From Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ===== The Blackcollar is a novel in which the Blackcollars are guerrillas who were made redundant by the fall of the Terran Empire. ===== The Crystal and the Amulet is a pictorial adaptation of the Hawkmoon "Runestaff" tetralogy drawn in black-and-white. ===== The production revived the fairy tale of a boy who trades the family's cow for a handful of magic beans. It included new characters and 11 original songs. ===== Brian (Josh Zuckerman) and his three degenerate friends (Davida Williams, Luke Youngblood, Rushi Kota) must save the world when a ruthless alien crashes his 30th birthday party. ===== The play begins with narration by Henry Wiggen on a dark set telling the audience that he wrote the play based on a book he also wrote. Wiggen is a pitcher for the fictional New York Mammoths; he was voted Most Valuable Player in 1952. He explains that the play is about his roommate, Bruce Pearson, who is the team's third-string catcher. In their shared hotel room, Pearson, a country boy, irritates Wiggen by talking about how the wind affects the path of his spit as it drops from the window. Pearson complains about taxes. In the locker room, players ridicule Pearson. The team's manager, Dutch, chastises Pearson for calling the wrong pitch and tells him he has no brains. Eight months later, Wiggen gets a call from Pearson who says he is in the hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. He asks Wiggen to visit him. Wiggen visits the hospital, and Pearson reveals that he has a disease that's "kinda fatal." According to the doctors, Pearson has six months or a year "or maybe tomorrow." Wiggen and Pearson agree that nobody else can know, or else Dutch will get rid of Pearson. Spring training arrives, and Wiggen is holding out due to a contract dispute. A new catcher, Piney Woods, is competing for Pearson's spot on the roster. Wiggen meets with the team's management. He agrees to sign but insists that he's tied together in a package with Pearson. Four months pass, and Pearson's condition is deteriorating. He struggles to make it look like everything is fine. Wiggen tries to persuade a teammate to stop giving Pearson a hard time and reveals that Pearson is dying. Word of Pearson's illness reaches the manager, and Dutch tells Wiggen that Pearson is through. The players hold a surprise party for Pearson, even though it's not Pearson's birthday. Piney Woods shows up at the party and says the team sent for him. Wiggen learns that his wife has had a baby and shares the news with the party-goers. Six beautiful women (in real life, Miss America contests for 1956) show up; they are a present for Pearson from his teammates. Dutch enters the party. He tells Wiggen that he has had a change of heart and agrees Pearson can stay with the team. Pearson is choked up by the kindness of his teammates. He isn't feeling well and asks Wiggen to call the doctor. In closing narration, Wiggen stands in a spotlight on a dark set and says they took Pearson to the hospital. After the season, he died. Wiggen was a pall bearer. The team didn't send a representative. Breaking down in tears, and in the play's final line, Wiggen says, "From here on in I rag nobody." ===== Fearing a conspiracy, Constantius, the emperor of the Roman Empire, orders the execution of his uncle and the uncle's family, although the six-year-old boy Julian is spared. Julian is raised in Nicomedia; during the day he is taught Christianity by the Arian bishop Eusebius, but at night the old tutor Mardonius informs him about Homer and paganism. Attracted to paganism, Julian is initiated into theurgy by the neoplatonic philosopher Maximus of Ephesus. Marion May as Taianus, Silvia Malinverni as Helena and Rina Calabria as Isa Constantius summons the grown-up Julian to Milan where he is given the title of caesar, at the time signifying a subordinate to the emperor. In Milan, Julian falls in love with and seduces the empress Eusebia. At the same time, Constantius' younger sister Helena falls in love with Julian, and Helena's slave Taianus, who secretly loves Helena, becomes jealous of Julian. Constantius wants to strengthen the family bond and arranges so that Julian is married to Helena. As a wedding gift, Eusebia gives Helena her slave Isa. Julian settles in Gaul where he successfully fights back rebelling Gaulish tribes. Constantius becomes jealous of his cousin's success and orders him to send his best troops to Byzantium, but the soldiers rebel and proclaim Julian their emperor. Soon thereafter, Helena