Tunesmith summary4/3/2023 ![]() Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice-for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. ![]() But, disinclined to become a protector permanently bound to the Ringworld, he must also find a way to escape the fate Tunesmith has planned for him.Īn involving and engrossing addition to one of science fiction’s grand sagas.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. Aided by the young Kzinti exile Acolyte Wembleth, a Ringworld native with a lucky knack for survival and detective Roxanny Gauthier of Earth's armed forces, Louis is willing to help Tunesmith save the Ringworld. Another complication arises with the emergence of Proserpina, an ancient protector who claims to be a Pak, one of the Ringworld’s vanished builders (protectors vigorously compete to protect their own species’ genes). Finally, the Fringe War erupts when an antimatter bomb blows a hole in the Ringworld through which the atmosphere would drain and be lost to space in a matter of days. Tunesmith, Louis suspects, intends to make Louis himself into a protector. However, the Ringworld’s own defenses and the vigilance of the blindingly fast, armored, sexless, superintelligent Ghoul protector, Tunesmith, prevent the Fringe Warriors from prevailing. Jimmy Webb lives in New York State.The fourth and seemingly last visit to Niven’s spectacular ring-shaped space habitat ( The Ringworld Throne, 1996, etc.), whose livable surface area is three million times that of planet Earth.Įarth explorer Louis Wu, trapped on the Ringworld along with the Hindmost, a timorous, manipulative alien, finds the Ringworld’s very survival threatened by the Fringe War, a motley collection of human and alien spaceships that fight among themselves, each hoping to conquer (or at least land on) the Ringworld and learn its fabulous scientific secrets. According to BMI, his song 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix' is the third most-performed song in the last fifty years, with 'Up, Up and Away' on the same list in the Top Thirty. The only artist to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, he is a member of the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriters' Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters' Hall of Fame. □ Lee Ahora □ Download Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting de Jimmy Webbĭescripción - Reseña del editor The prolific songwriter offers novices advice on creating melodies, harmonies, and lyrics, as well as tips for marketing compositions and dealing with the music industry Biografía del autor A minister's son from Eld City, Oklahoma, Jimmy Webb has been writing songs for over twenty-five years. ![]() Descargar Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting de Jimmy Webb libros ebooks, Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting Pdf descargar
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