Thus, we witness act after act, how suddenly a seed of jealousy grows within them inevitably, something dark shadows the beauty of their friendship and their acts. But then inevitable happens or rather, let’s say, a tragedy follows them and suddenly they aren’t closed group of 7 but a group of 6, trying to unravel the mystery of the dead. Now, this group of 7 people who devoted their lives to their art, to theatre and Shakespeare were hardly someone who the world would understand and thus found a family within themselves. Thus, spanning over the years and mainly focusing on their close group of 7. If We Were Villains by M.L.Rio follows as Oliver narrates the story to the now retiring Detective Colborne. GENRES: Mystery, Literary Thriller, Adult and Contemporary.ĬONVINCING YOU TO READ THIS IN 6 WORDS: Beautiful and lyrical writing, amazing characters, theatre, Shakespeare based, Dark Academia & Intriguing plot. IF WE WERE VILLAINS If We Were Villains by M.L.Rio
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When Clarke wrote "2001" in the 1960s, a number of computer scientists were optimistic that machines with HAL's capabilities might soon exist, and Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, was an advisor on the film. We also discover the reason for HAL's killing spree - the contradictory orders the computer was given led to "what would be called, in human terms, a psychosis - specifically, schizophrenia." In the novel, scientists reboot HAL, the psychotic artificial intelligence that killed nearly all the astronauts in "2001." In just a few days, HAL not only regains speech, facial recognition, speech recognition and emotion recognition, but can also once more reason, understand and carry out conversations, and control a spaceship. Paleontologist Peter Ward at the University of Washington at Seattle even suggested genetic engineering humans for the types of brain or nervous systems that help one to go into hibernation. Researcher Mark Roth of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and his colleagues are conducting research to put humans into a hibernation-like state by having people inhale hydrogen sulfide. These are poets and fiction writers and everything in between who have been working for generations out of sense of urgency and love, and not always visible rewards. “I want to acknowledge a special debt to the Filipino-American and Filipino literary community. “This book was such a private labor of love for so long, and I feel incredibly lucky that it found a team of people that cared about it almost as much as I did, if not more,” said Alvar as she accepted the prize, presented by Chair of PEN’s Awards Committee and winner of the 2004 PEN/Bingham Prize Monique Truong. “It is rare to find a debut of such depth and breadth, work singing with the grace of a thousand doomed lifetimes compressed into stories both luminous and empathic, populated by memorable characters facing such keenly felt challenges,” judges Helon Habila, Elizabeth McCracken, Edie Meidav, and Jess Row wrote in their citation for the award. Knopf, In the Country comprises nine stories giving voice to the Filipino diaspora as its characters reflect on their cultural identities to confront the traumas of the past and the uncertainties of the future. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction this evening at a ceremony in New York for her short story collection In the Country. NEW YORK- PEN America named Mia Alvar winner of the 2016 PEN/Robert W. PEN Literary Award Winners include Lauren Redniss, Rick Barot, and Ta-Nehisi Coates 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony. |