"Earthly Powers Earthly Powers is a panoramic saga of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published in 1980. It begins with the ""outrageously provocative"" first sentence: ""It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."" On one level it is a parody of a ""blockbuster"" novel, with the 81-year-old hero, Kenneth Toomey (allegedly loosely based on British author W. Somerset Maugham), telling the story of his life in 82 chapters. It ""summed up the literary, social and moral history of the"
"Tim Powers Timothy Thomas ""Tim"" Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels ""Last Call"" and ""Declare"". His 1987 novel ""On Stranger Tides"" served as inspiration for the ""Monkey Island"" franchise of video games and was optioned for adaptation into the . Most of Powers' novels are ""secret histories"". He uses actual, documented historical events featuring famous people, but shows another view of them in which occult or supernatural factors heavily influence the motivations and actions of the characters. Typically, Powers strictly"
"“The way to Power” begins the life, times and adventures of one man Richard Harris then aged 32 year through his life to 68 years. Harris a man with a common name but an uncommon nature. This book is purely fictional as to persons, institutions, times and places. It is about a man, not a person, who is ruthlessly ambitious, a Catholic believer (but not too religious) and a true follower of “Jong’s” synchronicity philosophy. “Power Seekers” takes the reader into a world of ruthless people, friends, envy, jealousy, ambition, treachery, hatred, love, disloyalty, lust and into the wealth and"
"to work at the age 72 year, not much work admittedly. In 1970 Nagle, while living in Papua New Guinea, decides to write a fictional book about fictional people in politics and not about politics itself and does define a caring world of some parliamentarians as opposed to the opportunistic world of some politicians. He penned the title to the book in 1978 as “Power Seekers”, which remains the title today. The book is a trilogy. Book One is called:”The way to Power” and Book two is: “In Power” and Book 3 is “Out of Power,” Power Seekers, Book one"
"gender multiplied in science fiction and fantasy, becoming commonplace. Robert A. Heinlein's ""Stranger in a Strange Land"" (1961) and ""The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"" (1966) both depict heterosexual group marriages and public nudity as desirable social norms, while in Heinlein's ""Time Enough for Love"" (1973), the main character argues strongly for the future liberty of homosexual sex. Heinlein's character Lazarus Long, travelling back in time to the period of his own childhood, discovers, to his surprise and (initial) shame, a sexual desire of his own mother - but overcoming this initial shame, he comes to think of her simply"
"Atherton: The House of Power Atherton: The House of Power is a dystopian novel written by Patrick Carman. Set in the future, it is about Edgar and Samuel, two boys who live on the fictional world of Atherton: an artificial planet created by the child prodigy scientist Dr. Harding. Atherton's purpose was to provide a new haven for the people of Earth (now known grimly as ""the Dark Planet""), whose pollution and overpopulation problems have come to an extreme. Those who wished to live on Atherton were transported there by unknown means, and had their memories of previous life on"
"stop reaching"". Time Enough for Love Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974. The book covers several periods from the life of Lazarus Long (birth name: Woodrow Wilson Smith), the oldest living human, now more than two thousand years old. The first half of the book takes the form of several novellas connected by Lazarus's retrospective narrative. In the framing story, Lazarus has decided that life"
"a woman born in 1947 with severe disabilities and epilepsy who is incarcerated in British mental hospitals for thirty years. Although she has limited powers of speech, the novel presents her internal monologue. Events in the novel include a romance between Grace and Daniel, a male epileptic. ""The Independent"" called this relationship ""tender and convincing"" and the novel ""superb"". ""The Guardian"" called it a ""sensitive and generous book"", although they found the narration was sometimes too detached from the events it described. Emma Henderson Emma Henderson (born 1958) is a British writer. Her first novel, ""Grace Williams Says It Loud"","
"Powers (novel) Powers (2007) is the third book in the trilogy ""Annals of the Western Shore"", sometimes called ""Chronicles of the Western Shore"", a young adult series by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is preceded in the series by ""Voices"". ""Powers"" won the 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Gavir is a slave who develops a gift for precognition. He is trained to serve as a teacher for a noble family in the city of Etra; but personal tragedy drives him into the life of a hunted wanderer. He endures adventures, challenges, and suffering. Eventually he escapes to a new"
