Tag Archives: fantasy

Introspection

When the ordinary becomes extraordinary

4 Comments

I took this photograph of the Fremantle Prison wall back in April.

I love it.

I love the way it looks like a map you’d find in the front of a fantasy novel with places like Midkemia and Great Kesh written in a cursive font as if by a ancient map maker.

Even the edges seem shaded to denote a high rainfall area or maybe a high population.

I like the little oblongish bit at the bottom that looks like an island.
As a result, you can grab more blood and gain viagra sildenafil mastercard fuller and harder erection. These involve foods which might be rich free prescription viagra around carbohydrates. What are the treatments Available cheap cialis for Diabetic Men with ED? Men having trouble receiving erection or maintaining one for a suitable period of time during intercourse. Panossian and Wikman also suggest (7) generic soft cialis in a second review that these adaptogens might normalize homeostasis (balance in the body) through several mechanisms akin to mild stress hormones.
Or maybe it could be the surface of an ancient gourd, uncovered from a buried civilisation.

Or maybe not.

Yes.

It’s just a wall.

But sometimes isn’t it nice to dream that things are more than they are.

Books

Extras by Scott Westerfeld

The four Uglies booksExtras is the fourth book in the Uglies trilogy. Well, strictly speaking the trilogy – Uglies, Pretties and Specials – stands alone. Lets just say this is another book set in the Uglies world. You can read my review of that series here.

Extras is set around a new heroine in another city – this time in Japan. This city is based on a “reputation economy” where the most famous get the most resources. Sound familiar? To get famous you either need to be clever at something or you need to report or “kick” the story.

Fame is everything.

Your fame buys you luxury apartments, beautiful clothes, invitations to the most exclusive of parties. It’s kind of how our celebrities live now!

(You can also get merits by being a doctor or scientist… the merit system runs alongside the reputation economy.)

Here are some details about this product: This capsule is an extremely effective but simple way to treat Erectile Dysfunction. buy viagra on line It works buy online viagra by increasing blood to the penile tissues and soften any erections quickly. Herbs such as Mucuna pruriens and Withania somnifera helps to order levitra canada enhance blood flow to the penis when a man is sexually excited. As long as you keep an active and healthy lifestyle, you should have a strong and long sexually active buy viagra uk life ahead of you. If you want a glimpse into the future this could be it. Obviously Scott Westerfeld has spent some time in Asia. In his future world anyone can “kick” a story. From our 15 year old heroine’s point-of-view, it’s her chance to go from a “face rank” of 451,369 into the top 1000.

The kickers in his story are our “Naturals” of today. They don’t travel anywhere without their cameras, they are completely at home with hi-tech equipment and then they “kick” their stories onto the internet. Just like on social networking sites of today – but of course far more integrated into their society. 🙂

Stories are then “kicked” on by others – just like you Stumble and Digg stories today.

I think that’s why I’ve found this series so engaging. Scott manages to pick up on contemporary themes and spin them out to see where they go.

A good series for teens, late tweens and young minded adults. 🙂

Books

The World Wreckers

By Marion Zimmer Bradley. I picked this up for a dollar at the Save the Children Booksale. I’d read it before – probably around 1983. It is one of the Darkover novels. Kamagra is formulated with Sildenafil citrate as the basic constituent that works by exempting the penile muscles and enhancing the blood supply to the male organ making it capable enough to procure desire erection. pfizer viagra tablets gets active within 30 minutes. You can last longer in best prices on sildenafil bed to satisfy her with improved sexual pleasure. Its popularity among the sufferers is only because of its effective work mechanism to eliminate levitra prices slovak-republic.org men’s erectile dysfunction. It is absorbed in the body cialis uk by the regular oral activity. If you know them I need not go on. If you don’t, and you like fantasy novels, Anne McCaffrey style, then you’ll probably like this series. It’s escapism.

Books

Dragon’s Fire

3 Comments

By Anne and Todd McCaffrey.

Anne McCaffrey’s fantasy world of Pern is like comfort food to me. I love these stories. When 911 happened… we watched it live on the telly as the first pictures came in right after The Bill, a favourite in those days… I dug out my collection and read them all back-to-back.

Lovemaking is one of the prescription levitra essential aspects of the life. It is a by-product of the male hormone known as pamelaannschoolofdance.com viagra viagra testosterone. He is only sex http://pamelaannschoolofdance.com/class-schedule/fall-19-20-schedule-all-black-page-001/ viagra samples doctor in Delhi, who provides best treatment at low cost. He’ll have to adjust to your new body. sildenafil for women So when I saw she’d written one with her son I was keen to read it. That was Dragon’s Kin a couple of years ago. This one runs parallel in part with the first… and tells the story of Firestone. The rock the dragon’s need to eat to produce flame.

I’m not sure these measure quite up to the richness of the world created in the original series but I still enjoyed reading it and will look for the next one when it comes. Again, not challenging reading but my head is too full at the moment for anything but escapism to a world I’ve already been to.

Books

The Ancient Future

This book by Traci Harding made it to Angus & Robertson’s Top 100 List. Number 61. As voted for by readers. I’m sorry Traci – but I just don’t get why. Groover brought it home from the airport and I read it after he gave up because I’m always looking out for new fantasy authors and she’s Australian so I was keen to enjoy it. But…

The plot is just too silly. And the language – Ms Harding uses thee and thou to indicate when the characters are speaking Ancient Welsh – just becomes irritating. Not recommended, though I did get to the boring end.

These 70% men were treated for the autonomic neuropathy; it was found that cialis tablets india 50% men out of them grew up learning. viagra sans prescription canada For medical purposes in China, the leaves are believed to include compounds that thin blood. But what exactly, you may levitra samples free never know. Here, we’re going to discuss some of the questions that can confirm the PE are: Frequency of ejaculation Duration of ejaculation If the problem occur during masturbation or during the time of sexual encounter The proper physician consultation is mandatory that can also guide you to keep a safe distance from the adverse mechanisms of this receptor the constriction activity of the blood vessels can be restricted india cialis online and. Today I read The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin, the author of Tales of the City. A much more satisfying read.

Oh… what was number 1 you ask? All six of the Harry Potter series. Yep.