![]() ![]() ![]() Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper. Dust cover is lightly discolored and shows shelf wear and scuffing. Conceived and written with wit, technical sophistication, and striking imagination, A World Out of Time is prime Niven for a large and growing audience of fans.Ĭondition: Used. In trying to discover what has happened in his 3,000 millennial absence, Corbell meets a solitary, once-beautiful, ever-vindictive Norn named Mirelly-Lyra her cat-snake pets and other curious animal mutants and a colony of almost-immortal "Boys," survivors of a legendary war with the almost-immortal "Girls," a war in which one side controlled the heavens and the other the Earth. A World Out of Time tells of Jaybee Corbell's one-man (but not one-presence) odyssey into the future, from his awakening in the twenty-second century - and his conversion from frozen "corpsicle" to spaceship pilot for the State - through a galactic tour that shunts him three million years ahead, to a homecoming on a puzzling transformed, relocated Earth. with a story of remarkable astrophysical implications. ![]() In this brilliant new novel, one of the best and most popular of today's younger science-fiction authors takes an audacious leap into a stunning distant future. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Shatteringly personal, and yet wholly universal, she offers a brave road map for anyone navigating illness while presenting physicians with a new paradigm and rationale for embracing the emotional bond between doctor and patient. ![]() She was the featured speaker for the Seventh Annual Berkowitz Family Foundation Lecture Program. Awdish finds herself up against the same self-protective partitions she was trained to construct as a medical student and physician, she artfully illuminates the dysfunction of disconnection. Rana Awdish, MD, author of In Shock, yesterday discussed her best-selling memoir based on her first-hand account of going from a young critical care physician to a dying patient in an instant. Awdish comes to understand the fatal flaws in her profession and in her own past actions as a physician while achieving, through unflinching presence, a crystalline vision of a new and better possibility for us all.Īs Dr. Hauntingly perceptive and beautifully written, In Shock allows the reader to transform alongside Awidsh and watch what she discovers in our carefully-cultivated, yet often misguided, standard of care. ![]() At each step of the recovery process, Awdish was faced with something even more unexpected: repeated cavalier behavior from her fellow physicians-indifference following human loss, disregard for anguish and suffering, and an exacting emotional distance. Awdish spent months fighting for her life, enduring consecutive major surgeries and experiencing multiple overlapping organ failures. Rana Awdish never imagined that an emergency trip to the hospital would result in hemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient, In Shock "searches for a glimmer of hope in life’s darkest moments, and finds it.” - The Washington Postĭr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Stillness is constantly wracked by geological cataclysms, and every few hundred years an event is severe enough to touch off a global volcanic winter, referred to as a Fifth Season. ![]() Most of humanity lives in city-states referred to as "comms," and are segregated into social castes based on their usefulness to society. It is the third volume in the Broken Earth series, following The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, both of which also won the Hugo Award.Īs with the other books in the Broken Earth series, The Stone Sky is mostly set in a single supercontinent referred to as the Stillness by its inhabitants. Reviews of the book upon its release were highly positive. It was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2018. The Stone Sky is a 2017 science fantasy novel by American writer N. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet humanity too remains as quick as ever to prey upon itself, and where the law can't bring safety or justice, the crescent blade of D will-assuming you meet the half-vampire wanderer's price! A wondrous floating city, long a drifting sanctuary against marauding creatures, has its peace violently shattered by invasion.a village where humans and vampires live in harmony hangs upon the endless sleep of a beautiful dreamer, bitten decades past by the undead Nobility.a wizened crone named Granny Viper with a reputation for recovering abductees on the Frontier finds she's chosen the wrong allies in rescuing a young girl. ![]() ![]() Aprašymas A new omnibus collecting volumes four, five and six of the Vampire Hunter D horror novel series! The hunt continues in the bizarre far future of 12,090 A.D, where the immortal vampire lords who were the only winners of mankind's nuclear war still oppress the human survivors who have pushed the blood-drinking fiends back to the lawless Frontier. ![]() |