Beast

Beast or Beasts usually refer to terrestrial vertebrates, or more specifically bovines. It may also mean a scary, and vicious animal or character. It may also refer to:

Computers and games

Film and television

Literature

Beasts (Crowley novel)

Beasts (ISBN 0-385-11260-2) is a novel by John Crowley, published in 1976 by Doubleday.

Plot summary

Beasts describes a world in which genetically engineered animals are given a variety of human characteristics. Painter is a leo, a combination of man and lion. Reynard, a character derived from medieval European fable, is part fox.

Political forces result in the leos being deemed an experimental failure, first resigned to reservations, and later to be hunted down and eliminated. A central element of the story is the relationship between Painter and Reynard, who acts as a kingmaker behind the scenes.

Reception

New York Times reviewer Gerald Jonas praised Crowley's "prodigious inventiveness," describing the novel as "a memorable tale that ends too soon."

Aldiss and Wingrove reported that "for all the poetry in Crowley's writing, Beasts treats its subject matter in a realistic mode that gives the book a resonance and a relevance it might otherwise have lacked."

References

Beasts (TV series)

Beasts is a 1976 British television series. Written by Nigel Kneale, it is an anthology of six self-contained episodes that feature the recurring theme of bestial horror. The series was made by ATV for the ITV Network.

Episodes

DVD Release

The series was released on DVD by Network DVD in 2006. This set also included a similarly themed TV play called Murrain that Kneale had written for ITV's Against the Crowd series in 1975.

External links

None

None may refer to:

Music

See also

Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated to any political party. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent.

Some independent politicians may be associated with a political party, perhaps as former members of it, or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level.

None (Meshuggah EP)

None is an EP by Swedish metal band Meshuggah. It was released on November 8, 1994, by Nuclear Blast. The band started embracing a more complex approach that would lay the grounds for their later style. The EP is out of print, but the first four tracks are also available on the Contradictions Collapse reissue while the fifth track is on the Destroy Erase Improve reissue. This is the band's first release to feature rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström.

Track listing

Personnel

Wiser

Wiser may refer to: