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Book Synopsis It's a Mall World After All by : Janette Rallison
Download or read book It's a Mall World After All written by Janette Rallison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While working at the mall, organizing a school fundraiser, and trying to prove that her best friend's boyfriend is seeing another girl, high-school student Charlotte's best intentions always seem to backfire.
Download or read book Consuming Youth written by Robert Latham and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the novels of Anne Rice to The Lost Boys, from The Terminator to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture, especially youth culture. In Consuming Youth, Rob Latham explains why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed. Inspired by Marx's use of the cyborg vampire as a metaphor for the objectification of physical labor in the factory, Latham shows how contemporary images of vampires and cyborgs illuminate the contradictory processes of empowerment and exploitation that characterize the youth-consumer system. While the vampire is a voracious consumer driven by a hunger for perpetual youth, the cyborg has incorporated the machineries of consumption into its own flesh. Powerful fusions of technology and desire, these paired images symbolize the forms of labor and leisure that American society has staked out for contemporary youth. A startling look at youth in our time, Consuming Youth will interest anyone concerned with film, television, and popular culture.
Download or read book Spree written by Pamela Klaffke and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this age of high consumption shopping is going stronger than ever as a national pastime. We are a culture obsessed and beguiled by the desire for consumer goods. Journalist and shopping addict Klaffke documents the history of shopping, from a time when cattle were currency to the current age of contemporary shopping phenomenon like QVC and eBay. From the history of the mall, to a look at the darker side of shopping culture - kleptomania, shopping addictions, anti-consumerism - this is the definitive chronology of the materialist age.
Book Synopsis Finders Keepers Detective Agency by : Dub Philippe Dub
Download or read book Finders Keepers Detective Agency written by Dub Philippe Dub and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private detective, Jack Valencz, is a psychic. Kathee Marani, a entertainer, can read minds. Cliff Bowen is a pickpocket with telekinetic powers. They each live in a time where mutant traits have emerged from the greatest environmental catastrophe to ever envelope mankind -- a depleted ozone layer. Physical changes and special abilities are now frowned upon and shunned by society. Those affected fight a daily battle to keep their conditions secret, avoiding run-ins with criminal organizations who rule through fear. But one day Jack, Kathee and Cliff cross paths, and amazing things begin to happen in their lives and their individual battles against these criminal cartels.
Download or read book Mallworld written by Somtow Sucharitkul and published by Tor Classics. This book was released on 1981 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld by : S. P. Somtow
Download or read book The Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld written by S. P. Somtow and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 35 years after the first Mallworld story was produced, S.P. Somtow has produced the Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld collection. Included are all the original stories (and the one story left out of the Starblaze trade edition), all the ads for the Mallworld products (left out in the TOR mass market re-printing), and all the original artwork by Karl Kofoed (the artwork was not included in the TOR edition) and Kofoed's cover art (left out of the Meisha Merlin edition ) With a new introduction by the author. "Mallworld" was an iconic science fiction novel of the 1980s and a pungent satire of the commercialism of the era as well as eerily prophetic. The Selespridar have locked us, the planet Earth, part of our solar system, and our sun up in a force field because the rest of the Galaxy plain and simple does not want to associate with us. Do we care? Not really. We have Mallworld, the shopping center the size of a planet So come along and play human pinball at the arcades, order your custom-designed baby at Storkways, Inc., experience your ultimate death at the Way Out Suicide Parlors-death by vampire is a special way to go and just one of the three-hundred ways you can decide to end your life.
