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...course. His boss blames him for a failed assignment, simmering tensions erupt in his wife leaving, and he's left standing and staring at the Passage River. Running water has always fascinated him, and there's something about this particular river… Justin ends up in the river, and then literally out of the world he worked in. He meets extraordinary people like Una and...

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... Johnson Call me vile. Call me a villain. But I wasn't willing to be a victim. * * * I scuffed at the ground, kicking a dead leaf into the river. It swirled away, caught in the current. I wondered where it was going. I sighed. What I needed to do was stop wondering, and decide where I was going. "You're on your own, leaf," I murmured, but thinking more ...

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...Chapter One: Let Me Go Chapter Two: A Forfeit Chapter Three: Fought for Life Chapter Four: O Obstinate River Chapter Five: An Unseen Impact Chapter Six: Like a Shark Chapter Seven: Cold as the River Chapter Eight: Watchang Out For You Chapter Nine: Impure Chapter Ten: They Moved Chapter Eleven: Following Through Falling...

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...pter Two: A ForfeitChapter Three: Fought for LifeChapter Four: O Obstinate RiverChapter Five: An Unseen ImpactChapter Six: Like a SharkChapter Seven: ... ... Five: An Unseen ImpactChapter Six: Like a SharkChapter Seven: Cold as the RiverChapter Eight: Watchang Out For YouChapter Nine: ImpureChapter Ten: Th... ...et Me Go Rain dripped off the eaves, hitting the cobbles behind me. The river sighed softly further awaybehind me. Pressing the handheld against... ...ouldn't change her mind anymore than logic or anything else, and certainly RiverbankAcademy had a five-star rep. Whether it was what Bolton needed ... ...t. Bolton had asked me when they moved out if I could give him an audio bug. I'd asked why,received no answer, and had gone ahead, explaining how i... ...d trunk, then, just to make sure, sheathed theknife and got out a tracking bug from my electronics kit, and shoved that into a crack. I wished I ha... ..., where curious minks couldn't mess with them. Also unsurprisingly, the bug I'd left along the trail signaled. I hadn't thought the two would leave... ... to pushhim…had I? Was I too quick to walk away from things? I put a bug on a tree trunk, climbed up and settled onto a convenient branch. Had I... ... out yetthat I used the trees as occasional refuges. I had just put the bug away and starting to unsnap my holster when I saw Vogda, looking dampan...

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...ble of ContentsCover 1The River of Shadows 3Imprint ... ...nd 2011 43 Elektra The River of ShadowsThe first in the Unknown Cosmos Series ... ...he “Loser” cough to me, I rolledmy eyes, such a cheap shot, it didn’t even bug me anymore, flicking mynaturally pitch-black hair out of my bright lime... ... covered the walls and ceiling. The footpath were thesame gems rimmed by a river perfectly clear, the bottom carpeted byglow worms. The center of the ... ...ian.” He said, shakinghis head, “Anyway, we’re going to our last stop. The River ofShadows.” He stopped and got off of Kaymead. I did the same, wewere... ....” He stopped and got off of Kaymead. I did the same, wewere in front of a river, a river that I was surprised I had never seenbefore, it was pitch bl...

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...y. Think of these terms: • Ice lenses • Tesla’s atmospheric friction electrical generation (7 atmospheres) • ‘Root- cellar’ water barrels • Rivers- in- the- sky ...and think of Galileo, the Toronto School Board of Education, Copernicus, and ...GURBIN!...

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... How do of Ontario’s Elliot Lake region affect us? Why can’t we question an industry without threats by the sector? Is it that concerned that Serpent River residents, and Pangnurtung residents of the north will expose something hat nuclear doesn’t want to deal with? CLG ...

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...ion electrical generation (7 atmospheres) • ‘Root- cellar’ water barrels • Rivers- in- the- sky ...and think of Galileo, the Toronto School Board ... ...n an industry without threats by the sector? Is it that concerned that Serpent Riverresidents, and Pangnurtung residents of the north will expose some... ...hen we all stuck on the steel. Northern Lights focus on about 5 precepts: 1. Rivers- in – the- sky (hyphenated to sound as only those words can). 2... ...ing magma light on the horizon (as seen with binoculars). Think Ice lenses, rivers- in – the – sky, root cellars, 1000foot biome atmosphere, nuclea... ...e, the ice lens activity in the sky is simplyscience of ice of ice lenses, air rivers, and water barrels in root cellars that freeze to give off energ...

