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    Musical Theatre Song: A Comprehensive Course In Selection, Preparation, And Presentation For The Mod
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    Musical Theatre Song: A Comprehensive Course In Selection, Preparation, And Presentation For The Mod

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    About a hundred years from now, pollution, overpopulation, and ecological disasters have left the rich nations still rich, and the poor nations--the Lands of the Lost--slowly strangling in drought and pollution. New York City is below sea level, surrounded by a seawall. The climate in Paris is much like the twentieth-century climate of long-drowned New Orleans. And Siberia, Golden Siberia, is the crop-land of the world.

    Still, for the international corporations and businesses who make a profit on technofixing the environment--the Big Blue Machine--it is business as usual: sell what you can where you can whenever you can. It is better to be rich. But it all may be coming to a terrible end: a scientist has predicted Condition Venus, the sudden greenhouse downfall of the entire planet--but she can't say when.

    So now the attention of the world is focused for a week on a UN conference on the Environment in Paris, where all hell is about to break loose.
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    Five StarsSpinrad has never disappointed. He is a master of the craft. 5Transformation or bustOne of the best Cli Fi novels out there. I have bought this three times, only to give it away to a friend. The section on transformation is brilliant. 5dull dull dull dull dullWhile I liked the climatech, and the relaxed attitude toward apparantly non-harmful designer drugs, everything thing else was a 'tad' boring. Its pretty bad when you don't care for any of the characters. And the fried-brain scientist- he had the *answers* from his 5 minute venture as the human computer, so *why* did he need to go back in...surely someone would have been able to examine/debrief him afterward. And then to let him walk around freely while barely functioning? Didn't make sense. 2Spinrad at the height of his considerable powers!Norman has finally returned with an utterly fantastic novel eagerly awaited by Spinrad enthusiasts worldwide! This one has everything Norman's readers have come to love,including a plot concerning the looming crisis of global warming,fully realized characters,funky technology,and lots of sex! Spinrad's singular style of rhythmic rhyming prose has never been better.His artistry with the English language, among others,continues to grow. Readers should pay close attention to the deft handling of the sensitive environmental issues that are the central focus of the plot,as well as the hopeful syndicalist system offered as a replacement for conventional outmoded capitalism. Truly,Norman Spinrad is at the height of his considerable powers! A must read for the serious lover of speculative fiction! 5Excellent Diagnosis and PrognosisThere seems no question now that we're screwing up the climate. So why don't we stop? Norman Spinrad has one of the best answers I've seen yet. His concept of the syndic, a business model that partly replaced capital corporations provides the answer: Do you know who really runs the Big Blue Machine? No one, Monique. There are no citizen-shareholders for the boards of its constituent corporations to be responsible to. And no syndic charters setting forth a moral philosophy. It s a loose collection of capitalist revenants, each a corporation whose default and only value is the maximization of profit. The Big Blue Machine is . . . a machine. A mechanism for generating profit with no human moral responsibility in the circuit, individual or collective. This was why the capitalist world order could blindly destabilize the planetary climate in the process of destroying itself. It wasn t evil. It didn t recognize evil or good. In that sense, in a moral sense, it had no soul. So . . . ? So we are not capitalists! Posner declared with a passion that quite took Monique aback. Not Bread & Circuses, not Bad Boys, and certainly not Mossad! Your syndic, and mine, and even Esterhazy s, may have different moral philosophies, but unlike Big Blue we have them. And our charters agree on one thing no contract binds us to aid capitalist clients in committing moral atrocities for no higher cause than their own profit! Yeah, I've worked for those corporations, and have seen Boards and CEOs make morally horrible decisions - because there is no value in the corporate world to appeal to, except profit. They are trapped in their machine, no personal moral choices are allowed.Wrap this in an exciting, complex and compelling story and you have a book really worth reading. 5Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?This book started slow, but I took it with a grain of salt. Soon the story drew me in - Future Earth is in the midst of an ecological disaster and is being exploited for political means and commercial gain; Big gangsters and even bigger egos competing for big profits.I was happily reading until about two hundred pages or so in, when it suddenly turned into ridiculous soft-core porn. After that, I wasn't interested enough to find out how it ended. 