Download or read book Mallworld written by Somtow Sucharitkul and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our solar system, locked in a force field and towed to an uninhabited parallel universe, occupies its time, when not trying to escape, at a shopping center the size of a planet
Download or read book Blood Read written by Joan Gordon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways. Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the definition of evil in a secular age. Scholars and writers from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan examine how today's vampire has evolved from that of the last century, consider the vampire as a metaphor for consumption within the context of social concerns, and discuss the vampire figure in terms of contemporary literary theory. In addition, three writers of vampire fiction—Suzy McKee Charnas (author of the now-classic Vampire Tapestry), Brian Stableford (writer of the lively and erudite novels Empire of Fear and Young Blood), and Jewelle Gomez (creator of the dazzling Gilda stories)—discuss their own uses of the vampire, focusing on race and gender politics, eroticism, and the nature of evil. The first book to examine a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars, Blood Read offers a variety of styles that will keep readers thoroughly engaged, inviting them to participate in a dialogue between fiction and analysis that shows the vampire to be a cultural necessity of our age. For, contrary to legends in which Dracula has no reflection, we can see reflections of ourselves in the vampire as it stands before us cloaked not in black but in metaphor.
Book Synopsis Black Cat Weekly #50 by : Charles Todd
Download or read book Black Cat Weekly #50 written by Charles Todd and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2022 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a special issue—our 50th, as you may have noticed from our cover. To celebrate, all past and present editors were to contribute a story. (It helps that they are also amazingly talented writers.) So we have stories from Michael Bracken, Barb Goffman, Paul Di Filippo, Darrell Schweitzer, and Cynthia Ward in addition to our other fare. But wait! There’s more! This issue features four original tales—Elizabeth Zelvin has a fantasy/mystery stories, Phyllis Ann Karr has a weird western, and Cynthia Ward has a gonzo science fiction crowd-funding story. And I have completed a story by the late H.B. Fyfe, who was best known for his science fiction stories, though this one is a revenge tale that most closely fits the mystery genre. And the good stuff doesn’t stop there. We also have a superhero story from Darrell Schweitzer. Space Opera from Algis Budrys and E.E. “Doc” Smith. A historical mystery novel by western author B.M. Bower. A historical investigation from Charles Todd. A Mallworld story from Somtow Sucharitkul (who also writes as S.P. Somtow). And no issue is complete without a solve-it-yourself mystery by Hal Charles. All in all, this is an probably our best Black Cat Weekly yet. Here’s the complete lineup: Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “The Ladies of Wednesday Tea” by Michael Bracken [short story] “Hidden in Plain Sight” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “Ice Ice Baby” by Barb Goffman [short story] “Flayed” by H.B. Fyfe and John Gregory Betancourt [short story] “Blood Money” by Charles Todd [Barb Goffman Presents short story] “The House of Marble” by Elizabeth Zelvin [Michael Bracken Presents short story] The Eagle’s Wing, by B.M. Bower [novel] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “The House of Marble” by Elizabeth Zelvin [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “The Rise and Fall of Whistle-Pig City” by Paul Di Filippo [short story] “Rabid in Mallworld” by Somtow Sucharitkul [short story] “Fighting the Zeppelin Gang” by Darrell Schweitzer [short story] “Winona of Bleeding Kansas” by Phyllis Ann Karr [short story] “The Campaign Is Now Officially Complete” by Cynthia Ward [short story] “Blood on my Jets” by Algis Budrys [short story] The Skylark of Valeron, by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. [novel]
Book Synopsis Mallworld, Incorporated: Bound Together, Volume 2 by : Jeffery Zavadil
Download or read book Mallworld, Incorporated: Bound Together, Volume 2 written by Jeffery Zavadil and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After winning Mallworld's first democratic election, Jime, Sam, and ReBound battle Executive propaganda in the media and crackdowns in the streets. Discontent seethes in the sprawling, dystopian shopping complex, which has oppressed humanity since the eco-collapse. Will the movement survive when a key leader is assassinated? Exploring political theory through a fictional dystopia, Mallworld, Inc: Bound Together tries to answer the question, "How can people be free in a world of modern communications and information technology?" The ReBound Party, now governing an entire section, begins to liberate Mallworld's people from overwork, overconsumption, and bloody spectacles. The greedy Executive oligarchs fight back with a smear campaign in the holographic media, but ReBound champions the common people, proclaiming their philosophy of interconnection and coexaltation--of mutual elevation rather than exploitation. Fearing for their power, the oligarchs assassinate a revered activist, and ReBound supporters take to the streets but suffer a violent crackdown. When ReBound backs a labor strike against one of Mallworld's most powerful and abusive companies, the Executives threaten to burn down everything the movement has built. Can ReBound survive? In the vein of 1984, Brave New World, and Ecotopia, Mallworld, Inc: Bound Together tells the story of a future struggle for democracy in order to explore the political ideas that can reverse our democratic and environmental crisis today. A dystopia for the 21st century, it tackles issues of power, economics, identity, and equality, envisioning the transformation of the world into one devoted to coexaltation and human dignity.
