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By mukesh jaiswar3 years ago in Futurism
Traveling through Time in the Tales of Blake Crouch
Time. It is a fascinating thing. It always keeps moving. Sometimes it passes too quickly. Sometimes it feels awfully sluggish. But the clock is always ticking. And yet sometimes it has the tendency to stand absolutely still. Time really is a mysterious thing. We, humans, have always been obsessed with time and its passage, which is why we have invented a plethora of methods - sundials, hourglasses, clocks - to measure it. We celebrate, and at the same time mourn, the passage of time. And the one thing that we want to do the most is to travel through time. Even while having casual conversations, we end up talking about time travel quite a lot. Questions like what would we do if we were given a chance to travel back in time, what would we tell our past selves, or what would we ask our future selves, turn out to be great conversation starters. Our obsession with time travel has been well represented in both the literature and the movies. The Time Machine by H G Wells introduced us to the idea of traveling through time with the help of a device in 1895. Stories like Kindred by Octavia E Butler, 11/22/63 by Stephen King, The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, and The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell, all have the main character(s) interacting with and/or manipulating the flow of time. Even Hermione traveled through time in her third year at Hogwarts. But all excursions through time are not identic. Every story adds its own flavor to the concept of time travel. Please have a look here to enjoy the very many realizations of time travel in books and movies.
By Kaumudi Singh3 years ago in Futurism
ELON TIME COMING Elon Musk officially takes over Twitter.
ELON TIME COMING Elon Musk officially takes over Twitter and ‘fires senior executives including CEO Parag Agrawal’ following $44bn deal
By Vern Hynes3 years ago in Futurism
Should I apply to a large or small company when I am new to the job market?
At about this time last year, I wrote an article "How can I find a job that suits me? to provide job search advice for newcomers to the workplace from the perspective of how they should choose their industry. Now that it's graduation season again, "Should I go to a big company or a small company? is once again a hot topic among newcomers to the job market, so I would like to share my thoughts on this question with all newcomers to the job market.
By Clemmens Crofton3 years ago in Futurism
Apocalypse Culture (1988)
"Pod People aspire to a manicured destiny--soft, serene, controlled, filtering any information that does not impinge on their pre-fab gestalt. Their retreat from reality is tempered with enough minor but manageable worries and decisions to negotiate boredom and furnish the mirage of individual mastery. These narcoleptics find sublimity in a jar o mayonnaise. As a consequence of the atrophy of the survival instinct, the Pod People can only breed monsters. The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed."--Adam Parfrey, Apocalypse Culture, (1988)
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Futurism
How Tiktok Can Be Used to Promote Your Campaign
TikTok is a wonderful platform for marketing your business and expanding your audience reach in new directions. Additionally, it possesses a number of one-of-a-kind characteristics that are ideal for B2C enterprises like restaurants and clothes stores. If you want to market your company, you should use TikTok for Business rather than a standard personal account because it has more features that can help you do so.
By Estalontech3 years ago in Futurism
Using The Right Hashtags To Promote Your Business On TikTok
The popularity of TikTok is skyrocketing at an incredible rate. It is one of the social media apps that is used the most frequently because it has more than 1.2 billion monthly active users.
By Estalontech3 years ago in Futurism
Impressionism in Science Fiction: "Nova" by Samuel Delany
Long ago, Samuel Delany was one of the first authors, along with James Ballard, to introduce me to the strange and amazing world of the New Wave of science fiction. The first time I read Nova was in 1991, and I was immersed in the novel's weird world. Back then, I was a solid fan of hard sci-fi, but Delany's book, on the other hand, was totally from another dimension. It was like: "wow, why did nobody tell me before that it's possible to write like that!?" (Then it was followed by Babel-17, which finally shattered the rest of my stereotypical perception of SF.)
By Nik Hein3 years ago in Futurism
Looking for Adult Fantasy Stories Written by Women?
Often when we talk about famous adult fantasy stories, the stories that surface are most likely penned down by male authors. The elaborate worlds of the "The Lord of the Rings" (J R R Tolkien), "The Wheel of Time" (Robert Jordan), "The Stormlight Archive" and "The Mistborn Series" (Brandon Sanderson), and "A Song of Ice and Fire" (George R R Martin) have been conceptualized and created by men. Frankly, I have nothing against male authors and their creations. In fact, I have thoroughly enjoyed most of the fantasy series I mentioned so far and I have quite a few fantasy series penned down by men in my To-Be-Read(TBR) list.
By Kaumudi Singh4 years ago in Futurism
Book Review: Enchanted Forests Charity Anthology
If you go down to the woods today… You’d better not go alone… Discover the secret world between the trees where fairies, unicorns and even monsters dwell. Take a stroll through enchanted woods and dance with pixies and dryads by the light of the stars. Escape Baba Yaga and fall in love with a prince in disguise. Taste the fruit at the goblin market and be whisked away on a magical adventure. Among ancient trees, find beauty, danger and adventure in these enchanting short stories by award-winning, best-selling, and up-and-coming fantasy authors.
By Marie Sinadjan4 years ago in Futurism
Book Review: Deus Ex by Miles Watson
Many men dream of becoming gods. Magnus Antonius Magnus achieved this dream, conquering half the globe and ruling it with an iron fist. Now, however, he is learning a painful lesson: gods, like men, can go too far. They can blunder. They can even fall. But does the story of Magnus end with the destruction of his empire…or is that where it begins?
By Marie Sinadjan4 years ago in Futurism
‘The Book of Ptath’ by A. Van Vogt
Alfred Van Vogt — the master of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, one of the patriarchs of sci-fi, and at the same time — one of the most unconventional and inventive writers. Original ideas, imagination, not held back by any framework, a characteristic neat telegraph style — all of this sharply distinguishes the work of Van Vogt from other masters of science fiction.
By Nik Hein4 years ago in Futurism