"Time Enough for Love Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974. The book covers several periods from the life of Lazarus Long (birth name: Woodrow Wilson Smith), the oldest living human, now more than two thousand years old. The first half of the book takes the form of several novellas connected by Lazarus's retrospective narrative. In the framing story, Lazarus has decided that life is no"
"Carver) and the maximalist or Gilded Age (Whitman, James, Jonathan Safran Foer), Powers inclines toward the latter. He gets his effects by repetition, by a Goldberg Variation–like elaboration of motifs, by cranking up the volume and pulling out all the stops"". Richard Powers Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel ""The Echo Maker"" won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2018 Powers has published twelve"
"Catholic ""training"" and worldview remained strong in his work all his life. This is notable in the discussion of free will in ""A Clockwork Orange,"" and in the apocalyptic vision of devastating changes in the Catholic Church – due to what can be understood as Satanic influence – in ""Earthly Powers"" (1980). Burgess kept working through his final illness and was writing on his deathbed. The late novel ""Any Old Iron"" is a generational saga of two families, one Russian-Welsh, the other Jewish, encompassing the sinking of the Titanic, World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, World"
"1988 at age 22 and was ""struck by the lyricism and economy of it, by its gentle humour, and by its sexiness."" The story is told in switching first-person narratives between Patience and Sarah. The first part is told by Patience White, a woman of considerable means compared to others in her town. Her father died and left her enough money that she would not have to marry to be cared for. She lives with her brother and his wife and children, in a room she has to herself, something her sister-in-law Martha considers an unnatural privilege. Patience paints Biblical"
"Generosity: An Enhancement Generosity: An Enhancement is the tenth novel by American author Richard Powers. Like other Powers novels it is idea-driven, strongly focusing on social alienation and scientific progress. The novel employs metafiction, including real-time intrusions by the narrator who explicitly sets the novel in a ""parallel"" Chicago. ""Generosity"" tells the story of Thassadit ""Thassa"" Amzwar, an Algerian refugee who seemingly has overwhelming happiness (""hyperthymia"") written in her genes, and the confounding effects she has on those around her, both sincere and exploitive. Thassa is taking a class in creative non-fiction writing taught by Russell Stone. Her boundless happiness"
"psychological health and triggered his inherited bipolar disorder, leading to a major breakdown in his twenties. According to Mason, a great psychiatrist, humility, the love of his family and partner, and scrupulous adherence to his medication regime got him through, and so did the writing of perhaps his most complex novel, ""The Lighted Rooms"" (called ""Natural Elements"" in the United States, where it was published by Knopf.) In ""The Lighted Rooms"" (2008), Mason takes the audacious step of putting an eighty-year-old woman in the grip of dementia at the center of the drama. What no one knows is that Joan"
"acknowledged a personal struggle with depression. Herrick's career has included a range of fields, including ghostwriter, Information technology and fund development. In fact, he credits his years in information technology as providing the framework for constructing his novels. He began his writing career in the radio industry. As an author, Herrick stresses vulnerability as he constructs characters and events. Often, he incorporates faith-related angles into his novels, such as spiritual journey (From the Dead, 2010) and homosexuality (Between These Walls, 2015). He is also the author of one nonfiction book, 8 Reasons Your Life Matters. John Herrick (writer) John Herrick"
"of Darkness"" (1969) depicts a world in which individuals are neither ""male"" nor ""female"" but at different times have either female or male sexual organs and reproductive abilities, making them in some senses intersex. Similar patterns exist in Greg Egan's novel ""Schild's Ladder"" and his novella ""Oceanic"" or in Storm Constantine's book series ""Wraeththu"" about an oogamous magical race that arose from mutant human beings. John Varley, who also came to prominence in the 1970s, also often writes on gender-related themes. In his ""Eight Worlds"" suite of stories (many collected in ""The John Varley Reader"") and novels, for example, humanity"
"Award, and has since been published in many other languages. Powers also teaches part-time in his role as Writer in Residence for the Orange County High School of the Arts and California School of the Arts in San Gabriel Valley in the Creative Writing Conservatory, and Chapman University, where Blaylock teaches. Powers and his wife, Serena Batsford Powers, currently live in Muscoy, California. He has frequently served as a mentor author as part of the Clarion science fiction/fantasy writer's workshop. He also taught part-time at the University of Redlands. Tim Powers Timothy Thomas ""Tim"" Powers (born February 29, 1952) is"
