Hints and tips:
...“So many stores shuttered in downtown SF....
...Two decades later, alongside blurbs for “Outrageous Beauty” and “Topless 38DD”, a personal ad she placed in the SF Weekly promoted a “Transsexual Sandwich”: “Post-op (I did it for art), Amazon blonde, beautiful...
...Indeed, rents for many properties are still down as much as 25 per cent, says Jackie Tom, the president of leasing agency Rentals in SF....
...Heroine Tanta works as an agent for one of them, InTech, and is tasked with retrieving data files from perilous no man’s land the Unaffiliated Zone....
...The novel is a very middle-class apocalypse, an example of the sub-genre that late SF grandmaster Brian Aldiss dubbed the “cosy catastrophe”, a largely bloodless doom....
...In the past few months, though, one corner of the muni market seems to be opening up to the sort of transparency and rationalisation that came to equities markets decades ago....
...When Eugene is signed by a rapacious movie producer, the scene moves from Toledo, Ohio to Hollywood, and the pastiche becomes parody of cheap SF movies, as the real evil Lord Hector arrives on Earth to best...
...This is immersive SF, full of world-building detail, with a twisted love story at its heart....
...– Your real life le Carré in the form of a Guardian longread on a KGB sleeper-agent. – Experience: I accidentally bought a giant pig....
...“It’s just a matter of how much dirt is too much dirt,” a retired FBI agent said....
...They gained access to SF-86 national security forms, useful for anyone seeking to identify or recruit an American intelligence agent, nuclear weapons engineer or vulnerable diplomat....
...And as the SF elements of that book showed, there is nothing new about Ishiguro experimenting with genre....
...At least one other bank said it had been approached by JPMorgan to act as a marketing agent....
...Something very big,” Mr Nafis allegedly told an undercover FBI agent....
...While the bid-rigging investigation has been under way for years, the commission announced the creation of a “muni” unit in January 2010....
...In an email discovered by Bennett Jones, it is alleged that an employee and two agents of Sino-Forest engaged in improper activities, including the following: transactions potentially not in the best interests...
...King of Plagues, by Jonathan Maberry, Gollancz, RRP£12.99, 435 pages King of Plagues is the third novel to feature indomitable counterterrorist agent Joe Ledger....
...Embassytown , by China Miéville, Pan Macmillan, RRP£17.99 Miéville’s eighth novel does nothing to tarnish his reputation as Britain’s brightest and best SF author....
...Bidding agents are supposed to run auctions for the right to manage the money, but authorities allege the market was rigged with agents receiving bribes to steer money to certain managers....
...These notes have variable rates that are reset periodically by a remarketing agent. At the time of such a reset, investors – mostly money market funds – can sell them....
...For Fleming, innocent women are beautiful; Russian secret agents odious....
...He met the players, tabloid journalists, hooligans, agents and everyone else at the tournament. All Played Out – the book’s original title – proved to publishers that literate football fans existed....
...Traditional travel agents are increasingly obsolete when you can choose everything from your flight operator to your hotel and even your children’s slot on the white water rafts online in advance....
...His magnum opus, itself springing out from a minor character in the story of his polymorphous secret agent Jerry Cornelius, is the four-volume sequence that begins with Byzantium Endures (1981) and charts...
...of the traditional product placement in James Bond movies is there again, from Aston Martin cars and Smirnoff vodka, to the Omega watch and Sony computers, but what does the world’s most public secret agent...
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