Bøger af Erin Manning

The Telmaj, whose special gift makes faster-than-light travel possible, have been taken as slaves for as long as anybody can remember. But now a war to end that slavery has begun between the Telmaj and the Unified Government--and the Telmaj's secret weapon, the Twenty, are already arising. But will Smijj find the others before the Unified Government does?Smijj may be young by his people's standards, but he has already proven that he is the fastest and strongest Telmaj anybody has ever heard of, and he's finally being allowed to join the fight. He doesn't mind danger, except when it threatens the people he loves. But he is learning that sometimes the most unexpected dangers can come in the form of trusted allies, and even friends.

It isn't easy being the leader of the Twenty Telmaj in a time of war. It's even harder when Firra, one of Smijj's oldest friends, decides she can no longer support the war or trust the Twenty. But Smijj doesn't have time for personal problems, not with Alcemitron, home of the Robots' Union, seeking an alliance with Telmaja.Things aren't always what they seem, however: Alcemitron wants more than an alliance. Someone has stolen an ancient and powerful device from them, a device that the Government might use as a weapon against Telmaja. Smijj and his friends must find the thief and stop him from handing the device over to Xentrova before it's too late-but the thief has a frightening secret of his own that could put Smijj and all of his friends in danger.

He's been alone for as long as he can remember. But Smijj dreams of escaping the ugly space station that's never been a real home and starting life over. Surely there's adventure waiting in the galaxy for a thief who can teleport...except that Smijj's teleporting skills are almost as bad as his attempts at stealing things. And when he accidentally teleports aboard a small cargo ship, Smijj finds out how dangerous it is in the galaxy for people with his kind of gift.

"It started at Glumgate. The school for wizard losers with useless magic. My new school. I'm no loser. Back home in Ragvale I led all the most successful pranks. My plan: use my talent for making mischief to fight our wicked principal. Nothing could go wrong-or so I thought. Until my real magic showed up. And with it, the people who know who I really am-the ones who want me dead."Rogan Brandle doesn't know which is worse: having a loser magic gift, or having to go to Glumgate School to learn how to use his useless power. But things aren't at they seem either at Glumgate or in Rogan's life. Family secrets and mysterious powers collide, with Rogan in the midst of the chaos he helped create. Can he discover the truth about his magic and his identity in time to escape what he has set in motion and survive an attack from hidden enemies he never knew existed? One thing is sure: his safe, happy life in a quiet village is gone for good.

Sarah Grey isn't sure what's more bewildering: her grief at her father's death, her new life in bustling Kingsport, or her aunt's determination to see Sarah make a brilliant marriage. As Sarah's period of mourning ends and she enters Kingsport's busy social life, there are only two things she knows for sure. One is that the people of Kingsport are too fond of mermaids, who ensure the shipping town's prosperity. The other is that Aunt Lyda is too inclined to hope that Sarah will marry Octavian Lye, the town's most important and most eligible bachelor. Sarah has other ideas for her future. Before she can act on them, the town is gripped with terror: there is a vampire in Kingsport, preying on young girls. Sarah is the first to learn the shocking truth behind the sinister attacks-but the truth leads to terrible secrets and hidden dangers for Sarah and the people she loves.

Smijj is a Telmaj, which means he can travel vast distances and even move spaceships across the galaxy just by wishing. But Smijj is the most gifted Telmaj anyone has ever seen, and because of him the Telmaj people are finally taking a stand against the Unified Government and Telmaj slavery. He wants to take part in the fight for freedom. Instead, he has to deal with boredom, overprotective friends and this thing called school...Smijj realizes that his people are on the brink of war, and he believes he can help, if only the adults will let him. When a chance encounter with an escaped slave holds the promise of an exciting new adventure, Smijj is off and running...but soon he and his friends, both old and new, are running for their lives from the one place in the galaxy Smijj hoped he'd never set foot on again.

Sam Oldfield is an ordinary kid with an ordinary life. Or is he? When he wakes up in a hospital he is told he's been missing for three days-so why does he remember nearly a year's worth of adventures in a magical kingdom in another world?Was all of it a dream? Did Sam really imagine a wise old magician, a cranky but loyal bird, a beautiful bossy princess, and the Sand Stone itself, whose power Sam alone could wield? That can't be true. But if the magical world of Ebdyrza and all of Sam's memories are real, then there really is an Enchanter's War, too. And the Enchanters may end up in Sam's world seeking to destroy the Sand Stone, and Sam with it.

