Trapped, the man leapt from the ramparts and raced through the fortress grounds , desperately seeking a way out. Sebastian had been on his way back to.
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In space, no-one can hear you scream. So you can spank as hard as you like. Commander Azed Paul and Ensign Suka Demontel are space anthropologists in a future civilisation where kink is illegal.
The Sevarian Way by Justine Elyot
Both have learned to repress their natural sexuality, but Suka's undergraduate work on the ancient practice of BDSM has captured Paul's professional attention, and his less academic In space, no-one can hear you scream. Both have learned to repress their natural sexuality, but Suka's undergraduate work on the ancient practice of BDSM has captured Paul's professional attention, and his less academic interest too.
This makes her the perfect crew member to accompany him to the surface of Paladium Three, a dead planet where old-fashioned service and discipline were woven into the fabric of life. There might not be any life forms left there, but what Paul and Suka discover is fascinating evidence of a culture that both realise might have suited them very well The temptation to experiment, risk-free, with the kinks they have been denied all their adult lives, proves too much for the space explorers and they give their fantasies free rein. But will this be a unique, never-to-be-repeated experience, or will Paul and Suka find a means to fully embrace the Sevarian Way?
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Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Aug 17, Elenya Lewis rated it it was amazing. The story is that of a Commander and an Ensign - who are forbidden from BDSM practises by their own culture - exploring the kinky practises of an extinct race on a deserted planet. It's a gloriously original idea, brilliantly executed. It's refreshing to read an author that really captures the appeal of BDSM.
There are various scenes of different kinky practises and they are realistic and engaging with a futuristic edge. I found myself getting very jealous of the characters at times — there are definitely things that go on that I'd love the chance to get a go at. I finished the story pining to be able to meet the race that the pair are exploring and experience things the way they do. Beyond the story, what really caught me is the language.
Here is an author with an extensive vocabulary, the likes of which I haven't read anywhere else in the erotic genre. Elyot proves that you can write erotica with intelligent, literary flare. I'll definitely be reading more of her work. Futuristic yet realistic, with pant-moistening play, stunningly written. Madijo rated it really liked it Aug 06, Lily Marlene rated it liked it Oct 19, The hideous daily violence of war and the larger political beliefs that seem to make it necessary are the raw material that Barry uses to ask a more fundamental question: How does a person come to think for him- or herself?
Barry is asking what makes people think and behave as they do. Almost one hundred years after the events in this novel, with the world still engaged in war after war, could any question be more important? Barry, who is also a poet, writes with a lyrical power that makes this lost world pulse with reality. The music and beauty of Irish speech is everywhere here and is all the more poignant when brought to bear on the terror and madness of life in the trenches. A Long Long Way is a work of profound sadness and beauty that rings with the truth of what it is to be human.
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in His play The Steward of Christendom won many awards and has been seen around the world. He currently lives in Wicklow, Ireland. You write with great authority about the trench warfare of World War I. Did you grow up hearing stories about it? Did you do a lot of research? There has in recent years been a number of pioneering books about the Irish involvement in the war, and they make poignant reading. Was it important to you to make your own contribution to the tradition of war literature? Were you influenced by other writers who have written about war, such as Hemingway or Crane?
Well, it is a mighty tradition, and ancient, and there are mountains that cannot be scaled or equaled. Also there are ambiguities and contradictions in the very idea of war literature for an Irish person. Whose war, whose tradition, whose literature?
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I could see how important it was once to suppress the story. I think it gradually became important to me, if not to make a contribution, at least to attempt it. Because as I went along further and further with it, I slowly understood better what that particular war meant for Irish soldiers. So it seemed strangely urgent to try to tell the story, for them, about them, and as much as possible maybe, in a haunted fashion, by them.
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I am sure Crane and Hemingway were influences. In the seventies when I wrote some short novels, I used to go back to him for friendly inspiration—to get me going. What was important to Hemingway, the fact of having been there at the war, is closed to us now of course. Twenty years ago I was in his house in Key West and was shocked by how long ago his life seemed. He puts you in the midst of timeless struggles by means of his immaculate style. A Farewell to Arms is therefore a kind of time machine. You can go there.
It is a singing book. The book I had in my car as a talisman these are the strange actions of a superstitious writer was All Quiet on the Western Front , another perfect book. Otherwise I tried not to read novels—some poetry of course, especially the Irish poets Tom Kettle and Francis Ledwidge, both killed in the war—because I was anxious to write about the war at least in my own way. Tom Kettle wrote in a famous poem to his daughter Betty:.
Is this also true of her brother, Willie? How do you go about weaving memory and imagination into a fictional character who can carry the story you want to tell? When I was writing a play called The Steward of Christendom , the character of the son killed in the war came mysteriously into the writing. At first he was just an unknown child in the room, then he was more clearly a boy, then he got his uniform streaked not with blood but, because he was a sort of ghost, gold.
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The play was written about my great grandfather, but was largely invented. Some while after the play was produced, I did find out that the real man had had two or three sons at the war, one of them a Catholic priest. What became of them I do not know. It gets a little complicated. What I have to do to tell a story is accept in my mind that these people survive in me somewhere, in a corner of the brain, in the heart, wherever, and somehow or other can release their stories.
It seemed very, very real, clear, almost familiar. Not that I was there, but. So I am doing a strange thing—asking a fictional character to be real so that he can be an effective fiction. But it was a book that seemed to make a bundle of my research and march off with it as if it were an ordinary thing. You are obviously very sensitive to the music inherent in language and in the rhythms of speech.
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