Bøger af David Cope

An insurance salesman out in the middle of the night to buy aspirin to cure his headache comes across a robbery in progress at a convenience store. After the thief shoots the clerk, the salesman takes off after the thief rather than tending to the wounded shopkeeper. The thief then turns to shoot the salesman, but the salesman shoots first. The cops arrive to find him with the weapon and a dead man, and decide to charge the salesman with murder. "An incredible read." The City Post "Well drawn places and characters." Ellie Tomlinson - The Librarian "Beautifully written." Barton Ludlam - The Writer's Bench "Cope's a force to be reckoned with." Manchester Reality

A professor of computer science at a northern North Dakota university, Will Francis specializes in the study of Artificial Life (AL which he sometimes refers to Actual Life). As he and his graduate-student laboratory work on various approaches to the creation of new life using computers he and they (mostly him) discover a highly dynamic field of those wishing to take advantage of his successes for illegitimate purposes and those wishing to put him out of business for religious and philosophical reasons. As he gains more widespread notoriety reactions become more dangerous and deadly chasing him to Canada, New York City, and the North Atlantic and from traditional computers to analog and quantum varieties. As time progresses we learn how life may have been created on Earth as well as many alternate versions of the genesis of life via mathematics, accidents, biochemistry, and biodiversity. It's a grand journey with a remarkable ending that will surprise even those most hardened of readers who think they have it nailed before getting there. Welcome to a humankind bent on suiciding its own existence for reasons no one seems able to explain.

Book II of the full score of Mahler, a Grand Opera in Five Acts, Acts 3 and 4, composed by Experiments in Musical Intelligence a computer program created by David Cope.

Roughly thirty miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge lay the Farallon Islands, or Farallones in Spanish meaning pillars or sea cliffs. Known as the 'Islands of the Dead' by the natives of the area, this small group of rocky islets can be seen on clear days by San Francisco residents and visitors, especially by those driving the Great Highway or looking out their highest windows in the Western Addition of The City. Many of the collection of tiny islands sport natural bridges of relatively small sizes and, while not popularly known for this, will seem to sing to those on land when the wind and humidity are just right. Thus, Homer's Odyssey comes to mind and its daughters of the river god Achelos named Terpsichore, Melpomene, Sterope, and Chthon. These sirens are known to often create enchanting music and voices to lure sailors passing by to shipwreck on their islands. The photos in this book represent the ephemeral images of these sirens.

the famed Monterey Bay, a five-mile deep twenty-mile wide half moon south of Half Moon Bay and San Francisco. To its south, lies the famed town of Carmel with galleries galore and restaurants to die for. From then on, if on a drive, you can survive the most beautiful stretch of land in the world called Big Sur (Big South) to Hearst Castle, named after the newspaper tycoon and spot on center of the casting for the great Citizen Kane, a film made by Orson Welles. Are there ghosts in Monterey? You tell me. And please tell John Steinbeck as well.

A new version of The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky composed by the computer program Emily Howell with the help of its creator David Cope.

Oswald Ferm, a book editor for a major publisher in a U.S. city, is eating his lunch one day when something extraordinary occurs. He discovers antigravity machines, wormholes at work, and the places he once knew now look different. He wrestles with these conundrums until realizing that he can no longer live in this strange place and begins a journey to his hometown in order make sense of this new world. As he slowly figures out at least the fundamentals of his transfer from his planet to another similar planet and that it's not he that has changed but the world around him, he contends with his new environment and even regains a semblance of sanity as he wrestles with spaceships, limited time travel, and a body politic so different than the one he's used to that only the help of a new friend can he cope with what has happened.

The twenty-five short stories presented here range from mystery and suspense to comedies, from thrillers to noir, from mountain climbing to chess, and from military accounts to science fiction. They involve doctors, crooks, soldiers, psychiatrists, young men, and other interesting people. Each story follows its own unique path and presentation under the tutelage of its author, a writer of serious consequence. One at a time or read from cover to cover in one sitting, these twenty-five gems invite readers to laugh and cry along with characters described to a tee. Enjoy. Jon Marshall

A work for quartet including fl, violin, vc, and piano.

Michelle loves her daughter named Harmony, four-years old and quite a bundle. Michelle's husband, however, is something else altogether. An alcoholic in the making, Carl often gets blasted while bar drinking before he comes home from work and beats Michelle, even in front of their daughter. Michelle finally leaves her husband with Harmony in tow and visits Jessica, Michelle's paternal grandmother and with whom she'd grown up as a child after her parents died in a terrible automobile accident. One thing leads to another, and life becomes a disaster for the family, forced on the run, split from one another, and ultimately facing the law with surprises at every turn. It begins as a story often told, and ends with so many revelations, it's difficult to keep count.

