The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - 2019

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The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as Republic of Gilead, that has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as “handmaids”, who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the “commanders” – the ruling class of men

In November 2018, Atwood announced the sequel, titled The Testaments, which was published in September 2019. The novel is set fifteen years after Offred’s final scene, with the testaments of three female narrators from Gilead

My Brother's Husband

My Brother’s Husband is a manga series by Gengoroh Tagame. Serialized in Monthly Action from 2014 to 2017, and adapted into a live-action television drama by NHK in 2018, the series follows the relationship between single father Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and Mike Flanagan, the Canadian husband of Yaichi’s estranged and recently deceased twin brother. The series, which focuses on themes of homophobia, cultural difference, and family

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Anne Rice - Lestat

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Anne Rice (October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature. She was best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations—Interview with the Vampire (1994) and Queen of the Damned (2002).

Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat is the last horror novel by American writer Anne Rice, the thirteenth and last book in The Vampire Chronicles series, published on October 2, 2018. It is the most recent of The Vampire Chronicles to be narrated by the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, and it is the first of The Vampire Chronicles to contain illustrations (by Mark Edward Geyer)

Charlie Chaplin - IBM PCjr : c1980s

The IBM PCjr was a home computer produced and marketed by IBM from March 1984 to May 1985, intended as a lower-cost variant of the IBM PC with hardware capabilities better suited for video games, in order to compete more directly with other home computers such as the Apple II and Commodore 64.

In 1981, IBM hired the advertising agency, Lord, Geller, Federico, and Einstein, to construct a campaign to market its microcomputer. The agency chose Charles Chaplin’s tramp as spokesperson. IBM bought the rights to the tramp from Bubbles, the Chaplin family organization. The agency hired Bill Scudder, a mime, to imitate Chaplin’s tramp. In November, 1981, the agency released its first commercial entitled “The House.” – Jump Cut

 

Seafire Trilogy

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The Seafire Trilogy: Set in a vaguely defined distant future, this tale of sisterhood on the high seas introduces an all-female crew of rebels who survive by raiding the ships of the ruthless warlord who controls the local waters – Publishers Weekly review