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Martin Millar (other)
Martin Millar is a Scottish writer from Glasgow who is now resident in London. Under the pseudonym Martin Scott he has authored the Thraxas series of fantasy novels, for the eponymous inaugural volume of which he won the World Fantasy Award for best novel. Overview The novels he writes under his own name focus upon urban decay and British subcultures, and the impact these have on a range of characters, both realistic and supernatural. There are elements of magical realism. Some of them are set in Brixton, Millar's one-time place of residence; many are at least semi-autobiographical, and ''Love and Peace with Melody Paradise'' and ''Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me'' both feature Millar himself as a character. His Thraxas novels combine secondary world fantasy and pulp noir thriller. In 2000, he received the World Fantasy Award for best for the first installment, ''Thraxas''. Bibliography Novels *''Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation'' (1987) *''Lux the Poet'' (1988) *''Ruby & The St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Scott (writer)
Martin Millar is a Scottish writer from Glasgow, now resident in London. He also writes the ''Thraxas'' series of fantasy novels under the pseudonym Martin Scott. The novels he writes as Martin Millar dwell on urban decay and British sub-cultures, and the impact these have on a range of characters, both realistic and supernatural. There are elements of magical realism, and the feeling that the boundary between real life and the supernatural is not very thick. Some of them are set in Brixton, Millar's one-time place of residence; many are at least semi-autobiographical, and ''Love and Peace with Melody Paradise'' and ''Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me'' both feature Millar himself as a character. As Martin Scott, his Thraxas novels are a fusion of traditional high fantasy and pulp noir thriller (genre), thrillers. In 2000, he won the World Fantasy Award for best novel with his book ''Thraxas''. Bibliography Novels *''Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation'' 1987 *''Lux the Poet'' 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thriller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the mood (psychology), moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, Psychomotor agitation, excitement, Surprise (emotion), surprise, anticipation (emotion), anticipation and anxiety. Successful examples of thrillers are Alfred Hitchcock filmography, the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax (narrative), climax. The cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, unreliable narrators, and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is often a villain-driven plot, whereby they present obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. The most common genres that overlap with the thriller genre include crime fiction, crime, horror fiction, horror and detective fiction. Characteristics Writer Vla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Fantasy Award-winning Writers
In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a "plurality of worlds". Some treat the world as one simple object while others analyze the world as a complex made up of many parts. In ''scientific cosmology'' the world or universe is commonly defined as " e totality of all space and time; all that is, has been, and will be". '' Theories of modality'', on the other hand, talk of possible worlds as complete and consistent ways how things could have been. ''Phenomenology'', starting from the horizon of co-given objects present in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon or the "horizon of all horizons". In ''philosophy of mind'', the world is commonly contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Novelists
List of Scottish novelists is an incomplete alphabetical list of Scottish novelists. It includes novelists of all genres writing in English, Scots, Gaelic or any other language. Novelists writing in the Scottish tradition are part of the development of the novel in Scotland. This is a subsidiary list to the List of Scottish writers. A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T U W See also *List of novelists *List of Scottish science fiction writers This is an alphabetical list of science fiction writers connected to Scotland by birth, death or long-term residence. A *Gilbert Adair *Mea Allan *William Archer (critic), William Archer *Marion Arnott *Kate Atkinson (writer), Kate Atkinson * ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Scottish novelists Lists of British writers Novelists Lists of novelists by nationality Novelists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1959 Births
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Disco 2000 (anthology)
''Disco 2000'' is a 1998 anthology of short fiction edited by music journalist Sarah Champion. The stories in the collection are set in the last hours of 1999, and while the authors featured are largely known for their science fiction work, not every story is strictly of that genre. The collection is a follow-up to Champion's previous collection, ''Disco Biscuits'', which took the British club scene as its topic. Contents "Witnessing the Millennium" by Pat Cadigan People around the world are inexplicably vanishing \- and rumour is that the only way to survive is to be seen at all times. As New Year's Ever partygoers fight to be seen on TV cameras around the world, the narrator instead decides to sit alone on a London park bench. He is accosted first by a group of drunk homeless men, then by a TV news crew, leading to a fight that knocks him to the ground. When he recovers to find everyone gone and only the news crew's equipment left, he realises that people are somehow being pulle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Champion
Sarah Deborah Champion (born 10 July 1969) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham since 2012. Champion studied Psychology at Sheffield University. Before entering Parliament, she ran art workshops and was employed as the Chief Executive of a children's hospice in Rotherham. Champion was first elected to Parliament at the 2012 by-election. Champion was appointed by Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Minister for Preventing Abuse in September 2015, but resigned in June 2016, following a vote of no confidence in Corbyn. However, she returned to the frontbench in July 2016. In October 2016, she was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities. In August 2017, Champion resigned from her post following criticism of an opinion piece she wrote for '' The Sun'' that discussed what she termed the problem of white girls being raped and exploited by British Pakistani men, and which fellow Labour M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doon MacKichan
Sarah Doon Mackichan (; born August 1962) is a British actress, comedian and writer. She co-created, wrote and performed in the double Emmy award winning ''Smack the Pony''. She frequently collaborates with Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan, having played multiple characters in ''The Day Today'', ''Brass Eye'' and Alan Partridge, and has also appeared in ''Toast of London'' and '' Two Doors Down''. Mackichan was nominated for Best Female Comedy Performance at the 2014 British Academy Television Awards for her performance in ''Plebs'' and won critical praise for her performance alongside John Malkovich in ''Bitter Wheat'' in 2019. Early life The daughter of Kenneth Mackichan and Barbara Bower, who had been married in Chelsea in 1960, Mackichan was born in Westminster in August 1962. She was brought up in Wentworth, Surrey, until the age of twelve, when she and her family moved to Upper Largo, Fife. She studied drama at Manchester University. Career Mackichan made her televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism and social commentary, have earned her acclaim among critics, scholars and readers alike. With the publication of ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1811), '' Pride and Prejudice'' (1813), ''Mansfield Park'' (1814), and '' Emma'' (1816), she achieved modest success but only little fame in her lifetime since the books were published anonymously. She wrote two other novels—''Northanger Abbey'' and '' Persuasion'', both published posthumou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma (novel)
''Emma'' is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings, written by Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first published in December 1815, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England. ''Emma'' is a comedy of manners. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sentence, she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tank Girl
''Tank Girl'' is a British comic book character created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, and first appeared in print in 1988 in the British comics magazine ''Deadline''. After a period of intense popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tank Girl inspired a 1995 feature film. After a long hiatus, the character returned to comics in 2007 and has appeared regularly in the years since. Originally written by Martin and drawn by Hewlett, the character has also been drawn by Philip Bond, Glyn Dillon, Ashley Wood, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Jim Mahfood, Brett Parson, Jonathan Edwards, Craig Knowles, Rufus Dayglo, Andy Pritchett, and Mike McMahon. Tank Girl (Rebecca Buck – later revealed to have been born as Fonzie Rebecca Buckler) drives a tank, which is also her home. She undertakes a series of missions for a nebulous organization before making a serious mistake and being declared an outlaw for her sexual inclinations and her substance abuse. The comic centres on her misa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
