All My Sins Remembered
Title | All My Sins Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Haldeman |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Total Pages | 174 |
Release | 2014-12-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1497692415 |
In this powerful, provocative SF classic from the award-winning author of The Forever War, a young man of peace is transformed into an intergalactic killer. Once Otto McGavin was a kind and gentle soul; then he was recruited by the all-powerful Confederación. An ultrasecretive, government-linked organization, the Confederación’s stated mission of protecting threatened life, both human and alien, throughout the galaxy greatly appeals to the Anglo-Buddhist McGavin as he eagerly prepares to embark on a career of diplomacy and selfless works. But Otto’s new masters have other plans for the idealistic young recruit. Through a process of immersion therapy and hypnosis, and by encasing him in temporary bodies of plastiflesh, scientists can overlay Otto’s true persona with other ones, transforming him completely—body, mind, and soul—into the ruthlessly effective prime operator the Confederación wants him to be. But decades of interstellar subterfuge and violence, and years spent wearing the personae of spies and cold-blooded killers, must ultimately take their toll—and before he leaves behind the lives that have been cruelly thrust upon him, Otto McGavin will have to somehow come to terms with who he really is and the monstrous things he has done. One of the most powerful and thought-provoking stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Worlds and The Forever War, Joe Haldeman’s All My Sins Remembered is a stunning work of speculative fiction. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
All My Sins Remembered
Title | All My Sins Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Haldeman |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Total Pages | 150 |
Release | 2011-09-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0575111658 |
Otto McGavin is peaceful and idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist, who seeks employment with the Confederación because he believes in it and its mission to protect the rights of humans and nonhumans. The only problem is that the Confederación needs him as a Prime Operator for its secret service, the TBII, and the TBII wants Otto as a spy, a thief and an assassin. It's not, of course, a problem for the Confederación, which simply uses immersion therapy and hypnosis for Otto's training, and then sends him out in deep cover on a variety of dangerous missions on a number of bizarre worlds. But for Otto, it's a different matter: what he has to witness and what he is forced to do take a terrible toll on him . . .
All My Sins Remembered
Title | All My Sins Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Haldeman |
Publisher | Orion |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Science fiction |
ISBN | 9780575072817 |
'Vivid imagination and first-rate story-telling talents' Publishers Weekly
All My Sins Remembered
Title | All My Sins Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Wilfred R. Bion |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 243 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9781855750036 |
More of Bion's autobiography and selected letters to his family and friends.
Sins Remembered
Title | Sins Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Barnes |
Publisher | Marvel Comics Group |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9780785116288 |
Follows the adventures of Spider-Man and Sarah, the daughter of Gwen Stacy and the web-slinger's greatest enemy.
The Long Week-End 1897-1919
Title | The Long Week-End 1897-1919 PDF eBook |
Author | Wilfred R. Bion |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2018-05-08 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0429907125 |
Reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of Wilfred Bion s life: eight years of childhood in India, ten years at public school in England, and three years of life in the army.
The Seven Sins of Memory
Title | The Seven Sins of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel L. Schacter |
Publisher | HMH |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2002-05-07 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0547347456 |
A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist’s “gripping and thought-provoking” look at how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In this intriguing study, Harvard psychologist Daniel L. Schacter explores the memory miscues that occur in everyday life, placing them into seven categories: absent-mindedness, transience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Illustrating these concepts with vivid examples—case studies, literary excerpts, experimental evidence, and accounts of highly visible news events such as the O. J. Simpson verdict, Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony, and the search for the Oklahoma City bomber—he also delves into striking new scientific research, giving us a glimpse of the fascinating neurology of memory and offering “insight into common malfunctions of the mind” (USA Today). “Though memory failure can amount to little more than a mild annoyance, the consequences of misattribution in eyewitness testimony can be devastating, as can the consequences of suggestibility among pre-school children and among adults with ‘false memory syndrome’ . . . Drawing upon recent neuroimaging research that allows a glimpse of the brain as it learns and remembers, Schacter guides his readers on a fascinating journey of the human mind.” —Library Journal “Clear, entertaining and provocative . . . Encourages a new appreciation of the complexity and fragility of memory.” —The Seattle Times “Should be required reading for police, lawyers, psychologists, and anyone else who wants to understand how memory can go terribly wrong.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A fascinating journey through paths of memory, its open avenues and blind alleys . . . Lucid, engaging, and enjoyable.” —Jerome Groopman, MD “Compelling in its science and its probing examination of everyday life, The Seven Sins of Memory is also a delightful book, lively and clear.” —Chicago Tribune Winner of the William James Book Award