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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Redemption Ark |
 | | Redemption Ark still clocks in at 567 pages, and considering that this Gollancz edition is in a larger format than the previous novels, may very well have a higher word count, but, nonetheless, is a page turner. | | | Redemption Ark picks up from the debut novel of Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, after a side trip in Chasm City, which is set in the same milieu, but is not part of a strict sequence. | | | While Redemption Ark is a direct sequel to Revelation Space, and there are guest appearances from Chasm City, it's not necessary to have read either of the previous books, though there are a couple of minor references that might not be clear to the uninitiated. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/11a/ra139.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Queer as Folk (British TV Series) (2001) : Video |
| | Though definitely comedic in parts, Queer as Folk takes a clear-eyed yet fond view of its characters, from lothario Stuart, who can be charming one minute and self-obsessed the next, to hapless Vince, a mess of insecurities who can't believe it when a handsome Australian (Peter O'Brien) falls in love with him. | | | Queer as Folk : The Book (Queer as Folk) by Paul Ruditis | | | This first season set, known as "Series 1," clocks in at four hours. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005B3Z5?v=glance
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| | Andromeda Bookshops Ltd |
| | Baen US. Vol 3 of Complete Federation of the Hub. "Harvest Time"/"Lion Loose"/ "Aura of Immortality"/"Forget It"/"Sour Note on Palayata" plus complete novel LEGACY (aka A TALE OF TWO CLOCKS). 474pgs. [A2] | | | Bison US. Non-SF novel by the author of the classic EARTH ABIDES. The story of Spitcat, a raging forest fire that lasted 11 days. "A vivid and dramatic account of man pitted against one of his worst enemies." "The writing is superb - hard, lean, expressive prose..." "An unforgettable novel." HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. [B2] | | | S Andrew Swann, 3 - SPECTRES OF THE DAWN |
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http://www.andromedabook.co.uk/acatalog/Main_Index_S_81.html
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| | Dartmouth Medical School - New Way Found to See Light through Novel Protein |
| | The novel photoreceptors are part of the gears that drive biological clocks, the cellular timekeepers of the circadian rhythm, which paces life's daily ebb and flow in a 24-hour light-dark cycle. | | | New Way Found to See Light Through Novel Protein | | | He identified the frq parts necessary and sufficient for light induced expression of the gene, and determined that the proteins that bind to these parts are the clock proteins White Collar-1 and White Collar-2 (WC-1 and WC-2). |
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http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2002_h2/05jul2002_light.shtml
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| | Day 6 - Alaska Highway Adventure |
| | Here in Alaska we gained another hour -- we were now on Alaska Daylight Time and our clocks were changed from 5:40 pm to 4:40 pm. | | | The road led out of beautiful snowcapped mountains and towards Kluane Lake, the heart of Yukon's gold rush in the 19th century. | | | Clearing U.S. customs took only 30 seconds; the officer was neutrally polite and pointed at the Canon SLR and HP digital camera in the back seat and asked the bizarre question, "What are all the cameras for, are you a professional?" Ha! |
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http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/arctic/0527.htm
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| | White Noise (2005): Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Chandra West, Ian McNeice - PopMatters Film Review |
| | It's good-looking and nonsensical, beginning with a vaguely creepy set of effects (phones ringing, lights flickering, clocks ticking), then falls apart swiftly and tepidly. | | | Their morning routine is sweet and mutually supportive -- he's headed to his huge firm downtown, she's going to check the cover design for her latest novel) -- and only briefly interrupted by Anna's announcement: she's pregnant. | | | White Noise falls into that least-likely-to-succeed genre, the horror film released in winter. |
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http://popmatters.com/film/reviews/w/white-noise.shtml
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| | Jaroslav Kušnír, The University of Prešov: Diversity of Postmodern Fantasy (R |
| | In difference from Brautigan’s simple, but poetic style in which the introduction to a particular situation ends in an image representing a poetic vision of reality, Barthelme’s novel is characterized by his use of multiple narrative voices, which often overlap. | | | The fantastic nature of Brautigan‘s world in which tigers eat parents, but, at the same time, talk and teach children arithmetic, in which the brook runs through the house and the material things (bridge, clocks, books), are constructed of watermelon sugar is further supported by Brautigan‘s use of linguistic play. | | | Richard Brautigan’s novel In Watermelon Sugar depicts seemingly real characters, although the setting is purely imaginary, fantastic or even supernatural and behavior of people psychologically unconvincing, harmonious, and even idealized. |
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http://www.fhv.umb.sk/Katedry/Katedra%20anglistiky%20a%20amerikanistiky/zbornik/Kusnir.htm
