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Dimensions of the Fantastic

Author : Daniel Ferreras Savoye
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476648891
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Dimensions of the Fantastic written by Daniel Ferreras Savoye and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-05-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not to be confused with fantasy or the supernatural, the fantastic is in actuality its own beast and perhaps the most deeply frightening of all narrative modes. From Dracula and Nightmare on Elm Street, to Carrie and Them, the fantastic has become an ideal vehicle to denounce deep cultural dysfunctions that affect not only the way we understand reality, but also how we construct it. This work studies the various dimensions of the fantastic mode, examining the influences of iconic authors such as H.P. Lovecraft and Jean Ray, and addressing key narrations such as Guy de Maupasasant's The Horla and Jordan Peele's Get Out. It explains why the fantastic is not about ghosts or monsters, but about the incomprehensible sides of our own reality, and the terrifying unknown.

Fantastic Dimension

Author : Jerry McClellan
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781791570798
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Dimension written by Jerry McClellan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go on an adventure with Alphatron, a super powered hero from a parallel world called Ardurus, who suffers memory loss from a great cataclysmic event that sends him hurdling through the multiverse. Now as a reluctant inter-dimensional traveler, Alphatron faces impossible circumstances to find out who he really is and where he came from. He eventually lands in a new world called OrZenbu where he encounters awesome life-forms, some friend, some foe.

Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them

Author : Antonio Padilla
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374600570
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them written by Antonio Padilla and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality. For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to strange new understandings of the ultimate nature of reality. But what are these truths? What are the mysterious numbers that explain the universe? In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, the leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Antonio Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, offering a startling picture of how the universe works. These strange numbers include Graham’s number, which is so large that if you thought about it in the wrong way, your head would collapse into a singularity; TREE(3), whose finite nature can never be definitively proved, because to do so would take so much time that the universe would experience a Poincaré Recurrence—resetting to precisely the state it currently holds, down to the arrangement of individual atoms; and 10^{-120}, measuring the desperately unlikely balance of energy needed to allow the universe to exist for more than just a moment, to extend beyond the size of a single atom—in other words, the mystery of our unexpected universe. Leading us down the rabbit hole to a deeper understanding of reality, Padilla explains how these unusual numbers are the key to understanding such mind-boggling phenomena as black holes, relativity, and the problem of the cosmological constant—that the two best and most rigorously tested ways of understanding the universe contradict one another. Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them is a combination of popular and cutting-edge science—and a lively, entertaining, and even funny exploration of the most fundamental truths about the universe.

Fantastic Realities

Author : Frank Wilczek
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812774300
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Realities written by Frank Wilczek and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek. Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification. 49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's award-winning Reference Frame columns in Physics Today, and some never before published, are gathered by style and subject into a dozen chapters, each with a revealing, witty introduction. Profound ideas, presented with style: What could be better? Enjoy.

The Fantastic Book of Gymnastics

Author : Lloyd Readhead
Publisher : Copper Beach Books
ISBN 13 : 9780761306375
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Fantastic Book of Gymnastics written by Lloyd Readhead and published by Copper Beach Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a look at artistic, rhythmic, and sports gymnastics, the various positions and moves involved, devising a routine, and more. Includes fold-out pages on gymnastics competitions.

Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature

Author : Patricia Garcia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317581326
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature written by Patricia Garcia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply influenced by the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of fantastic texts in which the impossible is bound to space — space not as scene of action but as impossible element performing a fantastic transgression within the storyworld. This book conceptualizes and contextualizes this postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the reader’s comfortable notion of space as objective reality in favor of the concept of space as socially mediated, constructed, and conventional. In an illustration of the transnational nature of this phenomenon, García analyzes a varied corpus of the Fantastic in the past four decades from different cultures and languages, merging literary analysis with classical questions of space related to the fields of philosophy, urban studies, and anthropology. Texts include authors such as Julio Cortázar (Argentina), John Barth (USA), J.G. Ballard (UK), Jacques Sternberg (Belgium), Fernando Iwasaki (Perú), Juan José Millás (Spain,) and Éric Faye (France). This book contributes to Literary Theory and Comparative Literature in the areas of the Fantastic, narratology, and Geocriticism and informs the continuing interdisciplinary debate on how human beings make sense of space.

Fantastic Structures

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781452153230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Structures written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eagerly awaited follow-up to the international bestseller Fantastic Cities, artist Steve McDonald uses his unique large-format approach working from actual photographs to create beautifully detailed line drawings of amazing buildings and other structures from around the world. The globe-trotting selection includes buildings from six continents—including Prague's Astronomical Clock, Russia's St. Basil's Cathedral, a Florentine bridge, a Romanian castle, an Indian palace, and many dozens more—alongside fun-to-color details from iconic structures such as the Eiffel Tower, London's Tower Bridge, and the Chrysler Building. The crisp white pages are conducive to a range of applications, and a middle margin keeps all the artwork fully colorable. A dozen imaginative architectural mandala illustrations round out this gorgeous adult coloring book.

