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LIFE Science Fiction

Author : The Editors of LIFE
Publisher : Time Inc. Books
ISBN 13 : 1683302451
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book LIFE Science Fiction written by The Editors of LIFE and published by Time Inc. Books. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the rise of science fiction - the land of time machines, space travel, and lost worlds - and how we became so enraptured by the mystery, wonder, and thrill of a genre. Discover the historical inspiration, creative strategy, and the behind-the-scenes scoop of classics including Star Wars, ET, Jurassic Park and Avatar in an all-new special edition from LIFE, Science Fiction: 100 Years of Great Movies. Included in this special edition is a detailed chronicle of the 20 most iconic movies that helped forge a new identity for a new genre. Through its evolution over the years - beginning in 1902 with George Méliès's Le Voyage dans la Lune to most recent years in films such as Avatar (2009) and The Martian (2015) - Science Fiction has not only endured a changing landscape thanks to the invention of new technology, but has grown a passionate and devoted following. In this celebration of the most iconic Science Fiction films, adventure through the geniuses of Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, and George Lucas and delve into worlds of possibility and the future.

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016575
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction written by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Creating Life from Life

Author : Rosalyn W. Berne
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9814463590
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Creating Life from Life written by Rosalyn W. Berne and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays by scientists, historians, philosophers of science, and students. The essays meld biotechnology into science fiction stories and thereby open a conversation about the morality of what we may be one day, and what it may mean to be human as our biotechnological endeavors continue to evolve. The biotechnology "revol

Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life

Author : Jörg Matthias Determann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755601300
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Book Synopsis Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life by : Jörg Matthias Determann

Download or read book Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life written by Jörg Matthias Determann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity, imagination and future-oriented thought. However, even the most authoritarian Muslim-majority countries have produced highly imaginative accounts on one of the frontiers of knowledge: astrobiology, or the study of life in the universe. This book argues that the Islamic tradition has been generally supportive of conceptions of extra-terrestrial life, and in this engaging account, Jörg Matthias Determann provides a survey of Arabic, Bengali, Malay, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu texts and films, to show how scientists and artists in and from Muslim-majority countries have been at the forefront of the exciting search. Determann takes us to little-known dimensions of Muslim culture and religion, such as wildly popular adaptations of Star Wars and mysterious movements centred on UFOs. Repression is shown to have helped science fiction more than hurt it, with censorship encouraging authors to disguise criticism of contemporary politics by setting plots in future times and on distant planets. The book will be insightful for anyone looking to explore the science, culture and politics of the Muslim world and asks what the discovery of extra-terrestrial life would mean for one of the greatest faiths.

Venus on the Half-Shell

Author : Philip Jose Farmer
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1781163073
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Venus on the Half-Shell written by Philip Jose Farmer and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of the multiverse, to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.

Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction

Author : Jack Williamson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575112115
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction written by Jack Williamson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction legend Jack Williamson's classic autobiography is much more than the story of a single man's life and work; it is an amazing look at the entire 20th century from the perspective of a man on a "long search for endurable compromise with society." Born in 1908, Williamson often felt at odds with the world around him and began writing science fiction as a method of escape. His tentative entrance into the field - his first story was published in 1928 in Hugo Gernsbach's legendary Amazing Stories - soon transformed him from a pulp writer into one of the Grand Masters of science fiction.

The Mote in God's Eye

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671741926
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book The Mote in God's Eye written by Larry Niven and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1974 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction-roman.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition)

Author : Charles Yu
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307379884
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition) by : Charles Yu

Download or read book How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition) written by Charles Yu and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced eBook includes video, audio, photographic, and linked content, as well as a bonus short story. Hear TAMMY talk. Learn the origins of Minor Universe 31. See the TM-31. Take a trip in it. Photos and illustrations appear as hyperlinked endnotes. Video and audio are embedded directly in text. *Video and audio may not play on all readers. Check your user manual for details. National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—in fact it may even save his life. Wildly new and adventurous, Yu’s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space–time.

Seveneves

Author : Neal Stephenson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062190415
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Seveneves written by Neal Stephenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

Author : Randall Frakes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1683835905
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction written by Randall Frakes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to the AMC’s mini-series features the full interviews plus essays by sci-fi insiders and rare concept art from Cameron’s archives. For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmaking—Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ridley Scott, and Steven Spielberg—to get their perspectives on the importance of the genre. This book reproduces the interviews in full as the greatest minds in the genre discuss key topics including alien life, time travel, outer space, dark futures, monsters, and intelligent machines. An in-depth interview with Cameron is also featured, plus essays by experts in the science fiction field on the main themes covered in the show. Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concept art from Cameron’s personal archives, plus imagery from iconic sci-fi movies, TV shows, and books, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction offers a sweeping examination of a genre that continues to ask questions, push limits, and thrill audiences around the world.

