I think the planet is in trouble and it's screaming out for help. I believe you are the first to hear the voice of Gaia." The Earth is shaking itself apart. Norwegian-American Harley Thyssen, heads up Project Earthshaker, aided by his volcano-chasing student Jami Shastri and seven innocent bystanders drafted because of their personal experience of the mysterious Shastri Effect. Six of his team are all miraculous survivors of the first eruption in the series, sharing eight days in a New Zealand hospital in a strange coma apparently unrelated to their injuries. Kevin Wagner, American businessman, is sure a new, more advanced species of human has evolved; Andromeda Starlight, second-rate entertainer from Trinidad, evolves into the very personification of the Goddess Gaia; Brian Carrick, truck driver from Melbourne, whose simple Science Fiction approach to the effect allows him to explain the inexplicable to a desperate world; Lorna Simmons, Irish born receptionist from Auckland, believes the Shastri Effect is a higher expression of love, and so falls in love with an entire planet and it with her; Chrissie Rice, French-Vietnamese skier, knows it is the hand of God at work and threatens to become the first modern non-Catholic saint; Joe Solomon was a trustworthy Greek Lawyer, until his belief that it is all a big government cover-up causes him to defraud the US taxpayers to fund the project; And with them, Dr Felicity Campbell, a humble GP from Wellington, who originally treated the six and has become the world's leading expert on the Shastri Effect. Slowly they are drawn into Harley Thyssen's web, to become warriors in a battle against forces at the very limits of human comprehension. For if Thyssen is right, then there is a war raging throughout the cosmos that began with the birth of the universe and will continue until the end of time, and now it's humanity's turn to enter the conflict.
Sixteen very diverse people from entirely different time zones simultaneously collapse in a coma and wake up in a featureless dome, that can make itself transparent when it wishes. They are on a highlights tour of the known universe, beyond the last days of planet Earth, beyond the Milky Way, heading, as we all are, for the end of the universe. And when they get there, they are going to stop it from happening.
Brunswick Budgie A fledgling receives flying lessons from an unlikely source. Wandering At Large An old man goes to court to defend his dog from the dog-catcher Save Our Sons The ladies from save our sons prove a more formidable fighting force than anyone imagined. The Mountains of the Moon The Pig Battalion attacks the mythical mountains of the moon to learn their awful secret. Dirty Fingernails A combat soldier strives to come to terms with R&R in Bangkok. The Flood A clerk faces the great Elizabeth Street flood. Nowhere Coming Back Simon inadvertently finds himself responsible for an entire outback community. Slaves Commuters start becoming dangerously sane. Danny Kramer An account of the mythology of a notorious Carlton character. Flight to Nowhere A true story Shatterer of Worlds The story of thge man who save Earth from alien invaders - twice. Starfire The story of the man who was actually first into space. The Cull An ordinary man must make the most dreadful decision in all human history.
Brunswick Budgie A fledgling receives flying lessons from an unlikely source. Wandering At Large An old man goes to court to defend his dog from the dog-catcher Save Our Sons The ladies from save our sons prove a more formidable fighting force than anyone imagined. The Mountains of the Moon The Pig Battalion attacks the mythical mountains of the moon to learn their awful secret. Dirty Fingernails A combat soldier strives to come to terms with R&R in Bangkok. The Flood A clerk faces the great Elizabeth Street flood. Nowhere Coming Back Simon inadvertently finds himself responsible for an entire outback community. Slaves Commuters start becoming dangerously sane. Danny Kramer An account of the mythology of a notorious Carlton character. Flight to Nowhere A true story Shatterer of Worlds The story of thge man who save Earth from alien invaders - twice. Starfire The story of the man who was actually first into space. The Cull An ordinary man must make the most dreadful decision in all human history.
JARVIS KREEG- BEYOND THE GRAVE! Three years after the death of England's greatest recent painter, new masterpieces by the errant genius are turning up all over the European art market, fetching staggering prices. The trail of investigation leads to Australia and a strange house on a remote beach, where the police find the artist has slipped through their fingers but left behind more of the brilliant fakes and his very bewildered girlfriend, Lena Carlson. Lena, a fierce young woman who recently 'walked out on her own life and slammed the door in its face', does not take lightly to being left holding the bag. Aided by a British Policeman, Roger Timmins, and the world's greatest authority on Jarvis Kreeg, Quentin Harcourt, Lena sets out to get to the bottom of the mystery. Did Kreeg fake his own death and was her lover, Jack Daniels, in fact the great man himself, or is he a murderer who in some extra-ordinary way took over another man's life and work? It becomes a question of identity-just what are the factors that make a man who and what he is, and how do we perceive them? Resolving the question one way or the other proves to be a more difficult task than logic suggests, and all the more so when Lena begins to realise that she has become involved in a deeper and stranger mystery than any of them suspected. For every time she reckons she's figured it out, new evidence pulls her latest theory out from under her feet. Lena, in fact, is the bait in a trap that grows more complex as the mystery deepens, heading towards a confrontation not only between Lena and the mysterious man she loves-who somehow she just can't stop herself from continually betraying-but also a clash between one man's reality and his imagined self.
