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"Trevor Carlin is a British motorsports team manager and owner. He currently owns Carlin Motorsport in the IndyCar Series. Carlin has had success in the junior motorsport formulas in a period spanning over 25 years. Carlin's career began in International Formula Three. As Team Manager of Bowman Racing, he assembled a talented group of engineers and achieved 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in the British Formula Three Championship in the team's first three seasons and won the 1989 Macau Grand Prix with David Brabham driving. In 1993, Carlin joined West Surrey Racing where he oversaw the racing programmes of Marc Gené, Cristiano da Matta and Pedro de la Rosa before negotiating the team's move into the British Touring Car Championship with Ford Motorsport. In 1996, he formed his own team, Carlin Motorsport. The team have won the British Formula Three Championship nine times, the 2010 and 2011 Formula Renault 3.5 Series drivers' title and the 2011 Formula Renault 3.5 Teams' title and the 2014 GP3 Series teams' and drivers' titles. The team also competed in Formula E (as Mahindra Racing) the GP2 Series, and will compete in the upcoming MSA Formula and began racing in America in 2015 in Indy Lights winning four races, including consecutive wins in the first three races of the season. In 2016 it won the Indy Lights' drivers championship with Ed Jones. External links * Living people 1963 births People from St Albans British motorsport people Sports car racing team owners Motorsport team owners Formula E people IndyCar Series team owners "
"Heroes Die is a science fantasy novel by American writer Matthew Stover, the first of a series of novels featuring the protagonist Caine. Plot The novels are set in a future dystopia Earth where a parallel world called Overworld reminiscent of the worlds featured in post-Tolkien secondary world fantasy has been discovered. The corporations that run Earth send actors into Overworld in order to provide the masses of an overcrowded world with virtual- reality entertainment. Hari Michaelson is a famous Actor and son of a now- mentally ill libertarian professor. On Overworld, he is the assassin Caine, while his estranged wife Shanna is another Actor playing the mage Pallas Ril. In this world Actors are people who travel to Overworld through advanced technology and assume an alternate persona which they then use to carry out 'adventures'. Pallas is captured by Ma'elKoth, the Emperor of Overworld's human kingdom of Ankhana on one of her adventures. Ma'elKoth's plan to rule Ankhana by wiping out a final resistance group, is blocked by a spell that causes others to forget the existence of the resistance group's members. The remainder of the book plays out the conflict between Ma'elKoth, Caine and the resistance. Hari finds himself manipulated by both the powers on Overworld and the Studio on Earth, and must defeat them both in order to save himself and Pallas Ril from death. Major themes Heroes Die contains moral questions the author does not believe typically arise in fantasy.Interview with Matthew Stover In a 1999 interview regarding the novel, Stover describes it as follows: > "It's a piece of violent entertainment that's a meditation on violent > entertainment- as a concept in itself, as a cultural obsession. It's a love > story: romantic love, paternal love, repressed homoerotic love, love of > money, of power, of country, love betrayed and employed as both carrot and > stick. It's about all different kinds of heroes and all the different ways > they die." =Violence= Earth is overcrowded and oppressed, with a caste-based dystopian government; the masses turning to the adventures of the Actors such as Caine for entertainment and distraction. The violence within the Acts of Caine is often portrayed in graphic detail because that is what the viewers on Earth are seeking. Michaelson, in the character of Caine, exhibits willingness to sacrifice the citizens of Ankhana and even his friend Majesty in order to save his wife. Hari's father is a former libertarian academic who provides a counterpoint to the violence and despair of Earth. Style As with its sequel, Heroes Die utilizes multiple point of view; a number of characters including Hari, Shanna, and Berne are used as third-person narrators for various parts of the story. However, for the scenes from Hari's perspective when he is on Overworld as Caine, the sections are portrayed from a first- person viewpoint and are meant to be Caine's interior soliloquies he runs for the benefit of the audiences on Earth; toward the end of the novel he addresses the audience directly. These segments tend to be more in plain speech, more peppered with profanity, shorter paragraphs, and tangents that follow Caine's train of thought. Influences Caine mentions the book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as the source of Pallas Rill's pseudonym, Simon Jester. Footnotes External links * Excerpt American science fiction novels 1998 American novels 1998 science fiction novels American fantasy novels Del Rey books Dystopian novels Novels about virtual reality Science fantasy novels Overpopulation fiction "
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