Far from Telmaja and separated from all of his friends, Smijj is trapped on a Government prison planet. Luckily he has met a new ally who is helping him make plans for a daring escape. But their plans are complicated when the ship they board is hiding a secret: a new member of the Twenty, an escaped slave on the run from the Unified Forces. As Smijj desperately tries to make his way back home, Lucien must race to rescue another of the Twenty who is fleeing from her life as a slave. But in his absence Taika finds herself leading the Twenty at the very moment when the Unified Forces seem poised to bring the war to Telmaja. To win this fight, the Twenty need Smijj to come home before it's too late.

Sam Oldfield's life is far from ordinary these days. His cousin Eric now lives in Fairview and is teaching Sam to use Enchanter's magic properly. Sam's mom knows about Ebdyrza and is quickly becoming friends with Kittritt, Sam's sky-tangler friend. But not everything is going well; Sam's dad has been strangely distant and is impatient to help Eric move out of the Oldfield's home. Sam thinks his father will understand everything if Sam can just tell his dad about Ebdyrza. But before Sam can find a way to do that, danger strikes both in Ebdyrza and in Fairview. As Sam and his friends cross the Divide into Ebdyrza again, they find that the evil Paragons have taken steps to keep them trapped there-and they will stop at nothing to get Sam in their power.

Smijj, the leader of the Twenty Telmaj, doesn't always feel like a good leader. There are so many new members of the Twenty that the once close-knit group often seems too chaotic to be Telmaja's best chance for winning this war. When the Unified Government attacks one of Telmaja's allies, a small artificial world, Smijj agrees to bring as many of the Twenty to help the survivors as he can. But there's a deadly plot to capture Lucien, and Smijj doesn't guess that asking Lucien to go to Yylex is playing right into the kidnapper's hands. When Smijj realizes that Lucien is gone and no attempt to find him can be made until the war victims are brought to safety, his ability to control both the Twenty and his own impulsive nature will be put to the test.

In 1994, at the age of twenty-five, when the "terrible brokenness that comes with sexual assault" was folded deep within her body and thoughts of suicide were always close by, Erin Manning wrote The Perfect Mango at an almost feverish pitch: nineteen chapters in nineteen days, a sort of self-rescue operation, where writing became a form of making (and feeling) life otherwise. Throughout those nineteen days, and although not able to fully articulate it to herself at the time, Manning wrote her way into a "composition that asks how else life might be lived." And in the rhythms of that composition, which was also a living, Manning was, and is, able to refuse the category and norm and stillness of "victim" (while still understanding the inheritances of violence) in order to follow instead the more-than-I as well as the joy of the "more-than of experience in the making."Twenty-five years later, Manning allows these earlier writings to find their way back into the world, which is also a way of giving "voice to those moments of messy survival" while also asking us, who share in (and help to bear) those moments as readers, to consider "other ways of listening to the urgency that is living." To (re)publish the book now is to give it a place in the world in a way that honors its force as something that is always beyond anyone's claim to it, even Manning's. In this sense, The Perfect Mango invites us, with Manning, to be in excess of ourselves, and also to consider, in Manning's words, "how to create conditions for living beyond humanism's fierce belief that we, the privileged, the neurotypicals, the as-yet-unscathed, the able-bodied, hold the key to all perspectives in the theatre of living." Ultimately, The Perfect Mango and Manning's reflections on its composition ask us to consider living "in the fierce celebration of a world invented by those modes of life which tear at the colonial, white, neurotypical fabric of life as we know it.""The Perfect Mango is a book about the body, about learning to see it as an entity that has no end, something that is never permanently marked by the violence of history, that can swim into a new skin. The sexual trauma that haunts this book is being painted and purged across its pages, and the young woman who refuses to remain caught in the capture of trauma is also learning to feed herself, to become a body-being that will endure in new forms and through new forms of mutual making. I know this girl, for she is many. I love this girl, as I love us all-we misfits whose hurt provokes us to live through other styles and modes of becoming-together." (Julietta Singh, "Afterward," The Perfect Mango)"How to confront victimization, while refusing the role of the victim? How, after trauma and abuse, can one regain a sense of life's possibilities and plunge headlong into their pursuit, without defensively hardening the boundaries of the self? Without immunizing it against the outside, knowing that it is in the great outside of the world's roil and commotion that potential radically resides - tooth-to-jowl with continued danger? How to grapple with the horrors of the past, without paradoxically binding oneself to them in a Sisyphian attempt to exorcize them through feats of memory and analysis (terminable or interminable)? How, not to own the past, but repossess the future of that past? In The Perfect Mango, Erin Manning charts a path of resistance, resilience, and journeying toward health that is starkly different from the currently dominant identity-based strategies. She writes survival, in what can best be described as a fabulatory autobiography that is rooted in real events but opens them up to each other, and out to a different future. The path is signposted with a motto, implicit here, subsequently expressed in the title of one of her works of philosophy: always more than one. If this is me ... what else? If this is life ... once more!" (Brian Massumi)

