Town in the second round of the FA Cup on Monday – a game that was screened live on ESPN.
Should they win the replay at Edgar Street on Tuesday the Bulls will host Premier League giants Everton in a money-spinning third round tie which is also set for TV coverage.
Hereford manager Martin Foyle, whose side have lost just one of their last nine matches, is not expected to rest players ahead of the replay, meaning Carlisle-born top scorer Ryan Bowman will likely lead the line.
Barrow (from): Hurst, Flynn, Hessey, M Pearson, Anderson, Harvey, Baker, Rutherford, Almond, Jackson, Boyes, S Pearson, Skelton, Byrne, Hunter, McConville, Owen, Rowe.
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In his eleventh season as Head Men's Basketball Coach at Webster University, Chris Bunch continues to direct a fantastic week of camp. Coach Bunch and his staff will focus on fundamentals, individual skill development and team play in a competitive and fun atmosphere!
The Complete Skills Camp offers a challenging daily format of fundamental instruction, clinics, drills, and team games. Players will have the opportunity to develop and refine their fundamental basketball skills. Emphasis is placed on fundamentals, skill development, shooting, offensive moves, defense, rebounding, team play, and more.
All campers check-in at 1:00pm on Sunday. There will be a camp orientation meeting following check-in and parents are welcome to join their campers for this meeting. A detailed schedule for the week will be provided at that time.
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Transportation is not provided by the camp to or from any airports. If you are flying to or from camp, we recommend using an airport shuttle service. Please schedule flights as close as you can to the check-in times on the first day and check-out times on the last day.
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We cannot offer scholarships due to NCAA regulations. Our affiliation with NCAA coaches and schools puts us in a position where any scholarship money can be seen as an inducement to a future collegiate athlete. This puts our coaches and our host universities in jeopardy of damaging their status with the NCAA and incurring penalties at the hands of their organizing body.
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Campers reside on campus and hone their skills daily at Grant Gymnasium. In addition to the instructional basketball program, exciting off court activities are organized by the staff, such as pizza and movie nights.
His overall record at Webster is 167-119, including four regular season conference championships. The Gorloks are 127-43 in SLIAC play during coach Bunch's tenure, the best twelve-year mark of any conference school in that span.
Before coming to Webster, Bunch was an assistant coach at Maryville College in Maryville, TN. In addition to his collegiate experience, Bunch served as a high school head basketball coach for seven years in his native state of Tennessee. There he won 100 games and had two teams that were ranked in the top 10 in the state.
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I was a little hesitant about sending him to camp as he has not been to an overnight camp before, but he needed to start sometime. He is 9 years old and had a great time...so great in fact that he didn't call home 1 time during the camp! He loved the swim party, the food, playing basketball all day and staying in the dorms at Webster University. He had such a great time he asked if he could go back next month! I think we'll be sending him again next year.
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Unprecedented may be the only word to describe the way "Lords of Dogtown" springboards off its equally bracing 2001 documentary inspiration...
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Unprecedented may be the only word to describe the way "Lords of Dogtown" springboards off its equally bracing 2001 documentary inspiration, "Dogtown and Z-Boys."
Both films tell the story of surfers-turned-skateboarders whose street style helped revolutionalize the sport in Venice, Calif., circa 1975. Screenwriter Stacy Peralta, who co-wrote and directed "Dogtown and Z-Boys," also wrote the zingy, thinly fictionalized script about his youth for "Lords of Dogtown." With a healthy dose of directorial flair by Catherine Hardwicke ("Thirteen"), the result is a series of kinetic vignettes that connect with wit and intelligence. It's a thrashing good time.
Peralta casts his young alter ego and the elite circle of skater kids he came up with against a giddy background of period detail. Hardwicke completes the trick using her background in art direction to candidly reflect the swagger of the times. Everything from the crackling selection of tunes on the soundtrack to the loose camerawork come together in a brilliant re-creation of place.
We're introduced to the characters a few at a time, starting under a crisp California dawn and Venice Beach's decaying Pacific Ocean Pier. A group of older surfers led by stoner entrepreneur Skip Engblom (Heath Ledger) taunt and tutor up-and-comers Stacy Peralta (John Robinson), Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch) and Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk) as they weave on waves through deadly, crumbling pilings, showing off low moves that will soon make the leap from surf to street.
Engblom's Zephyr surf shop is a combination clubhouse and command center where there's always a party and where fantasies of fame, riches and doing nothing but skating and surfing all day take precedence over commerce. Ledger is a delight, sinking a set of Valley-dude buck teeth into the role of the dope-addled Peter Pan/drill sergeant who takes it as his duty to whip the kids flocking around him into a new legion of skateboard heroes.
Engblom's enthusiasm grows from the combination of newly discovered urethane wheels ("they're made from oil!") and the epiphany that they can ride the curved pavement of dried-up drainage ditches the same way a finely waxed board glides through a wave. It was the movement of the skateboard from its slow, tabletop origins to the vertical realm that made the Zephyr team and eventually brought global fame to Stacy, Jay and Tony.
One of the movie's best sequences is the discovery that hundreds of backyard pools, emptied because of a drought, created perfect dry waves to perfect new techniques. The dazzling camerawork and editing reach a pinnacle in the pool scenes where wheels-eye views swoosh around concrete bowls, then move through zany chase scenes as the kids stay one step ahead of angry cops and homeowners.
The only place "Lords of Dogtown" falters is in a third-act dance with melodrama. The young, tough Jay self-destructs amid the glamour; Tony gets a rock-star ego; Skip becomes a bitter self-parody as the world he once commanded slips out of his wasted grasp. But the Hallmark-Hall-of-Fame elements are far outweighed by the spirit and soul of another time when excitement about something new had deep meaning.
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Great movie! Good storyline and runs the range of emotions - funny, emotional, serious - love Tom Hanks in this movie!Published 2 days ago by Smiley
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Yes it does, I saw it at wal-mart on friday
Nov 8, 2009 by Blaargon | See all 7 posts
|If this release gets the same level of care as Gladiator will people buy...
This will sell no matter what the video quality(at least at Gladiator levels or above). I have mine on order as I type this.
Nov 2, 2009 by John Graham | See all 2 posts
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