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Distopias De Ayer Y Manana Relatos Mitologicos Y De Ciencia Ficcion
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Book Synopsis Distopías de Ayer y Mañana - Relatos Mitológicos y de Ciencia Ficción by : Tomás Blanco Claraco
Download or read book Distopías de Ayer y Mañana - Relatos Mitológicos y de Ciencia Ficción written by Tomás Blanco Claraco and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagina que tuvieras el don de ser inmortal, pero a cambio debieras sufrir el tormento eterno de tres demonios vengativos. Imagina que un día la naturaleza se rebelase y decidiera acabar con el mundo de los hombres tal y como lo conocemos. Imagina que fueras capaz de predecir el futuro, pero que el precio a pagar fuese que jamás nadie creyera tus profecías. Imagina que tras encontrar el primer artefacto alienígena de la Historia descubrieses que hubiera sido mejor que sus secretos quedaran para siempre en el olvido. A estas y a otras muchas situaciones se enfrentan los protagonistas a lo largo de estos doce relatos. Un vistazo fugaz al ayer y al mañana del hombre.
Book Synopsis Relatos Distópicos 1. by : Felix Moreno
Download or read book Relatos Distópicos 1. written by Felix Moreno and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relatos Distópicos es una recopilación de mis relatos cortos de ciencia ficcion sobre el futuro próximo. Si ya has comprado mis recopilatorios de ensayos y relatos semestrales RELATOS COLAPSISTAS este libro no tiene nada nuevo, pero si te gusta la ciencia ficcion distópica y futura y no tienes mis libros anteriores, es un libro ideal para empezar a leer mis relatos de ciencia ficcion tecnochatarrera, ecoparásita y distopica sobre el oscuro futuro que viene en pequeñas dosis de pocas páginas cada relato. NTRODUCCIÓN 7 01. CUENTOS DEL EXPLORADOR (I) 11 02. ENTREVISTA CON UN NIÑO ELEGIDO DE PRIMARIA 13 03. MANIFIESTO COLAPSISTA 1.2 17 04. NUCLEAR POPCORN V1.1 21 05. CUENTOS DEL EXPLORADOR (II). LA SERPIENTE DE LA MUERTE 27 06. ESTO ES UN MENSAJE DEL GOBIERNO 31 07. CIUDADANO 123.432 35 08. NEOLUDITAS 37 09. PUNTOS 43 10. ¿DÓNDE ESTÁS? V1.1 49 11. LA NUEVA CIUDAD 53 12. NAUSICAA LA CIUDAD DE HELIO 57 13. ROMPEMOS COSAS 59 14. NO ESTAMOS SOLOS 61 15. PARALELO 60 69 16. CARA A CARA 73 17. VACACIONES EN SAN BORONDÓN, EL ECO-PARAÍSO DONDE TODO ES POSIBLE 75 18. LA ROSA 79 19. UN CUENTO DE SÚPER RICOS (I), FICCIÓN 83 20. JAMÁS PENSÉ QUE SERÍA ASÍ 87 21. UN CUENTO DE SUPER-RICOS (III), EL PLAN 91 22. BEEF OR CHICKEN 97 23. FASE ZERO 1.2 99 24. EL PRECIO DE SER DIOSES 103 25. CUENTOS DEL EXPLORADOR (III) 105 26. EL RESOPÓN 109 27. CUENTOS DEL EXPLORADOR (IV) 113 28. Y LLEGÓ LA HORA 117 29. UN CUENTO DE SUPER-RICOS (IV), VIRUS 119 30. UN FUTURO SOMBRÍO 123 31. CÓMO VAS A MORIR 127 32. FALSO POSITIVO 131 33. PRECRIMINALES 137 34. FAST COLLAPSE, EL HOMO URBANITA Y EL CAMPESINO AUTOSUFICIENTE 143 35. NOVELAS GRIEGAS, LAS ETIÓPICAS Y EL FUTURO DE LOS LIBROS 157 36. COMO LOS HACKERS ACABARON CON EL MUNDO 165 37. LOS SIETE SAMURAIS MAGNÍFICOS Y EL GRAN OLVIDADO. 167 38. I.A. WARS 169 39. CUÉNTAME CÓMO PASÓ.... 173 40. TECNOCALIPSIS Y ESCASEZ 179 41. COMIDA DE DIOSES 183 42. FUIMOS A LA CIUDAD 187 43. CUANDO MUERE UN RÍO 189 ACERCA DEL AUTOR 193
Download or read book Distopia written by Javier Suazo Mejía and published by Casasola Editores. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El paraíso no es para todos. El título de este cuento resume, quizás con demasiada precisión, el nuevo libro de Javier Suazo Mejía.Cuando éramos niños avizorábamos el futuro con esperanza. Ahora lo percibimos como una amenaza.Recuerdo las viejas series de televisión en las que la pantalla se llenaba de autos voladores y de personas sonrientes enfundadas en sus trajes plateados. Para obtener comida bastaba con apretar un botón y para combatir una enfermedad, el médico solo tenía que apuntarnos con su pistola de rayos curativos.Nada de eso ocurre en los relatos de Suazo Mejía. Los niños todavía deben salir a buscar agua y el crédito no se obtiene de un banco, sino que de un peligroso prestamista. Por supuesto que la ciencia ha avanzado; pero nosotros hemos sido demasiado lentos y demasiado pobres para alcanzarla.En algún momento Arthur C. Clarke se quejó de que el futuro ya no era el mismo de antes. Luego de leer las historias de Javier Suazo Mejía podemos disentir y aceptar con amargura que, para nosotros, los que habitamos en la región menos transparente del aire, el futuro será siempre el mismo.Kalton Harold BruhlPremio Nacional de Literatura Ramón Rosa, 2015, Honduras.