At long last, the Twenty Telmaj are together. The time has come to end Telmaj slavery once and for all. Smijj knows what they need to win this fight: an ancient ship tethered to Celef Station, his former home. But an old enemy threatens the Twenty's careful plans to collect the mysterious ship just as the Unified Government captures members of Ranym's family. When Smijj and his friends learn of the Inner Circle's plot to turn their Human allies against Telmaja they must work fast to stop their foes from succeeding. They are in for the fight of their lives, but if they fail, their dream of ending Telmaj slavery might never come true.

Sam Oldfield is a powerful Enchanter in one world and an ordinary seventh-grader in another. He wants to get back to the magic world of Ebdyrza to stop the evil Paragons from taking over. But he needs time to learn to fight such deadly foes if he hopes to defeat them. When evil Enchanters from Ebdyrza show up in Sam's ordinary world to bring the fight to Sam, he isn't prepared for the lengths they'll go to get what they want. To draw his enemies away from Fairview, Sam must cross the Divide into Ebdyrza again and face this final battle, ready or not.

Most days, Sam Oldfield seems like an ordinary kid. But it's hard to be ordinary when you're really a powerful Enchanter destined to save a magical kingdom. Other Enchanters have been using their magic for evil, and Sam may be the only one who can stop them, thanks in part to the mysterious and magical Sand Stone that only Sam can use.Some days, Sam wonders what's more important: learning to use magic to save the kingdom of Ebdyrza, or passing seventh-grade math? At least Christmas break will be normal-or so Sam thinks, until the spell keeping Enchanters from crossing the Divide into the ordinary world is destroyed by an Enchanter Sam would rather not meet again. And when Sam and his friends must flee into Ebdyrza to escape a powerful enemy, Sam's worlds collide at last, as Sam must be prepared to fight not only an enemy, but a member of his own family.

Sam Oldfield is trapped in Ebdyrza. On the one hand, he now knows the identity of all three of the Paragons, the evil Enchanters trying to take over the magical land. On the other hand, a reckless bargain Sam made with the Paragons' leader to free his family from their power has backfired, and Sam is trapped in the most dangerous place in all Ebdyrza: the Shifting Sands. Alone, stranded, and struggling to stay alive, Sam realizes that time may run out for him before he can escape. But if he can't figure out a way out of this deadly desert, Sam may not be able to stop the Paragons from their most evil plan yet-a machine that drains the magic from helpless creatures and makes the Paragons' army unstoppable.

Out of the Clear begins with the question of the clearing: What operations are at work when land is cleared, or thought is cleared, of all that grows wild? Clearing, the settler-colonial act of defining a territory and producing a border, clears the world of the thickets of all that is already at work. Get rid of the muddle. Privilege productivity. This devaluing operation is taken for granted as the necessary operation for all beginnings. Clear the movementtendencies before you start dancing. Clear the thought-wanderings before you start writing. Clearing''s best accomplice is method. A clear site is one that can be overseen, that can be managed. The resounding image of the clearing in Out of the Clear is the residential school for the forced internment of first nations peoples, the sites always barren, empty of any tangle. The motif of the clearing weaves through Out of the Clear, a book written in the first year of the 3Ecologies project''s landbased site. In the mode of speculative pragmatism, the book explores what modalities of perspective emerge in the uneasy middling of non-dogmatic approaches to the speculative gardens of our affective surrounds. The impersonal leads in this exploration of what kind of minor sociality might emerge at the interstices of more-than human inclinations.

Drawing on the radical black tradition, process philosophy, and Felix Guattari's schizoanalysis, Erin Manning explores the links between neurotypicality, whiteness, and black life.

In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning develops the concept of the minor gesture to rethink common assumptions about human agency, the ways we experience the everyday world, and the possibilities for new political praxis.

The philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the "more than human" in the context of movement, perception, and experience.