Was there a point in developing the story that you had-maybe not a grand revelation necessarily, but a point where momentum started picking up to the point that this series seemed to finally be moving towards release? You know, this is actually the second project it's taken me a decade to do? But I would assume that's a unique experience, spending ten years trying to tell a story as people keep asking why you haven't yet. I won't ask you if you would do any of that differently. It's funny to look back now and imagine all the people reading JOKER and wondering when you and Lee Bermejo were going to make a follow-up or spiritual sequel, only to spend the next ten years wondering why you didn't-as you both were going through the ten years of trying to get this book made. RELATED: Harley Quinn's Origin Retold in DC Black Label's HARLEEN
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The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey – This retelling isn’t squeaky clean, but it’s a fun reimagining of Cinderella that puts a really interesting twist the typical fairy tale world retellings take place in.Īnd of course, there is Cinderella and the Colonel by K.M. The book cover makes it look like a modern story but it’s actually a typical YA epic fantasy world setting. Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix – Unusual in that it tells the story of what comes after the big slipper reveal. My fairy tale retelling of Cinderella is #3 in the Timeless Fairy Tales series, and you can find Angelique’s side of the story in: Curse of Magic!īut back to the retelling list! I’ll start with some of my favorite Cinderella retellings, followed by tons more suggestions from the Facebook Champions.Įlla Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine – Can a Cinderella retelling be more perfect than this story? Tons of fun world building in this book as well (the movie doesn’t give it justice). I’ve been doing a lot of cleaning over the past few months (I’m guessing you have too), so I thought it was a good time to give homage to the fairy tale heroine who does the most cleaning: Cinderella.Īs a fun side note, while I enjoy the Disney movie, I am an active anti-fan of Cinderella’s prince because he is so useless! This is the main reason why I gave the prince in my retelling (Colonel Fredrick) a much more active role. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. There is also a Biographical Preface, an up-to-date bibliography, and a chronology of Kafka's life. This new translation by Joyce Crick pays particularĪttention to the nuances of Kafka's style, and the Introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson provide guidance to this most enigmatic and rewarding of writers. Meditation, the first book Kafka published, consists of light, whimsical, often poignant mood-pictures, while the autobiographical Letter to his Father analyzes his difficult relationship with his father in devastating detail. The Judgment explores an enigmatic power struggle between a father and son, while In the Penal Colony examines questions of power, justice, punishment, and the meaning of pain in a colonial setting. Stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. Kafka considered publishing it with two of the So begins Kafka's famous short story, The Metamorphosis. It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin. 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Thanks to the Radio Times, we’ve now got details on the new Radio 4 dramatization of Neil Gaiman’s popular – and awesome –fantasy novel Neverwhere. Not so in the United Kingdom – the BBC frequently puts on all manner of fantastic radio series, from dramas to comedies and everything in between. While we also had radio series here in America back in the day – soap operas actually started out as radio serials for example – once we got television, we basically broke up with radio and never looked back. One of the things I love the most about the British entertainment industry in general (besides its dedication to costume dramas and enduring love for Sherlock Holmes) is the fact that they still embrace radio as a valid and valuable creative outlet. F air warning: I am a huge fan of author Neil Gaiman and his work and out of all of it, Neverwhere is my absolute favorite and I am basically at like DEFCON TUMBLR levels of excited for this, so you know, apologies in advance. The questions are many with the question of “Who is this boy and why is he so important?” being key among them. As the group looks for the boy, the threats to their lives increase. The group includes many unusual characters, but especially a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. Tracker always works alone, but soon finds himself as part of a group looking for the boy. He is hired to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier. The series focuses on Tracker, a skilled hunter. The first book in the Dark Star Trilogy is called Black Leopard, Red Wolf. At the time, little was known about what happened to those would-be assassins, but Marlon James’ book takes a more in-depth look at what exactly happened in the aftermath. The attack injured several including Marley, his wife, and his manager, but ultimately they were able to escape unharmed. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: 'He has a nose,' people say. Just before Marley was to play a concert in Kingston, Jamaica to help ease political tensions, seven gunmen stormed his home. In the first novel in Marlon Jamess Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. If You Like Marlon James Books, You’ll Love…Ī Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel was the winner of the Man Booker Prize and focuses on the late 1970s assassination attempt of Bob Marley. Alia, prescient because going through the “Water of Life” dilemma in utero, shares Paul’s pain over the bloody Jihad. Meanwhile, at an Imperial Council conference, Chani questions she can offer a beneficiary as well as suggests Irulan be permitted to do so, however Paul protests that Irulan is as well faithful to the Sisterhood. Scytale tackles the role of Paul’s long-dead good friend, Duncan Idaho, to pump a professional for details about Paul’s Keep (fortress/palace), after that treacherously murders the veteran and also his blind son, and also steals the son’s prospective fiancye, whose stays later turn up in the desert. At risk is conservation of a genetics pool the Bene Gesserit sisterhood has actually long cultivated. It complies with a treasonous plot that fails to topple him yet leaves him blind literally as well as psychically, walking off into the desert as well as timeless everlasting life as the “Muad’ dib.”.ĭune Messiah opens up with a band of conspirators outlining versus the Emperor Paul Atreides in the twelfth year of his power. Dune Messiah Audiobook (streaming) The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, a Tleilaxu Face Professional dancer called Scytale, and a Guild Steersman called Edric labor to sway Paul’s wife, the Princess Irulan, from whom the Emperor holds back a kid for his cherished Fremen concubine, Chani. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert continues the planetary drama of Dune, using up the activity in the aggravating twelfth year of the Emperor Paul Atreides’ power. I remember first reading it not long after it started – I think I even still had a livejournal account at that point!įor those that aren’t familiar, here’s the summary of Captive Prince, the first book in the series: Pacat to that list of amazing authors, and I am so glad that the Captive Princeseries has turned into such a success story. You have no idea just how happy I am that it has taken off as a genre of its own, with amazing authors getting well-deserved recognition. M/M romance didn’t really take off until closer to 2005, and even then, it was fairly slow and definitely niche to start with. I wanted actual romance novels, just with a hero and a hero instead of a hero and a heroine. Frequently dealing with social issues, the AIDS epidemic, and other gay-specific issues, it just wasn’t what I was looking for. Gay fiction was “literature”, and definitely not romantic. The thing is, if you were looking for any kind of m/m romance in the late 90s/early 2000s, that was basically your only option. Like most of my friends, I started with fanfiction, and then found the absolute wealth of stories people post online. I’ve been reading online fiction since it was a thing, and I don’t mean ebooks. One night we were all lazing around and we hacked the code words to get through to the president, then called the White House. Even Dennis, who’s worn his OCCIDENTAL DEATH T- shirt ever since he came home from the war, got off on that one big- time too. That tickled the hell out of Gareth, who got out of ’Nam on a 4- F. We go in first through an 800 number just so we don’t have to drop the dime: Hertz and Avis and Sony and even the army recruiting center in Virginia. We loop and stack the calls, route and reroute so we can’t be traced. It’s a thing we do all the time for kicks, blue- boxing through the computer, to Dial- A- Disc in London, say, or to the weather girl in Melbourne, or the time clock in Tokyo, or to a phone booth we found in the Shetland Islands, just for fun, to blow off steam from the programming. Pizza boxes for pillows and sleeping bags among the wires. I guess we could even go home if we wanted to, catch a few zees instead of sleeping under the desks like usual. It’s four or five in the morning, and the sun’ll soon be coming up. We’re thinking that we should pack it all in and go back to the graphics hack. I’m sorry, sir, but I’m in a bit of a hurry. LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN 177 -I’m afraid you must have the wrong number. As a result, he was prohibited from graduating from secondary school in Yugoslavia. At age 18, Zupan played Russian roulette and shot a friend in the head, killing him. His mother was a teacher and his father, a soldier, was killed in the First World War. Zupan was born in Ljubljana, then part of Austria-Hungary. He is considered one of the most important Slovene writers. In Titoist Yugoslavia he was sentenced to 18 years in a show trial, and upon his release in 1955 his works could only be published under his pseudonym Langus. He is best known for Menuet za kitaro (A Minuet for Guitar, 1975), describing the years he spent with the Slovene Partisans. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence, he was dubbed the Slovene Hemingway and was compared to Henry Miller. Vitomil Zupan (18 January 1914 – ) was a post- World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. 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