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Flames of rebellion
A group of rebels fighting for independence sows the seeds of revolution across the galaxy in this blockbuster military sci-fi adventure from the author of the Crimson Worlds and Far Stars series. The planet Haven slides closer to revolution against its parent nation, Federal America. Everett Wells, the fair-minded planetary governor, has tried to create a peaceful resolution, but his failure has caused the government to send Asha Stanton, a ruthless federal operative, to quell the insurgency. Wells quickly realizes that Stanton has the true power ... and two battalions of government security troops--specifically trained to put down unrest--under her control. Unlike Wells, Stanton is prepared to resort to extreme methods to break the back of the gathering rebellion, including unleashing Colonel Robert Semmes, the psychopathic commander of her soldiers, on the Havenites. But the people of Haven have their own ideas. They are not the beaten-down masses of Earth, but men and women with the courage and fortitude to tame a new world. Damian Ward is such a resident of Haven, a retired veteran and decorated war hero, who has watched events on his adopted world with growing apprehension. He sympathizes with the revolutionaries, his friends and neighbors, but he is loath to rebel against the flag he fought to defend. That is, until Stanton's reign of terror intrudes into his life--and threatens those he knows and loves. Then he does what he must, rallying Haven's other veterans and leading them to the aid of the revolutionaries. Yet the battle-scarred warrior knows that even if Haven's freedom fighters defeat the federalists, the rebellion is far from over ... it's only just begun.
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A Pebble In The River
Akli is an old man now. He is in prison. It is from there that he begins telling his story of the colonisation of Northern Africa. Of his village especially, Thadarth. It is a narrative of revolution, war, torture, dispossession, corruption, intolerance, betrayal, terrorism, religious extremism but, above all, resistance. A narrative of inevitability and loss. The loss of faith in a higher power. The loss of those closest to him, which he would endlessly try, in vain, to prevent since his adolescence. He would forever carry the burden of their death and absence, the regret of not having been able to protect them, to be with them. This forged him into a cynic, a man without hope for a better future, a man who wishes for death every day that passes. But his is also a story of love. Unconditional. Pure love. The ineffable kind which he has for his country, his land, the mountains, his family, his friends, his people. A story of his life�s first love, Martine, daughter to the French settler, Fino, who left him with a lot of frustrations but also good remembrances. If his story begins in gloom, it is one through which secretly, intimately and ultimately runs the thread of hope. Hope because he is released from prison at the time of the narration. Hope that his daughter, Zira, the fruit of the rape of his wife by terrorists, brings back into his life. It is a story about the persistence of beauty, of good and goodness, even in the face of chaos. It is a story about truth. His truth. Eternal even when obscured. No man can be broken badly enough to not feel love, to not see and enjoy beauty. No man can tear the world apart so much that love and beauty no longer exist. Once this truth is accepted, however chaotic or scary the outside world can be, peace can be found. Peace within one�s own being. Peace which Akli finds too.
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Rebellion's fury
\"Damian Ward thought he was done fighting. But the retired veteran and war hero is now leading the revolution against the oppressive Federal America--a bloody battle for the future of his adopted planet that will cost brave rebel lives. But failure means living under the yoke of tyranny--a price Ward and the people of Haven refuse to pay. Federal America cannot allow Haven to break away. If rebellion is successful on one colony, it will spread, and threaten the flow of wealth and raw materials the government needs. With its superior troops and weaponry, it will crush the traitorous rebellion, and retain the empire's standing and power. The colonists have won the first battle, and driven the government forces from the planet. But the Federals are by no means defeated. For just months after the brutal Colonel Semmes and his defeated troops return to Earth, a new force is gathering, larger, better-equipped, and augmented with front line units, veterans of the last war, ready to take back the planet and end the threat of rebellion once and for all\"--From back cover.
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Iracema: A Novel
Set in the 16th century, this is a romantic portrayal of a doomed love between a Portuguese soldier and an Indian maiden. The work reflects the gingerly way mid-19th century Brazilians dealt with race mixture and multicultural experience.
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The vanished birds
\"Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her, and all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives for only the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past. The scarred child does not speak, his only form of communication the beautiful and haunting music he plays from an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs, and their strange, immediate connection, Nia decides to take the boy in. And over years of starlit travel, these two outsiders discover in one another the things they lacked. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside herself. For the both of them, a family. But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy. The past hungers for him, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley
Although space colonization appears to belong to the world of science fiction, private corporations owned by Silicon Valley billionaires—and supported by the US state—have spent billions making it a reality. Analyses of space colonialism have sometimes viewed these projects as distinct from earthly histories of colonialism, instead locating them within traditions of libertarianism, neoliberalism, or techno-utopianism. By reconstructing technology elites’ political visions for celestial settlements within the literature on colonial-era corporations and property, this study argues that the idea of outer space as an empty frontier relies on the same logic of territorialization that was used to justify terrestrial colonialism and indigenous dispossession. It further traces how the idea of “engineering territory” has inspired wider Silicon Valley political exit projects such as cyberspace, seasteading, and network states, which, rather than creating spaces of anarchical freedom, are attempting to recreate the territorial state in new spaces.
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Tangled planet
\"It's taken four hundred years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination, Beta Earth, an uninhabited, untouched planet. The first night seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa is on Beta Earth, she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between maintaining Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth\"--Amazon.com
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Serial representations of First Nations peoples and settler belonging in the Queenslander
This article examines serial representations of Indigenous peoples in colonial periodical fiction to explore settler anxieties around colonisation and the fragile nature of settler belonging.1 It builds upon periodical scholar Elizabeth Sheehan's articulation of seriality's \"role as a technique of repetition that helps to produce and reproduce subjects and groups\" to consider the extent to which the serial (re)production of representations of Indigenous peoples in colonial texts works both to support and unsettle settler colonial subject formations and identities (31). Focusing mainly on the 1880 Christmas Supplement of the Queenslander, this study explores how two interdependent modes of seriality-continuity and subject formation- can be productively traced within a single issue of a periodical (Sheehan 35, 37). Empire- building is always an ongoing \"unfinished business\" (Burton), and by reading across the contents of a periodical we can draw attention to the fragility of many of these settler representations, even as these publications seek to reinforce settler belonging and justify colonisation and Indigenous peoples' dispossession.
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Brown Romantics
Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry.
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‘A peculiar lustre’: The gothic mode, settler colonialism and the environment, Wairarapa, New Zealand, 1841–53
This article gathers texts from missionaries and surveyors during the first phase of European colonisation in Wairarapa, New Zealand, from 1841 to 1853, and critically analyses them as part of a wider corpus of settlers' writings. Diaries, maps and reports are used to examine colonists' attitudes toward the environment of the district; based on these, the argument is made that settlers viewed Wairarapa through the Gothic mode, a tendency that portrayed the environment as simultaneously beautiful, alien and hostile. Throughout this analysis, it is further argued that this current of attitudes contributed to colonial desires to exploit 'waste land' throughout the district, wherein the extraction of natural resources became justified as an act of familiarisation and accessibility. These attitudes appeared throughout formal documents, alongside memoirs and personal texts, encompassing themes of religion, expansionism and capitalism. It is concluded that the methods of literary description used by these settlers reveals that settler capitalism, among other ideologies of colonisation, deeply permeated European outlooks on the environment, affecting the public and private literary works produced by colonists as a reflection thereof.
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