Dave, the only name we know him by, teaches computer science at a junior college on the east coast. His teaching brings him into the Dark Web and to a supposedly anonymous site offering assassinations for a price. His curiosity leads him to an open window in which someone types his name and thanks him for telling them where he lives. Suddenly realizing he now has an assassin after him, Dave runs. Finding anonymity hard to find, he tosses everything he owns and begins a coast-to-coast journey that leads him to a variety of unexpected and undesired dead ends of which he suspects he may soon be one.

Carmel, or Carmel-by-the-Sea as many call it, resides just south of Monterey, California, and at the north end of the near one hundred mile stretch along Highway 1 through Big Sur. Carmel is home to the Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, the second mission to be established in Northern California. One of the two towers of this mission contains nine forged bells that when rung together can be heard throughout the area. These bells may be the reason for the disproportionate numbers of wind chimes in Carmel, both private and for sale in the many shops that line the main streets there. Whatever the reason, Carmel, a major destination for visitors from around the world, also provides more great restaurants, art galleries, and hotels than most cities many times its size.

Walt Numus awoke one morning to the tune of three swallows wallowing in their self-pity. As his day passes, Walt discovers two others like him, another whose head looks like a medieval castle, and a true kleptomaniac and together the five take a journey through the early twenty-second century that reveals more about the makeup of the human psyche and the direction of human civilization than any rational person should ever want to know. Welcome to my world.

Doug Cassidy is a university professor of archeology specializing in the Inca of Peru. Unfortunately he suffers from acrophobia and cannot fly requiring him to collaborate with an adventurer named Karlin Mulrey who finds the antiquities for him to verify. Now Mulrey has been murdered and Douglas has to identify his body. In the process he uncovers a complicated plot to steal one of the world's most sought after treasures. He also discovers a Paiute woman named Emily Howell a Harvard trained doctor whom he befriends. Before long the two find themselves in a nest of intrigue eventually forcing both to fly to Peru to connect with Doug's friend Mulrey who has turned up alive. Together they go in search of the famed but lost thirteen mummies of the Inca kings. Legend has it that anyone who discovers them will find the lost power of the Inca a magical knowledge which can conquer the world. Along the way Doug finds himself facing a deadly enemy and a memory from his youth either of which he may not survive.

Reporter Walker Cameron finds himself in a mess when two unnamed sources, two people he actual knows but wants him to refuse to identify, tell him that the Governor of the state will soon be assassinated. Less than a story but certainly something the cops should know about, he gives them the information. They, of course, want to know the names of the sources. Or else. This then leads him on a legal mission that will put his own life in jeopardy. Doing the right thing, apparently, is not always doing the right thing.

Poe, Hemingway, Twain, Salinger, O. Henry, and Updike move over, there's clearly a new rival on the block. In his near two hundred and fifty short stories published in twelve volumes, David Cope has created a new paradigm of the form. The genres he's chosen cover the map-from noir, mystery, and thriller, to science fiction, humor, death, and amnesia-and these stories range in size from a few pages to short novellas. Cope also covers a variety of writing styles, comfortable in all, with first-person narratives, third person fifties' pulp fiction, newspaper factual revelations, and extraordinary allegory, metaphors, and profound observations about the human condition abounding. Without a single exception, I find these stories the perfect antidote to the often-endless drivel of today's thousand-page novels and a once-again peek into the world where every word counts. Five stars. Jon Marshall, Bookworm Magazine

Oswald Ferm, a book editor for a major publisher in a U.S. city, is eating his lunch one day when something extraordinary occurs. He discovers antigravity machines, wormholes at work, and the places he once knew now look different. He wrestles with these conundrums until realizing that he can no longer live in this strange place and begins a journey to his hometown in order make sense of this new world. As he slowly figures out at least the fundamentals of his transfer from his planet to another similar planet and that it's not he that has changed but the world around him, he contends with his new environment and even regains a semblance of sanity as he wrestles with spaceships, limited time travel, and a body politic so different than the one he's used to that only the help of a new friend can he cope with what has happened.

A book of photographs in B&W of the shadows of Santa Cruz.

Slaughterhouse Island's only claim to fame derives from its origins-an actual slaughterhouse now situated deep in the waters off its southern shores. Other than that, and a hanging death from a branch off one of its scrub pine trees, it's mostly unknown. Of course, with a name like Slaughterhouse Island, there are plenty of stories that suggest its cruel past and blood-thirsty denizens, but only some of these are plausible and none worthy of their billing. With a part of this novel truth rather than fiction, however, and even the fiction so much like the truth, readers may find its contents more than interesting. Welcome to Northern California and Slaughterhouse Island. You may or may not be sorry you came.

