2024/176: Féonie and the Islander Regalia — Victoria Goddard

2024/176: Féonie and the Islander Regalia — Victoria Goddard

Féonie was from a very, very poor part of inland Mgunai. Her family had nothing: she was the only one who had ever been more than ten miles from home, bar two cousins who had gone to the city and never been heard from again. [10%]

Short story about Féonie, a minor character in The Hands of the Emperor and its sequel At the Feet of the Sun, and very much a major character in her own life.( Read more... )

2024/177: The Book of Phoenix — Nnedi Okorafor

2024/177: The Book of Phoenix — Nnedi Okorafor

Each tower had … specializations. In Tower 7, it was advanced and aggressive genetic manipulation and cloning. In Tower 7, people and creatures were invented, altered, or both. Some were deformed, some were mentally ill, some were just plain dangerous, and none were flawless. Yes, some of us were dangerous. I was dangerous. [loc. 158]

After a lightning storm in the desert and a glimpse of a winged figure, an old man named Sunuteel explores a cave and discovers an ancient text. The ambience is Biblical, but the setting is centuries from now, and that text tells of genetic manipulation, science indistinguishable from magic, a winged man who cannot die and the eponymous Phoenix, who dies to rise again.

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Monthly culture, November 2024

02NOV24: Oedipus (Sophocles / Icke) – Wyndham's Theatre
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07NOV24: Paddington (King, 2014) – Netflix
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08NOV24: Paddington in Peru (Wilson, 2024) – Greenwich PictureHouse
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09NOV24: The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan) – Wilton's Music Hall
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13NOV24: Paul Simon's Graceland (African Gospel Choir) – Barbican
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14NOV24: Paddington 2 (King, 2017) – Netflix
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16NOV24: Doctor Strangelove (Iannucci, Kubrick) – Criterion Theatre
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21NOV24: The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki, 2023) – Netflix
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22NOV24: Songs of Miura Anjin (Feargal Mostyn-Williams countertenor, Satoshi Kubo piano) – Stone House
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23NOV24: Gladiator II (Scott, 2024) – Greenwich PictureHouse
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28NOV24: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) – Royal Opera House
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30NOV24: L'Elisir d'AmoreThe Elixir of Love (Donizetti) – English National Opera
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