Bøger af Richard Stevenson

An essential document of a niche global scene. For almost a decade the zine, Noise Receptor Journal, has been documenting the international post-industrial music underground. Each issue has featured reviews and exclusive interviews on dark ambient, death industrial, heavy electronics, power electronics, and other largely ignored forms of music. Noise Receptor Journal remains a labour of love in the true spirit of the underground. Self-published (out of Melbourne, Australia) it documents a cultural landscape from a unique vantage point, being at once an established and respected voice on that landscape. This book is the first in a series that compiles the long out-of-print, much sought-after early issues, and contains in their entirety Noise Receptor Journal numbers 1, 2 and 3, as well as new material.

A Donald Strachey Mystery, Book 5 - Donald Strachey is asked to investigate the suspicious death of Paul Haig by three different people-Haig's homophobic mother, his ex-lover, and the psychiatrist hired to "cure" him of his homosexuality. Just as he gets started, however, all three remove him from the case, leaving Strachey with a brutal murderer that now everyone wants left alone.Written over a period of three decades, the Donald Strachey series authentically chronicles gay life as it unfolded in upstate New York. Shock to the System was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery. An author's note is included.¿"Stevenson's real coup in Shock to the System is his memorably varied cast of suspects." - Kirkus Reviews"Sassy and sexy ... Don Strachey is a private dick who really earns his title." - Armistead Maupin"Stevenson writes wittily and knowingly about his subjects, both the gay world and the world of politics, and draws telling portraits of the bitter, clever amusing men who inhabit both." - West Coast Review of Books

A Donald Strachey Mystery, Book 6 - Private Investigator Donald Strachey is asked to look into the events surrounding the months-old murder of Eric Osborne. His death, originally believed to be a random attack, takes on new significance when Janet Osborne, Eric's sister, survives an attempt on her life. Skeeter, Eric's lover, believed both attacks were meant to silence them before the sale of their family's newspaper. Drawn into a complex family feud, Strachey must unravel the secret behind the attacks before the killer tries again.Written over a period of three decades, the Donald Strachey series authentically chronicles gay life as it unfolded in upstate New York. An author's note is included.¿¿"Literate and skillfully plotted ... Stevenson keeps the action on an even keel and the characters believable. Throughout it all, the author imbues his characters with a keen sense of humor." - Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel"Richard Stevenson's mysteries are among the wittiest and most politically pointed around today." - Washington Post"Stevenson makes his way deftly through Chain of Fools, with a strong sense of plot and a good ear for dialogue." - Boston Globe

Advanced English Grammar textbook and reference book covering all the questions that advanced students might have about sentence structure, independent and dependent clauses, gerund clauses, infinitive clauses, noun clauses, adverbial clauses, relative clauses, and participial clauses. The book also covers modals, hedging, cohesion, voice, tense, aspect, and word forms. Answers and examples included. The author has ten years experience preparing students for university in Australia and in East Asia. He has an MA TESOL and a Post Graduate Certificate in TESOL. He is also the author of the Time to Talk Series, popular in elementary schools in South Korea.

The heroine of this story is Helen Anderson, a young woman who appears to have everything going for her. She is very beautiful, blond and blue eyes; she is very well spoken and well educated (an Sc.D. in engineering from M.I.T.); and to top it all she is quite wealthy, a multi-millionaire, due to a surprise inheritance from a spinster aunt.But underneath that charming façade she was unhappy. She was unpopular as a girl at school, for no reason that she could understand. She compensated by working hard at her studies. The main reaction to that was that she was labelled "a brain." She was the class Valedictorian; she was not invited to the Prom.The story starts one Saturday evening when she can find nothing better to do than go to the laundromat. Her apartment was on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. She walked over to the Gardens and down the Brimmer Street hill to the laundromat, which only contained three young women, gossiping, and a young man, attractive enough, but she was too shy to speak to him.Eventually he leaves and shortly after she does also. She sees him climbing the Brimmer Street hill, when suddenly three men dart out and mug him. She rushes up to save him but too late: he is barely conscious, and his pockets have been emptied. She gets him on his feet, then something primitive happens to her. She feels that he is hers and that she will look after him whatever the circumstances.The circumstances are not favorable. He shows amnesia, a result of the blow to his head. He does not know his name and he has lost all his papers. He is truly a foundling, a non-person. As time goes along she gets medical attention for him, clothes him at Filene's basement, evades police and missing person bureaucrats, finds a job for him at a local restaurant, and gets him enrolled in a Northeastern University night class.She also gives him a name - Christopher Anderson - and persuades her parents to adopt him.Of course, they marry and are very happy. Christopher turns out to be particularly adept at business practices and after some disappointments he lands a job as assistant to Bill Spartus, the President of Teletronics Atlantic, a struggling microprocessor company. Quickly Christopher becomes the right-hand man of the President.At one point the company runs into serious financial threats due to unclear problems with a customer in Birmingham, England. Spartus tells Christopher and Helen (pregnant by now) to go to England to sort out the difficulty, and to have a vacation. They go to a village in Shropshire where they have a few days of an idyll. Then the day comes when Christopher drives to the nearby city of Birmingham.But Christopher simply disappears. His car is discovered but it contains only the business papers, his passport, and his traveler's checks.That is a summary of Part 1 of the book; it omits the struggles Spartus has with the banker, Ellsworth Dodge, and his financial advisor, Kenneth Dewar.Part 2 deals with how Helen saves Teletronics, and how Spartus finds Christopher.

