Conqueror (Baxter novel)

Conqueror is book two of four in Stephen Baxter's alternate history and science fiction series Time's Tapestry.

Synopsis

The novel begins in AD 607 and ends in AD 1066 after the Battle of Hastings.

See also

  • Emperor
  • Navigator
  • Weaver

  • Baxter!

    Baxter! is a 1973 British drama film directed by Lionel Jeffries and starring Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Britt Ekland. A young boy struggles to overcome his speech problem and strained relationship with his parents. The film was based on a book by Kin Platt, called The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear.

    Cast

  • Patricia Neal Doctor Roberta Clemm
  • Jean-Pierre Cassel Roger Tunnell
  • Britt Ekland Chris Bentley
  • Lynn Carlin Mrs. Baxter
  • Scott Jacoby Roger Baxter
  • Sally Thomsett Nemo
  • Paul Eddington Mr. Rawling
  • Paul Maxwell Mr. Baxter
  • Ian Thompson Dr. Walsh
  • Ronald Leigh-Hunt Mr. Fishie
  • Frances Bennett Mrs. Newman
  • George Tovey George
  • Marianne Stone Woman
  • References

    External links

  • Baxter! at the Internet Movie Database
  • Baxter (punk band)

    Baxter (sometimes typeset .baxter.) was a Chicago post-hardcore band. The band consisted of Tim McIlrath (later of Rise Against and The Killing Tree), Neil Hennessy, (later of The Lawrence Arms, The Killing Tree, The Falcon and Colossal), Anthony Fiore (drums) as well Timothy Remis, (later of The Killing Tree) and a bassist only referred to as J. Wood.

    Biography

    Baxter formed in 1995 in Chicago, Illinois and began playing basement shows and building up a fanbase. Their first record was released independently as a full length cassette entitled Troy's Bucket, and enjoyed moderate success in the underground scene. They began touring extensively around the Midwest. In 1996, they signed to the independent label Static Station. 1997 saw the release of a 7" entitled Lost Voices, and by this time they were very popular in the local scene. In 1999 they split up and members have remained active in the hardcore scene in bands such as The Killing Tree, The Honor System, The Lawrence Arms and most notably Rise Against. In 2003, Will Not Clear Man records put out Baxter, a compilation of both of their official releases as well as several unreleased songs and demos. In 2004, Minneapolis rapper P.O.S sampled the track "Out of Reach" for his track "Kidney Thief" off the album Ipecac Neat.

    Baxter (name)

    Baxter is an Anglo-Saxon and Scottish name, originally from the English occupational surname meaning "baker," from the early Middle English bakstere and the Old English bæcere. The form Bakster was originally feminine, with Baker as the masculine equivalent, but over time both names came to apply to both men and woman. Ancient variations in the spelling of the surname include Bakster, Baxstar, Baxstair, Baxstare and Baxster.

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  • Al Baxter, Australian rugby union player
  • Alain Baxter, Scottish skier
  • Alan Baxter, American film actor
  • Alan Baxter (politician), New Zealand soldier and politician
  • Alexander G. Baxter (1859-1934), New York state senator
  • Amy Lynn Baxter, American model and actress
  • Andrew Baxter, Scottish philosopher
  • Anne Baxter, American actress
  • Annie Baxter, American radio reporter
  • Archibald Baxter, New Zealand pacifist
  • Arlene Baxter, American model
  • A. W. Baxter, American winemaker
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  • Batsell Baxter, American religious leader and educator
  • Conqueror (video game)

    Conqueror is a video game released as the follow-up to Zarch (also known as Virus), using the same landscape engine. It is a third-person shooter with strategy elements in which the player controls a fleet of tanks. It was originally developed and released on the Acorn Archimedes by Superior Software in 1988 and ported to other home computers in 1990 by Rainbow Arts. The game was well received, particularly for its blend of strategy and arcade action.

    Gameplay

    The game is set in the Second World War era and in a 3D polygonal environment. The player controls a fleet of tanks from either the American, German or Russian army. There are various tanks available with different abilities from light, fast tanks that are easily damaged to heavy, slow tanks with high firepower.

    The player controls an individual tank from a third-person perspective with computer AI controlling the other friendly tanks as well as the enemy tanks. By switching to a map screen, the player can change which tank they control and also direct tanks to different places on the map. The game carries on in real-time while the player is looking at the map. Control can be split so that two players can cooperate to control the tank so one player drives the tank while the other controls the gun. Single players can choose for the computer to take the role of the second player or control both together.

    Novel

    A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.

    The genre has also been described as possessing "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years". This view sees the novel's origins in Classical Greece and Rome, medieval, early modern romance, and the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. Ian Watt, however, in The Rise of the Novel (1957) suggests that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century,

    Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era; the first part of Don Quixote was published in 1605.

    The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter Scott defined it as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", whereas in the novel "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society". However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scott,Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". Romance, as defined here, should not be confused with the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo."

    Moon of Israel (novel)

    Moon of Israel is a novel by Rider Haggard, first published in 1918 by John Murray. The novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana.

    Haggard dedicated his novel to Sir Gaston Maspero, a distinguished Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum.

    Adaptation

    His novel was the basis of a script by Ladislaus Vajda, for film-director Michael Curtiz in his 1924 Austrian epic known as Die Sklavenkönigin, or "Queen of the Slaves".

    References

    External links

  • Moon of Israel at Project Gutenberg

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