100 Limericks for the 100 Final Days of Trump, Gilbert E. Reid
Автор: Reid Gilbert Название: Extinction Book 1: Girl with the Golden Eyes ISBN: 1777158052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781777158057 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Volume 5 in the Adventures of V series
It is the year 2158. V, the outcast vampire, and queen of the alien-human hybrids, disguises herself as a Cosmos Centurion, and heads into the Great Central Desert - the desolate wasteland that was once the American Heartland - to discover if any of her fellow alien-human hybrids are still alive.
All hybrids and Synthetic Individuals - or SINs - were disappeared in the Great Culling of 2144.
Everywhere, the elite Cosmos - rich, militarized, highly cultured - the privileged 0.000001 % - rule the world.
The Cosmos live in Domed Cities, protected from the wild torrid climate and its superstorms, and served by robots and the lower-class Subs.
The Subs, an inferior social cast without rights, also live in the domed cities.
Subs are used as servants, slaves, and for sexual entertainment.
Dissidence, for a Cosmos, can lead to re-classification as a Sub, or as Non-Human, or to body and personality redesign, and permanent mental or physical erasure.
Most of the world - continents, and oceans - is an arid, storm-wracked, desolate wasteland inhabited by Burbites, Mutants, and Outlanders.
The Burbites, miserable uncultured barbaric incontinent suburban folk, cluster, outside the domes, around the domed cities.
The Mutants, products of unregulated and criminal bioengineering, chemical pollution, and radiation accidents, and, live in underground desert colonies, in the central wasteland that was once the heart of America. The Cosmos hunt them down.
Outlanders are rare human eccentrics and religious or ecological fanatics who wander the wilds.
Synthetic Individuals (SINs) are super individuals, products of bioengineering; they are, potentially, immortal.
Hybrids are alien-human hybrids who are very powerful, extremely intelligent, and, potentially, immortal; they are all products of V's alien-human DNA or descended from V.
In a Human Species Purification campaign, the elite Cosmos eliminated the alien-human hybrids, V's tribe, and the Synthetic Individuals - SINs - in the Great Culling, directed by the President-Leader, fourteen years ago.
V disguises herself as a Cosmos intelligence officer and joins a Cosmos Centurion military column into the Great Central Desert to discover if any of her fellow hybrids are alive.
When the Cosmos column is destroyed in an extraordinary ambush, V continues her quest, with one survivor, Lieutenant Kat Jackson, a beautiful black Cosmos elite warrior, an implacable foe and hunter of hybrids.
Farther out in the Central Desert, two elite Cosmos women, 14-year-old Miranda Hughes and her mother, Niki Hughes, survivors of a plane crash, have been captured by Mutants, and are about to be sacrificed, on a flaming cross.
Aided by handsome young Caliban, Prince of the Mutants, Miranda escapes.
But attacked by Zombie-Bats - followers of a fundamentalist prophet, the Boy, and caught in a sand blizzard, Miranda is separated from Caliban, she gets lost in the desert. She ends up with a family of cannibal ghouls.
Caliban, searching for Miranda, finally finds her. She is naked and lecturing the ghouls on the mystical implications of cosmology.
Suddenly, Caliban and Miranda, and Miranda's ghouls, are surrounded by a horde of Zombie Bats - grotesque creatures created out of his True Believers, by an evil fundamentalist religious prophet, the Boy, or el Ni o.
While this battle rages, and while V and Kat speed through the desert, Miranda's mother, Nikki, is about to be crucified, burned alive on the Cross of the Mutant Goddess Dolly, the first cloned mammal.
Storyteller, mime, author, and thought leader, E. Reid Gilbert, is at it again, sharing his whimsical yet often thoughtful view of the Trump administration's impactful days. Medicine for our times. Another political analeptic. Insightful curative witticism. With a glance toward the other side of the aisle as well.
E. Reid Gilbert grew up in the tobacco hills of North Carolina, before pursuing academic studies: Brevard College (AA English) Duke University (BA Sociology) Southern Methodist University (MTh Theology) Union Theological Seminary (STM Religious Drama) University of Wisconsin (PhD Asian Theatre) He then pursued several careers: Methodist and Unitarian Ministry College and University Teaching Mime Performer and Instructor Theatre Actor and Director After retiring from those professional pursuits he started writing: Trickster Jack (Tales of the Appalachian trickster, Jack) Shall We Gather at the River (Romance set in the mountains in the 1870s) What Matters (119 poems) Twelve Houses of My Childhood (Stories of early life) Valley Studio: More Than a Place (Stories of Mime Studies and Performances) Several theatre and Film scripts. He claims that throughout the years he's probably been following the gypsies, which his Mamma had warned him about at the age of four.
