A novel of a world where tragedy is frequent, but miracles also occur. The characters include a gambling, one armed former guano collector called Sam Pickle, Dolly, his alcoholic and unfaithful wife, a talking pig, and Oriel who dishes out ice-cream and cake from the Cloudstreet front room.
When a black football star dies following a police car chase, crime reporter Britt Montero suspects a cover-up and is determined to find out. Her investigation takes her from the high-intensity of the newsroom to riding the dangerous and often violent midnight beat with the cops.
Writing to H. G. Wells on April 25, 1905, Conrad said, "but since, O Brother!, I am but a novelist I must speak in images." Thus he expressed one important aspect of his artistic theory, for it was his constant concern to find the right word to produce the right image. This talent he ascribed to his friend Edward Garnett: 'You no doubt have the gift of the "mot juste," of those sentences that are like a flash of limelight on the facade of a cathedral or a flash of lightning on a landscape when the whole scene and all the details leap up before the eye in a moment and are irresistibly impressed on memory by their sudden vividness'. REUPLOAD NEEDED
An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats.
On the world of Hyperion, in the year 3126, Raul Endymion is executed. However, Silenus, author of the notorious Cantos, has chosen him. So when Raul wakes up he finds he has been chosen to take the One Who Teaches into the future and protect her until her destiny is fulfilled.
