The Quiet Earth

Author : Craig Harrison
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922148131

Get Book

The Quiet Earth by Craig Harrison Pdf

John Hobson, a geneticist, wakes one morning to find his watch stopped at 6.12. The streets are deserted, there are no signs of life or death anywhere, and every clock he finds has stopped: at 6.12. Is Hobson the last person left on the planet? Inventive and suspenseful, The Quiet Earth is a confronting journey into the future, and a dark past. This new edition of Craig Harrison's highly sought-after 1981 novel, which was later made into a cult film starring Bruno Lawrence, Pete Smith and Alison Routledge, comes with an introduction by Bernard Beckett. Craig Harrison was born in Leeds in 1942. He left for New Zealand in 1966 after being appointed a lecturer at Massey University. There he devised a course in art history, which he taught until his retirement in 2000. His award-winning play Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1974) was performed for a quarter of a century, including in the Soviet Union. He is the author of five other plays, including Ground Level (1974), which led to a television series, Joe & Koro. Craig's most recent book, the young-adult comedy The Dumpster Saga, was a finalist in the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards. He lives in Palmerston North. 'Cuts to the heart of our most basic fears...compelling...a classic.' Bernard Beckett 'Excellent...The inevitability of the horror has a Hitchcock quality.' Listener

Author : Margaret SUNLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:650193169

Get Book

The Quiet Earth by Margaret SUNLEY Pdf

Author : Craig Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:964221306

Get Book

The Quiet Earth by Craig Harrison Pdf

Author : Paul McAuley
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575087521

Get Book

The Quiet War by Paul McAuley Pdf

Twenty-third century Earth has been ravaged by climate change, and is now dominated by a few powerful families, with millions of people in prison and millions more labouring to rebuild ruined ecosystems. Meanwhile on Jupiter and Saturn, live the Outers. They have built a wild variety of scientific utopias crammed with exuberant creations of the genetic arts. Now they want to colonise Earth and drive human evolution in a new direction. On Earth, some want to launch a pre-emptive strike against the Outers while others wish to exploit the talents of the gene wizards. It is clear that the fragile detente between the two branches of humanity is breaking down and they may be heading towards war . . .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1344800253

Get Book

The Quiet Earth by Anonim Pdf

When scientist Zac wakes one morning to discover he's alone in the world, he searches frantically for other survivors. He discovers two: one man, one woman; and a critical struggle for survival begins.Originally released as a motion picture in 1985, based on the novel by Craig Harrison. Winner of eight NZ film awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. | Performed by: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Peter Smith. Director of photography, James Bartle ; composer, John Charles. | Special features: Audio commentary with writer/producer Sam Pillsbury; theatrical trailer. | All regions, NTSC.

Author : Margaret Sunley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349404042

Get Book

The Quiet Earth by Margaret Sunley Pdf

For decades Jonadab Oaks has rules his family and farm with a rod of iron . . . Now Joseph, his eldest son, has announced that he has to marry pretty Mary Butler. Not only that, but Jonadab's two daughters, Beth and Tamar, become the focus of unwanted attention and his son, George, is showing signes of demanding an independence that Jonadab isn't ready to grant. Set against the touchness and beauty of the Yorkshire Dales in mid-Victorian England, The Quiet Earth celebrates real family life: its strengths, its tussles, it's losses and gains. Jonadab has to face scandal, tragedy and the challenge of new directions - and the triumph of Margaret Sunley's rich and many layered novel is that she creates her story with unforgettable vividness and heartwarming truth.

Author : Kathleen Dean Moore
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781640095304

Get Book

Earth's Wild Music by Kathleen Dean Moore Pdf

At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the face of climate change. In this meditation on the music of the natural world, Moore celebrates the call of loons, howl of wolves, bellow of whales, laughter of children, and shriek of frogs, even as she warns of the threats against them. Each group of essays moves, as Moore herself has been moved, from celebration to lamentation to bewilderment and finally to the determination to act in defense of wild songs and the creatures who sing them. Music is the shivering urgency and exuberance of life ongoing. In a time of terrible silencing, Moore asks, who will forgive us if we do not save nature's songs?

Author : Tim Lebbon
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781168837

Get Book

The Silence by Tim Lebbon Pdf

Now a gripping Netflix movie starring Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka. A suspenseful masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Tim Lebbon. In the darkness of a underground cave system, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed... Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive and destroy. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death. As the hordes lay waste to Europe, a girl watches to see if they will cross the sea. Deaf for many years, she knows how to live in silence; now, it is her family’s only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can sit out the plague. But will it ever end? And what kind of world will be left?

Author : D. Punter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230377981

Get Book

Gothic Pathologies by D. Punter Pdf

This is a wide-ranging book about aspects of the Gothic, from classic texts such as Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights to contemporary fiction by Iain Banks, William Gibson and many others. It approaches the texts through looking at the opposition between the Gothic and the law, suggesting ways in which Gothic at all points produces transgression. It looks at horror fiction by, for example, Stephen King and Robert Bloch, as well as stories from China and Hong Kong, and suggests new ways in which contemporary literary and psychological theory might relate to and address the Gothic.

