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Halcyon Drift

Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434439712
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Halcyon Drift written by Brian M. Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day. When Star-Pilot Grainger is rescued from a shipwreck, he finds himself pressed into reluctant service to fly the Hooded Swan, the prototype of a new kind of interstellar ship. He's also picked up an alien parasite that's determined to share his brain. Under these dire circumstances, can Grainger possibly stay out of trouble? Not a chance!

The Halcyon Drift

Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330246491
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Halcyon Drift written by Brian M. Stableford and published by Pan. This book was released on 1974 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Halcyon Drift: Hooded Swan 1

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473219507
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Book Synopsis Halcyon Drift: Hooded Swan 1 by : Brian Stableford

Download or read book Halcyon Drift: Hooded Swan 1 written by Brian Stableford and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day. When Star-Pilot Grainger is rescued from a shipwreck, he finds himself pressed into reluctant service to fly the Hooded Swan, the prototype of a new kind of interstellar ship. He's also picked up an alien parasite that's determined to share his brain. Under these dire circumstances, can Grainger possibly stay out of trouble? Not a chance!

Future and Fantastic Worlds

Author : Sheldon Jaffery
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1557420025
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Future and Fantastic Worlds written by Sheldon Jaffery and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future and Fantastic Worlds embodies an unusual approach to the field of bibliographic research, including over 700 annotations of every DAW book published through mid-1987, with indexes by author, artist, and title, providing a massive guide to modern SF writers and their works, with much background data. Interspersed throughout the book are numerous wry, irreverent, and amusing observations offered by the late and highly respected researcher in this extremely valuable genre tool.

Off the Main Sequence

Author : Tom Easton
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 080951205X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Off the Main Sequence written by Tom Easton and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Easton has served as the monthly book review columnist for Analog Science Fiction for almost three decades, having contributed during that span many hundreds of columns and over a million words of penetrating criticism on the best literature that science fiction has to offer. His reviews have been celebrated for their wit, humor, readability, knowledge, and incisiveness. His love of literature, particularly fantastic literature, is everywhere evident in his essays. Easton has ever been willing to cover small presses, obscure authors, and unusual publications, being the only major critic in the field to do so on a regular basis. He seems to delight in finding the rare gem among the backwaters of the publishing field. "A reviewer's job," he says, "is not to judge books for the ages, but to tell readers enough about a book to give them some idea of whether they would enjoy it." And this he does admirably, whether he's discussing the works of the great writers in the field, or touching upon the least amongst them. This companion volume to "Periodic Stars" (Borgo/Wildside) collects another 250 of Easton's best reviews from the last fifteen years of "The Reference Library." No one does it better, and no other guide provides such lengthy or discerning commentary on the best SF works of recent times. Complete with Introduction and detailed Index.

Science Fiction Voices

Author : Jeffrey M. Elliot
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 089370248X
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction Voices written by Jeffrey M. Elliot and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume in this series of interviews with the top science fiction writers of today.

Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature

Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809509105
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature written by Brian M. Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media features the following pieces: "Slaves of the Death Spiders: Colin Wilson and Existential Science Fiction," "Is There No Balm in Gilead? The Woeful Prophecies of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale," "A Few More Crocodile Tears?" "The Adventures of Lord Horror Across the Media Landscape," "Filling in the Middle: Robert Silverberg's The Queen of Springtime," "Rice's Relapse: Memnoch the Devil," "Field of Broken Dreams: Michael Bishop's Brittle Innings," "The Magic of the Movies," "H. G. Wells and the Discovery of the Future," "The Many Returns of Dracula," "Tarzan's Divided Self," "Sympathy for the Devil: Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love," "The Two Thousand Year Odyssey: George Viereck's Erotic Odyssey," and "The Profession of Science Fiction" (an autobiography). Brian Stableford is the bestselling writer of 50 books and hundreds of essays, including science fiction, fantasy, literary criticism, and popular nonfiction. He lives and works in Reading, England. ISBN 0-8095-0910-5 (cloth) ISBN 0-8095-1910-0 (paper)

Swan Song

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434437655
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Swan Song written by Brian Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds such as New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots have become the great heroes of the day. Grainger has become a legend in his own time, flying the prototype vessel of a new starship.... Having escaped from his contract with Charlot, Grainger is hounded by the Caradoc Commpany, who wants to extract everything from his brain about his former employer. But Charlot has other plans, and Grainger suddenly finds himself back on the Hooded Swan, leading a rescue mission for the Swan's sister ship in the bizarre Nightingale Nebula. This last voyage proves costlier than the previous ones, as Grainger must risk not only his life--but his very soul! Hooded Swan, Book Six.

Cold War Stories

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319615483
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Stories written by Andrew Hammond and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of mainstream British dystopian fiction and the Cold War. Drawing on over 200 novels and collections of short stories, the monograph explores the ways in which dystopian texts charted the lived experiences of the period, offering an extended analysis of authors’ concerns about the geopolitical present and anxieties about the national future. Amongst the topics addressed are the processes of Cold War (autocracy, militarism, propaganda, intelligence, nuclear technologies), the decline of Britain’s standing in global politics and the reduced status of intellectual culture in Cold War Britain. Although the focus is on dystopianism in the work of mainstream authors, including George Orwell, Doris Lessing, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter and Anthony Burgess, a number of science-fiction novels are also discussed, making the book relevant to a wide range of researchers and students of twentieth-century British literature.

