Charles Beaumont Bücher

Charles Beaumont was, in the words of Ray Bradbury, "a pomegranate writer" someone whose imagination burst with such creative seeds that it yielded a garden of rich and diverse work. The Carnival and Other Stories is a testament to the flowering of Beaumont's unique talents. Its twenty-six stories run the full gamut of his literary legacy, from his first professional sale, "The Devil You Say"--later an episode of The Twilight Zone, the series for which he was the second most prolific writer after Rod Serling--to "Beast of the Glacier," receiving its first publication here. The variety of themes and approaches that Beaumont tackled is on full display in this collection, from the ruminative science fiction of "Elegy" (another Twilight Zone adaptation) to the muted horror of "Mourning Song," and from the broad humor of "The Last Caper," a Mickey Spillane spoof, to the elegiac poignance of "Mass for Mixed Voices," a celebration of life distilled from a future steeped in death. Beaumont also wrote outside of the science fiction and horror genres where his work was best known and this volume collects three stories--"The Love Master," "Genevieve, My Genevieve," and "Dead You Know"--written for the men's magazine Rogue, which he contributed to at the same time he was selling some of his best fiction to Playboy. His excellence as a screenwriter is celebrated further in "Anthem," a story in script form. The variety of themes and approaches that Beaumont tackled is on full display in this collection, from the ruminative science fiction of "Elegy" (another Twilight Zone adaptation) to the muted horror of "Mourning Song," and from the broad humor of "The Last Caper," a Mickey Spillane spoof, to the elegiac poignance of "Mass for Mixed Voices," a celebration of life distilled from a future steeped in death. Beaumont also wrote outside of the science fiction and horror genres where his work was best known and this volume collects three stories--"The Love Master," "Genevieve, My Genevieve," and "Dead You Know"--written for the men's magazine Rogue, which he contributed to at the same time he was selling some of his best fiction to Playboy. His excellence as a screenwriter is celebrated further in "Anthem," a story in script form. Although written more than half a century ago, the stories gathered here are remarkably modern in their ideas. Beaumont grappled with themes such as the Holocaust ("The Man with the Crooked Nose") and the racism entrenched in justice system ("The Crimes of Willie Washington") at a time when few other writers did. The tales gathered for The Carnival and Other Stories are solid proof that Beaumont was more than a writer for his time: he was a writer for the ages. Förlagstext

Russia is struggling to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield. But can it win the war for influence? Simon Sharman is out for revenge, pursuing the assassin of his former colleague across war-torn Ukraine. Back in London, a Russian spy ring at the heart of the British Establishment remains active and a secret, yet desperate, struggle is underway to limit its attempts to sabotage the West's support for Ukraine. On the battlefields of the Donbas, Simon may have a chance to locate the assassin but larger forces are at work and he finds himself sucked into a terrifying shadow conflict between Russia and the West. Can a lone spy at war make a difference to the course of a conflict? From the rubble strewn streets of Bakhmut to the meeting rooms of Whitehall, from dirty bombs to dirty politics, A Spy at War takes the reader behind the scenes of the war in Ukraine and the war for the hearts and minds of the international community.

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