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Author : John Sladek
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244158770
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (441 download)
Download or read book New Maps: More Uncollected John Sladek written by John Sladek and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Sladek
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575110651
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Maps written by John Sladek and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps is the definitive collection of John Sladek's uncollected work put together by his friend, fellow writer and critic David Langford who also provides an introduction. It includes all the solo stories - science fiction, detective puzzles, mainstream, "non-fact" pieces - as well as poems, playlets, pseudonymous fiction, all the short collaborations with Thomas M. Disch (including three never previously published) and some witty autobiographical essays. Sladek, was as good a writer of satire as Vonnegut, and without the Vonnegut mannerisms. Unfortunately he never received the appropriate credit, except from a small following of devoted readers.
Author : John Sladek
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473201926
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)
Download or read book John Sladek SF Gateway Omnibus written by John Sladek and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the vaults of The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the razor-sharp wit of John Sladek. An important voice in the New Wave movement, Sladek had stories published in Harlan Ellison's seminal anthology, DANGEROUS VISIONS, as well as in Michael Moorcock's ground-breaking NEW WORLDS magazine. Perhaps best known for the ambitious robot tales RODERICK and RODERICK AT RANDOM, he is now recognized as one of SF's most brilliant satirists. This omnibus collects novels THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, THE MULLER-FOKKER EFFECT and BSFA AWARD-winning TIK-TOK. THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM: Wompler's Walking Babies aren't selling like they used to, so the company develops Project 32, producing self-replicating mechanisms designed to repair inter-cellular breakdowns. But then the metal boxes begin crawling about the laboratory, feeding voraciously on metal and multiplying... THE MULLER-FOKKER EFFECT: Bob Shairp - a writer and dreamer - has agreed to be a guinea-pig in a military experiment to find out if his personality can be turned into data and stored on computer. But a computing error quickly destroys Shairp's physical body, leaving his mind stranded in an encoded world. Can the process be reversed? TIK-TOK: Something has gone very seriously wrong with Tik-Tok's 'asimov circuits'. They should keep him on the straight and narrow, following Asimov's First Law of Robotics: 'a robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm.' But they don't. While maintaining the outward appearance of a mild-mannered robot, albeit one with artistic tendencies and sympathy for the robot rights movement, Tik-Tok's real agenda is murderously different. He seems intent on injuring - preferably fatally - as many people as possible. Almost inevitably, a successful career in crime and general mayhem leads to a move into politics and Tik-Tok becomes the first robot candidate for Vice President of the United States.
Author : Regina Schober
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111060594
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk written by Regina Schober and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk explores the shifting functions of the network as a metaphor, model, and as an epistemological framework in US American literature and culture from the 19th century until today. The book critically inquires into the literary, cultural, philosophical, and scientific rhetoric, values, and ideological underpinnings that have given rise to the network concept. Literature and culture play a major role in the ways in which networks have been imagined and how they have evolved as conceptual models. This study regards networks as historically emergent and culturally constructed formations closely tied with the development of knowledge technologies in the process of modernization as well as with an increasingly critical awareness of network technologies and infrastructures. While the rise of the network in scientific, philosophical, political and sociological discourses has received wide attention, this book contributes an important cultural and historical perspective to network theory by demonstrating how US American literature and culture have been key sites for thinking in and about networks in the past two centuries.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780332645
Total Pages : 1153 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 written by Gardner Dozois and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Swanwick, Geoff Ryman, Allen Steele, Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, Michael Cassott, Charles Stross are just some of the high-profile names that feature in this volume of what is now regarded as essential reading for every science-fiction fan. This year's edition includes not just the biggest names in science-fiction writing but also many of its other brightest young talents too, as well as even more stories than ever before. All this, and the usual thorough summations of the year, plus a list of recommended reading, more than upholds an established tradition of value and excellence.
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1592241255
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (922 download)
Download or read book The Leaky Establishment written by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen when a "harmless" theft of office furniture lands him with his very own doomsday nuclear stockpile at home. Chain reactions of insanely comic escapades follow, with disaster piled on disaster, leading the increasingly desperate Tappen to the borders of science fiction as he seeks a way out of the mess.