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... prior and Ryanwanted to make sure it was something special. He had taken her tothe river where they had first kissed, bringing a picnic lunch, whitew... ...’s notone of them. He’s just a dumbass.” Then Ryan recognized thevoice. “Tommy Rivera? Graduated last year? Is that you? It’sme, Ryan. I’m the gu... ...athered sun-blotched complexion, the linesstreaked by worry and time, engraved like rivers of tears from thedeepest of sorrows. Round and chiselled in... ...d? Or something deeper? Something lesstangible? Ziggy’s muddled brain flowed like a river in search of anew path. Maybe it was who we touched in this ... ...driving, we finally took a break and parked in themiddle of a wide and very shallow river. It was Nick’s brilliant ideaand I loved it. The rushing wat...

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...sly to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest. Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog... ...g by a series of deliberate contrasts that show the fog in oppositeplaces. The fog is up the river, in green areas, down the river in pollutedareas; i... ...enomination bill and giving her awedding ring fashioned out of nuggets you panned out of the river whereyou first proposed to her. So the “meaning” of... ...has foresworn his spirit of adventure.“The other shoe went flying into the devil-god of that river. I thought, ByJove, it’s all over.”21 Here we see C... ...ap not much louderthan the report of a medium-bore rifle. “What was that?” I asked. “A bug,” she said. “A bug of uncommon shape?” I asked. ... ...ylived on before he was exiled to Siberia. Where does he end up? On the banks of a large river in Siberia, inprison, like Dostoevsky. What is b...

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...ed forward, using long strokes. “Okay, then let’s go find ourselves an exit out of thisgiant bug hotel.” “Wait a sec. What’s wrong with the water?” J... ... the giant room, at thelong, narrow gap hundreds of feet above us. “I think I just found the bug door in this joint.” His eyes widened. “That’s aweso... ...ams glinting in Mike’s golden hair and Jack’s blue eyes. We were officiallyout of the dreary bug hotel and into the beautiful sunshine, and nothing co... ...r back, lather it up reallygood.” “After I do yours first,” I retorted. “So what’s with the bug juice anyway?” “It’s bug repellent, courtesy of Moth... ...us or flu allby himself. Besides, I didn’t exactly like the thought of staying on the mutant bug-infested beachwithout one can of Raid at my disposal.... ... peered through. My heart jumped. Winding deep into the tropical rainforest was amagnificent river. Crystal clear water trickled over moss-covered roc... ...rst? Maybe we could use coconut shells orsomething.” Small, smeared animal tracks lined the riverbank. I pointed down. “Look. There’s footprintsevery... ...ated glance. “Okay, but I highly doubt the size of those spiders hasanything to do with this river. This is an awesome find.” He nodded. “Yeah, it is... ...B.” “Plan B?” asked Mike, washing his muddy sandals in the water. “Yeah. We can follow the river if help doesn’t come. It might lead us to civilizat...

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...porting back to headquarters on what I have found: a bag of rice, a branch in water, pavement buckles and heaving sighs, strange fruit, lean trees, a bug on his way home, a natural catastrophe in the wings, the opening to a car port, a blade of grass -- several blades of grass -- adulterated by weeds, a monumental blunder. As you try to reason these things into being, you,...

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...on where we had started. As we drew up to the far side of the river’s edge, thecause of this great catastrophe became clear: the gene... ...ot gain belief, and the like may be saidof its abundance of large and fine rivers. The people of this land, and of all the others which Ihave become... ... in water, pavement buckles andheaving sighs, strange fruit, lean trees, a bug on his wayhome, a natural catastrophe in the wings, the opening to a ...

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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it...

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...had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulderalong the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from thepole, a bent hook was attached to... ...around it. The worm wriggled and strainedagainst the swift currents of the river trying to entice the cun-ning silver fish. But for most of the day th... ...e. As he stared into the crystal green water just below the surfaceof the river, his thoughts strayed to a time when he was veryyoung and sat on this... ... that only a few had ever been given thisgift. One day as they sat at the river's edge his grandfather told him the... ... The memories cascaded through Seattle's mind as he sat onthe bank of the river waiting for the silver fish that his grandfa-ther had called "Patienc...

