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Recent years have witnessed a change from the passive, low key use of rural areas for recreation to the explosion of tourism as a highly active and dominant agent of change and control in the countryside and associated rural communities. This book considers the effects of rural recreation and tourism with special reference to:
* the economics of rural restructuring
* public sector rural policies
* imaging and reimaging
* the social dynamics of rural change
* sustainability of tourism and recreation in rural areas
Contemporary reflections of each of these...

Science fiction goes occult in SPACE ELDRITCH, a volume of seven original novelettes and novellas of Lovecraftian pulp space opera. Featuring work by Brad R. Torgersen (Hugo/ Nebula/Campbell nominee), Howard Tayler (multiple Hugo nominee), and Michael R. Collings (author of over 100 books), plus a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Larry Correia, SPACE ELDRITCH inhabits the intersection between the eternal adventure of the final frontier and the inhuman darkness between the stars.

Royce Eldridge was a simple blacksmith. He and his wife had never been lucky enough to have children of their own, so when he discovered an orphaned baby on the side of the road after a trip to market, he and his wife were glad to open their arms and hearts, but they knew there was more to the child's story. Sworn to keep a terrible secret, they raised the child, named Mordecai as their own, never telling him the full truth about how he was orphaned, or who his parents were.

As a young man, Mordecai began to develop in extraordinary ways, leading him to questions that couldn't be...

Seven years have passed since Mordecai's battle with the Shining God, Celior. His increasing control of his abilities has enabled him to help forge a brighter future for both his family and the people of Lothion, but dark things still walk in the shadows, whispering terrible secrets in his heart. The gods want vengeance for his transgressions against them, and an ancient curse still looms over him. Unless Mordecai can discover the meaning of 'Illeniel's Doom, ' his family, his nation, and possibly humanity itself, may be forced to pay for the sins of the past.

Alone, he struggles to...

A major new creative writing guide from one of the UK's leading editors and authors. This book contains invaluable insights from practising writers working in British universities across the whole spectrum of writing fiction. Keeps the craft and learning-and-teaching very much in mind. Each chapter features a favourite creative writing exercise and three golden rules for writers. A unique, cutting-edge resource, that will be essential reading for students of Creative Writing.