Twelve Days: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765375974 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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tom barclay said TWELVE DAYS - You'll Read It In Two Or Three Nights, And Want More. If you don't already know the work of Steven Barnes - HEY! GREAT! This is the perfect place to start! If you already know him for his solo works, or maybe for his collaborations with genre giants Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle this isn't like most of those. In fact, it's unlike any but one of the books Steven Barnes has written in the past.TWELVE DAYS was written by editorial request (someone at the publisher said, "Please give us another story from this imaginary world."), with its roots in Barnes' 1986 book THE KUNDALINI EQUATION. But its cast of characters and plot setting a. A story that transcends the genre. Mick Magill Steven Barnes knocks it out of the park again, in a book that touches on many things in my life.The discussion on the moral consequences of violence. One of the protagonists in the book is on the autism spectrum, and Steven handles that beautifully, without the slightest hint of pandering.ABOVE ALL, it is a story about family, and love, redemption, and forgiveness. And how, if we hope to ever improve ourselves, it must be in support of others. One cannot be a "better person" unless you are willing to admit there are things you will lay your life down for.The family at the core o. It's a Steven Barnes novel. Of course it's good. When I read "The Kundalini Equation" I thought "There's a story which will never have a sequel." Turns out I spoke thirty years too soon. There are differences of course. The struggle is played out on a larger stage and for higher stakes. The themes of family and personal growth which are never far from the author's heart or pen are more developed. And - spoiler time - it doesn't end with a major character's cadaver being thin-sectioned with a bandsaw.Twelve Days is everything we've come to expect from Steve Barnes. It has well-developed characters and a solid plot wrapped aroun
And against the backdrop of the apocalypse, the lives of a small shattered family and a broken soldier are transformed in the bustling city of Atlanta.Olympia Dorsey is a journalist and mother, with a cynical teenage daughter and an autistic son named Hannibal, all trying to heal from a personal tragedy. A paranormal thriller from master storyteller Steven Barnes: A broken family struggles to hold itself together against a plot to unleash global genocide in Twelve DaysAround the world, leaders and notorious criminals alike are mysteriously dying. Across the street, Ex–Special Forces soldier Terry Nicolas and his wartime unit have reunited Stateside to carry out a risky heist that will not only right a terrible injustice, but also set them up for lifeat the cost of their honor. A terrorist group promises a series of deaths within two months. Terry and the fami
Belcher, author of The Shotgun Arcana“Barnes combines imagination, anthropology and beautiful storytelling as he takes readers to the foot of the Great Mountain, today known as Mount Kilimanjaro.” Durham Triangle Tribune on Great Sky Woman. “Sharp, observant and scary.” Greg Bear"Profound and exhilarating." Maurice Broaddus, author of The Knights of Breton Court“Barnes gives us characters that are vividly real people, conceived with insight and portrayed wi
Steven Barnes is a New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award–nominated author of Twelve Days among other novels, a screenwriter, and creator of the Lifewriting™ writing course, which he has taught nationwide. . He recently won an NAACP Image Award as coauthor of the Tennyson Hardwick myster