Author : Brian Thomas Isaac
Publisher : Brindle & Glass
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781990071034

Get Book

All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac Pdf

Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize A National Bestseller Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022 Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads 2022 An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021 An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021 **** "What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma's passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a compensation, by his remarkable awareness of its beauty. This is a writer who understands youth, and how to tell a story." —Gil Adamson, winner of the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Ridgerunner Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, an Indigenous (Syilx) boy, told through the young narrator's wide-eyed observations of the world around him. It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch the sunset and listening to the wind in the grass. The boys learn from Ray's funny and dark stories. But when tragedy strikes, Eddie returns home grief-stricken, confused, and lonely. Eddie's life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him. Grace is determined to have him learn the ways of the white world by sending him to school in the small community of Falkland. On Eddie"s first day of school, as he crosses the reserve boundary at the Salmon River bridge, he leaves behind his world. Grace challenges the Indian Agent and writes futile letters to Ottawa to protest the sparse resources in their community. His father returns to the family after years away only to bring chaos and instability. Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house. Only in his grandmother's company does he find solace and true companionship. In his teens, Eddie's future seems more secure—he finds a job, and his long-time crush on his white neighbour Eva is finally reciprocated. But every time things look up, circumstances beyond his control crash down around him. The cumulative effects of guilt, grief, and despair threaten everything Eddie has ever known or loved. All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person's life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art, New Zealand
ISBN : 1877510114

Get Book

The Quiet Earth by Anonim Pdf

Director Geoff Murphy's 1985 cult sci-fi feature 'The Quiet Earth' turns 30 this year. This exhibition at RAMP Gallery, features new work by three artists and two writers, all responding to 'The Quiet Earth'.

Author : Bruce Fellows
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473837416

Get Book

That Quiet Earth by Bruce Fellows Pdf

George Bridge has a secret, a wrong he did a lifetime ago that he must confess. Back in the summer and autumn of 1918 he lived life at a pitch he never experienced again; any moment could have been his last. He was a pilot in the RAF.Day after day, George and his friend Billy Love fight for their lives. Just nineteen, they have everything to live for, but flying three miles above France, its kill or be killed and machine guns, Fokkers and a long burning fall haunt their dreams.At home their families wait; and so do their girls. Billy loves Jessica. Constance loves George. But who does George love?Then Billy flies into history and nothing is ever the same again.That Quiet Earth is rich in the kind of 'boys own' descriptions of combat that characterise this kind of fiction, but underlying the novel is an astute study of madness; the insanity of the war itself and the personal decline of tormented young Billy Love.As featured on BBC Radio Bristol and Clifton Life Magazine.

Author : Walter Tevis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593467473

Get Book

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Queen's Gambit, the landmark science fiction novel that inspired the classic 1976 film starring David Bowie and is the basis for the Showtime series A man wanders into town one day seemingly out of nowhere. He starts by peddling valuables just to get by. But he possesses uncanny scientific knowledge, which he uses to develop technologies of a marvelous nature. In time he builds a corporate empire that propels him to unimaginable wealth—but to what end? His rapid ascent to the highest levels of success is remarkable, but the vision of his enterprise begins to falter as he succumbs to afflictions that feel all-too-human, and the true purpose of his presence here on earth is in grave danger of being abandoned.

Author : Dave Jeffery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798602850222

Get Book

A Quiet Apocalypse by Dave Jeffery Pdf

The end is hear... A mutant strain of meningitis has wiped out most of mankind. The few who have survived the fever are now deaf. Bitter with loss and terrified to leave the city known as Cathedral, the inhabitants rely on The Samaritans, search teams sent out into the surrounding countryside. Their purpose, to hunt down and enslave the greatest commodity on Earth, an even smaller group of people immune to the virus, people who can still hear. People like me. My name is Chris. This is my story. "A Quiet Apocalypse is told from the perspective of ex-schoolteacher Chris, a hearing survivor. He has lost everything, including his freedom, and through his eyes we learn of what it is like to live as a slave in this terrible new world of fear and loss. I was keen to write a piece that preyed upon people's traditional misconceptions of deafness as an illness, and the imposition of 'hearing' norms. It is a story that has poignancy in any understanding of the struggles of minority groups." - Author, Dave Jeffery (Cover by Adrian Baldwin; original artwork by Roberto Segate)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Graffeg
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912654989

Get Book

The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow by Anonim Pdf

This is a new, compact A5 edition of Jackie Morris's collection of short stories, The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow. A collection of twelve illustrated folk tales, or lullabies for grown-ups, set in a distant world of music, snow and magic. The stories are based around a series of musically-themed illustrations first created by Jackie for Help Musicians UK.