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Fourth Realm Trilogy
The Fourth Realm Trilogy refers to the trilogy of books written by pseudonymous author John Twelve Hawks and published between 2004 (in the UK, 2005 in the US) and 2009. The trilogy has been translated into 25 languages and has sold more than 1.5 million books. The three novels describe parallel universes, including one controlled by a shadow group called The Brethren using the Vast Machine. '' The Traveler'' was a critical success and international bestseller - with the intriguing life of the elusive author increasing reader interest in the books. , the identity of John Twelve Hawks John Twelve Hawks is the pseudonym of an author of four novels and one short non-fiction book. His legal name and identity are unknown. His first published novel was the dystopian '' The Traveler'' and its sequels, '' The Dark River'' and '' The ... has yet to be confirmed. Stand-ins represent Twelve Hawks on book tours, some declaring "I am John Twelve Hawks". Books In order of publication: *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Twelve Hawks
John Twelve Hawks is the pseudonym of an author of four novels and one short non-fiction book. His legal name and identity are unknown. His first published novel was the dystopian '' The Traveler'' and its sequels, '' The Dark River'' and '' The Golden City'', collectively comprising the Fourth Realm Trilogy. The trilogy has been translated into 25 languages and has sold more than 1.5 million books. The trilogy was followed five years later by a fourth book, ''Spark'', and a non-fiction eBook, ''Against Authority.'' Biography In the sources listed and in his interviews, he has stated that he was born in the United States. In the non-fiction ''Against Authority'', Twelve Hawks wrote that he grew up in the 1950s. He is a Buddhist who had meditated for most of his life. In the ''Spiegel'' interview he states he is not a Native American. In the ''Spiegel'' interview he talks about visiting East Germany before the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. In the ''USA Today'' article, his re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parallel Universe (fiction)
A parallel universe, also known as a parallel dimension, alternate universe, or alternate reality, is a hypothetical self-contained plane of existence, co-existing with one's own. The sum of all potential parallel universes that constitute reality is often called a " multiverse". While the four terms are generally synonymous and can be used interchangeably in most cases, there is sometimes an additional connotation implied with the term "alternate universe/reality" that implies that the reality is a variant of our own, with some overlap with the similarly named alternate history. Fiction has long borrowed an idea of "another world" from myth, legend and religion. Heaven, Hell, Olympus, and Valhalla are all "alternative universes" different from the familiar material realm. Plato reflected deeply on the parallel realities, resulting in Platonism, in which the upper reality is perfect while the lower earthly reality is an imperfect shadow of the heavenly. The concept is also f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Traveler (novel)
''The Traveler'' (''The Traveller'' in the UK) is a 2005 novel by American author John Twelve Hawks. A ''New York Times'' bestselling novel, It was the first in his The Fourth Realm Trilogy. Book two,'' The Dark River'', was published in July 2007. The final part in the trilogy, '' The Golden City'', was released September 8, 2009. The trilogy has been translated into 25 languages and has sold more than 1.5 million books. Setting The book is set in the near future, in a world where power lies in the hands of a secret organisation that calls itself the Brethren; its enemies call it the Tabula. The Tabula is a centuries-old secret society that believes in the importance of control and stability. The Tabula wishes to enforce a Virtual Panopticon: a society where all individuals become so accustomed to being watched and monitored that they act at all times as if they were being observed, and are thus controllable. This Virtual Panopticon is made possible through the use of survei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009 Doubleday merged with Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is now part of Penguin Random House. In 2019, the official website presents Doubleday as an Imprint (trade name), imprint, not a publisher. History The firm was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday in partnership with Samuel Sidney McClure. McClure had founded the first U.S. newspaper syndicate in 1884 (McClure Syndicate) and the monthly ''McClure's Magazine'' in 1893. One of their first bestsellers was ''The Day's Work'' by Rudyard Kipling, a short story collection that Macmillan published in Britain late in 1898. Other authors published by the company in i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark River (novel)
''The Dark River'' is a 2007 New York Times bestselling novel by John Twelve Hawks. The book is the second in a trilogy of dystopian novels written by reclusive author John Twelve Hawks. The ''Fourth Realm Trilogy'' has been translated into 25 languages and has sold more than 1.5 million books. The World of The Dark River ''The Dark River'' opens several months after the events of '' The Traveler''. Beginning in New York City the book takes us around the world to London, Ireland, Ethiopia, and Germany. The setting evolving around the characters Maya, Gabriel, Vicki, and Hollis as they set out to protect this world (the Fourth Realm) from the changes set in motion by a group called the Brethren. The book is Science Fiction mixed with a religious fantasy that talks about such topics as The Ark of the Covenant, free running, Tibetan Cosmology, and modern methods of security. The author trying to bring such topics as the progression of man lying in his free ability to choose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden City (novel)
''The Golden City'' is the third in Fourth Realm Trilogy of dystopia A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...n novels written by reclusive author John Twelve Hawks. It was released in the United States on September 8, 2009. References 2009 American novels 2009 science fiction novels American science fiction novels Novels by John Twelve Hawks {{2000s-sf-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel Series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. Publishers' reprint series Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series ''The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill'' (founded by British publisher John Bell in 1777). In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the ''Collection of British and American Authors'', a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. Later British reprint series were to include the ''Routledge's Railway Librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
