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Some of the authors - Butler, Delany - I knew. Any friend of Dahlgren's is likely to be a friend of mine. Checked it out.
Start to finish, this anthology introduced me to people I would likely never have read - only because I had no idea who they were. Now I have a whole new reading list from authors I met in this collection. I have yet to be disappointed in a novel from any of the authors I met here, and I continue to seek out their work at the library.
Thank you Sheree R. Thomas for putting these works together for me to sample many new-to-me authors of speculative/science fiction.
Now the party crasher has arrived. "Dark Matter" not only bum rushes the party yelling, "We are here and things will never be the same!" It also informs the partygoers that we have always been here.
"Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora" is an important anthology that sends an important message. Sheree R. Thomas has compiled a wonderful collection of SF from all over the African Diaspora. Every aspect of SF is covered in the wonderful tales that are included in this book.
Steven Barnes' "The Woman in the Wall" is the best fiction I read from him. This story is definitely one of the emotional highlights of the anthology. Nalo Hopkinson has two stories and both are excellent. "The Space Traders" by Derrick Bell brings up many important issues concerning the role African Americans play in our society. This book is full on many more examples of thought provoking and emotional fiction.
The essays included in this book will give you a better understanding of racism within the science fiction community and hope for a more inclusive future.
I hope that every SF fan embraces this book.
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Some other books have since come out which seemed to me to be nothing more than blatant attempts to capitalize on the success of one of the most popular syndicated television shows in history. This book always struck me as something different. But maybe that's just because the author took the time to see what the fans thought and cared about.
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Justine is a "devious" woman who is determined to do anything it takes to keep her boyfriend, who is Isaiah, at any cost! Consequently, Justine is the type of person who will not let anything or anyone stand in the way of what she wants and desires in her life.
Isaiah is an "intelligent" and "honest" young Black CEO who falls in love with Justine. But Isaiah does not have an "idea" or a "clue" to what he is getting involved in, once he starts a relationship with Justine. Once Isaiah decides that Justine is not the woman he wants to share his life with, a "fatal attraction" is ensued by Justine -- which leads to a "chillin" and "suspense-filled" thriller!
Lastly, "The Kiss of Judas" will have readers wondering and asking themselves: "What will happen next?"
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Anne Shirley is a twelve-year-old girl who is brought to Green Gables only to find they were expecting a boy. The Cuthberts however, are one over by this queer, imaginative girl with bright, red hair and decide to allow her to stay.
Green Gables is a lovely, little farm just outside of a small town on Prince Edward Island called Avonlea. It is surrounded by fields and forests, which hold many surprises for adventurous Anne.
Throughout this book Anne's fierce temper and wild imagination often get the better of her, but she usually manages to squeeze out of these scrapes.
Anne's melodramatic nature and fiery temper keeps you interested as you read this marvelous book.
Montgomery's humorous writing style gives life to the characters so that you feel like you are meeting them in person.
I think that this was a wonderful book filled with humor, drama and tears. I would recommend this book to anyone that has ever had a dream and loves a good book.
This book portrays a stunning sketch of Canadian History and Culture in the late 1800s to early 1900s. The character personalities are so real and so amazingly "human" that one cannot help but fall in love with them. You really get a taste of PEI in its glory.
This story is set in Avonlea, Prince Edward Island (Canada), a fictional settlement which is really Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, the place where Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author grew up.
The main character is Anne Shirley...and eleven year old, enigmatic, imaginative, sparkling, highly intelligent orphan who is sent to Green Gables, a farmhouse in Avonlea, under the impression that she was to be adopted by a pair of elderly siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthburt. But, apon arrival to Green Gables, Anne discovers that there had been a horrible mistake...the Cuthburts never wanted a girl...they wanted a boy who could do the chores and help Matthew with the farm. Anne was was in the "depths of dispair". Matthew, on the drive home from the train station had taken a great shine to Anne and had his heart set on keeping her, regardless of any mistake. Marilla, however, was not so easily enchanted. She agreed to let Anne stay at Green Gables on trial, to see if she would behave herself and lend a helpful hand to Marilla. After the trial, Anne is welcomed to Green Gables and flourishes under the love of the Cuthburts and all Avonlea folk. Anne, however, has one big problem. Her Hair. It is a hopeless shade of carrotty red and Anne felt that it was the ugliest hair anyone could imagine. She was extremely sensitive about it and she was horribly embarrassed about it. On her first day of school, Anne's hair was made fun of by Gilbert Blythe, the smartest and handsomest boy in school. "Carrots! Carrots!" he said. Anne's temper got the better of her and she was so angry she broke a slate over his head. After that, for many years, she snubbed Gilbert every time he spoke to her and he developed a boyhood crush on her.
Ah, but to keep this review interesting and the book mysterious, I will stop telling you the story and begin reviewing. The characters in the book are so well-defined that it seems to you that you know every character personally, like an old friend or neighbour.
And by all means, don't let the age recommendation fool you either...this book can be read by all ages alike...and I have no doubt that this book will still be my avid favorite at the age of 85.
The book is not boring, contrary to many opinions of those who read the first chapter of small print and historical settings. The discriptions will place you right into the heart of the story and you find you will laugh and cry while reading this story. Every time I read it I cry at a certain part which I'm not sure if I should reveal to you for fear of spoiling the good parts in the story, but it is dreadfully sad. If you read the book, then you will know what part I am talking about. The one saddest part in the whole story.
Although this book has some old ideas and ways of expressing them, you will learn a great deal of Canadian history through them and there's no doubt in my mind that this book will still be popular decades and most likely even centuries to come.
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... The whole notion of recovered memories is intensely threatening to the societal status quo. Recovered memories are most threatening to those accused of abuse, and it is of course a very natural response for those abusers to accuse their abusers of being coerced into making accusations or, alternatively, or imagining things. In coming to terms with recovered memories, incest survivors must be very, very sure of their painful memories before they will take the incredibly difficult and painful step of challenging the status quo and making an accusation
Let us be very clear, whilst there is a long, scientifically documented history of childhood sexual abuse and of the repression of those memories, there is no such scientfically documented record of,so-called, "false memory syndrome". Due to its abhorrent nature, the legal system, society at large, and the mainstream media finds it more convenient to side with those accused of sexual abuse, than it does to support victims. Although this is not the place for a discussion of how and why this is so, for a well-reasoned, scientific critique of the history of such trauma, and its societal repression, a good parallel read is "Trauma and Recovery: The aftermath of violence, from domestic abuse to political terror" by Judith Herman, MD. She is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and could not be more authoritative. It is also worth reading "The Assault on Truth" by Jeffrey Masson. He is a Freud biographer who investigates how and why Sigmund Freud came to disown his discovery that female mental and emotional problems in late 18th Century Vienna were largely caused by childhood sexual abuse.
I have read only the first 64 pages since last night (It's going slow because there's so much I want to make notes on) and I have made so much progress with this book in such a short period of time (less than 24 hours) it's sort of shocking. Actually, I'd like to give this book SIX stars!!
The first story by W. E. B. Dubois is the perfect example... this story of a black man and a white woman discovering that they are the only ones living among a massive meteor disaster in the streets of New York begin re-evaluating their roles as black or white, lower class or upper class and begin to see that none of that matters. As the last two humans living on earth, the record is wiped clean of labels and salvaging humanity is the only real issue.
It's a must read, can't put down, tell all your friends about book that will hopefully get the recognition and reward it deserves.