Charles Bailey was the proprietor of a failing hardware store located at the poor end of Euclid Ave. in Cleveland. He had a son, James Bailey, an absent wife, and a lot of worries. One evening he thought he heard some noises in the storage shed behind his store. Investigation led him to find a small boy, dressed in tatters. The boy said his name was Billy Parsons.The boy was about the same size as his son James, so he took him in, fed him, and dressed him properly in his son's clothes, and gave him a bed. The two boys liked each other on sight and bonded immediately, which very much pleased Mr. Bailey.The next morning Mr. Bailey started to make inquiries about Billy. He was surprised to find that Billy did not exist, as far as the authorities were concerned. There was no school record, no missing person, and so forth. There was no one looking for him. All that there was was Billy happily playing with James. Mr. Bailey regularized the situation by having Billy baptized in his church, Presbyterian, and registered in James' school. Eventually he adopted Billy.James and Billy advanced in school both academically and athletically. They loved each other, trusted each other, and behaved as if their minds acted in concert. Billy started to get a bit larger than James, but both were fine, handsome, masculine specimens, and both were of exemplary intelligence.About the time that the pair took their school football team to the state championship, Mr. Bailey sold his store and quietly died. His estate was given equally to the two boys. Probably because of the championship, they were noticed by Woody Hayes, and offered football scholarships at Ohio State, which they accepted.They loved the university and not too long after their arrival the gang of two turned into a gang of three. The third member was Harriet Majors, the daughter of the once wealthy Majors of Grosse Pointe. In their innocent way both boys loved Harriet, who later married James.James flunked football. Coach Hayes took him aside and informed him that he could keep his scholarship, but that he should look at a different sport, such as golf. James did and became the best golfer in Ohio State history. But more about that later.Billy made the team as a freshman and made his mark by running for five touchdowns against a favored Michigan team. He finished his Ohio State career by winning the Heisman Trophy. He went professional and ended a sensational career by being elected to the Hall of Fame. He was a very popular man, a public figure, much in demand as an analyst, commentator, and for public appearances.James and Harriet settled down in Waltham where he was the genial Vice President - Sales of ALT (Applied Laser Technology). He also was reputed to be the best golfer in Massachusetts, much in demand to play with good amateurs.The story starts when Billy visits the Baileys. James goes out to run an errand and comes back home to find his wife in the arms of Billy.

Spectrum: Ambient/ Industrial/ Experimental Music Culture Magazine was one of the most well respected underground zines dealing with post-industrial music in the late 1990s to early 2000s, with a particular focus on the dark ambient, death industrial, heavy electronics, power electronics, neo-classical, martial industrial and neo-folk genres.This book reproduces all five issues of the rare, out of print Spectrum magazine, plus the unpublished issue No 6. It also includes much new material that puts the music scene and its culture into perspective.Featured interviews: Bad Sector / Black Lung / Brighter Death Now / Caul / Cold Spring / Crowd Control Activities / C17H19No3 / Death In June / Der Blutharsch / Desiderii Marginis / Deutsch Nepal / Dream Into Dust / Endvra / Folkstorm / Genocide Organ / Gruntsplatter / Hazard / House Of Low Culture / I-Burn / Ildfrost / Imminent Starvation / Inade / IRM / Iron Halo Device / Isomer / John Murphy / Kerovnian / Knifeladder / LAW / Malignant Records / Megaptera / Middle Pillar / Militia / MZ.412 / Navicon Torture Technologies / Nový Sv¿t / Ordo Equilibrio / The Protagonist / Raison D'être / Sanctum / Schloss Tegal / Shining Vril / Shinjuku Thief / Skincage / Slaughter Productions / Spectre / StateArt / Stone Glass Steel / Stratvm Terror / Terra Sancta / Tertium Non Data / Toroidh / Tribe Of Circle / Warren Mead / Vox Barbara / Yen Pox"One of the best print mags in this genre" - Tesco Organisation Germany"Legendary and historically very significant" - Stephen Petrus, Murderous Vision / Live Bait Recording Foundation

Kenneth Dewar is an accountant, so successful over the years that he has become a "venture capitalist" or a "financier" with only one client, a secret one at that, the patrician banker, Ellsworth Dodge. Dewar specializes in "reorganizing" high technology firms, to the immense benefit of Dodge and himself.During the course of his life Dewar had forgotten his wife and daughter. They are there, and they speak to each other and life goes forward - it is just that he has forgotten them. One Sunday afternoon, his wife dies suddenly and unexpectedly while taking a nap, and Kenneth is forced to remember her again. He also is forced to look after himself and the apartment and the laundry, and he starts to remember many things about his life that he had forgotten, just as he had forgotten his family. He even tries to make an accounting of his marriage, to draw up a balance sheet. And he finds out some things that he never knew about his wife and about human accounting. It is a moving story of what business does to women and men, set in Boston, Cambridge, and Waltham along Route 128.

Helen Anderson is young, beautiful, wealthy, highly accomplished but with some emotional wounds from childhood which keep her isolated and lonely. One evening she sees a young man being mugged. She rescues him, helps him deal with his subsequent amnesia, loves him and marries him. Then during a trip to England she loses him. The love of her life disappears without a trace. Much later, by sheer chance, she finds him, but he has become someone different, almost unreachable. A moving story of love and fidelity, set in the financial world of Boston and the high-tech industry of Waltham and Route 128.

In Windfall Apples, Richard Stevenson mixes east and west with backyard barbecue and rueful reflection.