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2x3x7 (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
I blame the New Yorker. It's all their fault for printing articles about nightmares and screwing around with impressionable minds like mine. So, last night I have this dream. The details are a little hazy now, but it's a sort of Alistair Maclean meets Lost scenario involving a scuttled ship that may or may not have been carrying nuclear weapons and a handful of survivors who find themselves...
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SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Many younger thriller readers may not be familiar with the work of Alistair MacLean , but many of us owe a huge debt to this tremendous Scottish writer for his wonderful novels and screenplays that hit the bestseller and box office charts in the 1970’s. Over the years I’ve interviewed many of today’s bestselling thriller writers such as Lee Child , Dennis Lehane , Robert...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Despite huge spending, it has not been proved that the human effect on the climate is significant Alistair Darling: There are substantial barriers to a climate deal - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent The threat we face is as much economic as it is ecological. The worst effects of climate change could cost 20 per cent of global GDP – greater than the two world wars and the Great...
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A Christian Worldview of Fiction (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... influences ranged from J.R.R. Tolkien, to S.E. Hinton, to Arthur Catherall. As a teen, I turned to Alistair MacLean, Robert Ludlum, and John LeCarre. What an eclectic group of writers. But it started with fantasy. Is it any surprise, then, that Eric, in writing about vampires, wanted to return the tradition to it’s original overtones: “It is really a modern version of ‘The Screwtape...