JARVIS KREEG- BEYOND THE GRAVE! Three years after the death of England's greatest recent painter, new masterpieces by the errant genius are turning up all over the European art market, fetching staggering prices. The trail of investigation leads to Australia and a strange house on a remote beach, where the police find the artist has slipped through their fingers but left behind more of the brilliant fakes and his very bewildered girlfriend, Lena Carlson. Lena, a fierce young woman who recently 'walked out on her own life and slammed the door in its face', does not take lightly to being left holding the bag. Aided by a British Policeman, Roger Timmins, and the world's greatest authority on Jarvis Kreeg, Quentin Harcourt, Lena sets out to get to the bottom of the mystery. Did Kreeg fake his own death and was her lover, Jack Daniels, in fact the great man himself, or is he a murderer who in some extra-ordinary way took over another man's life and work? It becomes a question of identity-just what are the factors that make a man who and what he is, and how do we perceive them? Resolving the question one way or the other proves to be a more difficult task than logic suggests, and all the more so when Lena begins to realise that she has become involved in a deeper and stranger mystery than any of them suspected. For every time she reckons she's figured it out, new evidence pulls her latest theory out from under her feet. Lena, in fact, is the bait in a trap that grows more complex as the mystery deepens, heading towards a confrontation not only between Lena and the mysterious man she loves-who somehow she just can't stop herself from continually betraying-but also a clash between one man's reality and his imagined self.
True Democracy has never been practiced because of the sheer impracticality of asking every citizen their opinion on every issue--this is no longer so. Modern technology makes it very possible indeed. Gone will be political parties, lobby groups, and the ability of the big corporations to run Western nations by stealth. Professor Gary Ironbark has come up with the method to replace the outmoded 19th Century methods of Representative Oligarchy under which we presently labour. He has published his ideas on how a genuine, truly fair democracy could be brought about in a book, but is rather surprised when a bunch of students take him seriously and create a society in his name. The concept spreads to other campuses, at first in Australia, then overseas, despite Ironbark's determination to deny their existence. And then it becomes a political movement and his ideas spread out into the streets and suburbs. For this is not just a plan to bring politics into the 21st Century--this is the basis of the first truly democratic government and Australia, the easiest large country to govern in the world, is the ideal proving ground. Soon there is a political party, the Ironbark Utopians, which gradually moves from modest to major success, and Ironbark is the reluctant figurehead leader. But when conventional government suddenly collapses under the weight of its own irrelevance and corruption, Ironbark is propelled to power and given the chance to implement his ideas. Ironbark is a rather refreshing sort of leader, embarrassingly honest, fearlessly incorruptible and utterly devoid of interest in the usual trappings of status and power. The great aphrodisiac effect of power does work on him--he has a secret love--unfortunately, she heads up his most serious opposition. Pragmatic forces strive to combat him at every level, but after a few slip-ups, Ironbark actually gets his system to work. . But there is a cruel price to be paid, and Ironbark must pay it.
Aesop, the man with a fable to elucidate any situation, finds himself guarding the back of his friend Solon of Athens during the politically seminal year of 594BC, when the latter established the basis of future Democratic governments with the invention of the bicameral parliamentary system and the first use of juries. At the same time he must find a way to end a timeless blood feud, and learn to control his own susceptibility to the aphrodisiac effects of absolute power.