Life as We Knew it

Author : Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0152061541
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Life as We Knew it written by Susan Beth Pfeffer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open. High school sophomore Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun? As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in a year's worth of journal entries, this heart-pounding story chronicles Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. An extraordinary series debut Susan Beth Pfeffer has written several companion novels to Life As We Knew It, including The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.

Films from the Future

Author : Andrew Maynard
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1633539067
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Films from the Future written by Andrew Maynard and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deftly shows how a seemingly frivolous film genre can guide us in shaping tomorrow’s world.” —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and interplanetary travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibilities are very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? This book, by a physicist and expert on responsible technology development, reveals how science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine. Films from the Future looks at twelve movies that take us on a journey through the worlds of biological and genetic manipulation, human enhancement, cyber technologies, and nanotechnology. Readers will gain a broader understanding of the complex relationship between science and society. The movies mix old and new, and the familiar and unfamiliar, to provide a unique, entertaining, and ultimately transformative take on the power of emerging technologies, and the responsibilities they come with.

Man of Two Worlds:

Author : Julius Schwartz
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780380810512
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Man of Two Worlds: written by Julius Schwartz and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-06-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was Superman or Batman, before Ray Bradbury or Harlan Ellison ever picked up a pen, before there were science-fiction fans and conventions, there was Julius Schwartz -- a man who would have an indelible effect on all this and more. One of the inventors of science-fiction fandom in the thirties and publisher of the first SF "fanzine" (one of its early subscribers was Superman's cocreator Jerry Siegel), Julius Schwartz became the world's first SF specialty literary agent while still in his teens. During the "Golden Age" of science fiction, he represented a distinguished roster of authors, including H. P. Lovecraft, Alfred Bester, Robert Bloch, and Ray Bradbury. But that was only the first chapter in Schwartzs amazing career, for he is also one of the most influential editors in comic-book history. Besides working on both the Superman and Batman character she created much of the mythology we now take for granted. Schwartz was also responsible for revitalizing nearly every important DC Comics character, highlighted by the mighty Justice League of America, in what has since become known as comics' beloved "Silver Age." Over more than forty years, Schwartz captained such blazing talents of the comics industry as Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Curt Swan, Neal Adams, Denny O'Neil, Alan Moore, and many others. Here, in "Julie's" own words, is a behind-the-scenes look at a life spent having fun and making sure readers did, too -- the incredible story of a true hero of American pop culture.

Damocles

Author : S. G. Redling
Publisher : 47north
ISBN 13 : 9781611099652
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Damocles written by S. G. Redling and published by 47north. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loul Pell is a middle class government functionary resigned to the loss of his ambitious dreams. Meg Dupris is a traveler from a distant galaxy, haunted by tragedy and committed to a lifelong journey of discovery. Their chance meeting will be the first step toward life-changing history: contact with an extraterrestrial race.

The Science in Science Fiction

Author : Peter Nicholls
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 : 9780517653357
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book The Science in Science Fiction written by Peter Nicholls and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1987 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays on Life Sciences, with Related Science Fiction Stories

Author : Pier Luigi Luisi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527544796
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Life Sciences, with Related Science Fiction Stories written by Pier Luigi Luisi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays highlights, in a new, critical fashion, some of the classic questions in life science. These include “what is life?”; “what is death?”; “what is consciousness?”; “why is life cellular?”; and “why are enzymes macromolecules?”. It also explores whether evolution is pre-determined, whether science and spirituality can harmonize with each other, whether artificial intelligence is at odds with the human spirit, and whether, and to what extent, we are genetically determined. In this text, some of the main conceptual tools used to tackle life’s many aspects are necessarily reviewed, such as the systems view of life, the notion of contingency, and the concept of autopoiesis. Each of the three chapters of the book contains a number of short science fiction stories which discuss aspects of the present-day development of artificial intelligence.

From Science Fiction to Science Facts

Author : C. B. Don
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967008486
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book From Science Fiction to Science Facts written by C. B. Don and published by . This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "FROM SCIENCE FICTION TO SCIENCE FACTS" is the non-fiction companion study guide to the fantastic science-fiction novel, "Accused By Facet-Eyes". It is a unique teaching/learning approach, which pairs literary entertainment with fascinating life science facts. Academic enrichment for nature-loving readers, middle-, high-school and college students. Intended for mainstream, supplementary and home schooling education. Readers will learn why honeybees are endangered worldwide; their pivotal role in pollination and will better appreciate the essential, mutual interdependence with humankind. Eye-opening life science facts point out important interactions of biology, chemistry and physics with contemporary issues in ecology and human-induced environmental hazards from a global, social perspective. "From Science Fiction To Science Facts" is a great time-saver for busy educators. Over 400 easily accessed references support the science facts; an overview of the science topics shows their relevance to the National Science Education Standards categories; the analytical format and discussion questions encourage critical thought and debates; C.B. Don's original, captivating photographs bring foraging honeybees on garden flowers to life!