Outlaw Tall
Cameron rides in to Ocotillo, Arizona and is immediatey set up by Marta,
a Mexican hell-cat, for a gunning down by a bent US Marshall. Cameron
survives the attempt and works his way into the local gang, joining in
the vicious raids against smuggling parties from south of the border.
Along the way we soon realize that Tall Cameron isn't much of a noble
rogue, but is about as unhinged as they come. In fact, no one in
Ocotillo is dealing with a full deck. It's the last town north of Hell,
where loyalty lasts as long as the next silver dollar. It's dark and
bloody, and as bleak as a desert-fried skull.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
This is the thrilling classic tale by Jules Verne about a voyage to the center of the earth, where a lost civilization is found.
The genre of subterranean fiction already existed long before Verne. However, Journey considerably added to the genre's popularity and influenced later such writings. For example, Edgar Rice Burroughs explicitly acknowledged Verne's influence on his own Pellucidar series. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano.
The genre of subterranean fiction already existed long before Verne. However, Journey considerably added to the genre's popularity and influenced later such writings. For example, Edgar Rice Burroughs explicitly acknowledged Verne's influence on his own Pellucidar series. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Friday, November 1, 2019
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
A Western story of romance and adventure,
comprising a vivacious and stirring tale. A hunted man accused of murder
witnesses a cattle stampede which results in the death of a herder, and
seizes the opportunity to assume the dead man's identity.William Macleod Raine wrote a number of adventure, romance, and western novels. They can be found HERE.
Sunday, October 20, 2019
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking that he is a magician, and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a "magician" in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks, and the shoring up of a holy well. He attempts to modernize the past, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power.
Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking that he is a magician, and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a "magician" in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks, and the shoring up of a holy well. He attempts to modernize the past, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power.
Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor.
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