Sonoma County, California, lies north of San Pablo Bay, part of the greater San Francisco Bay area, and is famous for its world-class wines, incredible sea shores, geysers, and, possibly less known for its stone quarries, the number of which lies in the hundreds. These quarries supply the world with slate patio stones, kitchen counter tops, and other hard-rock necessities including those used in building extremely sturdy homes and larger structures. The marbling of its many varieties of stones often produces fine art the beauty of which I have attempted to capture herein.

Poe, Hemingway, Twain, Salinger, O. Henry, and Updike move over, there's clearly a new rival on the block. In his two hundred plus short stories published in eleven volumes, David Cope has created a new paradigm of the form. The genres he's chosen cover the map-from noir, mystery, and thriller, to science fiction, humor, death, and amnesia-and these stories range in size from a few pages to short novellas. Cope also covers a variety of writing styles, comfortable in all modes, with first-person narratives, third person fifties' pulp fiction, newspaper factual revelations, and extraordinary allegory, metaphors, and profound observations about the human condition abounding. Without a single exception, I find these stories the perfect antidote to the often-endless drivel of today's thousand-page novels and a once-again peek into the world where every word counts. Five stars. Jon Marshall, Bookworm Magazine

Chimayó is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rio Arriba and Santa Fe counties in New Mexico. The name derives from Tewa for a local landmark, the hill of Tsi Mayoh. The CDP is unincorporated and includes many neighborhoods, called plazas or placitas, each with its own name, including El Potrero de Chimayó-the plaza near Chimayó's communal pasture-and the Plaza del Cerro-plaza by the hill. The cluster of plazas called Chimayó lies near Santa Cruz, about 25 miles north of Santa Fe. The deciduous trees that lie in this area down from the rocky terrain hills that surround the CDP all seem to have weather sculpted cruelty dug into their bark that seems more like a gallery than a place for shade.

Santa Fe was founded by Spanish colonists in 1610 and is known today as the oldest state capitol city in America. The name means Holy Faith in Spanish. At 7,198 feet above sea level and with a population bordering on seventy thousand, the town boasts a world-class opera house, more art galleries than any city in America other than the Big Apple, and more writers than anyone has attempted to compute. I love it here and wish that at least some of its towers would either migrate underground or find appropriate satellites to make phone lines and electricity more discrete. These towers, however, make terrific material for creative captures on film

Daisy, Daisy is about an indoor cat named Daisy who escapes one day and roams the canyons nearby. After getting herself in trouble with coyotes, mountain lions, dogs, deer, and wild pigs, she tries to find her way home again.

Magic is a book for young adults about a boy who's father influences him to learn magic tricks. The boy gets really good at it and soon is admired by all. As he grows older, however, he begins to get the idea that magic doesn't really exist. He goes in search for it and, finally, finds it in a most unexpected place.

Assuming you can read music and therefore visually recognize pitches and rhythms, can you also sing musical lines, sing harmonies, play melodies on a single-line instrument or play many lines together on a multi-line instrument such as the piano, or hear music in your head while looking at a score? These physical aspects of music make it real and not just dots and lines on sheets of paper. These aspects allow us to truly appreciate music at the deepest level. Without the skills mentioned above, music represents a simple entertainment. With them, music becomes a profound experience. And this is what the book you're about to read helps makes possible.

I completed the first draft of my fifth symphony sometime in 1968 in Pittsburg, Kansas. Martin Luther Ling, Jr. was assassinated in April of that year and his passing no doubt made a great impression on me and this work, though that impression was intuitive rather than programmatic. As with all fifth symphonies, composers tend to pay special heed given it's importance in music history (Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mahler, Sibelius, and so on). The final version of the work heard here received its final revision in 2007, some thirty-nine years after its original draft, and now stands complete. As with all my symphonies, Symphony No. 5 has five movements in a vaguely palindrome form.

Testament follows nine stories intertwined in ways that only those truly dedicated to finding those ways after much thought will discover. The stories do not have any characters in common and the fragments do not necessarily continue in order. Surprisingly readable due to the clarity of writing, Testament will keep readers awake at night with guessing the endings of each of the 'stories' being the cause. Many will wrestle with continuity, waiting for characters and plots to continue, but not finish until the ending and the manner in which Cope provides little obvious help in making the fragments connect. But, trust me, nothing here is arbitrary or random in any way. The overall glue will keep your attention and when you figure out the novel in full, its surprise ending in your mind will make it worth every bit of the time you've spent in thinking it through.