| Author | : Ryan Boudinot |
| Publisher | : Black Cat |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0802170919 |
In a future world that has been decimated by a sentient glacier and corrupt nanotechnology, a film archivist, a former mercenary and a virtuoso dishwasher are manipulated by a man who is overseeing the construction of a Manhattan replica in Puget Sound.
| Author | : David Eagleman |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2009-02-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307378020 |
At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.
| Author | : Jamil King |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 2018-06-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781983038655 |
Figuring out The Blueprint 4 life is rooted in discovering your purpose in life, which brings you true fulfillment. As you progress and mature in life, your Blueprint must shift at every stage of progression. A better marriage requires a different Blueprint. A better job or business requires a different Blueprint. A better title in any sector requires more responsibility, which means your mindset must shift. The true definition of the Blueprint is simply your way of thinking. 100 percent of living a successful life is found in the consciousness of humanity. That is why I called this book the Blueprint 4 Life.In this book it would be impossible to cover every scenario in life from God, family, relationships, job, career, mentality, emotionalism, spirituality, finances etc.... However, I will be elaborating on these. So, the goal is not just to encourage you even though you will be encouraged but to challenge you to be responsible and take ownership for finding and discovering the Blueprint 4 Life. When you discover the right set of Blueprints for your life, your destiny will begin to shift and synchronize into a higher degree of consciousness.Once you read this book your mindset will have shifted to cause you to change behaviors and patterns that were influenced or entertained by your environment, culture, upbringing, role models and the media. You will have gained an awareness of your individual uniqueness. Your uniqueness is desiring to manifest itself into greatness. Greatness that was deposited in you but has been held captive and lying dormant ready to be released. Let's begin the release as you learn firsthand your Blueprint 4 Life.
| Author | : Sarah Wasserman |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2020-10-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1452964157 |
A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century “Nothing ever really disappears from the internet” has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was filled with ephemera—items that were designed to disappear forever—and these objects played crucial roles in some of that century’s greatest works of literature. In The Death of Things, author Sarah Wasserman delivers the first comprehensive study addressing the role ephemera played in twentieth-century fiction and its relevance to contemporary digital culture. Representing the experience of perpetual change and loss, ephemera was central to great works by major novelists like Don DeLillo, Ralph Ellison, and Marilynne Robinson. Following the lives and deaths of objects, Wasserman imagines new uses of urban space, new forms of visibility for marginalized groups, and new conceptions of the marginal itself. She also inquires into present-day conundrums: our fascination with the durable, our concerns with the digital, and our curiosity about what new fictional narratives have to say about deletion and preservation. The Death of Things offers readers fascinating, original angles on how objects shape our world. Creating an alternate literary history of the twentieth century, Wasserman delivers an insightful and idiosyncratic journey through objects that were once vital but are now forgotten.
| Author | : Jay Caspian Kang |
| Publisher | : Hogarth |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2012-08-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307953904 |
Hailed as The Awl’s 2012’s novel to anticipate, this glorious debut stars hippie detectives, a singular city, and an MFA student on the run. On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets fly through a window in his apartment building and end up killing one of his neighbors. Philip only learns about the murder the next day when bored and Googling himself. But when he gets caught up in the investigation and becomes the focus of an elaborate, violent scheme, he will learn far more than he ever wanted to about his former four-eggs-at-a-time borrowing neighbor Dolores Stone, aka “The Grey Beaver,” and her shocking connections to an underworld only a city like this one could create. Siddhartha “Sid” Finch, a homicide detective bitter about everything except his gorgeous wife, and his phlegmatic, pock-marked partner Jim Kim, land the case. Sid and Jim race after Philip through a menacing, unknowable San Francisco fending off militant surfers, vaguely European cafes, and aggressive Advanced Creative Writing students as they all try to figure out just who’s causing trouble in this city they love to hate. Exceedingly unique, pulsing with vigor and heart, and loaded with fierce, fresh language, The Dead Do Not Improve confirms Jay Caspian Kang as a true American original as obsessed with surfing and surviving as with the power of unforgettable storytelling.
