Some stretched two thousand miles in length and lasted as long as three weeks in boats only fifty to seventy-five feet long. Nothing but war would have made seamen attempt such dangerous journeys. In The Shetland Bus, David Howarth, who was second in command of the Shetland base, recounts the hundreds of trips made by fishing boats in the dark of Arctic winter to resist the Nazi onslaught.įor the Norwegians who remained in Norway, The Shetland Bus fortified them both physically and spiritually. After the Germans invaded Norway, many Norwegians knew that small boats were constantly sailing from the Shetland Islands to land weapons, supplies, and agents and to rescue refugees. The occupation of Western Europe and Scandinavia in the spring of 1940 crippled Britain's ability to gather intelligence information. A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Adventure.
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But we have one advantage: We get to make the first move. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on humans than on the species itself, so would the fate of humankind depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. Listen to audiobook in full for free on Title: Superintelligence Subtitle: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Author: Nick Bostrom Narrator: Napoleon Ryan Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 09-03-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2214 votes Genres: Science & Technology, Technology Publisher's Summary: Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The two become lovers and marry in secret, returning to England to serve at the court of the young King Henry VI, where Jacquetta becomes a close and loyal friend to his new queen. Her only friend in the great household is the duke’s squire Richard Woodville, who is at her side when the duke’s death leaves her a wealthy young widow. When the young and beautiful Jacquetta is married to the older Duke of Bedford, English regent of France, he introduces her to a mysterious world of learning and alchemy. #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” ( USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory brings to life the story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman of passion and of legend who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the War of the Roses to bring her family unimaginable power. Due to the unscheduled "uncorking" (birth) of their three remaining creche-frozen babies, Podkayne's parents are forced to cancel a much-anticipated trip to Earth. Podkayne is 15 in Earth years (a bit over eight Martian years) while her genius younger brother Clark is 11 Earth years (6 Martian years) old. The book is a first-person narrative in the form of Podkayne's diaries. Both books were written for a publisher expecting to market a juvenile science fiction novel, and both raised serious objections from the publisher. This book, along with Starship Troopers, shows Heinlein moving away from his old, comfortable territory of juvenile science fiction novels. The novel is about a teenage girl named Podkayne "Poddy" Fries and her younger, asocial genius brother, Clark, who leave their home on Mars to take a trip on a spaceliner to visit Earth, accompanied by their uncle. Heinlein, originally serialised in Worlds of If (November 1962, January, March 1963), and published in hardcover in 1963. Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Yup, Impossible Hourglass Figure all right. On many occasions he has feared he would not live to see the end of the day - and, inevitable, he lost several friends and colleagues from the close-knit Gurkha brotherhood. He talks of other operations in which he has served - and, perhaps most movingly, of the other Gurkha soldiers - the united band of brothers - with whom he serves and on whom he relies every day. On dangerous resupply missions and on offensive patrols that took them to the heart of the 'killing zone', he and his men came under frequent attack from Taliban fighters. Kailash Limbu was in the front line of the fighting in Helmand Province. 'Sometimes my mind reaches back beyond the fear and the arid landscapes of war, to memories of childhood that fill me with happiness and laughter.' So begins this searingly honest memoir by Kailash Limbu, a serving Gurka soldier who undertook five tours of active service in Afghanistan. Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available Now.Armchair Explorers for Children and Teens. Nell is called to the Tennessee mansion of a country music star and finds a disturbing scene-dead bodies rapidly decaying before everyones eyes. But shell need to tap into every ounce of power she has for her newest case. Together with her team, shes taken on the direst magic and the most twisted foes. Nell is a rookie PsyLED agent, using the powers she can channel from deep within the earth to solve paranormal crimes. Book Synopsis Nell Ingram faces a dark magic with no known origin in the newest pulse-pounding paranormal procedural in the New York Times bestselling Soulwood series. About the Book Called to the Tennessee mansion of a country music star to investigate a magic that can steal life forces, Nell, a rookie PsyLED agent, finds herself under attack from all sides when dark magics spiral out of control and a paranormal-hating FBI agent gets involved. I think that short stories have not sold as well as full-length fiction in the past because they tend to be smaller, shorter books – and some readers like great big fat stupid books by John Grisham and Dan Brown (which in the end they don’t read). My favourite short story writers are Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff and the very early Roald Dahl stories that he wrote when he was a fighter pilot in World War Two and heavily influenced by Hemingway – who was also a great short story writer, as was F. Who are your favourite short story writers and why, in general, do you think it is a genre that never sells as well as the novel? So I love it and I would like to do it again. I love the format of the short story – “big truths in a confined space” somebody once said of the short story, and it is true. Being primarily a novelist and journalist, how did you find switching to the shorter form? Did you enjoy it and is it something you would considering returning to in the future? Your latest book, Departures is a short story collection. Read an Excerpt Part Three The Thing on the Doorstep 1 Take it off, Noah. But, unlike his family, Noah chooses to let them in. A Cosmology of Monsters is his first novel. until it swallows her up.Noah Turner sees monsters. I loved it.” -Stephen KingNoah Turner sees monsters.His father saw them-and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates.His practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors but refuses to believe-too focused on keeping the family from falling apart.And his eldest sister, the dramatic and vulnerable Sydney, won't admit to seeing anything but the beckoning glow of the spotlight. "If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. Martin is the author of fourteen novels, including five volumes of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, several collections of short stories and numerous screen plays for television drama and feature films. ‘The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads… Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias’ ‘Colossal, staggering… all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome’ ‘Of those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, George R.R. Meanwhile, across the ocean, Daenerys Stormborn, the last heir of the Dragon King, delivers death to the slave-trading cities of Astapor and Yunkai as she approaches Westeros with vengeance in her heart. And while his youngest sister, Arya, has escaped the clutches of the depraved Cersei Lannister and her son, the capricious boy-king Joffrey, Sansa Stark remains their captive. Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold his crown. HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.Ī STORM OF SWORDS: BLOOD AND GOLD is the SECOND part of the third volume in the series. Now, though, I recognize that this series would not have been the same without Cassie. I could never understand why she was always questioning everything, like, shouldn't it just be obvious what's right and wrong? Why are you so upset all the time, girl? Calm down and just enjoy turning into a dolphin JEEZ LOUISE. I thought she was a wet blanket and her hair was boring. In all honesty, when I was a kid, sometimes Cassie's books frustrated me a little bit. The Message is our first Cassie book, and that means it's time to question the morality of our actions. |