Agricultural Bioeconomy

Author : Chetan Keswani
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0323906958
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Bioeconomy written by Chetan Keswani and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Bioeconomy: Innovation and Foresight in the Post-COVID Era presents recent advancements in biotechnology, exploring the optimal utilization of technologies to provide rapid and impactful economic recovery and sustainable resources in a future that will bear the mark of COVID-19. Understanding that there is a necessary balance between risk and reward, this book provides a foundational hypothesis as well as operational direction for addressing the commercialization and regulatory issues in a bio-based economy where agricultural output is at the core. By presenting adaptable practices to successfully establish and progress agri-based global bioeconomies, the book features a new paradigm focused on technological foresight and response to future risks and disasters. Key considerations include assessing and managing the urban bioeconomy, climate change mitigation, biofuels and bioenergy, GMOs, and employment generation. This book provides the solid next step toward future-proofing global economies using a combination of agricultural technologies and economic goals. Professionals and advanced students focused on the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into value-added products including food, feed, bio-based products, and bioenergy will find this book useful. Addresses recent issues emerging in agro-based economies Empowers utilization of biotechnology to address worldwide ecological issues Presents adaptable, risk-management approaches to the adoption of socially and financially valuable agri-based technologies

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466829516
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To read is to journey, and to read science fiction is to venture into a myriad of imaginative and delightful worlds, such as: - Robert Reed's fabulous galaxy-circling starship and its fascinating inhabitants, "The Remoras" - The planet Mercury, where there is more than meets the eye in Stephen Baxter's "Cilia-of-Gold" - Two very different Hainish worlds--with very different customs--in two knockout novellas by Ursula K. Le Guin - A junkyard in Brooklyn that won't stay put in "The Hole in the Hole" by Terry Bisson In all, this volume presents twenty-three of the finest works of speculative fiction published in the past year, including stories by such diverse and fantastic talents as Michael Bishop, Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Eliot Fintushel, Michael F. Flynn, Lisa Goldstein, Joe Haldeman, Katharine Kerr, Nancy Kress, Maureen F. McHugh, Mike Resnick, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, William Sanders, Brian Stableford, George Turner, Howard Waldrop, Walter Jon Williams. Rounded out with Gardner Dozois's insightful overview of the year in science fiction and a long list of recommended reading, this volume is the starting point for dozens of delightful ventures into the marvels of human imagination. "Dozois's intelligently and ably put-together anthology does its stated job as well as any one book or editor could. Even with competition, it would still be the best of the Best."--Publishers Weekly

The Paradise Game

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434435032
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Paradise Game written by Brian Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-utopian worlds like New Alexandria to the vermin-infested slums of Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own time. Pharos is paradise--or so it appears. But the champions of commerce want to package and sell the planet, and the conservationists want to stop them. Grainger's employer, Titus Charlot, is enlisted to negotiate a settlement, but the game is rigged. Charlot needs the Star-Pilot's help, but there seems to be nothing he can do--until the planet's ecosystem takes a hand, and "paradise" suddenly turns deadly! Hooded Swan, Book Four.

Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond

Author : G. Keulks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598471
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond written by G. Keulks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England's most controversial and critically acclaimed authors. It assembles the ideas of twelve scholars from different countries to clarify the major trends and transitions in Amis's work. The essays will become an authoritative resource for scholars and students alike.

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140622
Total Pages : 2098 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Science Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the science fiction genre of literature, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Immortals

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1625791135
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Immortals written by Gardner Dozois and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight timeless tales of life everlastingã Some see it as the ultimate blessing, others as an intolerable curse. Tempting or terrifying, the idea of immortality has inspired creative souls for thousands of years. In this brilliant collection, some of today's most ingeniously imaginative writers deal with the entrancing theme of eternal possibilities. Features Thomas M. Disch, Jack Vance, Brian W. Aldiss, Greg Egan, Damon Knight, Brian Stableford, Robert Silverberg, and Clifford D. Simak. _Learning to Be MeÓ by Greg Egan _Grotto of the Dancing DeerÓ by Clifford D. Simak _Child of All AgesÓ by P. J. Plauger _The Worm That FliesÓ by Brian W. Aldiss _The SecretÓ by Jack Vance _The Dying ManÓ by Damon Knight _Death Do Us PartÓ by Robert Silverberg _Mortimer Grays History of DeathÓ by Brian Stableford At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810878844
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature written by M. Keith Booker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature is a useful reference to the broad and burgeoning field of science fiction literature. Science fiction literature has gained immensely in critical respect and attention, while maintaining a broad readership. However, despite the fact that it is a rapidly changing field, contemporary science fiction literature also maintains a strong sense of its connections to science fiction of the past, which makes a historical reference of this sort particularly valuable as a tool for understanding science fiction literature as it now exists and as it has evolved over the years. The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature covers the history of science fiction in literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries including significant people; themes; critical issues; and the most significant genres that have formed science fiction literature. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this subject.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 146682946X
Total Pages : 969 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1990-05-15 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching from the sky to the edge of the world, science fiction is the literature of the imagination, and this year's collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting, and intelligent fiction of 1989. This year's collection features works by many of science fiction's greatest writers--both veterans and newcomers--including: Neal Barret, Jr., Gregory Benford, Alan Brennert, John Crowley, Avram Davidson, Alexander Jablokov, Janet Kagan, William King, Kathe Koja, Nancy Kress, Megan Lindholm, Judith Moffett, Steven Popkes, Mike Resnick, Robert Sampson, Charles Sheffield, Lucius Shepard, Robert Silverberg, S.P. Somtow, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, John Varley, Connie Willis.