| Author | : Lyn Ragan |
| Publisher | : Hour Glass Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2012-10-12 |
| Genre | : Spiritualism |
| ISBN | : 9780986020513 |
The story of Chip Oney's ongoing after-life communications with his fiance Lyn Ragan after his violent murder.
| Author | : Noah Van Sciver |
| Publisher | : Fantagraphics Books |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2020-03-18 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1683962850 |
Collects all three volumes of the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novels series, which skewers a self-important male literary poser. Living in a beat-up motel and consorting with the downtrodden as well as the mid-level literati, Fante Bukowski must overcome great obstacles ― a love interest turned rival, ghostwriting a teen celebrity's memoirs, no actual talent ― to gain the respect and adoration from critics and, more importantly, his father. Van Sciver has created a scathing, hilarious, and empathetic character study of a self-styled author determined that he's just one more poem (or drink) away from success. The book includes a foreward by novelist Ryan Boudinot (Blueprints of the Afterlife), a facsimile reproduction of Bukowski's literary debut, 6 Poems (thought lost to time in the wake of a motel fire that destroyed the entire original print run), a "Works Cited" section, and a selection of "visual tributes" by over two dozen cartoonists including Nina Bunjevac, Simon Hanselmann, Jesse Jacobs, Ed Piskor, Leslie Stein, and others.
| Author | : Bryan Kessler |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2019-06-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781073724437 |
What is God's ultimate intention? Ask most Christians this question, and you'll likely hear something like this: To save us, to glorify Himself, or to make disciples of Jesus in the nations.But what if there is something deeper? What if God has a master plan, a blueprint from which He operates, that has been hidden from many believers for centuries? The apostle Paul unveiled this mysterious plan almost 2,000 years ago in the book of Ephesians, but unfortunately, it has become a mystery once again in the church. If you've ever felt a sense of unrest over the often-shallow, man-centered modern approach to Christianity, you know there must be more. And there is. God has an ultimate intention, an original plan and purpose from which we've strayed . . . and we need to find our way back.As you will see in The Eternal Blueprint, the way back begins with rediscovering God's eternal purpose, which has driven the ages of history and will drive the eternal ages to come. Before creation, before the garden, and before the fall, the triune God had a vision for the world-a vision that includes you. What's the purpose of life? Where do you fit into God's plans for the world? For eternity? When you discover God's original intention, you will find your true purpose and meaning in life. When you understand the magnificent plan that God established before the foundation of the world, you will know the reason why you were created.As The Eternal Blueprint explains, God has issued you the invitation of a lifetime . . . literally. You were created to be the Father's, the Son's, and the Spirit's eternal inheritance. Once you understand this life-transforming truth, which is at the center of God's eternal purpose, you will never be the same.
| Author | : Ryan Boudinot |
| Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2012-01-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0802194745 |
A tour de force novel from the “wickedly talented” (The Boston Globe) and “darkly funny” author of Misconception (The New York Times Book Review). Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award It is the afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called “the Age of Fucked Up Shit.” A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America. Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked. Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not really her own. She may be right. Al Skinner is a former mercenary for the Boeing Army, who’s been dragging his war baggage behind him for nearly a century. Woo-jin Kan is a virtuoso dishwasher with the Restaurant and Hotel Management Olympic medals to prove it. Over them all hovers a mysterious man named Dirk Bickle, who sends all these characters to a full-scale replica of Manhattan under construction in Puget Sound. An ambitious novel that writes large the hopes and anxieties of our time—climate change, social strife, the depersonalization of the digital age—Blueprints of the Afterlife will establish Ryan Boudinot as an exceptional novelist of great daring. “Duct-tape yourself to the front of this roller coaster and enjoy the ride.” —The New York Times “Challenging, messy and funny fiction for readers looking for something way beyond space operas and swordplay.” —Kirkus Reviews “The absurdities are cleverly crafted and highly entertaining. Imaginative [and] heartfelt.” —Hannah Calkins, Shelf Awareness “Ingenious . . . Frenzied, hilarious, and paranoid . . . A bracing dystopian romp through contemporary dread.” —Publishers Weekly “Probably the strangest post-apocalyptic novel in ages.” —io9 “What an inspired mindfuck of a book!” —City Paper (Baltimore)
