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Kentauros

It is perhaps the most obscure tale in Greek mythology. The story of Kentauros, son of Ixion, outcast, and father of centaurs, was recounted by the greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece, but was soon cut from both the story of Ixion and later stories of the origin of the centaurs. A simplified version of both myths, shorn of its disturbing complexities, has prevailed in Western literature since the Renaissance.

Now the myth of Kentauros is getting the attention it deserves. In six exhilarating chapters—half essays, half fiction—Gregory Feeley explores the ambiguities and contradictions of Kentauros, the question of why myths today are likelier to appear in TV commercials than in literature, and the untold story of the great Romantic poet who wrote a poem on this brooding, solitary figure—and what became of it.

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Arabian Wine

Venice, 1609. Matteo Benveneto, younger son of a merchant family, has plans to revive the waning fortunes of the great trading city by introducing Venetians and Europeans to an exotic drink from the highlands of Arabia and the cities of the East: caofa, or coffee. His friend Gaspare Treviso has ideas for steam-powered engines that offer the prospect of military advantage against the Turks and immediate practical benefits in pumping the leaky cellars of government buildings.

A novel of coffee, ideas, and ambition, Arabian Wine offers a lush, erudite, and sensual glimpse of a culture bound by tradition and poised on the edge of explosive cultural and technological change. Energized by coffee, Matteo tries to give Venice a push nearer that edge, and finds himself under suspicion of treason and intrigue.

 
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The Oxygen Barons

A beleaguered Lunar Republic, its legitimacy acknowledged by none of the Earthly powers that have been transforming the inner solar system, holds out on its newly terraformed Moon, an embargoed pawn in a political struggle that can never be allowed to break into violence. When a series of technological breakthroughs threatens what balance remains, a Republican citizen and the operative who takes him captive must make their way across a series of otherworldly landscapes—to the Moon’s Far Pole, to circumlunar space, and beyond.