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... ABE: What? SWEDEN: We’re not alone here. ACT 2, SCENE 12 EXT. THE FAR BANK. TWILIGHT. SWEDEN is standing with his back to us, facing the river. ABE approaches—he has taken the long way around the willows. SWEDEN turns slowly; the men look at each other. It is nearly dark. ABE: Sweden …? SWEDEN steps aside as the camera dollies past him and in on A CORPSE...

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... 89THE PLACE ACT 1, SCENE 1 EXT. A MIGHTY RIVER. DAY. Opening Image / Titles sequence. Aerial view rushing hea... ... / Titles sequence. Aerial view rushing headlong over a winding Canadian river. Camera flies at dizzying speed over rapids, through sunlit mist. W... ...on beyond, which becomes a roar! Camera dips and climbs, swooping around river boulders, spiraling between crags, diving into the current and out ... ...e a triangle-shaped spit of land appear—the point of which divides the river—draw near. The small island is crowded with willow bushes. We rush ... ...n that bad of shape? JOSHI: Because you’re not a team-player—no bloody river- run’s going to change that. Because my thankless job is to still... ...ed at us over his shoulder. As Ilooked in the rear-view mirror and saw the bug-things leaningforward (as though in anticipation). As I fought whatever...

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...ed outside once again. There was nothing special about the view. Just the river valley, and the empty stretch of lightsstretching to the dark horizon... ... be dark,and it always stormed while Cadelor was working. He stalked down Riverside Drive watching the ground intently, ignoring the cars sprayingpas... ...it from itssupports, and slip screaming off the road surface, reaching the river, succumbing to the storm.To death. Doom and drowning death. "Trick o... ...chair. The chair was discarded, the house demolished. The city fell away. River channels cut theirway down and the oldest trees gave up. Mountains er... ... had. Every bit ofmy will, of my self, was in my fist. Then I grabbed that river of blood with my fist, and ripped itback out of me. I twisted it arou... ...f course. I woke up feeling tired, but that was no surprise. There was a bug going around—more thanone—and I'd probably just caught one. I trudged i... ...ying the letter was "a paranoid fantasy." I considered whether to go and bug Korolenko or not. In the end, I decided to go. If he wereinnocent, he m... ...t didn't hurt much, but knocked me down. I got up while his eyesstarted to bug out. He started to swing it again, so I bit him. Not bad. A little to... ...est to sleep…if our security was good enough, would it be so easy forme to bug the intercom? The next day Uncle Robert took me for a walk. I was plea...

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...Description: In a World of Fear and Terror Lies a River. This River Sepearates the Rival Tribes From Eachother, Preventing Many Battles. the Two Tribes Have Been Enemies Since the End of Time, But Now Tensions Rose Between People of the Same Tribe. Many Rebelled Against Thei...

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...due to a brain tumor when she was 4, but she is a deep thinker.Companion ~ Bug ~ Male panda 7Chapter 1"Wake up! Wake up!"Hope... ...e you?""I'm Jam." The pigeon stammered. "Sam's companion. I'm from overthe river."Hope pictured Sam in her mind. He was smaller than most in his Tribe... ...rength, just in case theSwooping Eagles raid us again.""Winter fell in the river yesterday, remember?" Hope corrected her."What about Raven? He's got ... ...nife in the other, Hope made herway through the dense woodland towards the river, the borderseperating the two Tribes. Finch, Galaxy and Rogue followe... ... to let them argue among themseleves and continuedleading them towards the river.A rustle startled them. Hope hushed her Tribemates in alarm. "Quick!U... ...."Monkeys." Kiwi repeated, staring wide-eyed into the trees. Hercompanion, Bug, nudged her with one of his large black paws. "We've ... ...now very well what we want." Jerry retorted. "Wewant fishing rights to the river. Too many of our Tribe are dying, evenour healers are starving. We ne...

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...d(-Building) When Working up an Interdimensional Organization Freeze But Is It Science Fiction? Part 1: Distinguishing Characteristics Part 2: Bug-Eyed Monsters! Part 3: An Adventure Tale Part 4: A Retold Tale Part 5: Military SF Part 6: Space Opera Part 7: "Literary" Science Fiction Part 8: Star Trek Part I Part 9: Star Trek Part II Part 10: Star Wars Part...