Book Synopsis The Ultimate Mallworld by : S. P. Somtow
Download or read book The Ultimate Mallworld written by S. P. Somtow and published by Meisha Merlin Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here collected together for the first time are all the short stories, ads, and illustrations for S. P. Somtow's Mallworld. Included in The Ultimate Mallworld are all the original stories (and the one story left out of the Starblaze trade edition), all the ads for the Mallworld products (left out in the TOR mass market re-printing), and all the original artwork by Karl Kofoed (the artwork was not included in the TOR edition). This edition will also contain two new Mallworld stories written by Somtow along with their new interior illustrations by the original artist Karl Kofoed. The Selespridar have locked us, the planet Earth, part of our solar system, and our sun up in a force field because the rest of the Galaxy plain and simple does not want to associate with us. Do we care? Not really. We have Mallworld, the shopping center almost the size of a planet. custom-designed baby at Storkways, Inc., experience your ultimate death at the Way Out Suicide Parlors - death by vampire is a special way to go and just one of the three-hundred ways you can decide to end your life.
Book Synopsis Mallworld, Incorporated by : Jeffery Zavadil
Download or read book Mallworld, Incorporated written by Jeffery Zavadil and published by Mallworld-Rebound Trilogy. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mallworld's political crisis explodes as workers unite in a general strike against Executive Party subjugation. Jime Galilei's ReBound Party wins a guarantee of elections running as champions of strong civic culture and economic justice. But when Mall CEO Ronald Ryan and the Executives crash the economy a bloody disaster ensues. The Executives exploit it to suspend the vote but ReBound vows to hold elections anyway. Can they win, and will the Executives give up power? Exploring political theory through a dystopia that becomes a utopia, Mallworld, Inc: Bound Forward asks, How can we transform our world to honor our interconnection with each other and with nature? Jime, in exile Outside, organizes the workeys to free themselves from servitude and they go on strike, shutting down Mallworld's industry. Meanwhile, the walkout Inside against the abusive Mallmart corporation swells into a general strike, and the Executives are forced to let Jime back in and allow free and fair elections. ReBound's philosophy of interconnection and coexaltation spreads further, even reaching Mallworld's aristocratic circles. The Executives, however, orchestrate a great capital flight from troublesome districts, and Mallworld's economy withers. In a final campaign debate, Jime defends the ideals of democracy and equality and ReBound takes the lead. But only days before the election, a calamity strikes and the Executives suspend the vote. ReBound proclaims they will hold elections anyway, but can they oust the Executives? And if they succeed, what new world will they build? In the vein of 1984, Brave New World, and Ecotopia, Mallworld, Inc: Bound Forward tells the story of a future struggle for democracy in order to explore the political ideas that can reverse our democratic and environmental crisis today. A utopia for the 21st century, it envisions a world devoted to coexaltation and dignity and charts a path for humanity to get there.