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| | PTTI'99 ABSTRACTS |
| | Although much science advance has been reported in regard to novel quartz crystals, trapped ion and atom configurations, and lasers; the practical clocks in use are still the cesium, rubidium, hydrogen and crystal clocks already in use 31 years ago, albeit better engineered. | | | In space applications, Rubidium clocks are preferred over other frequency standards such as Cesium, because of their lightweight and reduced volume, lower cost and longer lifetime. | | | This uncertainty is smaller than the combined uncertainties of the primary frequency standards in both laboratories, and it will therefore support a near-real-time comparison of these primary frequency standards without degrading their capabilities with the noise of the transfer system. |
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http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/ptti99/abstracts.html
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| | La Crosse 3101-O Traditional Small Bracket Clock |
| | They continue to be on the cutting edge, bringing you novel and innovative clocks and weather instruments. | | | At a time when clocks were a single prized possession, families carried them from room to room where they were generally placed on a wall bracket. | | | This small bracket clock has a big, bold sound that carries, whether you use the fixed metal handle or not. |
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http://www.dmart2.com/lacr31trsmbr.html
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| | At-Speed Testing of Delay Faults for Motorola's MPC7400, a PowerPC(tm) Microprocessor |
| | A novel feature of the design is the programmable clock control circuit for issuing a given number of at-speed clocks for the delay test, once the test is initiated. | | | In this paper we present the novel built-in delay fault test concepts incorporated into Motorola's MPC7400 PowerPC microprocessor that allow us to use a slow speed tester to do at-speed, scan based, delay fault testing. | | | Using transition and path delay fault test patterns, we have tested several MPC7400 chips at speed exceeding 540 MHz using tester speed of 63 MHz or lower. |
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http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/vts/2000/0613/00/0613toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/VTEST.2000.843819
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| | Multicolored Loin Cloths, Glass Trinkets of Words: Surrealism in In Watermelon Sugar |
| | The deeds of watermelon sugar which form a repetitive and unchanging pattern, the innocent and indifferent sexuality in iDEATH, the soundless clocks which refuse the passage of time, and the lighted tombs of the dead are the carefully articulated images of iDEATH. | | | Whereas the story of Margaret and the narrator in In Watermelon Sugar is the most conventional of the four levels of narration in the novel, the story of inBOIL is most significant to the structure of the novel from a surrealistic point of view. | | | He notes the Adam and Eve imagery and the use of Cain and Abel prototypes and speculates that in In Watermelon Sugar Brautigan has created a new world arising out of the chaos of the past. |
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http://www.eoiweb.com/brautigan/articles/rohrberger82.htm
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| | The Rolling Ball Web - Clocks, Congreve |
| | Congreve's clock is particularly interesting from the point of view of the history of the development of precision clocks because it represents a very early conscious attempt at a clock whose oscillator is as free as possible from the influence of the escapement. | | | Indeed, Congreve's 1808 patent covers the entire concept of what he termed an "extremely detached escapement." This concept was later to be very successful in electromechanical precision pendulum clocks of the 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g., the Hipp "butterfly" toggle mechanism and the Synchronome). | | | In the novel, the protagonist, Keith Stewart, has published a set of plans for building a Congreve clock. |
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http://www.marcdatabase.com/~lemur/rbc-congreve.html
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| | The Rolling Ball Web - Clocks, Congreve |
| | Congreve's clock is particularly interesting from the point of view of the history of the development of precision clocks because it represents a very early conscious attempt at a clock whose oscillator is as free as possible from the influence of the escapement. | | | Indeed, Congreve's 1808 patent covers the entire concept of what he termed an "extremely detached escapement." This concept was later to be very successful in electromechanical precision pendulum clocks of the 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g., the Hipp "butterfly" toggle mechanism and the Synchronome). | | | In the novel, the protagonist, Keith Stewart, has published a set of plans for building a Congreve clock. |
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http://www.marcdatabase.com/~lemur/rbc-congreve.html
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| | The Design of Biological Clocks - Dandy Designs - Does God Exist? - JulAug05 |
