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Download or read book Anathem written by Neal Stephenson and published by Manhattan. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ein berauschendes, ein fulminantes Abenteuer jenseits von Zeit und Raum Der Planet Arbre im Jahr 3689. Seit seinem achten Lebensjahr lebt Erasmas, genannt Raz, im Konzent Saunt Edhar, einer klosterähnlichen Gemeinschaft von Wissenschaftlern, Philosophen und Mathematikern. Die Aufgabe dieser Gemeinschaft ist es, hinter den jahrtausendealten Mauern Wissen zu bewahren und es vor den schädlichen Einflüssen der säkularen Welt zu beschützen. Denn während das Leben im Konzent nach strengen Ritualen und uralten Traditionen verläuft, so ist die Geschichte jenseits dieser abgeschlossenen Welt durch Chaos und Veränderung geprägt: Auf Blütezeiten folgten Zusammenbrüche, auf finsteres Mittelalter Erneuerung; Kriege und Klimawandel zerstörten die bestehende Ordnung. Als Raz mit 18 seine erste Apert bevorsteht – eine Woche, in der beide Welten in Kontakt treten und Austausch pflegen – bereitet er sich mit seinen Mitschwestern und -brüdern darauf vor, den Konzent zu verlassen und sich in die säkulare Welt vorzuwagen. Aber dort muss er entdecken, dass außerarbrische Kräfte den Planeten bedrohen. Und mit einem Mal lastet eine hohe Verantwortung auf Raz’ Schultern, denn er wird für die schwierige Aufgabe auserwählt, die Zerstörung des Planeten zu verhindern ...
Download or read book D1gitize written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis What Makes This Book So Great by : Jo Walton
Download or read book What Makes This Book So Great written by Jo Walton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo Walton is an award-winning author of, inveterate reader of, and chronic re-reader of science fiction and fantasy books. What Makes This Book So Great? is a selection of the best of her musings about her prodigious reading habit. Jo Walton’s many subjects range from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. Among them, the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by ‘mainstream’; the under-appreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field’s many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read. Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is an immensely engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers.
Download or read book Faithful Doubt written by Guy Collins and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on three philosophers - Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Zizek - Faithful Doubt argues that atheism can be redeeming. Far from being inhospitable to faith, doubt is increasingly necessary for theology. As well as introducing the thought of contemporary philosophers, 'Faithful Doubt' examines the significance of popular entertainment and nrrative. Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin, Neal Stephenson, China Mieville, and others are read alongside 'Star Wars' and 'Battlestar Galactica'. Fiction highlights the fluid nature of the sacred and the secular. On the question of evil, 'Faithful Doubt' suggests that wisdom lies in acknowledging uncertainty. Weaving the story of Job together with St Augustine, Donald MacKinnon, and Eleonore Stump, evil exemplifies the necessity for doubt within theology. 'Faithful Doubt' brings a new perspective to debates about the relationship between faith and reason. Concluding with a discussion of Soren Kierkegaard, Collins presents a compellingcase for harnessing atheism and doubt in service to Christian faith. In order to doubt wisely we need to heed the faith of the faithless.
Book Synopsis Spatialities of Speculative Fiction by : Gwilym Lucas Eades
Download or read book Spatialities of Speculative Fiction written by Gwilym Lucas Eades and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines science fiction, fantasy and horror novels utilizing a conceptual toolkit of the ten duties of speculative fiction. Building on previous work in the discipline of geography it will demonstrate the value of speculation in the visualisation of Anthropocene futures. The book presents insights into how novels produce specifically geographical knowledge about the world - spatialities - and how they use both literal maps and figurative counter-mappings to comment upon and shape futures. This book is about much more than science fiction. It covers areas of literature and para-literature associated with the "fantastic" and as such, looks also at works of fantasy and horror. The areas of overlap between these three categories of fantastic literature are posited as the most productive in the terms by which this book navigates, namely, spatiality. The book will explore, through the critical examination of a selection of key works of speculative fiction, how science-fictional and fantastic narratives are spatialized through both conceptual and literal mappings. This book is intended for both an academic and practitioner and for people interested in both producing scholarly commentary upon works of speculative fiction; and for those writing speculative fiction and novels.
Download or read book SALT Summaries written by Stewart Brand and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Environments in Science Fiction by : Susan M. Bernardo
Download or read book Environments in Science Fiction written by Susan M. Bernardo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships among humans, other animals and their shared environments? Spaces, as well as a sense of place or belonging, play major roles in many science fiction works. This book focuses especially on depictions of the future that include, but move beyond, dystopias and offer us ways to imagine reinventing ourselves and our perspectives; especially our links to and views of new environments. There are ecocritical texts that deal with space/place and science fiction criticism that deals with dystopias but there is no other collection that focuses on the intersection of the two.
Book Synopsis The Silence of Fallout by : Michael Blouin
Download or read book The Silence of Fallout written by Michael Blouin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection asks how we are to address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world. Rather than a temporary fad, Nuclear Criticism perpetually re-surfaces in theoretical circles. Given the recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the ripple of anti-nuclear sentiment the event created, as well as the discursive maneuvers that took place in the aftermath, we might pause to reflect upon Nuclear Criticism and its place in contemporary scholarship (and society at-large). Scholars who were active in earlier expressions of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent scholars likewise striving to negotiate the field moving forward. This volume revolves around these dialogic moments of agreement and departure; refusing the silence of complacency, the authors renew this conversation while taking it in exciting new directions. As political paradigms shift and awareness of nuclear issues manifests in alternative forms, the collected essays establish groundwork for future generations caught in a perpetual struggle with legacies of the nuclear.
Book Synopsis Vol. I. English and German by : Johann Gottfried Flügel
Download or read book Vol. I. English and German written by Johann Gottfried Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Apollinarius und seine Folgen by : Silke-Petra Bergjan
Download or read book Apollinarius und seine Folgen written by Silke-Petra Bergjan and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In dem Band werden Aufsätze zu verschiedenen Aspekten der Person des Apollinarius und seiner Schüler zusammengestellt. Gefragt wird nach einem Apollinarius, der nicht von Vorneherein mit dem Häretiker identifiziert ist, zu dem er in den 70er Jahren wurde."--
Download or read book Archäologischer Anzeiger written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vollständiges Englisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch by : Flügel
Download or read book Vollständiges Englisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch written by Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Complete Dictionary of the English and German and German and English Languages by : Johann Gottfried Flügel
Download or read book A Complete Dictionary of the English and German and German and English Languages written by Johann Gottfried Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Dictionary English, German and French by : Christian Ludwig
Download or read book A Dictionary English, German and French written by Christian Ludwig and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science Fiction written by George Slusser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, renowned scholar George Slusser analyzes science fiction’s history by focusing on important thinkers, overlooked by other critics, who made key contributions to the development of science fiction as a global literature.