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...FreezeBut Is It Science Fiction? Part 1: Distinguishing Characteristics Part 2: Bug-Eyed Monsters! Part 3: An Adventure Tale Part 4: A Retold Tale... ...action, of doing. Its value isparticularly visible in description: Ordinary: The river was wide and slow, with a lazy current that was almost invisib... ...rby, ignoring the water, while the girl sat on the bank,watching it. Strong: The river flowed wide and slow, with a lazy current that slid past almos... ...ce with one. She andher small ship's crew had spent weeks tracking this one down. Bug-eyed and tentacled, it had stoodimmobile as they got ready to ca... ...mation. Know how long it takes to get clothes clean bybeating them on a rock in a river? Or even using a washboard, then starting them to dry by runni... ...-burnin' him, Mister Rico," yelled Hughes from twenty feet away, as he flamed the Bug with aone-handed shot. How about that, copyright infringement! ... ... Examples I'll give you a couple of sample revisions, though. From the upcoming Rivers Between Worlds: First draft: The slick-furred forms that cam... ...nally consistent and thoroughly thought through. I can't wait to read it.Part 2: Bug-Eyed Monsters! In science fiction's early days, after Verne and... ... a name like Rock Steele flyingaround in a rocket, which would be boarded by some bug-eyed monster (BEM); the alien would grabthe Earth girl who happe...

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...t helped me with my mathshomework yet.’ During the meal Jack told them about a great spot beside a river a few kilometres inland, andinvited Sebastia... ...history ofthe area, then they clambered up a steep rocky escarpment for a view over the plains. The river wasalmost in flood and they swam in a series... ...y performs every Saturday and sometimes on Wednesdays.’ Sebastian promised to take Reginald to the river where Jack had rescued him, then mentionedva... ...or anything. Not even my name. At the time I didn’t think about it, but now it’s beginning toreally bug me. Who were they and why? And there was somet... ...at the idea of her son spending the morning naked, her sole concern being that hehadn’t picked up a bug from the seats and had showered properly. Whi... .... ‘You’ll have noticed the swamp we passed; watch out formosquitoes because there’s dengue and Ross River virus around here. Insect repellent helps, b...

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...r contains sucrose, aspartame and other sweeteners. Endocrine disrupting bisophenol analogues (there are 7, all covered) are easily detectable in our rivers and streams. Conventionally grown food is contaminated with it all. And then chemicals are added to it. Those added chemicals, the colors, the sweeteners, the emulsifiers, the preservatives and others should scare you....

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...s and we’re years away from fully exposing their They’re in our rivers, our streams, our oceans, the air we breathe, the cellular mechanics... ...and endocrine disrupting bisophenol analogues are easily detectable in our rivers and streams. Con-ventionally grown food is contaminated with it all.... ...at concentrations measured in a local water body (Oldman River, AB), individually and in mixture. Exposure to nano... ...vironmental tobacco smoke exposure, and Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA prenatal mono-n-buty... ... several tens to several hundreds of nanograms per liter in most of the rivers surveyed and some of the highest concentrations (54-1950 ng/L) wer...

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...he men responsible for the looming crisis, Democratpresidential appointee: Director Jose Rivera. Rivera and his 37cronies had... ... up to his party and the media to keep the truth hidden, todefend the indefensible. When Rivera’s party took control overCongress, the bureaucrat knew... ...slightly as he settled into his leather chair. The MEI President had really caught the bug, becomingincreasingly animated by the possibilities of hi... ...versations recorded in the news anchor’s office?” “Yes, one of my reporters managed to bug the World NewsNetwork anchor’s office; Deena Crawford was... ...in. The body of the young reporter, Shirley Winters, was foundfloating in the Brooklyn River. The forensics report showeddisturbing evidence the you...

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...impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. One of the most famous incidents in the book describes how Tom persuades his friends to do a boring, hateful chore for him: whitewashing (i.e., painting) a fence. This was the first novel to be written on a typew...

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...ingle Road forked to by-pass the Taklamakan desert from the north and from the south. The northern branch ran through Turpan to the valley of the Ili River. The middle one (the so-called Southern way) traveled from Gaochang to the southern coast of Issyk Kul, from which, via Khotan and Yarkant, it went to Bactria (North Afghanistan). There the Southern Way split again to f...

