The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world by using a super-high-powered microscope. After finding a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave he develops chemicals that will allow him to shrink and enlarge himself so he can visit the universe he has discovered. Ray Cummings was a Science Fiction author and one of the founding fathers of the Science Fiction pulp genre. He worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer. He wrote 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson with his most highly regarded work being The Girl in the Golden Atom.
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Farjeon was born in London, the second son of a poor Orthodox Jewish family, and grew up in Whitechapel. He received no formal secular education, but at fourteen began training as a printer at a newspaper office. He came to Australia in 1854 and spent seven years on the goldfields, and then left to settle in New Zealand, where he established a successful literary career, before ultimately returning to England in 1868. Farjeon produced countless popular novels, many with mystery and adventure themes that drew on his colonial experiences, as well as plays, burlesques, short fiction and journalism. Grif: A Story of Australian Life (1866) was the most popular of his novels set in Australia. Originally published in New Zealand, it was later dramatised for the theatre and also reprinted in Australia, America and London several times.
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A good many of us, who are now certain beyond a doubt that space travel will forever remain in the realm of the impossible, probably would, if a rocket that were shot to the moon, for instance, did arrive, and perhaps return to give proof of its safe arrival on our satellite, accept the phenomenon in a perfectly blasé, twentieth century manner. Dr. Smith, that phenomenal writer of classic scientific fiction, seems to have become so thoroughly convinced of the advent of interplanetary travel that it is difficult for the reader to feel, after finishing "Spacehounds of IPC," that travel in the great spaces is not already an established fact. Dr. Smith, as a professional chemist, is kept fairly busy. As a writer, he is satisfied with nothing less than perfection. For that reason, a masterpiece from his pen has become almost an annual event. We know you will like "Spacehounds" even better than the "Skylark" series.
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Warum wir uns nicht vor Muslimen, sondern vor Islamfeinden fürchten sollten! Pegida. Islamischer Staat. Charlie Hebdo. Das Kopftuchverbot für Lehrerinnen wird aufgehoben. Die Debatte um den Islam in Europa, um Moscheen und Mohammed-Karikaturen hört nicht auf, und von Michel Houellebecq bis Thilo Sarrazin, von Alice Schwarzer bis Marine Le Pen kommt es dabei zu ungewöhnlichen Allianzen.Aber wovor muss man Angst haben? Dieses Buch gibt eine Antwort. Wer hat Angst vorm Muselmann? rechtspopulistische Parteien wie die"Alternative für Deutschland" und Bewegungen nutzen die Abneigung gegenüber dem Islam als reibstoff. Aber Vorurteile gegenüber Muslimen und ihrer Religion sind in allen Schichten und über alle politischen Lager hinweg verbreitet - in ganz Europa. Denn die Angst vor dem Islam ist tief in der europäischen Geschichte verwurzelt. Aber eine übersteigerte Angst vor Muslimen droht die Grundlagen dessen zu zerstören, was Europa ausmachen sollte.
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<b>Enfin tranquilles... ou presque...</b> <br> <br>Insouciants, comme tous les amoureux, Nancy et Jean-Gabriel flânent sur le sentier qui mène à la pointe de Pen-Hir. Instant de pur bonheur dans ce paysage grandiose. Mais, soudain, le charme est rompu par le vol stationnaire d'un hélicoptère juste au-dessus d'eux et la vie de JG va à nouveau basculer dans l'angoisse avec la disparition simultanée de la jeune femme. <br>Quelle est donc la sombre machination qui poursuit celle-ci à travers la France ? Revivrait-on les miasmes d'un cauchemar qu'on croyait à jamais oublié ? <br> <br> <b>Ce roman policier avec <i>Brume sur la Presqu'île</i> et <i>La route de Rocamadour</i> constitue une trilogie qui nous appelle à la vigilance : tel un phénix, le monstre n'attend que de renaître…</b> <br> <br>EXTRAIT <br> <br>Ils arrivèrent, main dans la main, en haut du sentier, là où il rejoint le parking aménagé face à l’immense croix de Lorraine commémorant les sacrifices des combattants de la Libération. Mais, évitant de rejoindre la foule autour du monument, ils choisirent de redescendre un peu plus vers l’extrême pointe d’où l’on voit les vagues tout en bas et après le premier des Tas de Pois, la passe où se risquent toujours quelques bateaux quand la mer est calme et quand la marée le permet. <br>Quelques mètres plus bas, quelqu’un faisait de la varappe, il était en train de descendre ou peut-être de remonter le long de la roche à peu près verticale à cet endroit. Sur un des deux ou trois bateaux que l’on voyait en dessous, s’allumait le flash d’un appareil photo. <br>Et soudain tout devint confus. Le gros hélicoptère s’approchait à nouveau, très vite et assez bas pour donner l’impression à Jean-Gabriel que quelque chose d’anormal était en train de se produire <br> <br>À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR <br> <br> <b>Jean-Pierre Farines</b> vit en Auvergne et en Allemagne. Poète, éditeur d'une revue de poésie et homme de théâtre, il est aussi amoureux de la presqu'île de Crozon. <br> <br>À PROPOS DE L'ÉDITEUR <br> <br>"Depuis sa création en 1996, pas moins de 3 millions d'exemplaires des 420 titres de la collection « Enquêtes et suspense » ont été vendus. [...] À chaque fois, la géographie est détaillée à l'extrême, et les lecteurs, qu'ils soient résidents ou de passage, peuvent voir évoluer les personnages dans les criques qu'ils fréquentent." - <b>Clémentine Goldszal, <i>M le Mag</i>, août 2023</b>
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In this short, speculative novelette, scientist Pieter Harting ponders changes to come over the next 200 years. Harting, quite ahead of his time, describes coming wonders such as self propelled engines, telescopes, widespread use of concrete and aluminum, and daylight at night without the use of candles. Writing under the pen name 'Dr. Dioscorides', Harting takes the reader on a journey through Londinia and beyond in the year AD 2071, detailing scientific progress, technological advancements, and a changed moral and political landscape.