Download or read book Beyond Mallworld written by S P Somtow and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shopping center as big as a planet is back - this time with over 80 pages of new material including the first new Mallworld story in thirty years - the jaw-dropping Mallworld Becomes Elektra which takes the premise of the entire satirical universe and turns it on its ear. A pungent satire of the rampant commercialism of the 1980s, S.P, Somtow's Mallworld stories first appeared in Isaac Asimov's during the post-Star Wars age of science fiction. Many things predicted in the Mallworld stories are happening today' from roller coasters inside shopping malls to cloning your filet mignon. Other things haven't happened yet but who knows? From suicide parlors to dining on the larvae of super-intelligent alliens, from baby showrooms to child repo agents ... everything is possible in Mallworld, the comic yet chilling dystopia of a future gone wild. Join the cult-of-the-month club, Insert your suppository vaculax, and shop for a nice second- hand body, preferably with compound eyes ... and if you are very lucky, party with the barJulians, who own simply everything ... including your soul. BEYOND MALLWORLD is the newest, most complete collection of Mallworld stories including the complete illustrations of Karl Kofoed and a brand new novella about a Mallworld in which people have ceased to shop!
Book Synopsis Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections by : William Contento
Download or read book Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections written by William Contento and published by Boston : G.K. Hall, c1978-c1984. This book was released on 1978 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mallworld, Incorporated by : Jeffery Zavadil
Download or read book Mallworld, Incorporated written by Jeffery Zavadil and published by Mallworld-Rebound Trilogy. This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the environment collapses, humanity lives in a sealed, luxury shopping mall a thousand miles across. It might seem like a paradise, but Mallworld's greedy oligarchs subjugate the people through overwork, overconsumption, and bloody spectacles. Jime Galilei is a cynical, failing everyman who rejects bread-and-circus consumerism and ignites a political revolution to revive democracy, community, and a green Earth.In this book that explores political theory through a fictional dystopian world, Mallworld, Incorporated tries to answer the question: "How can we build a better world when society shapes our very individuality to exploit us?"
Book Synopsis The Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld by : S.P. Somtow
Download or read book The Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld written by S.P. Somtow and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 35 years after the first Mallworld story was produced, S.P. Somtow has produced the Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld collection. Included are all the original stories (and the one story left out of the Starblaze trade edition), all the ads for the Mallworld products (left out in the TOR mass market re-printing), and all the original artwork by Karl Kofoed (the artwork was not included in the TOR edition) and Kofoed's cover art (left out of the Meisha Merlin edition!) With a new introduction by the author.Mallworld was an iconic science fiction novel of the 1980s and a pungent satire of the commercialism of the era as well as eerily prophetic.The Selespridar have locked us, the planet Earth, part of our solar system, and our sun up in a force field because the rest of the Galaxy plain and simple does not want to associate with us. Do we care? Not really. We have Mallworld, the shopping center the size of a planet!So come along and play human pinball at the arcades, order your custom-designed baby at Storkways, Inc., experience your ultimate death at the Way Out Suicide Parlors-death by vampire is a special way to go and just one of the three-hundred ways you can decide to end your life.
Book Synopsis Science Fiction Magazine Story Index, 1926-1995 by : Terry A. Murray
Download or read book Science Fiction Magazine Story Index, 1926-1995 written by Terry A. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the appearance of the first science fiction magazine in 1926, thousands of short stories have been published in periodicals devoted to the genre. These stories cover a wide range of subjects, from spacecraft to the human condition, and feature little-known authors as well as masters like Ellison and Asimov. In the past, finding which issue of what magazine ran a certain story was nearly impossible. This much-needed reference tool provides valuable assistance in the daunting task of locating short stories published in science fiction magazines, providing exhaustive indexes to magazines, authors, and titles, allowing a variety of options for research on 34,000 stories appearing in nearly 5,000 issues of 133 genre magazines. Stories from all major American publications, as well as from several minor periodicals, are indexed. Also included is an appendix of the best known and most prolific contributors, giving the titles of all their stories in this work (necessary because the huge author index does not show titles). A guide to how to use this book clarifies its features for the researcher.