Автор: Reid Gilbert Название: Extinction Book 3: Elysium ISBN: 1777158095 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781777158095 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4551.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Volume 7 in the Adventures of V series
Determined to rescue the human race from annihilation and the Boy's Cult of Death, V races to save Elysium, the capital of the Cosmos Empire, the last bastion of humanity's earthly rule.
As the zombie-bats and the Boy - an incarnation of Evil - and his True Believer zombie-bats sweep eastward towards Elysium City - the capital of Cosmos, a domed city built over the flooded ruins of Manhattan and the last bastion of civilization - V and her tiny crew race to Elysium to defend it from the Boy and his fanatical zombies.
But ruin has already arrived.
The Boy has seized control of the World Mind.
The dome protecting the domed city begins to collapse.
Electricity fails. All the machines go crazy.
Human minds, linked to the World Mind, go mad, explode, or become zombies.
Winged zombie-bats sweep into the city, followed by gigantic super tornadoes, hail storms, and dust storms.
Murderous mutant ghouls rise from the sewers.
In a parody of the Rapture, the dead rise from their graves, and go on a rampage, massacring the living.
Out in the Burbs, an ecological crusader inadvertently releases a super-powerful lethal version of the Bubonic plague.
It spreads from the Burbs into Cosmos Elysium.
Panic is everywhere.
V and her team engage in mortal combat, on multiple levels, above ground and below ground, with the evil forces of the Boy.
The boy seizes control of the very fabric of reality, twisting it into a thousand horrifying scenarios.
As everything collapses, even the mighty Cosmos are brought to their knees.
Humanity faces extinction. Only a few will survive.
To save the human race and our universe, V must confront the Boy and vanquish him.
Is it too late for humanity?
Has the Apocalypse come, or the Rapture?
Is this the end of the Anthropocene?
Is this the end of the human race.
Автор: Reid Gilbert Название: Extinction Book 2: Revolt of the Angels ISBN: 1777158079 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781777158071 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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V and Kat leave the Mutant Kingdom and race across the desert towards Camp Terminus, where V suspects hybrids are enslaved and human dissidents - and even children - are being held prisoner in horrendous conditions more than a mile underground.
The camp is a decrepit ancient giant - a vast sweltering labyrinth, a sort of steampunk Escher drawing - a rare earths mine.
It is policed by sadistic madmen, thugs, and petty tyrants.
Far underground, enslaved alien-human hybrids, their minds paralyzed, and human dissidents - and two high-spirited kids, Jake and Gloria - are held in horrendous conditions.
Just before V and Kat arrive, Camp Terminus is attacked by a deadly ghoul virus - it morphs people instantly into ghouls.
And the Boy, the Prophet of Death, the Cosmic Force of Evil, and his winged zombie hordes promptly arrive to sow destruction.
Explosions and fires, floods and avalanches, sweep through the abyssal labyrinth.
V and Kat desperately struggle to rescue the enslaved hybrids and the human prisoners from an inferno of destruction.
And V must face off in a preliminary duel with the glamorous Byronic Boy, a charismatic religious leader, an incarnation of the Evil Force V's nemesis, earlier embodied in Dmitry Pavlov and the Puppet Master.
And if V does win her duel, and if she and Kat do save the prisoners, where can they take them in a desolate and dying world?
Автор: Reid Gilbert Название: Vampire Clone ISBN: 0995310882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995310889 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3861.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Volume 2 in the Adventure of V series.
A beautiful half-mad billionaire, a mischievous half-alien vampire, a handsome disheveled scientist, a brainy stripper, a diabolical Russian oligarch, and a graceful wild-eyed Clone, take us on an epic journey across America and deep into the treacherous paradise of the South Seas.
When naughty, mischievous, witty vampire V discovers that her ultra-dangerous, half-alien DNA has been used by billionaire scientist Sabrina Jacobs to create a clone, she realizes that the human race is in mortal danger.
To nip the alien DNA contagion in the bud, she must kill Sabrina and the 14-year-old Clone.
Having just escaped from Sabrina's bounty-hunters, stunned and half-naked, V staggers out of the desert onto a lonely endless strip of road.
She flags down a handsome yummy scientist, Alex Wolf.
Later, out hunting for human fodder, she picks up a beautiful stripper, Helen Guerrera.
Together, the trio set off on a rollicking chaotic chase across the ruins of a dystopian America - searching for Sabrina and the Clone - and then, still in pursuit of Sabrina and the Clone, they sail deep into the South Pacific, searching the Sulu Sea and the Philippines.
While V hunts Sabrina, Sabrina hunts V.
Sabrina' dream is to lobotomize beautiful V, to enslave her, and to exploit her DNA to create a race of immortal superhumans.