falls dead, having been poisoned by Isa on order from Eusebia. Julian decides to seek revenge and claim the throne in Byzantium. Before he can suppress Julian's rebellion, Constantius becomes fatally ill, and Eusebia persuades him to make Julian his successor. After Julian enters Byzantium, he is unconvinced by Eusebia's claim that she acted out of love, and Eusebia ends up committing suicide. As emperor, Julian tries to restore the ancient Greek religion, but reality does not live up to his visions; instead, what he seeks is suggested to exist in a Christian hymn. Julian is derided by the Christian population, and the temple of Apollo is burned down. Disillusioned, he embarks on a campaign in Persia. There, his army suffers from an ambush and Julian is hit by an arrow. The person who shot the arrow was not a Persian, but Taianus. Collapsing, Julian utters his last words: "You have won, Galilean!" ===== The plot centres around Phileas Fogg making a £20,000 wager with snobbish members of the prestigious Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days.https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-09-24/around-the- world-in-80-days-release-date/ He's joined by his new valet Passepartout, and journalist Abigail Fix. ===== After the demise of Annie (Madhavi) , the four children parts away and after sixteen years Meenu ( eldest daughter played by Chippy) tries to reunite with her younger brothers Tony , Rony and Monu. However things take an unexpected turn when they reunite. ===== ===== In the aftermath of the Titan Ethniu's declaration of war against humanity, Harry Dresden returns from Demonreach with his lover Karrin Murphy and temporary allies Lara Raith and Freydis when their ship gets attacked by a kraken, which they manage to kill before reaching Chicago. Harry and Murphy rush to warn their local friends in the Paranet about the upcoming war, and Harry charges Murphy with keeping the group out of trouble while he meets with the rest of the Accorded Nations, who are ready to defend the city from the Titan and her Fomor army. When the Fomor scouts attack, Harry goes out to fight them off with the support of the sasquatch River Shoulders. Joined by several Wardens and Listens-to-the-Wind, Harry reaches Graceland Cemetery, where they find several Black Court vampires, Mavra among them, trying to carry out a necromantic ritual, and they engage in a fight. While the vampires leave, they do so on their own accord after killing Wardens Yoshino and Wild Bill and sending Chandler somewhere unknown. Harry is attacked by the Fomor, but is saved by the appearance of the Knights of the Cross and Murphy. Taking refuge in a building, the group meets with Ebenezer McCoy and several Einherjar, as Ethniu enters the battle and uses the Eye of Balor to destroy a building. Several Jotun attack, and the Einherjar fight them, killing many of them at the cost of their own lives, as the group retreats towards Cloud Gate, where Mab is gathering her forces and acting as bait for Ethniu to attack. Harry leads a group of Fae to a nearby childcare to help evacuate the people inside, among them Internal Affairs agent Rudolph. Fomor and Jotun attack the childcare, with one of them facing off against Harry until Murphy uses a bazooka to kill him. Rudolph becomes hysterical and murders Murphy by accident: Harry almost kills him in revenge, but Sanya and Butters stop him on time. Returning to The Bean, the Fomor begin to attack as an army, with Harry fighting and leading groups of both Fae and normal Chicagoans into the fight, suffering hundreds of deaths while inflicting high losses on the attacking Fomor, and Ethniu arrives. Harry joins Queen Mab and helps in the fight against the Titan as John Marcone and Molly Carpenter bring in reinforcements and several powerful individuals keep fighting against Ethniu in order to weaken her. Lara manages to strike Ethniu in the back of the head, causing her to lose the Eye of Balor, which John Marcone grabs and takes towards the lake, with Harry following to carry out his part of the plan. Ethniu follows and nearly kills Marcone (who turns out to have been a Denarian since the events of Small Favor), but Harry manages to ensnare her and defeat her in a battle of wills, imprisoning the Titan within Demonreach. The Fomor retreat after Ethniu's defeat. As calm begins to return, Goodman Grey brings Justine (Thomas' lover), who asks to be allowed to see Thomas. Harry takes her to the Water Beetle, but while trying to rest realizes that Thomas had tried to warn him