Author : John Sladek
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575110651
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Maps written by John Sladek and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps is the definitive collection of John Sladek's uncollected work put together by his friend, fellow writer and critic David Langford who also provides an introduction. It includes all the solo stories - science fiction, detective puzzles, mainstream, "non-fact" pieces - as well as poems, playlets, pseudonymous fiction, all the short collaborations with Thomas M. Disch (including three never previously published) and some witty autobiographical essays. Sladek, was as good a writer of satire as Vonnegut, and without the Vonnegut mannerisms. Unfortunately he never received the appropriate credit, except from a small following of devoted readers.
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326299824
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)
Download or read book CROSSTALK: Interviews Conducted by David Langford written by David Langford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen interviews in which David Langford -- winner of 29 Hugo Awards -- questions other science fiction and fantasy notables: Stephen Baxter, Kristen Britain, John Clute and John Grant, John Clute solo, George Hay, Tom Holt, Terry Pratchett with Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart, Terry Pratchett solo (twice), Christopher Priest, Alastair Reynolds, John Sladek, Bob Shaw, Kevin Smith, and Ian Watson. CROSSTALK collects all these conversations for the first time in book form.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312308605
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-23 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects short stories exploring themes of time and space travel, self-discovery, and science and technology.
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809573431
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Starcombing written by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starcombing contains eighty-five newly collected pieces of David Langford's witty commentary on the SF/fantasy scene - columns, articles, reviews, essays, even a few short-short stories from the famous 'Futures' page in Nature. Compulsive reading, crammed with insights and laughs.
Author : John Sladek
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575110597
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Tik-Tok written by John Sladek and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm'. That's Asimov's celebrated First Law of Robotics. And in the 21st century, all domestic robots are programmed according to that Law. But something had gone terribly wrong with Tik-Tok's 'asimov circuits', and he sets out to injure as many people as possible - preferably fatally - while maintaining the exterior of a mild-mannered artist and a sincere campaigner for robot rights. So, like any self-respecting crook and murderer, he moves into politics, becoming the first robot candidate for Vice-President of the United States. Tik-Tok follows his maniacal progress from humble beginnings to the top of the heap - or almost. Because in his devious cunning, there was one element that Tik-Tok had forgotten... Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1983
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291243496
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Apricot Files written by David Langford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Thomas Sladek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802754042
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Invisible Green written by John Thomas Sladek and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497607205
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Forge of God written by Greg Bear and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This doomsday masterpiece from the author of Eon and Hull Zero Three was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards. On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records of Death Valley. A cinder cone was left off the map. Could it be new? Or, stranger yet, could it be artificial? The answer may be lying beside it—a dying Guest who brings devastating news for Edward and for Planet Earth. As more unexplained phenomena spring up around the globe—a granite mountain appearing in Australia, sounds emanating from the earth’s core, flashes of light among the asteroids—it becomes clear to some that the end is approaching, and there is nothing we can do. In The Forge of God, award-winning author Greg Bear describes the final days of the world on both a massive, scientific scale and in the everyday, emotional context of individual human lives. Facing the destruction of all they know, some people turn to God, others to their families, and a few turn to saviors promising escape from a planet being torn apart. Will they make it in time? And who gets left behind to experience the last moments of beauty and chaos on earth? Nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, The Forge of God is an engrossing read, breathtaking in its scope and in its detail.
Author : John Sladek
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575110643
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book The Lunatics of Terra written by John Sladek and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of John Sladek's hilarious SF satires, including: The Last of the Whaleburgers Great Mysteries Explained!Red Noise Guesting Absent Friends After Flaubert The Brass Monkey White Hat The Island of Dr Circe Answers Breakfast with the Murgatroyds The Next Dwarf An Explanation for the Disappearance of the Moon How to Make Major Scientific Discoveries at Home in Your Spare Time The Kindly Ones Fables Ursa Minor Calling All Gumdrops!
Author : Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction written by Gardner R. Dozois and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing. This year's volume includes Ian R. MacLeod, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Maureen F. McHugh, Robert Reed, Paul McAuley, Michael Swanwick, Robert Silverberg, Charles Stross, John Kessel, Gregory Benford and many other talented authors of SF, as well as thorough summations of the year and a recommended reading list.
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Nesfa Press
ISBN 13 : 9780915368624
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)
Download or read book The Silence of the Langford written by David Langford and published by Nesfa Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