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... thea skull, two teeth and a femur of some hominid on great rivers of China and Java island in the east andthe island of Java (Indonesi... ... fully adapted to bipedal tropical forests), by the banks of rivers and lakes, onlocomotion. In 1893, Dubois announced his actual ... ...tary val- leys of the Rhine River named Neanderthal and lo- ... ...hey reached the Chuso- vaya River (the Mid-Urals, Russia). Neanderthals also18 ... ...ated to ca. 40 ka ago. seabed still retains traces of ancient riverbedsThe people who lived in the Cro-Magnon age ther... ... found new evidence supporting her theories on Dnestr and Bug, the Carpathian and Black Sea region, horse domestication ... ...nef’s (Automobile Roads Volkswagen Bug (Ger. Volkswagen Kдfer) — a passenger car produced by theof Northern an...

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...served in the military. But in this neck-of-the-wood, that wasn't considered proper. The women also talked about church and The Reverend Apostolic Rivers' recent sermons. They talked about how thankful they were The Party advocated and enforced the family values they cherished. And if one of them had eyes for another woman at the table or someone's husband across the wa...

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...ehow acquitted, he'd probably be discovered floating face downin the Grand River.Jane, of course, was stunning. Her radiant smile made all of Brian's ... ...dered proper.The women also talked about church and The Reverend Apostolic Rivers' recent sermons. Theytalked about how thankful they were The Party a... ...elfvodka to keep from thinking about it. For as long as he could trace the Rivers' family tree, usefulprogeny had always featured crested loins...and ... ...r's footsteps and make Tommy so proud.Together with The Reverend Apostolic Rivers, Tommy's ultra-famous father, the three Riversmen would be a politic... ...the center of the room. He didn't want to see, hear, or feel anything.“Mr. Rivers?” one of the Party's ace surgeons beamed from the doorway. “Thanks t... ...t the highest level doesn't want you to die. Theywished that person would 'bug off' and not 'spoil your stoning'. I think there will come a time, foro... ...Saturday, June 11, NE-0020Tommy had spent a very bad night in a dreary bed bug-infested motel with an overblown name,The King's Suites. Even The Party...

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... CHAPTER I.—The District. (a) Its Limits and Physical Features (b) Mountains (c) Rivers, Backwaters and Canals (d) Geological Formation (e) Climate and Natural Phenomena (f ) Fauna and Flora (g) Passes, Roads and Railway (h) Ports and Shipping Facilities CHAPTER II.—The People (a) Numbers, Dens...

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... The first chapter, The District deals with the physical features, rivers, mountains, the Fauna and Flora, Road, passes, railway, Port fa... ...o make a mess of the contention that the word ‘Hind’ was connected to River Indus which was called Sindhu and is currently in Pakistan. It does ... ...words can be connected to the current-day India is a confusing point. River Indus itself is not in current-day India. Such historians t... ...r women from North Malabar may not pass to the south of the Ellattur river END OF QUOTE I do not have much information about south Mal... ...ut it abed? A more apt translation would be: What if the leech/bug is allowed to sleep on a bed? Now, this is what actually th... ...ly re- occupied all the south of Malabar as far as the Kota river, 3. Nayres were busied in attempting to oppose the infan...

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...ed up stretching out to the south, the east, and three more stretching along between north-northwest and south. One spoke stretching toward Medicine River. The other four toward the other spirit places I'd seen in the night. That's what my eyes saw. What my spirit saw was something else. Something more. I saw an endless series of slopes, with me toiling up all of the...

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...way; I knew. So I stuck to the most important point. "Yeah. Toward Spirit River." Legends live on everywhere, but some attained reality near Spirit ... ...ountered any—yet—but everyone who'd been here more than a summer swore the river had haunts. Of course, only Knut and Chief Kangi had actually seen a... ...ts. Of course, only Knut and Chief Kangi had actually seen any, since the river was a day away byskimmer, five times that or more on foot. I could r... ...d to bone up on our ancestors' legends. Because more did happen near that river than ambiguous sightings. People disappeared. An entirepatrol, once, ... ... Because we wouldn't stophunters or anyone else from heading toward Spirit River—but we'd warn them, and try to warn themaway. ...