Book Synopsis The City of Words by : Alberto Manguel
Download or read book The City of Words written by Alberto Manguel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'And yet stories, even the best and truest, can't save us from our own folly. Stories can't protect us from suffering and error, from natural and artificial catastrophes, from our own suicidal greed. The only thing they can do is ... offer consolation for suffering and words to name our experience. Stories can tell us who we are ... and suggest ways of imagining a future that, without calling for comfortable happy endings, may offer us ways of remaining alive, together, on this much-abused earth.' Based on Canada's 2007 CBC Massey Lectures (to be broadcast in Australia by ABC Radio National in April 2008), Alberto Manguel's The City of Words takes a fresh look at the rise of violent intolerance in our societies. We strive to build societies with sets of values all citizens can agree on. But something has gone wrong- race riots in France, political murder in the Netherlands, bombings in Britain and Bali - are these symptoms of a multicultural experiment gone awry? Why is it so difficult for us to live together when the alternatives are demonstrably horrifying? With his trademark wit and erudition, Alberto Manguel suggests a fresh approach- we should look at what visionaries, poets, novelists, essayists and filmmakers have to say about building societies. Perhaps the stories we tell hold secret keys to the human heart. From Cassandra to Jack London, the Epic of Gilgamesh to the computer Hal in 2001- A Space Odyssey, Don Quixote to Atanarjuat- The Fast Runner, Manguel draws fascinating and revelatory parallels between the personal and political realities of our present-day world and those of myth, legend and story.
Book Synopsis Pride Parades and LGBT Movements by : Abby Peterson
Download or read book Pride Parades and LGBT Movements written by Abby Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe, providing the most visible manifestations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex movements and politics. Pride Parades and LGBT Movements contributes to a better understanding of LGBT protest dynamics through a comparative study of eleven Pride parades in seven European countries - Czech Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK - and Mexico. Peterson, Wahlström and Wennerhag uncover the dynamics producing similarities and differences between Pride parades, using unique data from surveys of Pride participants and qualitative interviews with parade organizers and key LGBT activists. In addition to outlining the histories of Pride in the respective countries, the authors explore how the different political and cultural contexts influence: Who participates, in terms of socio-demographic characteristics and political orientations; what Pride parades mean for their participants; how participants were mobilized; how Pride organizers relate to allies and what strategies they employ for their performances of Pride. This book will be of interest to political scientists and sociologists with an interest in LGBT studies, social movements, comparative politics and political behavior and participation.
Book Synopsis Literature and the Gods by : Roberto Calasso
Download or read book Literature and the Gods written by Roberto Calasso and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature. From the banishment of the classical divinities during the Age of Reason to their emancipation by the Romantics and their place in the literature of our own time, the history of the gods can also be read as a ciphered and splendid history of literary inspiration. Rewriting that story, Calasso carves out a sacred space for literature where the presence of the gods is discernible. His inquiry into the nature of “absolute literature” transports us to the realms of Dionysus and Orpheus, Baudelaire and Mallarmé, and prompts a lucid and impassioned defense of poetic form, even when apparently severed from any social function. Lyrical and assured, Literature and the Gods is an intensely engaging work of literary affirmation that deserves to be read alongside the masterpieces it celebrates.
Download or read book Curiosity written by Alberto Manguel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In Alberto Manguel's most personal book to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the reading that has mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask "Why?" Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations.
Book Synopsis Kiss My Genders by : Lucy Hughes Biddle
Download or read book Kiss My Genders written by Lucy Hughes Biddle and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kiss My Genders celebrates the work of more than 20 international artists whose practices explore and engage with gender fluidity, as well as non-binary, trans and intersex identities.Featuring works from the late 1960s and early 1970s through to the present, and focusing on artists who draw on their own experiences to create content and forms that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender.Working across painting, immersive installations, sculpture, text, photography and film, many of these artists treat the body as a sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty, and representations of the human form.This publication includes texts from writers, theorists, curators, poets and artists who have made key contributions to thinking in the field.From pop culture and gender dissidence to the embrace of the 'monstrous' or 'freaky', from the politics of prose to trans-feminism and politics on the street, each of these writers throws light on a different way of seeing. Also featured is a round-table discussion between a selection of artists and exhibition curator Vincent Honoré.In addition to these original texts, the book reprints a key text by Renate Lorenz and includes poetry by Travis Alabanza, Jay Bernard and Nat Raha.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Kiss My Genders at Hayward Gallery, London (12 June - 8 September 2019).
