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Building New Worlds, 1946-1959

Author : John Boston
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434447200
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Building New Worlds, 1946-1959 written by John Boston and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building New Worlds is a history of a pivotal decades-long episode in the birth and growth of today's science fiction. Enthralling and amusing, it's written with affection and wit. This is no dry, modishly theorized academic analysis. Nor is it a rah-rah celebration of the "Good Old Days." Here is a candid and astute reader's response to a magazine that, by today's standards, was often comically bad--but was also immensely important in its time, and improved, like the Little Engine (or maybe Starship) That Could. New Worlds is best remembered today as the fountainhead of the New Wave of audacious experimental SF in the second half of the 1960s, under editor Michael Moorcock. But these first pioneering issues, from 1946-59, were edited by the magazine’s founder, John "Ted" Carnell (1912-72). Carnell was a pillar of the old-style UK SF establishment, but gamely supportive of innovators--most famously, of the brilliant J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, and John Brunner, whose early work he nurtured. The story of how New Worlds got started, survived, and got better is essential to the history of the genres of the fantastic in the UK--and indeed, the world. And huge fun to read. Watch for the companion volumes, New Worlds: Before the New Wave, and Strange Highways, dealing with New World's companion magazine, Science Fantasy.

The Cambridge History of Science Fiction

Author : Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316733017
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science Fiction written by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.

New Worlds: Before the New Wave, 1960-1964

Author : John Boston
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479409820
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book New Worlds: Before the New Wave, 1960-1964 written by John Boston and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1960s, British science fiction and fantasy were convulsed by the "New Wave." This movement emerged from the SF magazines edited by John Carnell. Such brilliant NEW WORLDS and SCIENCE FANTASY writers as J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, John Brunner, and Michael Moorcock heralded the rise of this new kind of fantastic fiction. John Boston and Damien Broderick's concluding volume of their critical trilogy examines the history and development of these important magazines--and the fiction that they championed. By the end of this period (1964), Carnell had set the stage for that major development in UK science fiction--the new wave adventures of the transformed NEW WORLDS, under the editorship of Moorcock--and had himself shifted gear into the next mode of SF publishing as editor of the paperback anthology series, New Writings in SF. Boston and Broderick's series will become the definitive critical histories of these important British magazines. Complete with indices of names and titles cited.

Weird Tales #325

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434437825
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Weird Tales #325 written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Tales #325 (Fall 2001) features "From Out of the Crocodile's Mouth," by Darrell Schweitzer; "The Gravedigger's Apprentice," by Alvin Helms; "Our Temporary Supervisor," by Thomas Ligotti; "Where All Things Perish," by Tanith Lee; "The Wizard of Ashes and Rain," by David Sandner, and more.

The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story

Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107084172
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story written by Ann-Marie Einhaus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

The History of Science Fiction and Its Toy Figurines

Author : Luigi Toiati
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1399005553
Total Pages : 1031 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The History of Science Fiction and Its Toy Figurines written by Luigi Toiati and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction, as the name suggests, is the combination of science and fantasy. In addition to a literary form, it also encompasses film, TV, comics, toys and our beloved toy astronauts, or other figures such as aliens, monsters and other playable genres. The term science fiction was coined by publisher Hugo Gernsbach around the first decades of the last century to refer to the predominantly 'space' adventures covered in his magazines. Space invaded radio, cinema, TV, and consequently for a long time toy figurines were predominantly space-related, later evolving into other themes. This lavishly illustrated book covers both the history of literary science fiction, following in the footsteps of contemporary official criticism, and toy figurines inspired by science fiction. You will also find several other themes, such as the link between science fiction figures and cinema, radio, TV, comics, and more. Luigi Toiati offers to both guide the reader on an often-nostalgic walk through science fiction in all its various forms, and to describe the figurines and brands associated with it.

Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction

Author : Damien Broderick
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434443299
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction written by Damien Broderick and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien. It participates, in brilliantly lighted imagination, in their strange lives. In this second gathering from Van Ikin's critical journal, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, writers of the alien are investigated with wit and insight. G. Travis Regier follows the Other into its own home, accompanying those experts in the alien, C. J. Cherry and Samuel R. Delany. In the book's long key essay, Terry Dowling pursues the Art of Xenography as exemplified by Jack Vance's "General Culture" novels. Three expert commentators look into Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's postcolonial and postmodern frolics into alternative realities. And the Xeno fictions of Isaac Asimov, Greg Egan, Mary Gentle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Naomi Mitchison, Neal Stephenson, and Stanley Weinbaum are read as their road maps into the strange. Eleven revealing essays on speculative fiction by some of the best critics in the field.

Tudor City: Manhattan’s Historic Residential Enclave

Author : Lawrence R. Samuel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467143928
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Tudor City: Manhattan’s Historic Residential Enclave written by Lawrence R. Samuel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the east side of Midtown Manhattan, next to the United Nations, sits the massive apartment complex Tudor City. An architectural masterpiece created by developer Fred F. French during the Roaring Twenties, Tudor City was the first residential skyscraper complex in the world. It brought middle-class lifestyle to center city. Tudor City has parks, shops and restaurants and even once had a mini-golf course. Developers and preservationists battled over the site in the 1970s and 1980s, with a notable cast of characters including Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Mayor John Lindsay and Representative Ed Koch. The city designated the area a historic district. Author and resident Lawrence R. Samuel charts the ninety-year history of New York's Tudor City.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World

Author : Paul Graves-Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019960200X
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World by : Paul Graves-Brown

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World written by Paul Graves-Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of a rapidly expanding sub-field in archaeology, the study of the present and recent past. It seeks to explore the boundaries of this emerging area, to develop a tool-kit of concepts and methods, which are applicable to this new sub-field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research.

Houses for a New World

Author : Barbara Miller Lane
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691246424
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Houses for a New World written by Barbara Miller Lane and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentieth century’s most successful experiment in mass housing. Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and urbanism. Between 1945 and 1965, more than thirteen million houses—most of them in new ranch and split-level styles—were constructed on large expanses of land outside city centers, providing homes for the country’s rapidly expanding population. Focusing on twelve developments in the suburbs of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Barbara Miller Lane tells the story of the collaborations between builders and buyers, showing how both wanted houses and communities that espoused a modern way of life—informal, democratic, multiethnic, and devoted to improving the lives of their children. The resulting houses differed dramatically from both the European International Style and older forms of American domestic architecture. Based on a decade of original research, and accompanied by hundreds of historical images, plans, and maps, this book presents an entirely new interpretation of the American suburb. The result is a fascinating history of houses and developments that continue to shape how tens of millions of Americans live. Featured housing developments in Houses for a New World: Boston area: Governor Francis Farms (Warwick, RI) Wethersfield (Natick, MA) Brookfield (Brockton, MA) Chicago area: Greenview Estates (Arlington Heights, IL) Elk Grove Village Rolling Meadows Weathersfield at Schaumburg Los Angeles and Orange County area: Cinderella Homes (Anaheim, CA) Panorama City (Los Angeles) Rossmoor (Los Alamitos, CA) Philadelphia area: Lawrence Park (Broomall, PA) Rose Tree Woods (Broomall, PA)

Rethinking Drug Use in Sport

Author : Bob Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135118469
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Drug Use in Sport written by Bob Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration. In this critical, paradigm-shifting reappraisal of contemporary drug policy in sport, Bob Stewart and Aaron Smith argue that drug use in sport is an inexorable consequence of the nature, structure and culture of sport itself. By de-mythologising and de-moralising the assumptions that prop up current drug management controls, and re-emphasising the importance of the long-term well being and civil rights of the athlete, they offer a powerful argument for creating a legitimate space for drug use in sport. The book offers a broad ranging overview of the social and commercial pressures impelling drug use, and maps the full historical and social extent of the problem. With policy analysis at the centre of the discussion, the book explores the complete range of social, management, policy, scientific, technological and health issues around drugs in sport, highlighting the irresolvable tension between the zero-tolerance model as advanced by WADA and the harm-reduction approach adopted by drug education and treatment agencies. While there are no simple solutions, as long as drugs use is endemic in wider society the authors argue that a more nuanced and progressive approach is required in order to safeguard and protect the health, social liberty and best interests of athletes and sports people, as well as the value of sport itself.

