![]() ![]() A shadowy start-up hires a young woman named Verity to test a new product: a ‘cross-platform personal avatar’ that was developed by the military as a form of artificial intelligence. ![]() Decades of cataclysmic events have killed 80 per cent of humanity. In an alternate time track, Hillary Clinton won the election and Donald Trump’s political ambitions were thwarted. In William Gibson’s first novel since 2014’s New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted “app-whisperer,” hired to beta test a mysterious new product, finds her life endangered by her relationship with her surprisingly street-smart and combat-savvy “digital assistant.” ![]() A thrilling dystopian novel imagining a world where Trump lost the election, from the master of science fiction ![]()
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![]() ![]() Scrupulous and exhaustive in its fidelity to its sources, "Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources" is presented in a narrative style that is easily comprehensible, yet authentic and inspiring in its use of language, reflecting both the simplicity and grandeur of the story it tells. Based on the "sira," the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet s life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. ![]() Martin Lings biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Represents the final updates made on the text before the author s death in 2005 Includes important additions about the prophet s spread of Islam into Syria and its neighboring statesĬontains original English translations from 8th and 9th century biographies, presented in authoritative language ![]() A revised edition of the internationally acclaimed biography of the prophet ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, we’ve all seen him in the season-eight trailer, standing ready to fight in the Battle of Winterfell. It was inevitable that Jaime wouldn’t be ripped limb from limb or dragged naked behind a horse for ten miles or any of the other torturous deaths that Viserys and Daenerys must have imagined for him as children growing up exiled in Essos. We laughed, we cried (along with Brienne), and this episode became a part of us.īut first, before the White Walkers ascend that distant hill that Ser Brienne will defend from the left flank, a few things are left hanging in the balance. ![]() It’s nostalgic, it’s heartwarming, AND it features a sex scene more truly sexy than the 10,000 sets of tits that have come before it on Game of Thrones. If it were your last living night in Westeros, how would you spend it? Moaning and drinking up on a castle wall with the Hound and Beric? Curled up with Gilly and a good book? (We don’t see Sam reading, but come on, we know he is.) Sitting around a warm fire with a veritable who’s who of your favorites, including Pod, bearer of a magical penis AND a completely lovely singing voice? This second episode, the last before the big hourlong Battle of Winterfell kicks off, is a smartly stitched-together Waiting for Godot (except, you know, the Night King is actually going to show up at the end of all this) that flips through a bucket list of what we want for some of our most beloved Westerosi. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was most bothered by the stereotypes of retired people. She's not going to keep secrets when they are hurting the people she loves. When she stays with her grandpa, he's hiding cigarettes and at the climax decides to confront him. He asks her to keep his secrets and she adores him so of course she helps him hide things from their parents. Sunny's character arc shows her covering for her older brother as he skips school, drinks, and smokes. ![]() For instance, Sunny's brother is rebelling against adults so he thinks the adult swim at the pool is stupid. This support of the character arcs is weak. There were some weird clothes, crafts, and events during the seventies and I the poking fun at it stood out awkwardly, like the plaid pants of the time. Sunny remembers times she spent with her brother in flashbacks where they went swimming and. Neighbors give Sunny a macrame Barbie doll on a toilet roll and Grandpa's big outings involve going to the grocery store or post office. ![]() Sunny shows up at her grandpa's in a retirement village where the people are gray-haired, slow-moving (with a grumpy old man), and rules to keep kids out of their retirement village unless they have a visitor pass. Her original plans to spend the summer with her best friend at a cabin are cast aside as the family seeks much needed help. Sunny Lewin is shipped off to her grandpa's house in Florida because her brother is addicted to drugs. ![]() |