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"A Modern Instance" is among the most vigorous performances that Mr. Howells has given to the public. The fine humor of his previous writings is here; the descriptive power, which with a few words enables us to understand the visible surroundings of the characters, the close reading of character, analyzing without seeming to do so, and all that. But the book is a deeper one than most that Mr. Howells has written, not merely because it treats of a subject that has an element of the tragic in it, but because it treats a more important theme than has yet engaged its author's attention, in a manner commensurate with its importance, and in a manner which leaves the reader with the impression that the theme has been discussed for all that it is artistically and morally worth. This story, like others that have proceeded from the same pen, is a study of certain characteristic phases of American, or rather New England, life—for Mr. Howells appears to be under the impression that there is a certain flavor—savory or unsavory— about New England life which is not to be found elsewhere, or at least nowhere else in the same intensity. The hero of "A Modern Instance" is one of those smart fellows whose smartness from the first takes quite a positive bend in the direction of scampishness. We all know of such, and the essentials of Mr. Howells' careful characterization refer themselves easily to many examples in real life. But while Bartley Hubbard is a type, he is also a distinct individuality, and the tragedy of "A Modern Instance" comes from mating his conscienceless and superficial smartness with the limited intelligence, Puritanical bringing-up, imperfect culture, and strong affections of a girl who is as much a typical New Englander as any of the smart young women who have done so much duty as representative Americans in the writings of Mr. Howells and Mr. James. There is nothing better in Mr. Howells' book than the glimpse that is given at the family surroundings of Marcia, and an Indiana divorce court is the legitimate winding-up of the mating of such a woman with such a man as Bartley Hubbard. The smart fellow literally wears out the patience of his not at all smart wife—wrecking her life just as he wrecks his own moral and physical natures. The moral of such a story is obvious, and Mr. Howells might have satisfied every requirement of artistic propriety by permitting it to point itself. He has not, however, found it possible to let go of his subject without a bit of sermonizing, which is very excellent in its particular way, but which adds nothing to the impressiveness of the narrative.
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For many readers, this story belongs to Mr. Howells' most perfect pieces of work. In saying this, these people are not unmindful of the delicious humor and exquisite descriptions of " A Chance Acquaintance," of Kitty's breezy freshness and Mr. Arbuton's typical Bostonism. But Mr. Howells has lived in Venice till the melancholy beauty of its decay has so taken possession of him that he can describe all phases of its life more perfectly than any other English writer; and against a background of palaces and canals' he creates a picture of the drama of love, ever old, yet ever new, which causes a soul to dwell among the shadows of that great past. The American mother and daughter wandering forlorn in foreign lands, in quest of the health for the elder which never is found, the artist consul, the priest wearily going through the round of offices which are a lie to him, and dreaming over his inventions, till he wakes to find himself in love with the young girl whom he has taught Italian, the group of lesser characters, from gondolier to canonico, briefly drawn, but instinct with life, are delineated with the same subtle skill of portraiture, keen irony, and delicious pen, which makes a new book of Mr. Howells' a literary event. The atmosphere of the " Queen of the Sea " hangs over all. Those who know Venice inhale its unique beauty again from these pages, and those who have never floated on those still waters, away from the common world, can see its very spirit reflected here, as the outlines of its buildings and the hues of its skies are imaged in the canals below them.
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