But, while V and Sabrina hunt each other, Sabrina's sadistic ex-lover, Russian billionaire, Dmitry Pavlov, stalks Sabrina.
He plans to capture and sink Sabrina's marvelous research ship, Andromeda, to kidnap the Clone and transform gorgeous brilliant Sabrina into a grotesque freak - an animal to be kept in a cage.
At the center of all this, is the Clone, a tragic, failed experiment, and Sabrina's greatest regret.
Perpetually imprisoned by Sabrina in an armored glass cage, the exquisite but utterly insane 14-year-old Clone has never breathed the open air.
Just as V closes in on Sabrina and the Clone, Dmitry springs his trap, and, at the same time, a huge tropical typhoon closes in, threatening everyone and everything.
In the chaos of overlapping struggles, will V succeed in saving the world from the plague of her alien DNA, will she eliminate Sabrina and the Clone - or will she fail?
Автор: Gilbert E. Reid Название: E. Reid Gilbert Ten Plays ISBN: 1732067767 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732067769 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4589.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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E. Reid Gilbert has been engaged in theatre as a playwriter, performer, mime, choreographer, director of a major center for mime in Spring Green, WI, a student of Kabuki and Indian Kathakali Dance, as well as having written his infamous 100 Limericks for 100 Days of Trump, and multiple books in his octogenarian years. He continues his writing at 88 years of age, with his next book documenting his approach to physical acting and movement for the stage. This collection of nine plays and one screenplay capture his creative prowess in all of its tragi-comic temperament. Here, are stories of race and the south where he grew up as a boy, and the skill of an actor/playwright who has known both sides of theatre, from performing to directing and playwriting -- a lovely summary of his work to date for stage and screen.
Автор: Reid Gilbert Название: Lava and Other Stories ISBN: 0995310807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995310803 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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LAVA AND OTHER STORIES anatomizes desire, death, and fracturing sexual identities. In the first section of the book, La Dolce Vita, the title story "Lava" ushers us into a sultry night of sex, nihilism, and transcendence. It is the eve of a prestigious film festival in Taormina, an ancient Sicilian hilltop seaside town, a renowned sexual and gay paradise, once frequented by Nietzsche, Goethe, and D H. Lawrence. Etna erupts. In the smoky Sicilian night, a 10-mile-long string of lava glows like an insidious worm. A drunk journalist, spiraling towards nihilistic self-annihilation, argues Zen metaphysics with an 11-year-old girl - she is life, hope, the temptation of redemption. A blond French film star plunges into shamanistic sexual abandon. A renowned aging gay playwright pirouettes his jaded cynicism before a handsome young man. "You are a worm, an embryo, nothing more " The young man shatters into a firestorm of sexualities, a polymorphous vortex, a tapestry of lust. An adulterous couple pushes passion to its limits, flirting with the end of their affair. In "That was the Summer That" sex spins like a merry-go-round: a group of young women spends a steamy Roman summer trading sex partners like baubles, while around them terrorists murder, maim, and kidnap. In "Hi, I'm back " a jaded screenwriter returns to a Roman beach, remembers a beautiful woman, a failed love affair, and an idyllic winter in an isolated farmhouse on a sleepy canal between Rome and the sea. Glimpsing a stranger in the twilight, he wonders if he can reignite the passions of yesteryear. The second section of the book, Shattered, tells of broken lives, emptied out human shells, the husks left behind. In "It must have been the Rain," the childlike hulking inmate of an insane asylum, who has no idea a fellow inmate loves him, catches a glimpse of the toxic murderous man he once was. In "A Universe of Smiles," a cynical Hollywood producer - a virtuoso of charm - relives the moment he shattered the love of his life. Now, he yearns for a new, impossible love. In "What Time is it on the Moon," a man sits with his son in a cafe at twilight. There is nothing to say. It is impossible to communicate with a child. Having lost the child he once was, this father has lost himself; when you lose yourself, you lose everyone else too. In "Blossoms" a paralyzed, dying man observes a woman drinking coffee on a rooftop terrace. Dreaming of the rich sensuality of life, he weaves fantasies around the unknown woman who has no idea he exists. In "Now We Dance" a young girl confronts the death of her friend, the daughter of the man her mother was about to marry: What is left when the living person is gone? In "Like an Angel," a young man - a powerful bomb in his backpack - boards a rural commuter train in the English countryside and gazes at the passengers as the train hurdles towards the climactic moment which will occur in a tunnel - where, as the imam explained, the blast will be total, there will be no survivors. In the final story, "I Hate Hats," the narrator reflects on the tragic destiny which will one day overtake him. One day, like his father, he will be bald, and "not have a curl to his name." Life is tragic. There are so many ways to fail at that continuous unending exam which is life - so many ways to fail to fully live - and many of them are cataloged in Lava and Other Stories.