2Greenhouse Bummer ...I truly thought the world was gonna' end in this one ... Alas ...HOT DAYS: Dealing with our current situation of global warming, what I thought to have been an "End of the World" type saga, I found to be a fanciful cat and mousebrain type thriller. "Mousebrain," refers to the *polymerized* rat brains known as "meat-ware" used as processors for Spinrad's computers of the future. While not necessarily SF, Greenhouse Summer weaves a tale surrounding our future Earth so very disturbing, yet mystically enchanting the reader gets a true sense of what might yet happen on our homeworld. We get a glimpse of the "Lands of the Lost:" areas already overtaken by flood waters due to the shifting of our polar ice caps, and 21st century Paris, in the summer. In Spinrad's telling, it's always summer in Paris. The dark side is the world hangs terribly close to the brink of "Condition Venus," the point at which we can no longer reverse the global warming effects we, ourselves, have created. Spinrad's humor dampens the final blow as Earth teeters precariously close to the proverbial "end is near." The United Nations had been trying to warn the Earth for years and now it may be too late.EVEN HOTTER NIGHTS: Spinrad's comical style proves there are no real heroes in a work like this, only a form of disney--a term Spinrad uses throughout the work--meat puppet could react openly to the goings on throughout his endless descriptions of room decor, sexual liaisons and alligators in the Seine. Cardboard mockups of stereotypical displays of only the brackish type inhabit Spinrad's universe. In a world no longer "governed," Syndics seem to go on about their business with alarming effrontery, mostly, as every character in Greenhouse Summer works for one Syndic or another. So, what's the point? I thought, maybe, the world might come to an end. It may yet end due to global warming, however, I had fun getting myself right back to where I started. Greenhouse Summer was an enjoyable read. The originality of the humor kept a smile on my face throughout. Almost every overdescriptive point in the book, including a long arduous sexcapade aboard the "Queen of the River," has a punch line. I recommend this work to SF/Pulp aficionados and most anyone with a sense of humor.-ras ;) 4High-Stakes Climate Profiteering vs. a Revolt in the Ranks of Big BusinessIn the late 21st century setting of this novel, Norman Spinrad's vision of "climatech" runs most of the world. Yet even the powerful technologies of climate alteration , "quik-grow" trees, ocean fertilization and the like appear to meet their match with the onset of runaway global warning or "Condition Venus."Into this desperate world, with fewer and fewer rich developed countries but also the "Lands of the Lost," the lives of Monique Calhoun and Prince Eric Esterhazy cross paths. She is a business executive who sees profit in "Climatech," and he also makes money from a hotter world and the expanded drug trade. They meet in Paris, and hear Dr.Alison Larabee at a UNACOCS climate conference. The question posed at the conference is whether climatech can keep up with super-heated desert areas that produce "white tornadoes" or high altitude dust storms. While such storms in world of 2013 would be dismissed by most people, in the world of 2099 with an Ocean that is twenty feet higher, super levees around New York City, and crocodiles in the Seine, the prospect of super-heated areas increasing in number and strength is a world crisis. Some of the corporations have profited from this hotter world, and now there is a "Golden Siberia" grain belt. The Siberian nouveau-riche, the Marenkos know that a cooler world will bring on financial doom. What will it mean to rapidly cool the world with powerful climatech? Will the Golden Siberia return to its state of permafrost? Will industrial espionage and liquidations be needed to reach this ecological goal? For those who have read other Spinrad books, you know there will be a wild ride before the book is over. In terms of high stakes, it is hard to find more of a cliffhanger. The book, written in 1999, may need a few updates in terms of science, but the message of choice of a hot climate world or a cool climate world is stark: fire or ice, life or death. Readers, you may consider this as the modern-day equivalent of "SOYLENT GREEN" when it comes to Sci-Fi novels. Charles M 4Clever vision of an all-too-possible futureI've been an SF fan for more than 40 years, but find it all too difficult to find stuff worth reading these days. Spinrad's novel wasn't the most literary I've ever read -- the characters were a bit two-dimensional -- but his construction of the post-global warming future was well rounded and convincing. (At least to me. I don't know enough about climatary physics to comment on how technically plausible it might be.) Details: alligators in the canals of Paris, dikes protecting New York City from the elevated sea water, the Sahara Desert so hot as to be (really) lifeless. And the non-climatary details, like making "disney" a non-proper noun representing any technologically produced fake. I also liked the denouement, and the way it revolved around "meatware" computers and the strangely psychotic scientist from California. The politics was interesting, too, although maybe, like the characters, a little overblown to be believable. In all, though, well worth reading. 4Don't Bother!A previous review here warned that this book is poor, but heedlessly I read it anyway, to my chagrin. Character developement is fair, but plot and background science are just plain hideous. This novel is full of fancy French words, point is, who cares, and it is so excessive it detracts from the story line. The writing style makes reading a chore through much of the book, very vague at times and jumps back and forth a lot with the reader struggling to figure things out.Explicit sex is graphically portrayed two or three times, and to no point whatsoever. Some writers, notably William Barton, use sex as an integral part of character developement and plot, but Spinrad seems to just stick it in (no pun intended) for just shock appeal, or whatever. No more Spinrad novels for me, for awhile. 1
    Musical Theatre Song: A Comprehensive Course In Selection, Preparation, And Presentation For The Mod

    Musical Theatre Song: A Comprehensive Course In Selection, Preparation, And Presentation For The Mod

    3.8
    You can't add more than 500 quantity.
    €59,00
    €59,00
    €96,00
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    Save 39% (€37,00)