"John R. Powers John R. Powers (November 30, 1945 – January 17, 2013) was an American novelist and playwright. Powers wrote four books of fiction, ""The Last Catholic in America"" (Dutton 1973), ""Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?"" (Regnery 1975), ""The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God"" (Contemporary 1977), and ""The Junk Drawer, Corner Store, Front Porch Blues"" (Dutton 1992). He also wrote the self-help book ""Odditude"" (HCI 2007). These books relate his experience of growing up in 1950's Chicago. John grew up in the Mt. Greenwood neighborhood on the city's far southwest side. The first three"
"Richard Powers Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel ""The Echo Maker"" won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2018 Powers has published twelve novels, and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford Universities. One of five children, Powers was born in Evanston, Illinois. His family later moved a few miles south to Lincolnwood where his father was a local school principal. When"
"The Power (Alderman novel) The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by the British writer Naomi Alderman. Its central premise is women developing the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers, thus leading them to become the dominant gender. In June 2017, ""The Power"" won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. The book was also named by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2017. In December 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama named ""The Power"" as one of his favorite books of 2017. ""The Power"" is a book within a book: a"
"much success. While practicing law, he turned to novel writing, taking three years to write ""Absolute Power"". Published in 1996, it was an international best seller. To date, Baldacci has published 36 best-selling novels for adults as well as six novels for younger readers. Baldacci resides in Fairfax County, Virginia, with his family. Baldacci and his wife, Michelle, are the co-founders of the Wish You Well Foundation, which works to combat illiteracy in the United States. Baldacci became involved with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society after his sister, author Sharon Baldacci, was diagnosed with MS. Baldacci's first novel, ""Absolute Power"","
"Powerless (comics) Powerless is a six-issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics which ran from 2004 to 2005. The series was written by Matt Cherniss & Peter Johnson and penciled by artist Michael Gaydos. A psychologist named William Watts wakes up in a hospital after a three day coma. Fresh in his mind is the world of Earth-616 which he experienced while asleep. As William returns to his mundane daily life, he encounters three familiar faces: Peter Parker, a high-school student who is pressured by Norman Osborn to conduct industrial espionage on Stark Industires; a blind lawyer Matt"
"but it gives Powers's heroes the opportunity to confront their own pasts. You might finish this overstuffed novel still unsure about the connection between Einstein and astral projection, but if you give in to Powers's imaginative leaps and relentless pacing you may find that a mere quibble."" Adam B. Vary of ""Entertainment Weekly"", in a mini-review, gave the novel a B+ grade: ""In 1987, a widower dad and his young daughter are thrust into international metaphysical intrigue involving time travel, Jewish mysticism, and Albert Einstein. ... Deeply weird — Charlie Chaplin plays a key role — but it all somehow"
"mixed on the novel claiming that Powers mostly succeeded in conjuring ""narrative momentum out of thin air, again and again."" ""Library Journal"" calls the book ""a deep meditation on the irreparable psychic damage that manifests in our unmitigated separation from nature"". The Overstory The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W.W. Norton. It is Powers's twelfth novel. The novel is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. Powers was inspired to write the work while teaching at Stanford University after he encountered giant redwood"
"and happy life. Powers (novel) Powers (2007) is the third book in the trilogy ""Annals of the Western Shore"", sometimes called ""Chronicles of the Western Shore"", a young adult series by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is preceded in the series by ""Voices"". ""Powers"" won the 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Gavir is a slave who develops a gift for precognition. He is trained to serve as a teacher for a noble family in the city of Etra; but personal tragedy drives him into the life of a hunted wanderer. He endures adventures, challenges, and suffering. Eventually he escapes"
"Valerie Sayers Valerie Sayers (born 1952) is an American writer and the author of six novels: ""The Powers"" (2013); ""Brain Fever"" (1996); ""The Distance Between Us"" (1994); ""Who Do You Love"" (1991); ""How I Got Him Back, or, Under the Cold Moon’s Shine"" (1989); and ""Due East"" (1987). ""Brain Fever"" and ""Who Do You Love"" were named ""New York Times"" ""Notable Books of the Year"", and the 2002 film ""Due East"" is based on her first two novels. Reviewing ""Who Do You Love"", ""The Chicago Tribune"" declared: ""To say that Valerie Sayers is a natural-born writer wildly underestimates the facts…."
