Word: novelizations
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...ring in the space age. Lured as a boy by sci-fi magazines and his own homemade telescope, Clarke studied physics before turning to writing full time. Among the advances he foresaw in more than 100 works: space travel, communications satellites and computers. His writing, most famously the futuristic novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, often came back to the theme of humankind gaining enlightenment from contact with alien life. He believed E.T.s would send a sign, noting last year, "We have no way of guessing when ... I hope sooner than later...
...doesn’t stray very far from the familiar in “Snow Angels.” His characters emphasize once again the cold reality of human violence, which can even occur in the name of love. Based on Stewart O’Nan’s novel of the same name, the film takes place in a nameless small town. The story centers on Arthur Parkinson (Michael Angarano, “Seabiscuit”), a high school trombone player who must deal with the separation of his parents and the crumbling marriage of his ex-babysitter, Annie...
...martini and a copy of “The Vault Guide to Finance Interviews” 2. A glass of merlot and a James Joyce novel 3. A can of beer and this month’s “Sports Illustrated” 4. Your orgo book, some spare chemicals, and just start mixing...
...This makes for a novel way of practicing the art of politics-one inspired, you could say, by the prince called the Buddha more than by the one described by Machiavelli. The central principle of Buddhism is the idea of interdependence-the notion that all sentient beings are linked together in a network that was classically known as Indra's Net. Thus, calling Chinese individuals your enemy and Tibetans your friend, the Dalai Lama might suggest, is as crazy as calling your right eye your ally and your left your adversary; you usually need both to function well...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down