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The most recent release, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, won the 2015 Game of the Year Award. The Witcher games are well-renowned for having excellent narratives and beautiful regions to explore. The Witcher is probably a familiar name to those who are a part of the video game community. The Last Wish is a short story collection and the first book in Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read moreĪ fantastic concept for a science fiction story, that advanced alien visitors stopped off on earth for a rest, leaving behind various bits of junk and technology while being completely oblivious of humankind, kind of how a family on a road trip might litter and enjoy themselves carelessly, oblivious to animals and insects. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel's publication in Russia. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. ![]() And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.įirst published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a full empty, something goes wrong. ![]() His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. ![]() ![]() Importantly, the fact that the X-Men are a demographically diverse group means that the stories have the potential to show the variety of experiences and views that can exist within any group, because no group is a monolith. Rather, I enjoyed the combination of stories that focused on the metaphor and those that didn’t.įrom the stories about discrimination to the stories about the X-Men hanging out, and everything in between, I loved the variety. And it’s not that I only enjoyed the stories that focused on the metaphor. While reading this storyline, I’ve been thinking about what drew me to the X-Men years ago and what it means to be a fan of a meaningful story that’s been published by a large media company for decades.Įver since watching the X-Men: Evolution cartoon show on Saturday mornings, I’ve been a fan of the X-Men and the mutant metaphor has always been a part of what I enjoy about the stories. ![]() ![]() The X-Men’s new storyline House of X/ Powers of X, which promised to introduce a new era of X-Men stories, has passed its midpoint. ![]() ![]() ![]() 12.Įvery year, Serge and Babette went to their house in the Dordogne with the children. It will be released in the United States on Feb. The Dinner was an international hit when it came out in 2009. Scenes of the fateful dinner are interspersed with flashbacks in this excerpt, Paul grumbles about a visit to his brother's summer home in France. ![]() No one has yet identified the perpetrators in the video - except their parents, who've planned the dinner to talk about it. Each couple has a teenage son, and the two boys have committed a ghastly crime - a crime that's been captured on grainy viral video. But the dinner conversation is grim, even shocking. The book begins with two couples meeting for dinner in a posh Amsterdam restaurant: Paul Lohman, the entertainingly bilious narrator, his brother Serge, a rising politician almost certain to become prime minister in the next election, and their wives. Herman Koch's new novel The Dinner is a meal that may give you indigestion, but you'll relish the burn. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Dinner Author Herman Koch ![]() ![]() The authorities hanged them for it, but the pirates triumphed in the end, winning the battle for the popular imagination in their own day and in ours."-BOOK JACKET. ![]() ![]() They dared to play the rebellious villains on a floating international stage. Pirates challenged and subverted prevailing conventions of race, class, gender, and nationality, posing a radical democratic challenge to the society they left behind. At their best, pirates constructed their own distinctive egalitarian society, electing officers, dividing their booty equitably, and maintaining a multinational social order." "This unprecedented social and cultural history proves that the real lives of this motley crew - which included cross-dressing women, people of color, and the "outcasts of all nations" - are far more compelling than contemporary myth. 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