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The Spike (other)
The Spike may refer to: * ''The Spike'' (1980), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss * ''The Spike'' (1997), a nonfiction book by Damien Broderick * "The Spike" (essay) by George Orwell * ''The Spike'' (TV series), a controversial 1978 Irish television drama * "The Spike" (song), a 2008 song for The Music * The Spire of Dublin {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spike (1980)
''The Spike'' is a 1980 spy thriller novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss (New York: Crown Publishers, 1980). Drawing on de Borchgrave's experience as a jet-setting ''Newsweek'' journalist and conservative Washington insider, it tells the story of a radical '60s journalist, Bob Hockney, who stumbles upon a Soviet plot for global supremacy by 1985. When he tries to expose the web of blackmail, sex and espionage, he's hamstrung by his editors' liberal media bias. In the news world, to "spike" a story means to cancel its publication. De Borchgrave and Moss envision a scenario in which the KGB exploits the attitudes of the unsuspecting Western media, which was allegedly more interested in unmasking CIA agents than stopping the Soviets, threatening to thwart Hockney's big scoop. The best-selling book was marketed not only as a spy thriller but an exposé of real-life Washington. ''Time'' called the book a ''roman à clef'' for its fictionalized versions of real people an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spike (1997)
''The Spike'' is a 1997 book by Damien Broderick exploring the future of technology, and in particular the concept of the technological singularity The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. According to the m .... A revised and updated edition was published in 2001 as ''The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies'', New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2001, he pbk. Library of Congress T14.B75 2001. External linksreviewof 1997 paperback edition Technology books 1997 non-fiction books Singularitarianism Transhumanist books {{Future-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spike (essay)
"The Spike" is a 1931 essay by George Orwell in which he details his experience staying overnight in the casual ward of a workhouse (colloquially known as a "spike") near London. This episode in Orwell's life took place while he was intentionally living as a vagrancy (people), vagrant in and around London as part of the social experiment that would form the basis of his first book ''Down and Out in Paris and London''. The events of this essay are also found in that book, though the essay is not reprinted verbatim in the book. Orwell was in Paris, in August 1929, when he first sent a copy of "The Spike" to the ''Adelphi (magazine), New Adelphi'' magazine. The ''New Adelphi'' was a London periodical which was owned by John Middleton Murry. Murry had released editorial control to Richard Rees, Sir Richard Rees and Max Plowman, and it was Plowman who accepted the work for publication. However, various revisions were required, and the work did not appear in print until April 1931.D. J. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spike (TV Series)
''The Spike'' is a controversial Irish drama television series, broadcast by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) in 1978. The ten-part series was set in a secondary school. The script was written by Patrick Gilligan who was a vocational school teacher. Reviews The series was negatively reviewed by critics who took issue with the poor script, bad acting and the clumsy thematic treatment. A review in ''The Irish Times'' stated that " this much publicized drama series has turned out to be so bad it must now be taken seriously". Dr Helena Sheehan, a lecturer in social history, wrote in 2002 that Controversy In episode five, "the briefest glimpse of naked flesh" caused outrage and angry phonecalls to newspapers. The show's producer defended the nude streak as an intent "to examine the attitude of pupils and staff to nudity". The ensuing fuss led to one of the actors requiring medical treatment after he was, as the ''Evening Press'' elegantly phrased it, "thumped by a fat elderly lady" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spike (song)
The Spike may refer to: * ''The Spike'' (novel), a 1980 novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss * ''The Spike'' (Broderick book), a 1997 nonfiction book by Damien Broderick * "The Spike" (essay) by George Orwell * ''The Spike'' (TV series), a controversial 1978 Irish television drama * "The Spike", a 2008 song for The Music The Music are an English alternative rock band, formed in Kippax, Leeds in 1999. Comprising Robert Harvey (vocals, guitar), Adam Nutter (lead guitar), Stuart Coleman (bass) and Phil Jordan (drums), the band came to prominence with the releas ... * The Spire of Dublin {{DEFAULTSORT:Spike, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |