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Finches of Mars

Author : Brian W. Aldiss
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504005899
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Finches of Mars written by Brian W. Aldiss and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonists on Mars fight to prevent their own extinction in “a suspenseful genre-bending combination of straight SF and mystery” (Booklist, starred review). Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp. For many, Mars represents humankind’s last hope. In six tightly clustered towers on the red planet’s surface, the colonists who have escaped their dying home world are attempting to make a new life unencumbered by the corrupting influences of politics, art, and religion. Unable ever to return, these pioneers have chosen an unalterable path that winds through a landscape as terrible as it is beautiful, often forcing them to compromise their beliefs—and sometimes their humanity—in order to survive. But the gravest threat to the future is not the settlement’s total dependence on foodstuffs sent from a distant and increasingly uncaring Earth, or the events that occur in the aftermath of the miraculous discovery of native life on Mars—it is the fact that in the ten years since colonization began, every new human baby has been born dead, or so tragically deformed that death comes within hours. The great Brian W. Aldiss has delivered a dark and provocative yet ultimately hopeful magnum opus rich in imagination and bold ideas. A novel of philosophy as much as science fiction, Finches of Mars is an exploration of intellectual history, evolution, technology, and the future by one of speculative fiction’s undisputed masters.

Brian W. Aldiss

Author : Paul Kincaid
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053478
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Brian W. Aldiss written by Paul Kincaid and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian W. Aldiss wrote classic science fiction novels like Report on Probability A and Hothouse. Billion Year Spree, his groundbreaking study of the field, defined the very meaning of SF and delineated its history. Yet Aldiss’s discomfort with being a guiding spirit of the British New Wave and his pursuit of mainstream success characterized a lifelong ambivalence toward the genre. Paul Kincaid explores the many contradictions that underlay the distinctive qualities of Aldiss’s writing. Wartime experiences in Asia and the alienation that arose upon his return to the cold austerity of postwar Britain inspired themes and imagery that Aldiss drew upon throughout his career. He wrote of prolific nature overwhelming humanity, believed war was madness even though it provided him with the happiest period of his life, and found parallels in the static lives of Indian peasants and hidebound English society. As Kincaid shows, contradictions created tensions that fueled the metaphorical underpinnings of Aldiss's work and shaped not only his long career but the evolution of postwar British science fiction.

Science Fiction Literature through History [2 volumes]

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440866171
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction Literature through History [2 volumes] written by Gary Westfahl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar. This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference books, such as plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels. Some science fiction films, television programs, and video games are also mentioned, particularly when they are relevant to written texts. Its focus is on science fiction in the English language, though due attention is given to international authors whose works have been frequently translated into English. Since science fiction became a recognized genre and greatly expanded in the 20th century, works published in the 20th and 21st centuries are most frequently discussed, though important earlier works are not neglected. The texts are designed to be helpful to numerous readers, ranging from students first encountering science fiction to experienced scholars in the field.

The Meaning of Liberty Beyond Earth

Author : Charles S. Cockell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319095676
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Liberty Beyond Earth written by Charles S. Cockell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to initiate a new discussion on liberty focusing on the infinite realms of space. The discussion of the nature of liberty and what it means for a human to be free has occupied the minds of thinkers since the Enlightenment. However, without exception, every one of these discussions has focused on the character of liberty on the Earth. The emergence of human space exploration programs in the last 40-50 years raise a fundamental and new question: what will be the future of liberty in space? This book takes the discussion of liberty into the extraterrestrial environment. In this book, new questions will be addressed such as: Can a person be free when the oxygen the individual breathes is the result of a manufacturing process controlled by someone else? Will the interdependence required to survive in the extremities of the extraterrestrial environment destroy individualism? What are the obligations of the individual to the extraterrestrial state? How can we talk of extraterrestrial liberty when everyone is dependent on survival systems?

Challenging Anthropocentrism in Eco-Science Fiction Novels

Author : Fatma Gamze Erkan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527567060
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Challenging Anthropocentrism in Eco-Science Fiction Novels written by Fatma Gamze Erkan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between humanity and nature while challenging the notion that anthropocentric behaviour causes the environmental catastrophes depicted in the four selected British eco-science fiction novels. These novels are John Christopher’s The Death of Grass (1956), J. G. Ballard’s The Drought (1965), Brian Aldiss’s Earthworks (1965), and John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up (1972), all of which fictionalise the fact that the consequences of environmental problems can be diverse but equally serious. This book examines how even the smallest damage caused by human beings to the environment negatively affects them, other living beings, and the ecosystem they need to live and flourish. In conjunction with these, the factors and conditions that push characters in the novels to ignore and harm the environment are also scrutinised. While examining how and why the environmental problems in the novels have arisen, it is evaluated whether the authors propose solutions to these problems and, if so, what they are.

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

Author : Christopher Riches
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019251850X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Writers and their Works written by Christopher Riches and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.

The Pursuit of Possibility

Author : Nigel Thrift
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447364848
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Possibility written by Nigel Thrift and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigel Thrift explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a research university has now become by examining the quandaries that have arisen from a succession of misplaced strategies and false expectations.

Latour and the Humanities

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421438917
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Latour and the Humanities written by Rita Felski and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and purposes of the humanities? In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along predictable lines: the humanities foster empathy, the humanities encourage critical thinking, the humanities offer a counterweight to the cold calculations of the natural and social sciences. The essays in Latour and the Humanities take a different approach. Exploring the relevance of theorist Bruno Latour's work, they argue for attachments and entanglements between the humanities and the sciences while looking closely at the interests, institutions, and intellectual projects that shape the humanities within and beyond the university. The collection, which is written by a group of highly distinguished scholars from around the world, is divided into two sections. In the first part, authors engage in depth with Latour's work while also rethinking the ties between the humanities and the sciences. Essays argue for greater attention to the nonhuman world, the urgency of climate change, and more nuanced views of universities as institutions. The second half of the volume contains essays that reflect on Latour's influence on the practices of specific disciplines, including art, the digital humanities, film studies, and political theory. Inspiring conversation about the relevance of actor-network-theory for research and teaching in the humanities, Latour and the Humanities offers a substantial introduction to Latour's work while discussing the humanities without falling back on the genres of either the sermon or the jeremiad. This volume will be of interest to all those searching for fresh perspectives on the value and importance of humanistic disciplines and thought. Contributors: David J. Alworth, Anders Blok, Claudia Breger, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Yves Citton, Steven Connor, Gerard de Vries, Simon During, Rita Felski, Francis Halsall, Graham Harman, Antoine Hennion, Casper Bruun Jensen, Bruno Latour, Heather Love, Patrice Maniglier, Stephen Muecke, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Nigel Thrift, Michael Witmore

This is a Test

Author :
Publisher : Jagran Josh
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book This is a Test written by and published by Jagran Josh. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem

Author : Sam Mitchell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110685043
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem written by Sam Mitchell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely believed in philosophy of science that nobody can claim that any verdict of science is forced upon us by the effects of a physical world upon our sense organs and instruments. The Quine-Duhem problem supposedly allows us to resist any conclusion. Views on language aside, Quine is supposed to have shown this decisively. But it is just false. In many scientific examples, there is simply no room to doubt that a particular hypothesis is responsible for a refutation or established by the observations. Fault Tracing shows how to play independently established hypotheses against each other to determine whether an arbitrary hypothesis needs to be altered in the light of (apparently) refuting evidence. It analyses real examples from natural science, as well as simpler cases. It argues that, when scientific theories have a structure that prevents them from using this method, the theory looks wrong, and is subject to serious criticism. This is a new, and potentially far-reaching, theory of empirical justification.

Gulliver of Mars

Author : Edwin L. Arnold
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387000944
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Gulliver of Mars written by Edwin L. Arnold and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gullivar of Mars

Author : Edwin Lester Linden Arnold
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259423
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Gullivar of Mars written by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oh, I wish I were anywhere but here, anywhere out of this redtape-ridden world of ours! I wish I were in the planet Mars!" Whisked away to the legendary red planet, the intrepid Lieutenant Gullivar Jones is caught up in the adventure of a lifetime. To win the love of a beautiful princess, he fights his way across a dying and savage planet of desolate cities, lost races, utopian societies, and the haunting and unforgettable River of Death. This classic, influential tale of Mars, written in the utopian tradition of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, is also considered a possible inspiration for the immortal Barsoom of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Both reflective and imaginative, Gullivar of Mars celebrates the acuity and storytelling power of science fiction writers of the early twentieth century and continues to influence writers and to entertain readers today. This commemorative edition includes the full text of the classic 1905 edition, a new introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, an illustration by Thomas Floyd, and an afterword by Gary Hoppenstand. Edwin L. Arnold (1857-1935) was the author of several books, including Lepidus the Centurion: A Roman of Today. Richard A. Lupoff is the author of Claremont Tales and Circumpolar: A Novel. Gary Hoppenstand is a professor of American thought and language at Michigan State University. He is the author of Clive Barker's Short Stories: Imagination as Metaphor in the Books of Blood and Other Works and the editor of Popular Fiction: An Anthology, which won the Popular Culture Association's National Book Award.

Gulliver of Mars

Author : Edwin Lester Arnold
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026897064
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Gulliver of Mars written by Edwin Lester Arnold and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-08-19 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulliver of Mars is the tale of Lieutenant Gulliver Jones of the United States Navy who magically appears on Mars. In a fortunate incident he manages to save the life of Martian Princess Heru who sticks with him, as his quick return to Earth is not possible. Gulliver learns a lot about the culture of Martian society as they get through many adventures, going down a River of Death.

Life Histories of North American [birds].: Cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, towhees, finches, sparrows and allies, pt. 1-3

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Life Histories of North American [birds].: Cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, towhees, finches, sparrows and allies, pt. 1-3 written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dinner on Mars

Author : Lenore Newman
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1778520294
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book Dinner on Mars written by Lenore Newman and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This culinary cosmic outing is as creative as it is informative.” — STARRED review, Publishers Weekly From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars — and nine billion Earthlings too Feeding a Martian is one of the greatest challenges in the history of agriculture. Will a Red Planet menu involve cheese and ice cream made from vats of fermented yeast? Will medicine cabinets overflow with pharmaceuticals created from engineered barley grown using geothermal energy? Will the protein of choice feature a chicken breast grown in a lab? Weird, wonderful, and sometimes disgusting, figuring out “what’s for dinner on Mars” is far from trivial. If we can figure out how to sustain ourselves on Mars, we will know how to do it on Earth too. In Dinner on Mars, authors Fraser and Newman show how setting the table off-planet will supercharge efforts to produce food sustainably here at home. For futurists, sci-fi geeks, tech nuts, business leaders, and anyone interested in the future of food, Dinner on Mars puts sustainability and adaptability on the menu in the face of our climate crisis.

Grassfinches in Australia

Author : Joseph Michael Forshaw
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643096345
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Grassfinches in Australia written by Joseph Michael Forshaw and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date, fully illustrated monograph on all Australian species of grassfinches.

The Beak of the Finch

Author : Jonathan Weiner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101872969
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Beak of the Finch written by Jonathan Weiner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that "spark[s] not just the intellect, but the imagination" (Washington Post Book World). “Admirable and much-needed.... Weiner’s triumph is to reveal how evolution and science work, and to let them speak clearly for themselves.”—The New York Times Book Review On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch. In this remarkable story, Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. The Beak of the Finch is an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould.