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Ex-SAS captains Victor and Jimmy again combat the evil that gnaws at the edge of society, working from within the top secret ASIO unit called Operation Janus. From Perth to Brisbane, they hunt down international assassins, underworld crime families, and outlawed bikie gangs, dealing out their own form of justice. Unsung heroes that operate just beyond the confines of the law to bring justice to those that the system fails. When one of their own, Lance (code name Redeye), is brutally murdered, they vow to avenge him. This is done but not by their own hand but by another who is tricked into obtaining justice for Lance. Again Victor avoids death by a strange twist of fate.
Roul, the son of a clan chief, who like his father has inherited an unusual method of fighting. He is branded a traitor, and taken captive. He is sent to the capital and inducted into the army to train the Emperor’s soldiers. When the Empire is invaded by an army from a neighbouring country, soldiers trained and lead by Roul, achieve a stunning victory. He is rewarded by being named Duke of William Town, a small Duchy on the border. Due to his drive and intuitive his Duchy soon becomes the talk of the Empire. The expansion of the Empire’s navy based in Port William brings the Empire into conflict with The Brotherhood of the Sea, a pirate brotherhood that has ruled the seas for generations. Conflict between the two is inevitable and when victory is finally won, is it the end of the war or just the first battle in a long conflict.
Victor, a computer specialist and a Captain in the SAS while returning from leave to Perth is struck by a hit and run driver and left by them in the road to die. After he recovers from a long coma, he is discharged from the service as unfit; he then vows his revenge on these that left him there alone. While recovering he hears on the news of a young girl brutally assaulted and murdered, when the police fail to catch the perpetrator Victor plans to avenge the girl. His plans for revenge goes well until the expertise he learned in the SAS brings him to the attention of the wily Chief Inspector Krogger, the head of a crime unit investigating a string of murders in Melbourne. The Commander, the ...
The story line of the book is about the developing friendship between a boy, bobby, a 12 year old boy who is bullied at school and a group of ghosts who live in an abandoned house. The ghosts help the boy with his bullying problem . In return the boy promises to help the ghosts with their salvation.
The January/February 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Sam J. Miller, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Paul Cornell, Christopher Caldwell, and Marissa Lingen. Reprint fiction by Del Sandeen. Essays by John Wiswell, Octavia Cade, Katherine Cross, and Aidan Moher, poetry by Theodora Goss, Lizy Simonen, Ewen Ma, Neil Gaiman, and L.X. Beckett, interviews with Miyuki Jane Pinckard and Paul Cornell by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Nilah Magruder, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Elsa Sjunneson. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Chimedum Ohaegbu and Elsa Sjunneson, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.
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On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere. The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able to tune this world out. So it is worth remembering that underneath all these augmentations and data flows, fixed forms persist, and that to notice them can improve other sensibilities. In Ambient Commons, Malcolm McCullough explores the workings of attention through a rediscovery of surroundings. M...
. . . the book is in a comprehensive, readable format. . . the book is logically organised, rich in data and statistics regarding the issues that it covers, as well as accessibly written such that its points would not be lost on the average upper-level undergraduate student with some preparation in Asian studies and the social sciences. Jane M. Ferguson, South East Asia Research . . . a serious academic work that should be on the official reading list of every media studies course. Chris Roberts, Presenter, Sky News Jonathan Woodier has written an excellent book on the politics of media control in Southeast Asia. He shows how political elites in the region are using major events such as the ...