![]() Asimov, there’s a story I think you wrote, whose title I can’t remember–‘ at which point I interrupted to tell him it was ‘The Last Question’ and when I described the plot it proved to be indeed the story he was after. This has reached the point where I recently received a long-distance phone call from a desperate man who began, ‘Dr. They don’t remember the title but when they describe the story it is invariably ‘The Last Question’. Frequently someone writes to ask me if I can write them the name of a story, which they think I may have written, and tell them where to find it. Then, too, it has had the strangest effect on my readers. This sort of thing endears any story to any writer. ![]() ![]() Why is it my favorite? For one thing I got the idea all at once and didn’t have to fiddle with it and I wrote it in white-heat and scarcely had to change a word. ‘The Last Question’ is my personal favorite, the one story I made sure would not be omitted from this collection. In The Best of Isaac Asimov, published in 1973, he says: ![]() The first was easier to track down it’s on Wikipedia with a date.Here, for example, are two comments I remember having read about what is definitely one of his two most famous stories, The Last Question: I like tracking down quotes, but find it terribly hard to track down quotes by Asimov about his writing: there are so many anthologies, and so many comments he has made about a single story in different places. ![]()
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![]() Lengel start his presentation by reviewing several of the thousands of legends and myths that have grown up about Washington. Or listen to a three-minte snippet here: However, here is the link to his very interesting NPR interview a couple days ago. ![]() His talk was recorded to be shown later on the Book Channel, but no specific date or time was given, so I can’t steer you to that. As someone who has spent years working with some 140,000 Washington letters, papers, and diaries, he probably knows old George better than anyone alive. He has just published a book, INVENTING GEORGE WASHINGTON: AMERICA’S FOUNDER, IN MYTH AND MEMORY, that deals with Washington myths. Lengel, a history professor at the University of Virginia and, more to the point, the director of the Washington Papers for the past 15 years. ![]() On February 24, in honor of George Washington’s birthday, I attended a lecture at the Virginia Historical Society about the creation of George Washington myths. ![]() ![]() His short story “Government Slots” was selected for the Best Canadian Stories 2020 anthology. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, NPR, Esquire and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. Novelists like Margaret Atwood and Omar El Akkad inhabit a reality that now resembles much of their dystopian fiction: Anthrocepene pandemics, the rise of political authoritarianism and a. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. ![]() ![]() The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over the following decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. ![]() He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. ![]() ![]() Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting. Such advertising cookies may enable such third-party vendors to serve ads to our readers. I knew I would never be heard on every country music station around the world, and I would never step foot on the Grand Ole Opry stage. Some third-party vendors such as Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this and other websites. When I left Nashville, Tennessee, I knew deep in my heart I wouldn’t be back. BookGorilla is published independently by Stephen Windwalker and Windwalker Media and is not endorsed by, Inc. This content is provided "as is" and is subject to change or removal at any time. Certain content that appears on this website is provided by Amazon Services LLC. ![]() ![]() Amazon, Kindle and the Amazon and Kindle logos are trademarks of, Inc. As an Amazon Associates participant, we earn small amounts from qualifying purchases on the Amazon sites, which in turn allows us to provide our editorial content FREE to readers.Īpart from its participation in the Associates Program, BookGorilla is not affiliated with Amazon or Kindle in any other way. 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That was when I was fourteen.īut I take my evening walks here now. I was aware of my future, and I could also relate to myself as a child. When they were gone for the summer that emptiness made space for me. I can’t say why the emptiness was so nice, maybe that people were normally everywhere. It sounds simple, but it was because the town where I lived was empty. When I was younger I felt everything around me in one summer this was especially true. If I were honest about who I am more of the time I would write more honest things. Maybe I have always needed things to be softened, like things are softened for children. The hard rain falls on the umbrellas moving slowly down the street. It rains in a drawing and if the drawing is good you feel that you are wet. If I’m honest, I’m comforted by their illustrations there’s something in them that reaches me. Here in the country I look at children’s books when I go to the library because there are hardly any books on art. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of the new cop in town, an old friend who’s always been convinced of his innocence in Ellie’s death, the local principal, and a gruff but kindly bartender, Aaron faces the ghosts of the past convinced of his guilt in Ellie’s death and the reality of Luke’s untimely death. In the aftermath of the funeral, Luke’s mother asks Aaron to take a closer look at the deaths to see if anything will exonerate her son. He wouldn’t have, except that Luke’s father knows a secret – Luke and Aaron lied about their alibis for the night that Ellie died. ![]() Aaron returns to his hometown for the first time since then for the funerals of his best friend, Luke, and his wife and daughter in a gruesome murder-suicide. ![]() Short synopsis: Twenty years ago, Aaron Falk and his father were driven out of town after being suspected in the death of Aaron’s friend, 17-year-old Ellie. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ideas Scalzi plays with aren’t completely original – Galaxy Quest did the Star Trek pastiche sublimely, and the idea of characters interacting with their creators has a long history, which Scalzi himself acknowledges in one of the three short stories that work as a sort of coda at the end of the novel. Redshirts just won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel, and it’s easy to see why. So when new ensign Andrew Dahl is assigned about the vessel and quickly spots this trend, he realises things aren’t quite as they should be, and that his and his friends’ lives depend on him figuring out just what is going on, and how to stop it. ![]() Even more mysteriously, the senior officers have a tendency to survive anything that’s thrown at them, no matter how fatal it should be. This cleverly written novel is set in a universe suspiciously similar to that of the USS Enterprise – and, in the same way that that TV show was famous for sacrificing anonymous extras on away missions (the ‘red shirts’ that inspire the title), the starship Intrepid has a curiously high mortality rate among young crew members. You don’t have to be a Star Trek fan to love Redshirts – though it certainly doesn’t hurt. Posted by Justine Solomons on 25 September 2013, in Recommendations ![]() ![]() Crockett Johnson based his painting on a diagram in Ivor Thomas’s article on Greek mathematics in The World of Mathematics, edited by James R. However, knowing a theorem is different from demonstrating it, and the first surviving demonstration of this theorem is found in Euclid’s Elements. It was known to the Babylonians centuries before then. Although the method of the proof depicted was written about 300 BC and is credited to Euclid, the theorem is named for Pythagoras, who lived 250 years earlier. This painting depicts the “windmill” figure found in Proposition 47 of Book I of Euclid’s Elements. ![]() Object Details referenced Euclid painter Johnson, Crockett Description The Pythagorean theorem states that in any right triangle, the square of the side opposite the right angle (the hypotenuse), is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. ![]() ![]() ![]() King’s arrival is a calm in the storm for Leo and his frenetic thoughts. Terrified of what his role as "invaluable asset" means, Leo’s stress leads to disappearances, arguments, and blowups that threaten the project and Leo’s future. Leopold de Loughrey is a misunderstood genius whose anxiety and insecurities are sent into overdrive when he is forcefully recruited to work on a top-secret project. The moment King meets Leo, amid the chaos of a lockdown at a secret black site, it’s clear he’s never faced a challenge like this-one that will test his unwavering sense of control. When King is asked to safeguard the son of a four-star general and friend, he is pulled back into the world of government black ops on a mission that raises painful memories from his past. When the cards are stacked against you, the Kings will even the odds.įor Ward “King” Kingston the role of protector, forged by fire and tragedy, is one he takes seriously. ![]() ![]() The Financial Times This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergins Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize. t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. ![]() Wall Street Journal It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape. Book Synopsis A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes. Now, Yergin shows how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict. About the Book A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize. ![]() |