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Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year AD 2535, where there is trouble in utopia: Can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered? The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel - but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside down and inside out.

He began his life as a slave. During the Civil War he escaped and lived among the Indians in the Oklahoma Territories. He learned to ride, shoot and track prey from his adopted people. When the war ended, he was recruited as one of the first black marshals in the history of the west.

“Dear Law Student: Here’s the truth. You belong here.” Law Professor Andrew Ferguson and former student Jonathan Yusef Newton open with this statement of reassurance in The Law of Law School. As all former law students and current lawyers can attest, law school is disorienting, overwhelming, and difficult. Unlike other educational institutions, law school is not set up simply to teach a subject. Instead, the first year of law school is set up to teach a skill set and way of thinking, which you then apply to do the work of lawyering.

Coaching and The F Word is a straight-talking podcast about the moments that shape our lives, careers, confidence, and leadership.Hosted by two experienced coaches and former accountants — Andrew Weakford, specialising in midlife transformation and John Ferguson, in finance leadership — this podcast explores the real stories behind growth, change, and stepping up. Each episode tackles a different “F word” that shows up in life and work: from First Steps, Failure, Fear, and Feedback to Future, Framing, and beyond.This isn’t theory. It’s practical, honest conversation grounded in ...

Hey! We’re Andrew Ferguson, Jason Douglas, and Jason Shrout, and we’re the hosts of The Movie Roulette Podcast, based in the eastern suburbs of Kansas City, MO. The three of us have been friends for decades, and decided to give this a go. What is this podcast, you ask? Well, we have a database of hundreds of movies, all loaded into our virtual roulette wheel. We spin the roulette wheel, and whatever movie it lands on, we have to watch and then talk about it. Good or bad, we are bound to the wheel. This makes for some hilarious and interesting discussions. We promise a good time. Join us!

Paul and Fergi take a short and light hearted look at their fantasy seasons across Fantasy Premier League (FPL), Telegraph Fantasy Football and Sun Dream Team. They are totting up their combined scored to compete for the ultimate prize - flights, dinner and drinks in the loser's home town, paid for by the loser.

In the tenth Fast & Furious movie they will go to space. Universal Pictures might not be aware of this yet, but it's common knowledge & definitely true. Your host Andrew Ferguson is joined by a rotating cast of guest to speculate about how they'll get there! Also jokes.

In Volume One of this series, we introduced pulp fans to four original pulp heroes by today's leading writers of pulp fiction. Now, we proudly present the second installment and another brand new quartet of fresh and exciting heroes cast in the mold of the classic adventurers of the past.

Before he grew up and became one of Washington's most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff, with the photos hung on his bedroom wall to prove it. Decades later, Ferguson's latent buffdom is reignited. In Land of Lincoln, he embarks on a curiosity-fueled coast-to-coast journey through contemporary Lincoln Nation, encountering everything from hatred to adoration to opportunism and all manner of reaction in between.