Автор: Gilbert E. Reid Название: Stories Tell What Can`t Be Told: My Story ISBN: 0578201933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578201931 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Stories Tell What Can't be Told: My Story is a collection of stories in the life journey of E.
Reid Gilbert, after finishing high school, leaving home and matriculating
in several colleges, where he earned five academic degrees,
ranging from English and Sociology to Theology and Asian
Theatre.
These stories are recollections of events and people from
Gilbert's careers in the Methodist and Unitarian ministries, performance
and instruction of Mime, College and University teaching,
and acting, directing and producing theatre.
A memoir of a spirited and creative life
Автор: Gilbert E. Reid Название: Trickster Jack ISBN: 1732728526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732728523 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1510.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Every culture has its own trickster character. The Southern Appalachian Mountain trickster is Jack, whom readers may know from traditional stories like "Jack in the Giant's Newground" and "Jack and the Bean Tree." The stories in Trickster Jack, which focus on the shenanigans of Jack and his older brothers, are actually tall tales emerging from Reid Gilbert's tricky imagination. Set in the Southern Appalachians around the end of the nineteenth century, these tales describe actual activities of the time, such as making a wooden wagon with white oak rounds for wheels, fetching water from wells with windlasses, and using outdoor outhouses.
Trickster Jack introduces those readers from outside the Appalachians to some of the ways and manners of that region, while reacquainting Appalachians themselves with their own heritage. Regardless of where you hail, there is plenty in this whimsical collection to delight and entertain you.
Автор: Reid Gilbert Название: So This Is Love: Lollipop and Other Stories ISBN: 0995310831 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995310834 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In nine dramatic, vividly etched stories, SO THIS IS LOVE explores love and hate, the tangle of fascination, perversity, ambivalence, and power at the heart of intimacy. In "Pavilion 24," set in the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s, a Muslim militiaman, his leg amputated above the knee, finds himself lying, helpless, next to his deadly enemy, a beautiful young Serb, her warm body pressed against his. The girl is blind; without him, she will die; without her, he will die. Blindness returns - metaphorically - in "Soon We will be Blind." Sitting in the dark on the porch of a sprawling farmhouse on a hot rainy summer night, drinking beer with her father, a young woman is swept back to the distant past, to a childhood rape. She remembers, too, how, in that same summer, she met the most unique and beautiful person ever to enter her life. In "After the Rain," it is April in Paris, in the 60s or 70s. A jaded diplomat, who is with the woman he truly loves, decides to have sex - out of curiosity or just for the hell of it - with an exotic and beautifully fragile golden-skinned girl. Can he defy the gods? In "Irony is ..." a cynical professor of literature is marooned on an isolated beach on a volcanic island, with an alluring, androgynous French literary theorist. As she weaves her intricate cerebral spell, he finds himself playing a starring role in her perverse erotic theatre. But, is he a star, or merely an extra, merely part of the d cor? "Hey, Mister " plunges us into a bloody civil war in Africa. Can a daring, white photo-journalist, famous for her exclusives on human suffering, pluck one small boy - amid millions - from certain death and bring him home to a new life in Paris? "The Champion" sweeps us into the twilight of the Italian dolce vita. A cynical white writer and his exquisitely beautiful offbeat young black friend search the beaches of the Mediterranean coast, looking for a violent deadbeat, a man once nicknamed "the champion." With disabused cynical eyes, the duo delves the depths of toxic love and sexual addiction. In "Lollipop," among flirtations and bottles of wine, a voluptuous young woman, her mind frozen in the past after an automobile accident and with a scarred, half-shattered face, bets she can learn the lyrics of "Lollipop." When she fails, she walks naked into the sea, a wounded goddess disappearing into a blaze of wintery sunlight. In "Bevete del Vino," set in Rome's Left Bank, Trastevere, a world-weary 50-year-old international civil servant in his fifties finds himself sharing his life with a young Englishwoman who reads Kant and Wittgenstein in bed. She, he realizes, is infinitely more mature and subtle than he. In "The Road out of Town" what was once a real farm village has become a tinsel-like facade, a tourist attraction, surrounded by endless featureless suburbs, a stage set where everything is false and everyone a stranger. It is to this Ontario village that an economist who has long lived in Paris, returns. Seeing the village as it has now become, he remembers the village as it was. He is swept into his own childhood. Suddenly, in the luminous world of memory, he realizes what it was - the world that has been lost, the life he never lived, the person he never became. And, at the core of this life-long betrayal and forgetfulness, he remembers too, who she was, the most beautiful, tender, fragile, brave girl he ever knew. Yes, it was love. But he didn't know it at the time. Only now does he realize ... It is strange, he thinks, how easily you can forget who and what you were, and what your life might have been.
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