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A stunning debut novel uses speculative fiction to explore mental illness and our darkest feelings about our family Two weeks after his death, Susan McPherson sees her father on the street in Glasgow. Not long after, she takes an overdose and is committed to a psychiatric institution. There, she is given a cocktail of drugs and soon finds herself moving between the reality of hospital and an alternate city, permanently covered in snow and ice. In her new world her gay brother, Jamie, is now married to Claire. The country is dominated by militant pagan groups and Christian fundamentalism is on the rise, led by the charismatic preacher, McLean. Susan is befriended by Raj, a mysterious man who creates paintings of wolves and Norse legends. As Susan is drawn into the struggles and relationships of this new parallel world, her grip on the "first world" loosens further. Can she resolve the crises in the ice-bound city in order to return to reality? For fans of Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, Scarlett Thomas's The End of Mr Y, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
This title surveys some 60 examples of swords made and used in northern Europe during the Viking Age, from the mid 8th to the mid-11th century. It contains an illustrated overview of blade types and construction, pattern-welding, inscriptions and handle forms and Jan Petersen's classification.
In his introduction to The Well of Remembrance, author Ralph Metzner provides a telling explanation of the theme of his work: "This book explores some of the mythic roots of the Western worldview, the worldview of the culture that, for better and worse, has come to dominate most of the rest of the world's peoples. This domination has involved not only economic and political systems but also values, basic attitudes, religious beliefs, language, scientific understanding, and technological applications. Many individuals, tribes, and nations are struggling to free themselves from the residues of the ideological oppression practiced by what they see as Eurocentric culture. They seek to define their own ethnic or national identities by referring to ancestral traditions and mythic patterns of knowledge. At this time, it seems appropriate for Europeans and Euro-Americans likewise to probe their own ancestral mythology for insight and self-understanding." Focusing on the mythology and worldview of the pre-Christian Germanic tribes of Northern Europe, Metzner offers a meaningful exploration of Western ancestry.
"Only a wayfarer born under unruly stars would attempt to put into practice in our epoch of proliferating knowledge the Heraclitean dictum that `men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.'" Thus begins this remarkable interdisciplinary study of time by a master of the subject. And while developing a theory of "time as conflict," J. T. Fraser does offer "many things indeed"--an enormous range of ideas about matter, life, death, evolution, and value.
The ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen live on in these translations known as the "Lays of the Gods." This 13th-century collection recaptures a mythical world that influenced Tolkien and other storytellers.
From a familiar time, one so ancient it lies deep within all our bones, surfaces a glimpse into the endless age old struggle between life and death, light and darkness, good and evil. This struggle festers throughout our blood, drives our choices, our quests, and our wars. During the Times Before the first battle between these forces of light and darkness clashed resulting in the Shadow Years marking the beginning of The Middle Times. Evil is defeated and The Years of Plenty follow, yet again, giving way to another time of war, The Indigo Years. During this transitional peaceful time, a charming Grenelvin family excursion of exploration leads down a dangerous mystifying path of hidden secrets and treachery inevitably uncovering evil during the Rise of the Goblin King. This Orlok goblin seeks independence from his unending servitude to the Lord of Darkness and Shadow and will destroy the Wolde to achieve nothing less. The new determined spirit of youth engages the old sinister evil in this beginning mystifying tale of intrigue known as the Middle Times. Visit www.middletimetales.com