The gut-punch of the series' end is imminent, and the book itself is physically nearby.
But they will also be under pressure from ESA to pay for a raft of other new programmes, which could leave Arianespace struggling to find the cash.Arianespace is hardly in imminent danger its order books for Ariane 4 launches are bulging.
Travellers who have booked imminent trips (in the next few days) to Tunisia are generally being given the option to rebook, change or get a refund for their holiday by travel agents, although there is no obligation on agents or operators to do so, now or in the coming weeks and months, as the foreign office is not advising against travel there.
These weeks are make-or-break for their big books of the fall, and this imminent explosion of wild book buying explains the Price Wars madness that has engulfed some big box retailers and their online kin these past few weeks.
The occasion for Hawking's visit to NY was the imminent publication, by Bantam Books, of his first non-technical book, an account of recent advances in cosmology.
When, here, a character says "the chaos will envelop us all", it is satisfyingly unclear whether he's predicting revolution against England's fey overlords or the imminent fulfilment of the Book of Revelation.
In The Map and the Territory he refers to the financial crisis that came a few years after the 2008 crash – that is, the one that seems imminent now – although the book was published last year in France.
In Dublinesque, superbly translated by Rosalind Harvel and Anne McLean, Samuel Riba, a 60-year-old Catalan alcoholic publisher and bibliophile, heeding the apocalyptic voices that trumpet the imminent end of the book in our digital dark age, decides to travel to Dublin with a group of friends and hold there, on Bloomsday, a funeral for the book.
The news of this book's imminent publication was at least partly responsible for recantations last year by Donald W. Foster and Richard Abrams on their assignment of "Funeral Elegy" to Shakespeare, and the decisions by Norton and the editors of two other editions of the canon, Riverside and Longman, to remove it.
Upon the book's imminent American appearance, Doubleday was compelled to destroy almost the entire first edition.
