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“Don't read this in a public place, you won't be able to stop yourself laughing out loud. It reminds me of Douglas Adams, the careful plotting mixed with those absurdities and jokes that sneak up and make you snort tea through your nose. Hilarious.” Goodreads. What if you really were the centre of the universe? Norman Mi’s house is shrinking. He’s sure of it. But that’s the least of his problems, even if he doesn’t realise it yet. There’s also the odd time dilation effects at the office, the invisible spiders that no one else can see, and the eccentric neighbours who insist on eating his bacon sandwiches. In spite of all of this, Norman is a completely average man; a man so bland he would disappear in the middle of Ikea. The trouble is, Norman doesn’t want to be an average man, he wants to be unique, he wants to be somebody, and he wants to amount to something. And he’s about to get exactly what he wants; whether it’s good for him or not. Normalverse is the first part of a trilogy about normality and pan-galactic rent disputes. And it’s FREE. KEYWORDS humor, aliens, thriller, invasion, mystery, robots, contact, science fiction, humour, science fiction and fantasy, science fiction best sellers, free science fiction books, free science fiction, military science fiction, science fiction books, free kindle books science fiction and fantasy, sci fi, sci fi fantasy, sci fi kindle books, sci fi military, sci fi books, sci fi free books, sci fi free, sci-fi, sci-fi novel, sci-fi fantasy, sci-fi kindle books, sci-fi books, sci-fi short stories
For the first time in his life, Norman Mi has a good answer to the question ‘what have you been up to?’. He is the cause of a virus spreading across the galaxy, wiping out everything in its path. He’s agitated a failed revolution aboard an alien space cruiser, and one of his best friends has been kidnapped by Jane Austen. Now he's determined to put everything right once and for all.
What happens when the invasion of Earth has all become a bit … tiresome? And there’s dust everywhere? Norman yearns for more than his lot in a post-apocalyptic hell-hole, especially now that his neighbours have moved in with him. If only he could fix the hole in the wall made by the meteorite, do something about the death from the skies, and get a decent sandwich. But as the world crumbles into dystopia, Norman is the only one who can save it. Possibly. Normalverse Too is the continuation of a trilogy about normality and universal class warfare. KEYWORDS humor, aliens, thriller, invasion, mystery, robots, contact, science fiction, humour, science fiction and fantasy, science fiction best sellers, free science fiction books, free science fiction, military science fiction, science fiction books, free kindle books science fiction and fantasy, sci fi, sci fi fantasy, sci fi kindle books, sci fi military, sci fi books, sci fi free books, sci fi free, sci-fi, sci-fi novel, sci-fi fantasy, sci-fi kindle books, sci-fi books, sci-fi short stories
Thomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry - anacrusis, alliteration patterns, rhyme, and hypermetric verses - and further offers a clear account of late Old English verse as it descended from the classical verse as observed in Beowulf. He makes the surprising and controversial discovery that Ælfric's alliterative works are formally indistinguishable from late verse. Discussing the early Middle English verse-forms of Layamon's Brut, Bredehoft not only demonstrates that they can be understood as developing from late Old English, but that Layamon seems to have known, and quoted from, the poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Early English Metre presents a new perspective on early English verse and a new perspective on much of early English literary history. It is an essential addition to the literature on Old and Middle English and will be widely discussed amongst scholars in the field.
This book traces the development of hypermetric verse in Old English and compares it to the cognate traditions of Old Norse and Old Saxon. The study illustrates the inherent flexibility of the hypermetric line and shows how poets were able to manipulate this flexibility in different contexts for different practical and rhetorical purposes. This mode of analysis is therefore able to show what degree of control the poets had over the traditional alliterative line, what effects they were able to produce with various stylistic choices, and how attention to poetic style can aid in literary analysis.
Dick Ringler's deceptively simple translation captures the rhythm, movement, and power of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid modern English style and a relatively spare vocabulary. His generous Introduction, a lively yet masterly guide to the work, along with his translations of three shorter Old English poems elucidate a major English text almost as well-known for its subtlety and intricacy as it is for its monsters and heroes.