Kevin O'Neill, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, delves into the representation of death across culture. His academic journey led him to explore diverse aspects such as post-mortem photography, cemetery design, spiritualism, and the modern concept of the internet afterlife. O'Neill investigates how various cultures and individuals engage with themes of mortality and what follows. His work offers a profound and unique perspective on a fundamental human experience.
Exploring the concept of digital immortality, this book delves into America's obsession with death and the potential of technology to create virtual versions of ourselves. It examines the implications of body-swapping and the evolving relationship between humanity and the afterlife, raising thought-provoking questions about identity and existence in a digital age.
Recruited by the enigmatic Campion Bond, under orders from the mysterious 'M' --the six adventurers in this League are pressed into service by the British Empire in its time of need
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a group composed of heroes from late nineteenth-century literature, faces a threat from an unknown world which has descended upon London.
In the future, wars will no longer be fought by men of flesh and blood. Instead, robots march forth into battle, to finish a job left half-done. It is not their war, not their cause, and yet they fight and die for the cause, heroes one and all. Hammerstein: the leader. Joe Pineapples: the ultimate assassin. Blackblood: the traitor. Mongrol: the killer machine. Deadlock: the crazed priest of Khaos. Mek-Quake: the coward. Ro-Jaws: the garbage eater. They are the Mek-Nificent Seven, they are the A.B.C Warriors - atomic, bacterial and chemical war robots, programmed for destruction - and this is their story.
England in the mid-1950s is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return in search of some answers - answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their old headquarters - a book that holds the key to the hidden history of the League throughout the ages: The Black Dossier.
Black Dossier
In an alternate England in 1958, Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain seek the Black Dossier, which contains the history of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen through the centuries, while fleeing from deadly secret agents.
Continuing in the adventurous tradition of their self-contained thriller Heart of Ice, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill present a blazing narrative that rampages through twentieth century culture and portrays the volatile convergence or four startling and striking women in a place of long totalitarian shadows.
Chapter Two takes place in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1969, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars
It is the early years of a new and unfamiliar century, and forces are emerging that appear to promise ruin for the Murray group, the nation and indeed the world, even were it to take a hundred years for this apocalyptic threat to come to its disastrous fruition. From the crime-haunted wharfs of 1910, through the criminal, mystical underworlds of 1969 to the desolated streets of 2009, the remnants of Miss Murray and her League must combat not only the hidden hand of their undying adversary, but also the ethical and psychological collapse accompanying the new era.
Century: 1910
The new volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues spans almost 100 years.
