Author : Toby Tate
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161868678X
Towering black obelisks have appeared in five different locations around the Mediterranean, standing like gods over the land. The man who has commissioned their construction claims they are nothing more than tributes to their respective countries, but CIA operative Gabrielle “Gabe” Lincoln believes they may be something far more ominous—and if she is right, humanity is about to be plunged into a living nightmare from which there is no escape.
Author : Toby Tate
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1682613216
CIA operative Gabrielle "Gabe" Lincoln has been tracking the beast once known as Lilith MacIntyre and her organization ever since she and her unborn child were taken into custody and held at a top secret facility. Gabe soon finds that most in the organization are Lilitu, a race of beings as old as time that may have once dominated the galaxy itself.
Author : Brian Godawa
Publisher :
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 9780985930905
This second novel in the saga Chronicles of the Nephilim is a prequel to Noah Primeval that tells the story of the Fall of the Watchers from heaven and the rise of the Nephilim generations before the Flood. Follow the epic journey of Enoch the giant killer with his small band of family warriors who seek outlaw giants for bounty, but stumble upon a conspiracy of the Watchers that is so evil, it will change the universe forever if God does not stop them.
Author : Steven Brust
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429910739
The time is the Beginning. The place is Heaven. The story is the Revolt of the Angels—a war of magic, corruption and intrigue that could destroy the universe. To Reign in Hell was Stephen Brust's second novel, and it's a thrilling retelling of the revolt of the angels, through the lens of epic fantasy. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Daniel Chanan Matt
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809123872
This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.
Author : Frenchy Lunning
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1452913579
“Japan's pop culture, once believed unexportable, is now hitting the shores of other nations like a tsunami. In North America, young fans consume vast amounts of manga and anime, while academics increasingly study the entire J-pop phenomenon to understand it. One community has passion while the other has discipline, and what has been lacking is a bridge between the two. Mechademia is the bridge, and with a name like that, how can one go wrong? So why wait? Hop in your giant mobile suit and stomp down to the local real or virtual bookstore to purchase a copy right now!” —Frederik L. Schodt, author of Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics Networks of Desire—the second volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to critical and creative work on Japanese anime, manga, and the fan cultures that have coalesced around them—explores the varieties of desire that structure and influence much of contemporary anime and manga in manifestations that range from the explicitly sexual to more sublimated text and imagery. Collecting original essays by scholars, artists, and fans, Networks of Desire considers key issues at play in a Japanese society increasingly uncertain of its place in a globalized world: from idealized representations of same-sex desire in such shjo manga (girls’s comics) as The Rose of Versailles, to fan fiction inspired by the gender-switching manga Ranma ½, to desire in otaku communities. Deftly weaving together desire and discourse, Mechademia 2 illuminates the techno-carnal fantasies, animalistic consumption, political nostalgia, and existential hunger underlying the most popular and influential expressions of Japanese popular culture today. Contributors: Brent Allison, U of Georgia; Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila; Hiroki Azuma; William L. Benzon; Christopher Bolton, Williams College; Martha Cornog; Patrick Drazen; Marc Hairston, U of Texas, Dallas; Mari Kotani; Shu Kuge, Penn State U; Margherita Long, U of California, Riverside; Daisuke Miyao; Hiromi Mizuno, U of Minnesota; Mariana Ortega; Timothy Perper; Eron Rauch; Trina Robbins; Brian Ruh, Indiana U; Deborah Shamoon, U of Notre Dame; Masami Toku, California State U, Chico; Keith Vincent, NYU. Frenchy Lunning is professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and editor of Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga (Minnesota, 2006).
Author : Theresa C Dintino
Publisher : Wise Strega Books
Page : pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2017-01-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781944476113
Lilith is a Goddess and mythological figure who is misunderstood. She is reputed to be Adam's first wife before Eve, and she represents the first powerful and liberated female in history. Then why was she banished? Through commentary and reflection on the multifaceted aspects of Lilith, Theresa C. Dintino guides the reader on an exciting inner journey to reclaim her own repressed parts. By examining how these Lilith energies may show up in her own life, the reader is encouraged to do the work to bring them back to life. Rituals included in the book offer the opportunity to explore these powerful but often feared aspects. Reclaiming the lost fragments-her power, her anger, her shadow, her sexuality, her creativity and her deep inner truth-returns the female psyche to a state of wholeness and integration.
Author : R. S. Belcher
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765390094
Maude Stapleton, a member of the Daughters of Lilith assassins' order, must take on their ancestral enemies, the Sons of Typhon, in order to save her kidnapped daughter.
Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1538765489
From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity -- before their powers destroy what is left of humankind. Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with an alien race -- the Oankali -- who saved them from near-certain extinction. The Oankalis' greatest skill lies in the species' ability to constantly adapt and evolve, a process that is guided by their third sex, the ooloi, who are able to read and mutate genetic code. Now, for the first time in the humans' relationship with the Oankali, a human mother has given birth to an ooloi child: Jodahs. Throughout his childhood, Jodahs seemed to be a male human-alien hybrid. But when he reaches adolescence, Jodahs develops the ooloi abilities to shapeshift, manipulate DNA, cure and create disease, and more. Frightened and isolated, Jodahs must either come to terms with this new identity, learn to control new powers, and unite what's left of humankind -- or become the biggest threat to their survival.
Author : Colin N. Manlove
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1532677162
This book grew out of the author's wish to go beyond a formal definition of fantasy to discover a basic urge and interest common to the genre. He finds this urge to be the celebration of identity. Fantasy is ultimately concerned to heighten and praise being, whether that being is God's creation, the world, or the creations of the fantasy writer themselves. This interest can take the form of direct eulogy or of more unconscious fascination. It is seen in fantasy's conservatism and its frequently elegiac mode, and is demonstrated through its formal characteristics such as circular structure and the use of juxtaposition to heighten individuality. It is more overtly present in modern than in pre-1800 fantasy, partly because modern fantasy developed as a Romantic reaction against technology and everything that reduced direct contact between people and the environment. These aspects of fantasy are illustrated from detailed discussion of the tales of Grimm, Walter de la Mare's Told Again, W. M. Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, Charles Williams's prose fantasies, Ursula le Guin's Earthsea trilogy, E. Nesbit's magic books, George MacDonald's Phantastes and Lilith, T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels, William Morris's late romances, Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter, E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, and Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn. Together these authors and works provide a cross-section of what is a fundamentally panegyric genre demonstrating its variety, its strengths, and its limitations.