| | This clock is set every day from a novel type of photoreceptor in the eye that is independent of our vision--even totally blind people have it. | | | Russell Foster, a scientist studying all of this, has said, "Nature has devised internal clocks for a simple reason: they aid survival." We would maintain that devising something is a recognition of intelligence and purpose in the cosmos. | | | Modern scientists have learned that the human body is designed with internal clocks which have the same capacity to measure time as flowers do. |
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http://www.doesgodexist.org/JulAug05/TheDesignOfBiologicalClocks.html
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| | Ian Watson |
| | It works for me in that it's the kind of book I have begun to miss more and more lately: a single volume SF novel that clocks in at less than 300 pages and takes a damn good SF idea and runs with it. | | | Most of the book takes the form of a thriller, with Clare being taken hostage by Gabe Soul and Jack attempting to free her, and this works fine, but it is towards the end of the novel that Watson runs into trouble. | | | Because of this, a number of people are interested in acquiring the computer for their own ends, including Gabe Soul, a religious guru whose followers are willing to do anything for him and a group of Vietnamese terrorists out to earn a fast buck and wreck the world stock market while they're at it. |
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http://homepage.eircom.net/~albedo1/html/ian_watson.html
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| | The Seven Dials Mystery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Seven Dials is a poor neighborhood of London which had a reputation for harboring criminals, while the plot also includes seven clocks. | | | Also, seven of the clocks (or dials) had been arranged on the mantleshelf and one was thrown out of the window. | | | The Seven Dials Mystery (published in 1929) is a detective novel written by Agatha Christie. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Dials_Mystery
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| | The Seven Dials Mystery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Seven Dials Mystery (published in 1929) is a detective novel written by Agatha Christie. | | | Seven Dials is a neighborhood of London which at the time was poor and had a reputation for harboring criminals, while the plot also includes seven clocks. | | | Also, seven of the clocks (or dials) had been arranged on the mantleshelf and one was thrown out of the window. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Dials_Mystery
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| | Free clock face software by Michael Ginzburg and others |
| | It is excellent analog clock that "fly" across the screen with a background of flying colored clocks. | | | MouseClock becomes part of your mouse pointer and provides you with the information you need in a novel way. | | | Tipsy Clock is a skinnable digital clock, which randomly and smoothly moves across the screen. |
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http://freedownloadscenter.com/Best/free-clock-face_R5.html
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| | DVD Bits - Region 4 and Region 1 DVD news, reviews, resources, PC-DVD, hardware |
| | Goodbye, Mr Chips is based on the novel by James Hilton. | | | The music is excellent and the film also features a number of subtle nuances, like ticking clocks, birds and even machine guns (during a reunion between Mr Chips and Colley in chapter 7), which add that little extra something. | | | The film looks at the relationship between Mr Chips and his students, his colleagues and the woman who changed his life. |
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http://www.dvdbits.com/reviews.asp?id=1544
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| | VL: Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond: Key Texts from the 20th Century |
| | A semiautobiographical novel, it sketches the arrival in post-imperial England of a young man from Trinidad and his sense of adjusting to a country he had previously known only through literature and art. | | | A few seconds later, my father broke his big toe; but his accident was a mere trifle when set beside what had befallen me in that benighted moment, because thanks to the occult tyrannies of those blandly saluting clocks I had been mysteriously handcuffed to history, my destinies indissolubly chained to those of my country. | | | Naipaul, V.S. The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections. |
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| | Miss Havisham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Humiliated and heartbroken, Havisham had all the clocks stopped at the exact point in which she had learned of her betrayal. | | | Havisham is redeemed at the end of the novel when she realizes that she has caused Pip’s heart to be broken in the same manner as her own; rather than achieving any kind of personal revenge, she has only caused more pain. | | | Miss Havisham is a pivotal character in the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations (1861). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Havisham
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| | HomeIssues.com - Materials Category Listing |
| | Tapestries in the Home - "Tapestry is the novel the cinema the encyclopedia the best kind of letters. | | | Tapestries - "Tapestry is the novel the cinema the encyclopedia the best kind of letters. | | | People are buying clocks for their children, not just as Christmas gifts, but for New Years. |
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http://www.homeissues.com/viewcategory.cgi?category=3
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| | AMCTV.com SHOW - The Borrowers |