The Corps of Engineers

Author : Lenore Fine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Corps of Engineers written by Lenore Fine and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

World War II U.S. Navy Vessels in Private Hands

Author : Greg H. Williams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600406
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book World War II U.S. Navy Vessels in Private Hands written by Greg H. Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the U.S. Navy swiftly expanded to include an array of vessels, from smaller yachts and fishing boats bought early in the war for patrol work to fast, modern commercial ships built to haul troops and supplies. After the Allied victory, this diverse fleet became unnecessary and the Navy sold many of its vessels. This comprehensive catalog documents the Navy ships and boats sold after the war and registered under the American flag for commercial or recreational purposes. Focusing on those vessels with names or clearly identifiable hull numbers and crew accommodations, it chronicles each craft's prewar ownership, wartime history, and postwar fate. The product of painstaking detective work in a wide range of primary sources, this meticulous directory highlights an unexplored but illuminating aspect of U.S. maritime history.

Small Business Problems Created by Petroleum Imports

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Business Problems Created by Petroleum Imports written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Determiniation of the Economic Height of High-rise Buildings

Author : Jay Starrett Berger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
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Download or read book Determiniation of the Economic Height of High-rise Buildings written by Jay Starrett Berger and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alloys

Author : Marin R. Sullivan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215774
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Alloys written by Marin R. Sullivan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest periods of American modern design Alloys looks at a unique period of synergy and exchange in the postwar United States, when sculpture profoundly shaped architecture, and vice versa. Leading architects such as Gordon Bunshaft and Eero Saarinen turned to sculptors including Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, Richard Lippold, and Isamu Noguchi to produce site-determined, large-scale sculptures tailored for their buildings’ highly visible and well-traversed threshold spaces. The parameters of these spaces—atriums, lobbies, plazas, and entryways—led to various designs like sculptural walls, ceilings, and screens that not only embraced new industrial materials and processes, but also demonstrated art’s ability to merge with lived architectural spaces. Marin Sullivan argues that these sculptural commissions represent an alternate history of midcentury American art. Rather than singular masterworks by lone geniuses, some of the era’s most notable spaces—Philip Johnson’s Four Seasons Restaurant in Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building, Max Abramovitz’s Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, and Pietro Belluschi and Walter Gropius’s Pan Am Building—would be diminished without the collaborative efforts of architects and artists. At the same time, the artistic creations within these spaces could not exist anywhere else. Sullivan shows that the principle of synergy provides an ideal framework to assess this pronounced relationship between sculpture and architecture. She also explores the afterlives of these postwar commissions in the decades since their construction. A fresh consideration of sculpture’s relationship to architectural design and functionality following World War II, Alloys highlights the affinities between the two fields and the ways their connections remain with us today.

Creating and Opposing Empire

Author : Adelaide Vieira Machado
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000648966
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Creating and Opposing Empire written by Adelaide Vieira Machado and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Portuguese Empire, this book examines colonial press issued in "metropolitan" spaces and in colonies, disclosing dissonant narratives and problematizations of colonial empires. Creating and Opposing Empire is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), which also invests on comparative studies and conceptual discussions. This book analyses representations of Empire at colonial press published in "metropolitan" spaces and in colonies. By joining these spaces in the same analytic look, it explores different problematizations of colonial empires. The diversity of angles discloses why a decolonized, democratic, understanding of the world modulated by modern colonial empires needs to navigate the seas of dissonant narratives of community, nation, and empire. The book deals with the ideas that in their complexity and dynamism, until late in the twentieth century, were moulded in the game between the cultural context of representations and the universality of concepts. The studies range from approaches to International Exhibitions, Metropolitan Press, Colonial Models, Missionary Press, Literary Discourses, Colonial and Postcolonial Press, Constructing the "Others", Anticolonial Press, Democracy, Dictatorship, Censorship, Colonial Prison’s Press, among other themes. Its primordial focus on the Portuguese Empire, introduces perspectives rarely included in international discussions on colonial and imperial press histories. This book is essential for scholars and students in Media Studies, Modern History, Cultural, Literary Studies and Political Science.