Bøger af John Joyce

Feminisme er ikke kun for kvinder. Mary Wollstonecraft, feminismens førstedame, talte også mandens sag. Og John Stuart Mill, liberalismens granddaddy, skrev den første feministiske håndbog for mænd tilbage i 1869.Her læser 16 mænd feminismens klassikere med et helt bevidst mandligt og også personligt blik. De læser efter, hvad teksterne siger om mænd, og hvad mænd kan bruge deres indsigter til i refleksioner over køn og kønsrelationer. Men også hvad de siger om kvinder, ligestilling, minoriteter, #MeToo og meget andet. På tværs af kapitlerne træder feminismens store betydning for forståelsen af både den historiske og aktuelle kønsdebat frem.I mere end 200 år har feminister tænkt over, hvad køn er, hvad køn gør, og hvad vi vil have køn til at betyde. Det kan også mænd have fordel af at læse meget mere om.

John Joyce, a multi-hyphenate artist whose work transcends genres and shatters forms, brings us the tale of The Last Gyppo King. With an innovative hybrid text-part novel, part lyric poem, part stage play-the words literally unfold, cascading down the pages, spiraling like DNA: 1989. Johnny Boy was an upper middle class Boston Irish kid. Then one day-out of nowhere-the FBI came and took his whole world away. Johnny's Irish immigrant father was a drug dealer. Johnny's Irish immigrant father was also a Traveller. A chancer.A scammer.>Before Johnny knew what hit him, he was hiding out with his mother in an Irish Traveller camp.>But... Johnny Boy fell in love with a beautiful Traveller girl. Joe didn't like that. He didn't like it one bit. He decided he'd be keeping Loa for himself. Which lit the fuse ... The Last Gyppo King is a tale of love, lust, loss, of stolen youth and revenge, set in the raw, almost primal world of hard-nosed, bare-knuckle-fighting Irish Travellers. A world with its own code.A world with its own justice.

At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis a damaged Soviet nuclear submarine receives orders to attack the flagship of the American blockade with an atomic-tipped torpedo. Are the orders genuine, or are the scientists behind the ultra-secret telepathic experiment that transmitted the instructions intent on destroying the world? In America and the USSR the hunt is on for the two surviving telepaths capable of stopping World War III - the two young women code named Fire and Ice. Thriller: Espionage / Occult & Supernatural

"Virtually Maria" is the first book in John Joyce's Virtual Trilogy - A quest by one man to save the love of his life from murder by travelling back in time. It is a story of state of the art technology, forgotten forces, and exotic locations all over the world. Our hero will be guided by the artificially intelligent Minerva computer - an electronic Tinkerbell with a mind of its own. Theo Gilkrensky, computer genius and chairman of the electronics multinational GRC, is engrossed in the final stages of development of the revolutionary Minerva computer, when his wife Maria walks out on him and is killed by a car bomb. Wracked by grief and guilt, Theo retreats with Minerva onto a remote island off the south coast of Ireland until the crash of a GRC-owned airliner near Cairo forces Jessica Wright, his chief executive and former lover, to drag him back from exile. Using the Minerva display data from the crash investigation, Theo manages to exonerate his corporation, but in the process reveals that he has reprogrammed the computer's user interface to look, think and speak like his beloved Maria. Investigating further, Theo discovers that the crash was caused not by computer failure, but by a unique radiation coming from the Great Pyramid of Cheops. He finds a previously undiscovered chamber - a place where unseen energies from all over the world are concentrated to warp the very fabric of space and time. Theo is further astounded when Minerva calculates that this phenomenon could be manipulated to travel back in time and save his wife, Maria from death. Meanwhile, others are out to steal the revolutionary Minerva, while Yukiko Funakoshi, the half-caste daughter of a man Theo once wronged, is homing in on Cairo with an arsenal of arcane weapons and millions of dollars at her disposal for Theo's destruction. First published by Poolbeg Press in 1998, Virtually Maria was "Book of the Month" at the Easons Bookstore chain in Ireland. It will be followed in 2008 the other two books in the Virtual Trilogy - "A Matter of Time," and "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," both to be published by Spindrift Press, Dublin.