Fourteen year old Lee Parsons escapes from an English Boarding School in Kent, steals a pushbike and rides down to Dover, and from there decides to keep right on going, all the way home to Australia. It isn't really England nor the school that he is fleeing but his brutal, selfish father Trevor who these days is a very successful television interviewer. In Australia, his best friend, Scott Hagen, with whom Lee once shared great adventures, is waiting. Unlike Lee, Scott has only his vivid imagination with which to combat the austerity of the bland Melbourne outer suburb in which they were raised. Viewing the world entirely in terms of movies and television, Lee and Scott seemed inseparable until Trevor's pernicious habit of beating Lee's mother Fable - a drunken consequence of his then failing Australian media career - finally forced a divorce and custody battle that the foolish and hapless Fable managed stupidly to lose. Since then Trevor's career has blossomed in England, while Fable has been on the downward spiral, culminating in a suicide attempt which might have succeeded had it not been for Scott's audacious intervention. It is a letter from Scott relating this incident that propels Lee on his desperate journey, to ride halfway across the world with no money and no passport, relentlessly crossing three continents of human insanity. Yet for all the madness, there are also good people, willing to make commitments to help him along the way. Many strange and wonderful characters are met and amazing adventures shared, but always somewhere back there is the coldly manipulative Trevor, who knows how to turn something like this into a major media event and exploit himself to great effect as the distraught misunderstood father searching for his lost son. As Lee fights his way onward and steadily turns his mad dream into reality, Scott also fights battles on two fronts: trying to keep the fretting Fable intact until Lee can arrive, and striving to keep the media and au
Fourteen year old Lee Parsons escapes from an English Boarding School in Kent, steals a pushbike and rides down to Dover, and from there decides to keep right on going, all the way home to Australia. It isn't really England nor the school that he is fleeing but his brutal, selfish father Trevor who these days is a very successful television interviewer. In Australia, his best friend, Scott Hagen, with whom Lee once shared great adventures, is waiting. Unlike Lee, Scott has only his vivid imagination with which to combat the austerity of the bland Melbourne outer suburb in which they were raised. Viewing the world entirely in terms of movies and television, Lee and Scott seemed inseparable until Trevor's pernicious habit of beating Lee's mother Fable - a drunken consequence of his then failing Australian media career - finally forced a divorce and custody battle that the foolish and hapless Fable managed stupidly to lose. Since then Trevor's career has blossomed in England, while Fable has been on the downward spiral, culminating in a suicide attempt which might have succeeded had it not been for Scott's audacious intervention. It is a letter from Scott relating this incident that propels Lee on his desperate journey, to ride halfway across the world with no money and no passport, relentlessly crossing three continents of human insanity. Yet for all the madness, there are also good people, willing to make commitments to help him along the way. Many strange and wonderful characters are met and amazing adventures shared, but always somewhere back there is the coldly manipulative Trevor, who knows how to turn something like this into a major media event and exploit himself to great effect as the distraught misunderstood father searching for his lost son. As Lee fights his way onward and steadily turns his mad dream into reality, Scott also fights battles on two fronts: trying to keep the fretting Fable intact until Lee can arrive, and striving to keep the media and au
Tera Pascoe discovers that people who are sleeping when the centre of the galaxy passes overhead, are waking up with increased intelligence. No one will believe her - she doesn't quite believe it herslf, but her imaginary friend Alice, the one who went to Wonderland and is still hanging around though Tera is 32, encourages her and becomes the conduit through which Tera must save all humanity, from themselves.
Pythagoras lies dying at the end of his long and magnificent life. Part genius, part mystic, he has devoted himself to defining the perfect cosmic system he created, the great unity of numbers and mathematics and the universe. But suddenly, it has all gone horribly wrong-a terrifying secret has arisen within the Brotherhood of his loyal followers, and murders are committed to protect it.
Tera Pascoe, armed with a Psychology degree that has so far been useless to her, has retreated to her dead parentÕs house on the remote Western Australian coast, where she ekes out a lonely existence as a part-time librarian and child-minder. Her only real companion is Alice Liddell (yes, the one who went to Wonderland) who was her childhood imaginary friend and is still hanging around now that Tera is in her thirties. But Tera discovers that people living along a narrow band are dreaming exactly the same dream. Moreover, it appears that each person who has dreamed the strange dream appears to become more intelligent. Moreover, the band is rapidly expanding. A year after it began, the effect engulfs the entire world, and Tera is now a global hero despite her famous ineptitude and questionable morals. But Tera comes to realise that more powerful forces are at work than even Alice could possibly have imagined and she is the conduit through which they choose to communicate with a desperate planet.
Sixteen very diverse people from entirely different time zones simultaneously collapse in a coma and wake up in a featureless dome, that can make itself transparent when it wishes. They are on a highlights tour of the known universe, beyond the last days of planet Earth, beyond the Milky Way, heading, as we all are, for the end of the universe. And when they get there, they are going to stop it from happening.
Superconductivity is the ability of certain materials to conduct electrical current with no resistance and extremely low losses. High temperature superconductors, such as La2-xSrxCuOx (Tc=40K) and YBa2Cu3O7-x (Tc=90K), were discovered in 1987 and have been actively studied since. In spite of an intense, worldwide, research effort during this time, a complete understanding of the copper oxide (cuprate) materials is still lacking. Many fundamental questions are unanswered, particularly the mechanism by which high-Tc superconductivity occurs. More broadly, the cuprates are in a class of solids with strong electron-electron interactions. An understanding of such 'strongly correlated' solids is perhaps the major unsolved problem of condensed matter physics with over ten thousand researchers working on this topic. High-Tc superconductors also have significant potential for applications in technologies ranging from electric power generation and transmission to digital electronics. This ability to carry large amounts of current can be applied to electric power devices such as motors and generators, and to electricity transmission in power lines. For example, superconductors can carry as much as 100 times the amount of electricity of ordinary copper or aluminum wires of the same size. Many universities, research institutes and companies are working to develop high-Tc superconductivity applications and considerable progress has been made. This volume brings together leading research in this growth field.
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