in Journalism in 1971, also from Northwestern.Īs a conscientious objector, Martin did alternative service 1972-1974 with VISTA, attached to Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude. Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: The Hero, sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey.
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Immersing myself in Lem’s work, and reading about his life and even his letters to his long-time translator Michael Kandel, has made me feel like I have at least a tenuous understanding of Lem’s major questions and preoccupations: could we ever truly communicate with an alien species? why do humans want to discover new worlds? why do we chase illusions and lie to ourselves about our true motives and desires? I recently turned to Solaris, which had been patiently sitting on my bookshelf, after I had read several of Lem’s novels and collections in quick succession (a couple of them twice- specifically, Return From the Stars and Memoirs of a Space Traveler). I myself have only read the earlier Kilmartin-Cox translation, but I’d love to compare the two versions at some point in the future. Much has been written about Solaris over the years, including the differences between the Polish-to-French-to-English translation and the more recent direct Polish-to-English translation. 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Vittoria, the extroverted and bold twin, had been keeping a romance secret, so when Emilia finds her sister's journal of spells, she decides to try them but accidentally summons one of the seven Princes of Hell, also known as the Malvagi or the Wicked: Wrath (they're all named after the Deadly Sins, so the others are Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, and Sloth). KINGDOM OF THE WICKED by Kerri Maniscalco follows Emilia, a Sicilian witch whose twin Vittoria is brutally murdered, one of several local young women from witchy families to wind up dead. Egomaniacal, quixotic, workaholic, greedy, altruistic, and naive, Schlichtmann is Everylawyer, and as he allows the Woburn case to consume his practice, he almost loses his license and his life. This is magazine journalist Harr's first book, but his complex portrait of Schlichtmann is the work of a master. But in 1979, the accidental discovery of carcinogenic industrial wastes in the town's wells led the grieving parents to hire personal-injury lawyer Jan Schlichtmann, new to the profession but intoxicated with the sizable damages he'd won so far. The parents suspected the water supply, which was foul-smelling, rusty, and undrinkable, but they had no hard evidence of a link to the cancers. In the mid-'70s, the small industrial town of Woburn, Mass., found itself afflicted with a plague of biblical dimensions: 12 local children, 8 of them close neighbors, had died (or were dying) of leukemia. A crash course in big-bucks tort litigation, as rich as any novel on the scene. |