The Road to Corlay

The Road to Corlay
Author: Richard Cowper
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575108053

On the Eve of the Fourth Millennium a slowly-building civilization, struggling out of the rubble of the Drowning, was crushed beneath the sceptre of a powerful and repressive Church. But on the Eve of the Fourth Millennium the sound of a magical pipe was heard, and the air was filled with songs of freedom and enlightenment. And on the Eve of the Fourth Millennium the Boy appeared, bringing the gift of sacrilege, a harbinger of the future, heralding the arrival of the White Bird of Dawning. It is the coming of a New Age. A glorious future bearing the presents of the past!

The Road to Corlay

The Road to Corlay
Author: Richard Cowper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9780330256971

The Road to Corlay

The Road to Corlay
Author: Richard Cowper
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780708881958

A Dream of Kinship

A Dream of Kinship
Author: Richard Cowper
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575108061

They came to destroy! The treacherous Falcons, uniformed in the black leather tunics of the fanatic Secular Arm, descended on Corlay to burn and kill. Commanded by Lord Constant, ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, they were determined to crush the religious heresy of Kinship. But a new dream rose from the ashes. When four Kinsmen escaped the carnage of their beloved land, each helped to fulfill the miracle that had been foretold: the coming of the Child of the Bride of Time.

A Tapestry of Time

A Tapestry of Time
Author: Richard Cowper
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575108088

The first coming was the Man: The second was Fire to burn Him; The third was water to drown the Fire; The fourth is the Bird of Dawning. Twenty years have passed since the martyrdom of the Boy-piper at York, twenty years in which his legacy, the movement of Kinship, has challenged the tyranny of the Church Militant in Britain's seven island kingdoms. Now his namesake, Tom, bearing the Boy's own pipes and perhaps himself imbued with the spirit of the White Bird, is wandering Europe in company with the girl, Witchet. But disaster overtakes them and Tom, in a fury of vengeance, breaks his vow of Kinship. A terrible path lies before him, one that transcends his own world. As he travels it, Tom must come to understand the true nature of the wild White Bird, of The Bride of Time and her Child, and of the Song the Star Born sang.

Profundis

Profundis
Author: Richard Cowper
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575108185

Tom Jones is naïve, impressionable and very, very willing. His chief talent is conversing with dolphins in the Aquatic Mammals Division of HMS Profundis, a gargantuan submarine destined to roam the ocean depths for a century following the nuclear holocaust. Years pass and mad captain succeeds mad captain. Eventually the ship falls under the command of one Admiral Prood, a kind, understanding man who finally comes to a startling conclusion. He is God the Father. The Almighty Himself. And all he needs now is a son to sit at his right hand. Enter the innocent Tom Jones.

Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and Agendas

Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and Agendas
Author: F. Loizides
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2016-05-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1614996490

The field of electronic publishing has grown exponentially in the last two decades, but we are still in the middle of this digital transformation. With technologies coming and going for all kinds of reasons, the distribution of economic, technological and discursive power continues to be negotiated. This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub), held in Göttingen, Germany, in June 2016. This year’s conference explores issues of positioning and power in academic publishing, and it brings together world leading stakeholders such as academics, practitioners, policymakers, students and entrepreneurs from a wide variety of fields to exchange information and discuss the advent of innovations in the areas of electronic publishing, as well as reflect on the development in the field over the last 20 years. Topics covered in the papers include how to maintain the quality of electronic publications, modeling processes and the increasingly prevalent issue of open access, as well as new systems, database repositories and datasets. This overview of the field will be of interest to all those who work in or make use of electronic publishing.

The Twilight of Briareus

The Twilight of Briareus
Author: Richard Cowper
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575108169

On the murky outskirts of our solar system, a lonely star has exploded, emitting monstrous doses of radiation . . . The year is 1983. The exploding star Briareus Delta, 132 light years away, provokes only mild interest from planet Earth. Suddenly, appalling tornadoes and storms ravage the cities and countryside, leaving death and desolation in their wake. Then mankind realises another terrifying side-effect - every adult in the world has been rendered infertile. Schoolteacher Calvin Johnson discovers he is one of the select few to have acquired strange psychic powers. Termed 'Zetas', these people experience mental flashes of the future - a future of freezing isolation, snow-swept landscapes and bleak, ice-bound cities. A second ice-age is imminent as man faces the ultimate horror . . . extinction.