![]() ![]() “I kill a man as I drink a glass of wine,” he told visitors who flocked to his prison cell. He had somehow touched that deep nerve of perverse freedom that runs through everyone. What was most revelatory about Lacenaire was neither the man himself nor his crime spree but the fact that Paris was so captivated by him. Stories like his are “more exciting than all possible novels because they light up the dark sides of the human soul that art does not like to approach.” Violence was acceptable in novels, but senseless, wanton violence seemed too unruly for art. In 1861, Dostoevsky was looking for material for a magazine he was starting called Vremya, and Lacenaire’s story, which Dostoevsky helped translate into Russian for the publication, fit perfectly.* Lacenaire “is a remarkable personality, enigmatic, frightening, and gripping,” he told his subscribers in a note. The intersection of Dostoevsky’s life and the life of Lacenaire, which I chronicle in my new book, The Sinner and the Saint, was a crucial moment in the history of the novel. It was crude, sensationalist, and irredeemable. It romanticized the murderer, doted on his courtroom theatrics, and barely glanced at his implicitly culpable victims-a con man of “infamous habits” (contemporary code for a man who consorted with other men) and the con man’s widowed mother, who presumably condoned her son’s behavior. This was the worst type of true crime story. ![]() ![]() Send me updates about Slate special offers. ![]()
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The ship will keep getting closer and closer to light-speed, reducing the passage of time onboard (their "Tau") to nearly zero. Then things go to hell when the ship collides with a nebula (due to the mass of the ship and nebula at that speed, it's like hitting a solid object) the ship's decelerator system is damaged, so they can speed up (and steer) but can't slow down. The journey should take 33 years, but due to Time Dilation at near-light speed, only 5 years will pass for the crew. ![]() The starship Leonora Christine is supposed to carry its 50 colonists to a distant star. It is based on a 1967 short story "To Outlive Eternity". A somewhat hard Science Fiction novel by Poul Anderson, written in 1970. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters were well-developed and fleshed out. There was a touch of humor that eased the tension when necessary. ![]() The passion, though light, was a simmering volcano waiting to erupt. The angst and drama were off the chart, but in such a way that they were quite daring and definitely not out of proportion with the plot and storyline. There was so much to enjoy about this book that it's hard to know where to begin without giving too much away. Fearing another assault, Verity sought out Lord James with a business proposition: he would teach her to fight and she would teach him how to comport himself with more refinement in order to find a wife and to fit into Society better. Determining she wanted to return to Society in order to find a husband, she returned to London, only for her long ago assailant to make further overtures. Several years earlier, having suffered an assault by one of her brother's friends, Verity had been in seclusion ever since. ![]() When the Earl was Wicked, Book 5 of the Forever Yours series, was about Lady Verity Ayles, sister to Lord Albert Ayles, the Earl of Sutcliffe (in some places in the book, her brother was referred to as the Earl of Sutcliffe, but in others, he was referred to as Viscount Sutcliffe, and in still another place her brother's first name was changed from Albert to Arthur), and Lord James Radcliffe, the Earl of Maschelly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ✓ Supports high refresh rates at sub-4K resolutions. ✓ 4K60 capture at a great bitrate for the money ✓ Hardware decoding makes life easier for your PC ✓ Passes 4K/60FPS video to your monitor or TV ✓ Cheaper than external cards with similar specifications ✓ Flexible card for any type of streaming or capture With dual HDMI ports, you can have your gameplay and camera looking great. 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This internal capture card has it all: 4K capabilities, ultrawide capture support, and 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound capture, all for a decent price. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing like this great work had ever been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in Promontory Peak, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined.Īmbrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men - the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary - who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation. In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot - the end of the track. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, lived off buffalo, deer, and antelope. At its peak, the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as 15,000 workers on each line. ambroses book, nothing like it in the word: the men who built the transcontinental railroad 1863-1869. government pitted two companies - the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads - against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life. Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage. ![]() In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was weird, claustrophobic, paranoid, and gritty. It was really unlike anything I’d ever seen. When did you first experience the series?īrian Evenson – I watched “Alien” in a theater when it first came out in 1979-I was too young to get in on my own, but a friend and I convinced his mother to take us. That and reading a lot.ĪvPGalaxy – Alien is hardly one of those films you forget about. I think that was an important part of my formation as a writer too. I played a lot of RPGs when I was young as well, things like Gamma World, and would design a lot of scenarios for them. I almost immediately felt like writing was something I wanted to keep doing, even though I didn’t publish my first story until many years later. To give herself time to work she encouraged us to sit down while she was working and write or paint or draw. When I was around twelve or so my mother wrote and published a couple of SF stories. When did you first come to the realization you wanted to become a writer?īrian Evenson – It was when I was pretty young. ![]() ![]() ![]() My involvement in the Alien franchise is through a novel I wrote called Aliens: No Exit.ĪvPGalaxy – You’ve been writing for sometime now. I’ve published ten books, mostly literary stuff, but have also done work in two video game franchises: Halo and Dead Space. For those not in the know could you tell us about yourself and your involvement in the Alien franchise?īrian Evenson – I’m a writer and somebody who teaches writing for a living. AvPGalaxy – I’m here talking to Brian Evenson. ![]() ![]() I always like the rebel women and I think she is exactly that. I read this book as a story of many tensions, tensions between couples, tensions about old secrets, race, responsibilities, and dreams.įor me, the most important character in this book is Jadine. A sailor, Son, who has abandoned ship, enters their lives and that's when things get interesting. ![]() In this novel we meet retired rich American Valerian Street living on the L'Isle des Chevaliers with his much younger wife, Margaret, two African-American servants and their niece, Jadine, who is visiting from France. It turns out that like with most Toni Morrison books, it's impossible to summarize everything there's just too much to talk about. ![]() I think the tropical Caribbean setting and all the talk of candy and flowers fooled me into thinking that this would be one of Toni Morrison's simpler reads. Too much foliage and much too much sleep."- Toni Morrison, Tar Baby ![]() ![]() While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. ![]() Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. ![]() She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. ![]() |