Book Synopsis La Gloria De Don Ramiro by : Enrique Rodríguez Larreta
Download or read book La Gloria De Don Ramiro written by Enrique Rodríguez Larreta and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Greenhouse Summer by : Norman Spinrad
Download or read book Greenhouse Summer written by Norman Spinrad and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of the future is in a lot of trouble. Pollution, overpopulation, and ecological disasters have left the rich nations still rich, and the poor nations dying. Still, for international businesses it is business as usual. It is better to be rich. But is it all coming to a terrible end? A scientist has predicted Condition Venus, the sudden greenhouse end of the planet - but she can't say when. So the attention of the world is on a UN conference in Paris, where all hell is about to break loose.
Download or read book The Rapture written by Liz Jensen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. Raised on a diet of evangelistic hellfire, Bethany is violent, delusional, cruelly intuitive and insistent that she can foresee natural disasters - a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion. But when catastrophes begin to occur on the very dates Bethany has predicted, and a brilliant, gentle physicist enters the equation, the apocalyptic puzzle intensifies and the stakes multiply. Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator, or could she be the harbinger of imminent global cataclysm on a scale never seen before? And what can love mean in 'interesting times'? A haunting story of human passion and burning faith set against an adventure of tectonic proportions, The Rapture is an electrifying psychological thriller that explores the dark extremes of mankind's self-destruction in a world on the brink.
Book Synopsis German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene by : Caroline Schaumann
Download or read book German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene written by Caroline Schaumann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience. This volume contextualizes the broad-ranging topics and authors in terms of the Anthropocene, beginning with Goethe and the Romantics and extending into twenty-first-century literature and film. Addressing the growing need for environmental awareness in an international humanities curriculum, this book complements ecocritical analyses emerging from North American and British studies with a specifically German Studies perspective, opening the door to a transnational understanding of how the environment plays an integral role in cultural, political, and economic issues.
Book Synopsis South Pole Station by : Ashley Shelby
Download or read book South Pole Station written by Ashley Shelby and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York TimesBook Review Editors’ Choice A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year Hudson Booksellers Book of the Year One of the New York Post’s Best Books of the Summer One of The Millions’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year IndieNext Pick A Time Magazine “What to Read Now” Selection A wry novel set at the edge of the earth about the courage it takes to band together, even as everything around you falls apart Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty and on the verge of ruining her career. So when the opportunity arises to join the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers Program in Antarctica, she jumps at the chance—and finds herself in the company of others who are just abnormal enough for Polar life, a group of eccentrics motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. When they are joined by a fringe scientist who claims climate change is a hoax, the Polies’ already-imbalanced community is rattled, bringing them to the center of a global controversy and threatening the ancient ice chip they call home.
Book Synopsis Ecocritical Theory by : Axel Goodbody
Download or read book Ecocritical Theory written by Axel Goodbody and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the more frequently lodged, serious, and justifiable complaints about ecocritical work is that it is insufficiently theorized. Ecocritical Theory puts such claims decisively to rest by offering readers a comprehensive collection of sophisticated but accessible essays that productively investigate the relationship between European theory and ecocritique. With its international roster of contributors and subjects, it also militates against the parochialism of ecocritics who work within the limited canon of the American West. Bringing together approaches and orientations based on the work of European philosophers and cultural theorists, this volume is designed to open new pathways for ecocritical theory and practice in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Climate Changed by : Philippe Squarzoni
Download or read book Climate Changed written by Philippe Squarzoni and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the causes and consequences of climate change? When the scale is so big, can an individual make any difference? Documentary, diary, and masterwork graphic novel, this up-to-date look at our planet and how we live on it explains what global warming is all about. With the most complicated concepts made clear in a feat of investigative journalism by artist Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Changed weaves together scientific research, extensive interviews with experts, and a call for action. Weighing the potential of some solutions and the false promises of others, this groundbreaking work provides a realistic, balanced view of the magnitude of the crisis that An Inconvenient Truth only touched on. Climate Changed is printed on FSC-certified paper from responsibly-managed, environmentally-sound sources. Find teaching guides for Climate Changed and other titles at abramsbooks.com/resources.
Book Synopsis The Old World and the New, 1492-1650 by : John Huxtable Elliott
Download or read book The Old World and the New, 1492-1650 written by John Huxtable Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Healer written by Antti Tuomainen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's search for his missing wife in a dystopian futuristic Helsinki that is struggling with ruthless climate change. Tapani takes desperate measures in order to find his true love. Written in an engrossingly dense but minimal language.
