Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world....
Gordon and Harold both recognized the ability to think as non-human beings. But will they ever recognize the physical form of some of these creatures?...
Laughter brought spots of color on his cheeks. He stood there for a while, taking it, and then decided that he would be enough and sit down. A whisper of amusement still stirred the room when he returned to his seat, and the professor said: “But just a moment, Mr. Jones. Could you tell the class what makes you think that Columbus was not a “bold skipper” in history? the books say that he was. After all, Mr. Jones, this is a history lesson. If you know more or better history than history books, is it not your duty to tell us? "...
You will definitely be included in the survey at one time or another. However, there is one that you may not recognize as such. Most likely, it will be more important than you think. It can be mans... Prelude to Space...
He walked endlessly along a long corridor with glass walls. Bright sunlight penetrated through one wall onto a blue backpack over his shoulders. What he was and what he did here was overshadowed. Truth lurked in some corner of his consciousness, but this was not achieved by superficial awareness....
The most useful explosives, such as ammonium nitrate, are extremely powerful ... as soon as they fire. But they seem to remain inert when they are beaten, burned, punished in different ways - until the necessary shock occurs ......
The reservoirs for the body had to be replenished, and the ship had to be serviced - and the crew had a dream about the Lotus in his bed from protoplasm. But Kelly knew how to awaken them ......
Charles Denison invented the most effective elixir of longevity, and now all of humanity should know about its greatest discovery. But some people do not agree with this state of affairs and want to prevent Denison ......
A distinctive feature of the ass of Balaam was that he was more penetrating than his master. Sometimes a child is more perceptive - because he is more straightforward and logical - than an adult .......
For twenty-eight years, William Nolan, another newcomer in this field, introduces us to the capricious door of the time of Professor S. Sidwick Ohm, guaranteed to solve the accumulated problems of the world in 2057....
A person acts on the basis of what he considers facts, not facts. He lives or dies from the fact that there are facts. Now sometimes you don’t have time to correct a person’s beliefs, but he must act correctly ......