Fantastic Voyage

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553275720
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Voyage written by Isaac Asimov and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1988-07-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabulous adventure into the last frontier of man! Attention! This is the last message you will receive until your mission is completed. You have sixty minutes once miniaturization is complete. You must be out of Benes’ body before then. If not, you will return to normal size and kill Benes regardless of the success of the surgery. Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding a miniaturized atomic sub and being injected into a dying man's carotid artery. Passing through the heart, entering the inner ear where even the slightest sound would destroy them, battling relentlessly into the cranium. Their objective . . . to reach a blood clot and destroy it with the piercing rays of a laser. At stake . . . the fate of the entire world.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Author : William Joyce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442464895
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore written by William Joyce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the Academy Award–winning short film, from New York Times bestselling author and beloved visionary William Joyce. Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. But every story has its upsets. Everything in Morris Lessmore’s life, including his own story, is scattered to the winds. But the power of story will save the day. Stunningly brought to life by William Joyce, one of the preeminent creators in children’s literature, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a modern masterpiece, showing that in today’s world of traditional books, eBooks, and apps, it’s story that we truly celebrate—and this story, no matter how you tell it, begs to be read again and again.

Fantastic Voyages

Author : Leroy W. Dubeck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387215883
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Voyages written by Leroy W. Dubeck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By revealing the facts behind the fiction of some of the finest films in the sci-fi genre, "Fantastic Voyages" offers a novel approach to teaching science: using scenes from science fiction films to illustrate fundamental concepts of physics, astronomy, and biology.

The Body Fantastic

Author : Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262365685
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Body Fantastic written by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. In The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious and the fabulous to our conception of the body. He chronicles, among other curious cases, the man who ate everything (including boiled hedgehogs and mice on toast), the therapeutic powers of saliva, hair that burst into flames, and an "amphibian man" who lived under water. Drawing on clinical records, popular lore, and art, history, and literature, Gonzalez-Crussi considers the body in both real and imaginary dimensions. Myths and stories, Gonzalez-Crussi reminds us, are the symbolic expression of our aspirations and emotions. These fantastic tales of bodies come from the deepest regions of the human psyche. Ancient Greeks, for example, believed that the uterus wandered around inside a woman's body--an "animal within an animal." If a woman sniffed an unpleasant odor, the uterus would retreat. Organized "digestive excess" began with the eating and drinking contests of antiquity and continue through the hot-dog eating competitions of today. And the "libido-podalic association," connecting male sexuality and the foot, insinuated itself into mainstream medicine in the sixteenth century; meanwhile, the feet of women in some cultures were scrupulously kept from view. Gonzalez-Crussi shows that the many imaginary representations of the body are very much a part of our corporeality.

The FIFTH FORCE of NATURE or, HELLO, EINSTEIN! Fantastic story

Author : Ludmila Naumova
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5042596607
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The FIFTH FORCE of NATURE or, HELLO, EINSTEIN! Fantastic story written by Ludmila Naumova and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludmila Naumova, born in 1964, Yekaterinburg, Russia, science fiction writer. The author’s field of view includes scientific achievements of mathematics, physics and philosophy.

Fantastic Cities

Author : Stefan Rabitsch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496836642
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Cities written by Stefan Rabitsch and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City—American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction, Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf’s videos, and Samuel Delany’s classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to “real-ize” that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.

Conqueror Fantastic

Author : Pamela Sargent
Publisher : D A W Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780756401917
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Conqueror Fantastic written by Pamela Sargent and published by D A W Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 13 stories imagines what the world would be like if the destinies of its most powerful leaders had changed--and with them, the future. Includes "what if" stories by such authors as Michelle West, Ian Watson, and James Morrow. Original.

Fantastic Four By Ryan North Vol. 1

Author : Ryan North
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302524925
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Four By Ryan North Vol. 1 written by Ryan North and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Fantastic Four (2022) #1-6. Something has gone terribly wrong in New York! The Thing and Alicia are traveling across America to escape it! But when they stop for the night and wake up the morning before they arrived, they find themselves caught in a time loop that's been going on since before they were born! Meanwhile, Reed and Sue are on the run from their troubles - and make an unfortunate stop in a small town full of killer Doombots! But what is their terrible secret? And Johnny is left alone in New York - a city that hates and fears him! So it's time for a new identity - and a new job! Can the FF find their way back together and somehow rebuild their lives?

Lovecraft, a Study in the Fantastic

Author : Maurice Lévy
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814319567
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Lovecraft, a Study in the Fantastic written by Maurice Lévy and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice L'vy's book is a penetrating analysis of the themes running through the works of H. P. Lovecraft, the writer of horror and supernatural fiction. Broader than a thematic study, however, L'vy's analysis is unique in his use of Lovecraft's work as a model for fantastic writing in general and in his provocative theory as to why Lovecraft wrote the sort of works he did. At an early age, Lovecraft sloughed off all religious belief and came to adopt a bleak and nihilistic philosophy where humans have no importance in the cosmos but to serve as the playthings of incomprehensible and uncaring forces. L'vy sees Lovecraft's works as an attempt to purge himself of these feelings and to give himself a reason to love in a universe that cares nothing for him or for other human beings in general. It is this view of Lovecraft the writer, the thinker, and the man that sets L'vy's work apart from any Lovecraft criticism.

Fantastic Families Work Book

Author : Joe Beam
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439124086
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Families Work Book written by Joe Beam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn from 14,000 strong families how to have a fantastic family. With the help of this groundbreaking book, you can take the guesswork out of parenting and be assured that you are building not only a strong family—but a fantastic family. Based on the largest study ever done on strong families—14,000 families studied over twenty-five years—this book reveals six simple, yet profound, steps to building a fantastic family that will thrive for generations to come.