that Justine was the one that caused him to attack Etri: when Harry confronts her, she reveals that she has been possessed by Nemesis, who wanted to access Demonreach so it could free all of the island's prisoners. Harry jumps out of the ship and Demonreach attacks it, preventing Nemesis from reaching its target, but it manages to escape taking Justine away. A wake is held for the people deceased in the battle. Carlos Ramirez tells Harry that the White Council has decreed to expel him and that he is no longer allowed to act as a wizard, but he replies that he will continue to act as Chicago's protector, no matter what others say. He later crashes a meeting of the Accorded Nations, stating that they owe the people of Chicago compensation for how the supernatural war has affected their lives, and manages to get Marcone to give up the Better Future Society castle to him, as it was built over the ruins of Harry's former house, which Harry plans to use as a fortress for himself and his allies to use in the future. ===== ===== The Statue of the Sorcerer & The Vanishing Conjurer is a pack of two adventures, presented back-to-pack including 16 pages of hand-outs in the middle. ===== Bagdad is a novel in which the setting is an Arabian land. ===== Olympian Nights is a novel in which an American tourist visits Olympus. ===== Master of Paxwax is a novel in which aliens are oppressed by human empires, but they plot vengeance using the unwitting aid of Pawl Paxwax of the galactic Families. ===== The Others is a novel in which people are physically and mentally programmed for their jobs, in a post-holocaust setting. ===== Executive is a novel in which in which Hope Hubris is the liberal Tyrant of Jupiter. ===== The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction is an anthology which offers representative stories from 26 countries. ===== Walter Preston (Ralph Bellamy) and his son Kenneth (William Shatner), fresh out of law school, defend Joseph Gordon (Steve McQueen) who is charged with felony murder. Gordon is accused of robbing the apartment of psychiatrist, Victor Wallach, and strangling his wife. Francis Toohey (Martin Balsam) is the prosecutor. The story turns on Walter Preston's belief that his client is guilty, and his son's belief that the client is innocent. Gordon is consistent throughout in insisting that he is innocent. Gordon was the delivery boy for a butcher shop. He was assigned to deliver meat to the Wallach apartment on the morning of the crime. He did not return to the butcher shop after the delivery. The police found him at his home and arrested him there. The victim's maid testifies that she was hit by an intruder who she identifies as Gordon. When she regained consciousness, Mrs. Wallach was dead. Despite efforts to shake her story on cross-examination, the maid insists that Gordon was the man who struck her. She has no doubt. Father and son have different view as to how far to go in order to raise doubt in the minds of jurors. The prosecutor pursues the case aggressively. Walter is reluctant to use some aggressive tactics, telling his son that he has to live in this community. Kenneth asks: "Shouldn't there be someone to fight as hard to free him as Toohey fights to kill him?" Walter agrees to use his son's proposed tactic. He recalls the maid to identify the man who hit her. She identifies the man sitting at the defense table. The defense then calls Joseph Gordon, who rises from a seat in the audience. The man sitting at defense table, the man identified by the maid, was a law student who has nothing to do with the case but who bears some resemblance to the defendant. While expressing disapproval of the tactic, the court grants a motion for directed verdict and frees the defendant. Walter remains unsure whether his client was guilty and whether he did the right thing. ===== ===== Phirki is about a little girl who is rescued by Lokkhi, a transgender woman. Phirki is showcase the journey of this unique mother-daughter duo. While Phirki grows to be an independent woman, her path ahead is filled with several roadblocks. ===== Cristina (Saby Kamalich) and Ricardo (Félix González) have three children: Pablo (José Luis Moreno), Martha (Paula Cusi) and Claudia (Delia Peña Orta), but they are not married, because Ricardo is married to another woman, Alicia (María Duval). When he finds himself in a hurry when it seems that Alicia is going to find out about her secret life, Ricardo asks Alicia's cousin, Antonio (Mauricio Garcés), to help him by pretending to be Cristina's husband. =====