Stallion Gate

Stallion Gate
Author: Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2011-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307809749

This is a novel about the most important ten seconds in history. Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Gorky Park, is a powerful sensual idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war. In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select the test site for the first automatic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Peña, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, Indian. Oppenheimer and Groves have hidden Los Alamos on a mesa surrounded by vast Indian reservations. It is the most secret installation of the war, the future encompassed by the past. To it come soldiers, roughnecks and scientists, including Anna Weiss, a mathematician and refugee from the Holocaust with whom Joe falls in love.

Radioactive Ghosts

Radioactive Ghosts
Author: Gabriele Schwab
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1452961441

A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate Amid resurgent calls for widespread nuclear energy and “limited nuclear war,” the populations that must live with the consequences of these decisions are increasingly insecure. The nuclear peril combined with the looming threat of climate change means that we are seeing the formation of a new kind of subjectivity: humans who are in a position of perpetual ontological insecurity. In Radioactive Ghosts, Gabriele Schwab articulates a vision of these “nuclear subjectivities” that we all live with. Focusing on the legacies of the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and nuclear energy politics, Radioactive Ghosts takes us on a tour of the little-seen sides of our nuclear world. Examining devastating uranium mining on Native lands, nuclear sacrifice zones, the catastrophic accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and the formation of a new transspecies ethics, Schwab shows how individuals threatened with extinction are creating new adaptations, defenses, and communal spaces. Ranging from personal accounts of experiences with radiation to in-depth readings of literature, film, art, and scholarly works, Schwab gives us a complex, idiosyncratic, and personal analysis of one of the most overlooked issues of our time.

Stallion Gate

Stallion Gate
Author: Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1849838232

Don't miss the latest book in the Arkady Renko series, THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith, ‘the master of the international thriller’ (New York Times) – available to order now! 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' Val McDermid 'Makes tension rise through the page like a shark's fin’ Independent ? *** Hidden in Los Alamos, New Mexico, amongst a massive expanse of Native American reservations, soldiers and scientists alike work in secret to create a weapon that will alter the course of the world forever. Sergeant Joe Peña, a Native American historian and fighter, is recruited to assist three men looking for a location to test the first atomic weapon. In the middle of a blizzard, Peña leads physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves and spy Emil Klaus Fuchs across a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate and into the future . . . Praise for Martin Cruz Smith 'The story drips with atmosphere and authenticity – a literary triumph' David Young, bestselling author of Stasi Child 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' Val McDermid ‘Cleverly and intelligently told, The Girl from Venice is a truly riveting tale of love, mystery and rampant danger. I loved it’ Kate Furnivall, author of The Liberation ‘Smith not only constructs grittily realistic plots, he also has a gift for characterisation of which most thriller writers can only dream' Mail on Sunday 'Smith was among the first of a new generation of writers who made thrillers literary' Guardian 'Brilliantly worked, marvellously written . . . an imaginative triumph' Sunday Times ‘Martin Cruz Smith’s Renko novels are superb’ William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier

The Unnatural World

The Unnatural World
Author: David Biello
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1476743916

An environmental journalist examines the world humanity has created through climate change and chronicles the scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people who are working toward saving the planet.

Late Cold War Literature and Culture

Late Cold War Literature and Culture
Author: Daniel Cordle
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2017-03-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113751308X

This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction. Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children’s and young adult literature, thrillers and horror, it shows how pressing nuclear issues were, particularly the possibility of nuclear war, and how deeply they penetrated the culture. It is innovative for its discussion of a “nuclear transatlantic,” placing British and American texts in dialogue with one another, for its identification of a vibrant young adult fiction that resonates with more conventionally studied literatures of the period and for its analysis of a “politics of vulnerability” animating nuclear debates. Placing nuclear literature in social and historical contexts, it shows how novels and short stories responded not only to nuclear fears, but also crystallised contemporary debates about issues of gender, the environment, society and the economy.

From Madman to Crime Fighter

From Madman to Crime Fighter
Author: Roslynn D. Haynes
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2017-09-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421423049

From Madman to Crime Fighter is the most comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film.

Islands, the Universe, Home

Islands, the Universe, Home
Author: Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1504042875

Ten essays on nature, ritual, and philosophy “that are so point-blank vital you nearly need to put the book down to settle yourself” (San Francisco Chronicle). Gretel Ehrlich’s world is one of solitude and wonder, pain and beauty, and these elements give life to her stunning prose. Ever since her acclaimed debut, The Solace of Open Spaces, she has illuminated the particular qualities of nature and the self with graceful precision. In Islands, the Universe, Home, Ehrlich expands her explorations, traveling to the remote reaches of the earth and deep into her soul. She tells of a voyage of discovery in northern Japan, where she finds her “bridge to heaven.” She captures a “light moving down a mountain slope.” She sees a ruined city in the face of a fire-scarred mountain. Above all, she recalls what a painter once told her about art when she was twelve years old, as she sat for her portrait: “You have to mix death into everything. Then you have to mix life into that.” In this unforgettable collection, Ehrlich mixes life and death, real and sacred, to offer a stunning vision of our world that is both achingly familiar and miraculously strange. According to National Book Award–winning author Andrea Barrett, these essays are “as spare and beautiful as the landscape from which they’ve grown. . . . Each one is a pilgrimage into the secrets of the heart.”

Trinity

Trinity
Author: D.L. Potter
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2019-01-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1525538519

“There are too many secrets.” Until now Trinity had never used magic. He lives in exile, ousted on the night of his birth to a remote priory to be raised with all the feminine grace of a princess, isolated and ignorant of his true heritage. Then one day, summoned from banishment by his usurping and murderous cousin, he finds he suddenly, and quite naturally, is able to do things ... magical things. Having been secretly trained by one of his father’s guards, Trinity is ready to take back his kingdom. But can he maintain his duplicity long enough to unite the fearful realms in victory over evil? Can their leaders let go of a past, tainted by secrets and suspicions, and join together with Trinity to empower his prophesied destiny? If only Trinity can trust himself enough to survive the challenges ahead... Trinity is a hopeful fantasy novel suffused in magic yet dappled with unexpected elements of science fiction.