"Powers (comics) Powers is an American creator-owned police procedural comic book series by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Avon Oeming. The series' first volume was published by Image Comics from 2000 to 2004. In 2004 the series moved to Marvel Comics as a part of its Icon imprint. Combining the genres of superhero fantasy, crime noir and the police procedural, the series follows the lives of two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, who are referred to colloquially as ""powers"". Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming and David"
"Lyall Powers Lyall H. Powers (July 13, 1924 – May 15, 2018) was a professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he taught since 1958. He was granted emeritus status by the University's Regents during their October, 1992, meeting. Powers wrote widely on modern American authors, and, with Leon Edel, edited the complete notebooks of Henry James. One of his most widely circulated books is ""Alien Heart"", a biography of Canadian author Margaret Laurence. A lifelong friend of Laurence, having met her when they were students together in the 1940s, Powers combines personal knowledge of the author with"
"to deal with the impact of AIDS, and he later won the William Whitehead Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in gay and lesbian writing. His most recent gay-themed novel is Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Other big name SF authors approached LGBT themes in individual works: In ""Time Enough for Love"" (1973) by Robert A. Heinlein, the main character argues strongly for the future liberty of homosexual sex, but sex for the purpose of procreation remains held as the ideal. The female bisexuality in ""Stranger in a Strange Land"" (1961) has been described as mere titillation and"
"Forester Universe The Forester Universe is the fictional setting of several novels, novellas, and short stories by Kyell Gold, consisting primarily of homosexual furry romance and erotica. Two of the novels have won the Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Novel. A story about a gay rights activist and an American football player who fall in love with one another. Covers and interior illustrations by Blotch. A series of non-adult books, chronicling the paranormal adventures of three young adults. The novels contains characters that are involved in homosexual relationships, but there are no explicit depictions of sexual acts. Covers and"
"life until age 29, when he underwent an ""inner transformation"". He then spent several years wandering ""in a state of deep bliss"" before becoming a spiritual teacher. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1995 and currently divides his time between Canada and California. He began writing his first book, ""The Power of Now,"" in 1997 and it reached ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list in 2000. ""The Power of Now"" and ""A New Earth"" sold an estimated three million and five million copies respectively in North America by 2009. In 2008, approximately 35 million people participated in a"
"museum until his retirement in 1994. Powers and Kenneth O'Donnell co-authored """"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye"""", a bestselling account of their mutual experiences working for Congressman, Senator, and President Kennedy. Reflecting on his time with Kennedy, Powers stated that JFK was ""the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had."" On March 28, 1998 Powers died of cardiac arrest in Arlington, Massachusetts at the Symmes Medical Center. He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Arlington. In 1952 Powers married Josephine (Jo) Lynch, a native of Wilmington, Massachusetts. They had three children and three grandchildren. Powers'"