Telluria
Author | : Vladimir Sorokin |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2022-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681376334 |
In the warring, neo-feudal society of this cross-genre novel for fans of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson, the greatest treasure is a dose of tellurium—a magical drug administered by a spike through the brain. Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China, and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations that are like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo-feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates. What does, however, travel everywhere is the appetite for the special substance tellurium. A spike of tellurium, driven into the brain by an expert hand, offers a transforming experience of bliss; incorrectly administered, it means death. The fifty chapters of Telluria map out this brave new world from fifty different angles, as Vladimir Sorokin, always a virtuoso of the word, introduces us to, among many other figures, partisans and princes, peasants and party leaders, a new Knights Templar, a harem of phalluses, and a dog-headed poet and philosopher who feasts on carrion from the battlefield. The book is an immense and sumptuous tapestry of the word, carnivalesque and cruel, and Max Lawton, Sorokin’s gifted translator, has captured it in an English that carries the charge of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson.
Bergey's Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology
Author | : James T. Staley |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1415 |
Release | : 2006-07-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0387292985 |
Includes a description of the Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteabacteria (1256 pages, 512 figures, and 371 tables). This large taxa include many well known medically and environmentally important groups. Especially notable are Acetobacter, Agrobacterium, Aquospirillum, Brucella, Burkholderia, Caulobacter, Desulfovibrio, Gluconobacter, Hyphomicrobium, Leptothrix, Myxococcus, Neisseria, Paracoccus, Propionibacter, Rhizobium, Rickettsia, Sphingomonas, Thiobacillus, Xanthobacter and 268 additional genera.
Herdbook Containing the Pedigree of Improved Short-horn Cattle
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Cattle |
ISBN | : |
Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.
American Herd Book
Author | : American Short-horn Breeders' Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1110 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Cattle |
ISBN | : |
The Mid-Winter Fall
Author | : R. Scott Taylor |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0985767499 |
As the air turns cold and the natural order readies for slumber, a power awakens that will threaten the nations of Aflyr and Lystbrook. A wandering Druid, an outcast Lady-In-Waiting, and a foreign Prince take center stage as the dark goddess of Arcania seeks her stolen child and raises Demons, Fey, and even a legendary Dragon into the world of men. Open war looms between the Delvers and Humankind, and soon all will be embroiled in the Mid-Winter Fall...