In a country beset by civil war, New London defends itself behind a giant wall. Inside the city, children are forced to work from an early age, except for the lucky few who train to be leaders in the re-purposed Palace of Westminster. 12-year-old orphaned Pax is brilliant at recycling old tech. He enjoys working on the verti-farms and just wants a bit of peace and quiet. But when that is taken away from him, his only hope is to pass a near-impossible exam and join the other students in Scholastic Parliament. There he’ll make new friends and new enemies. He’ll get tested like never before. And he’ll discover that not everything is quite what it seems under the mayor’s harsh leadership.
David Barker Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
David Barker píše hororovou fikci inspirovanou H. P. Lovecraftem, často ve spolupráci s W. H. Pugmire. Jeho díla se ponořují do temných, snových krajin, které zkoumají neznámé a nadpřirozené hrůzy. Barker se vrátil k hororu po dlouhé přestávce, přičemž jeho rozsáhlá historie v tomto žánru zahrnuje publikování ve fanzinech a rozmanitých antologiích.





Labour in a Single Shot
Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project
- 410 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumière brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki’s students were tasked with honouring the original Lumière film’s basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world.
Mini Cooper: 1961-2000
- 96 stránek
- 4 hodiny čtení
A history of the original Mini Cooper in the words of its designers, developers, professional drivers and owners.
White Gold
- 384 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
Sim Atkins, Overseas Division agent, returns to Earth, having saved the Moon base in Rose Gold. All Sim can think about is finding the terrorists responsible, but he has a new threat to face when a nuclear wahead is stolen.
Rose Gold
- 320 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
Rose Gold is the thrilling sequel to the bestselling Blue Gold. A perfect slice of thrilling 'climfic', Rose Gold is set in the near future, in the aftermath of a world war for water.