Technomage Torrent

Crown of Embers

""Crown of Embers"" ignites Eastern European folklore in a contemporary Balkan city, where 17-year-old Zora discovers she's the last of a fire-wielding lineage. As magic simmers beneath the urban landscape, Zora grapples with her newfound abilities while juggling the typical trials of high school life. When an ancient shadow looms, threatening to extinguish all magic, she forms an unlikely alliance with Luka, a water-wielder from a rival clan. This captivating YA urban fantasy weaves a tale of identity, legacy, and collaboration as Zora and Luka uncover a sinister conspiracy. Told through alternating perspectives and peppered with traditional folktales, the narrative explores themes of cultural preservation and environmental conservation. With its diverse cast reflecting modern Eastern Europe's multicultural tapestry, ""Crown of Embers"" offers a fresh, fiery take on elemental magic that will enthrall readers with its lyrical prose and rich world-building.

Writing, Medium, Machine

Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies is a collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars which explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature. The essays unfold from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives the proposition that literature is not less but more mechanical than other forms of writing: a transfigurative ideal machine. The collection breaks new ground archaeologically, unearthing representations in literature and film of a whole range of decisive technologies from the stereopticon through census-and slot-machines to the stock ticker, and from the Telex to the manipulation of genetic code and the screens which increasingly mediate our access to the world and to each other. It also contributes significantly to critical and cultural theory by investigating key concepts which articulate the relation between writing and technology: number, measure, encoding, encryption, the archive, the interface. Technography is not just a modern matter, a feature of texts that happen to arise in a world full of machinery and pay attention to that machinery in various ways. But the mediation of other machines has beyond doubt assisted literature to imagine and start to become the ideal machine it is always aspiring to be. Contributors: Ruth Abbott, John Attridge, Kasia Boddy, Mark Byron, Beci Carver, Steven Connor, Esther Leslie, Robbie Moore, Julian Murphet, James Purdon, Sean Pryor, Paul Sheehan, Kristen Treen. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Book of Nations