| | In this adaptation of Mary Norton's classic children's fantasy novel, Jim Broadbent and Celia Imrie star as the heads of the Clock family, a brood of four-inch tall denizens who live under the floorboards of another family's home. | | | The peaceful existence of the Clocks--which is largely centered on "borrowing" household items from the Lender family--is threatened by an evil realtor (John Goodman), who wants destroy their house to build luxury apartments. | | | Despite their tiny stature, the Clocks are forced to take action to save their hidden world. |
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http://www.amctv.com/show/detail?CID=55383-1-1
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| | Roland Topor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant ("Le Locataire Chimérique", 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski in 1976. | | | Thomas Ligotti's introduction clocks in at 3500 words and concerns the affirmative themes of world-renowned authors, focusing on Luigi Pirandello, with the negationist themes of Roland Topor's The Tenant. | | | The book has Topor's original novel, a new introduction by Thomas Ligotti, a selection of short stories by Topor, a healthy representation of Topor's artwork, and an essay on the famous Roman Polanski film version. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Topor
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Longitude at Epinions.com |
| | Harrisons son, William (Ian Hart), eventually took up his fathers cause in lobbying the Board of Longitude, and ultimately applied to a young George III, for accurate tests of his fathers clocks and award of the 20,000 pound prize. | | | After the tremendous success of Dava Sobels novel, Longitude, A&E filmed a mini-series inspired by and based upon the book with an additional framework. | | | John Harrison made several iterations of his clocks, some tested aboard ship as the rules of the prize stipulated, others never tested. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_50602479236
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| | Accel-OneD Solver |
| | For example, you might ask HOW FAR acceleration at one g for 50 years would take a traveler, assuming EITHER that the 50 years elapses on the clocks of an unaccelerated observer simply monitoring the expedition, OR that it elapses on the clocks of the accelerated traveler. | | | To keep separate all 3 kinematics while preserving the ``look'' of Galileo's original acceleration equations, we here use t and v for Galilean time and velocity, b and w for map-time and coordinate-velocity, and T (or tau) and u for the traveler's proper time and "spatial 4- velocity", respectively. | | | If as with these challenges your problem involves acceleration which is constant (or nearly constant) in magnitude AND direction, you may find some guidance here. |
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http://newton.umsl.edu/~run/index.html
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| | Fault tolerant memory system - Patent 5553231 |
| | Another level of fault tolerance is provided by utilizing redundant clocks which are maintained in synchronization, with voting circuits serving to select one of a plurality of matching clock signals for use in various parts of the system, thereby preventing a faulty clock from being used to the detriment of system performance. | | | Yet another novel fault tolerance feature of this invention is achieved by dividing data bit storage into a plurality of modules, each having a bit size which is capable of being corrected by the error correction code being used. | | | A fault tolerant clock system is provided by utilizing redundant clocks which are maintained in synchronization, with voting circuit serving to select one of a plurality of matching clock signals for use. |
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http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5553231.html
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| | Alchemy Mindworks |
| | The Ultimate Screen Clock will set your system clock to the accuracy of an atomic standard, keep track of your important events and display a cool selection of graphic clocks on your desktop and as a Windows screen saver. | | | We invite you to check out Graphic Workshop, the Windows image management package; GIF Construction Set, the world's most popular web page animator; Presentation Wizard, Screen Saver Construction Set, Animation Workshop, The Ultimate Screen Clock, Calendar Wizard, Steven William Rimmer's novels and a lot more. | | | It's a captivating novel, and buying it will entitle you to a free registered copy of Alchemy Mindworks' Spies: A Cold War Daybook calendar and screen saver application. |
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http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html
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| | Princeton - Weekly Bulletin 11/12/01 - Time travel: Truth not always stranger than science fiction |
| | Gott, in fact, has used ideas from time travel research to develop a novel theory about the origin of the universe. | | | When two cosmic strings pass each other at a great enough speed, someone traveling around the strings would be transported back in time. | | | "Einstein was named the person of the century by Time magazine -- I think it's important to know what he did and how he made his discoveries," said Gott. |
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http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/1112/1a.shtml
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