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Download or read book Opera's Orbit written by Stefanie Tcharos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tcharos illustrates opera's engagement in a larger musical sphere of Arcadian Rome, where opera inspired debate and fuelled ideological reform.
Book Synopsis The Space Opera Renaissance by : David G. Hartwell
Download or read book The Space Opera Renaissance written by David G. Hartwell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-ever anthology of one of science fiction's most vigorous subgenres
Book Synopsis Space Opera by : Catherynne M. Valente
Download or read book Space Opera written by Catherynne M. Valente and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest…and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented—something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix—part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. Species far and wide compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes, or faces. And if a new species should wish to be counted among the high and the mighty, if a new planet has produced some savage group of animals, machines, or algae that claim to be, against all odds, sentient? Well, then they will have to compete. And if they fail? Sudden extermination for their entire species. This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick, and electric guitars. Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny—they must sing. Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes have been chosen to represent their planet on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of Earth lies in their ability to rock.
Book Synopsis Zagribud: A Classic Space Opera by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Zagribud: A Classic Space Opera written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-08-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to John Russell Fearn’s classic Liners of Time, Time Liner Pilot Sandford Lee continues his battle against Elnek Jelfel, the Jovian wizard of science intent on galactic domination. Zagribud carries out their contests against an interstellar canvas, with Jelfel using his scientific powers to ultimately take possession of the Earth and carry out mass vivisection on humanity. This is the first unabridged book edition of a classic pre-war serial from the pages of Amazing Stories. It’s a cosmic saga of super-science from a bygone era of science fiction, in the tradition of E. E. 'Doc' Smith!
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction by : Mark Bould
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction written by Mark Bould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at: history – an integrated chronological narrative of the genre’s development theory – detailed accounts of major theoretical approaches including feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism and utopian studies issues and challenges – anticipates future directions for study in areas as diverse as science studies, music, design, environmentalism, ethics and alterity subgenres – a prismatic view of the genre, tracing themes and developments within specific subgenres. Bringing into dialogue the many perspectives on the genre The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and the future of science fiction and the way it is taught and studied.
Book Synopsis Halo: A Space Opera from Bungie by : Loïc Ralet
Download or read book Halo: A Space Opera from Bungie written by Loïc Ralet and published by Third Editions. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halo. When you read this name, a soundtrack starts playing in your ears and tons of images flash in front of your eyes. A whole universe appears in your mind. Welcome to the game series imagined and produced by the Bungie studio. Halo is more than an incredible space opera, it is the flagship of a community and the most important franchise for one of the three hardware manufacturers on the market.
Book Synopsis In the Code: Kyda Tren Space Opera by : Matt Edsand
Download or read book In the Code: Kyda Tren Space Opera written by Matt Edsand and published by Edsand. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the way to defeat the ancients lay in a set of codes? Kyda is running out of time to save her father. With a vessel and her friends, she embarks on a rescue mission to the House of Goen, where she will encounter evil beyond her imagination. Can Kyda get to her father before he is lost to Pandora's wrath? In the Code continues the epic Space Opera series about friendship and family, which will take you to new worlds, relentless enemies and a heart pound space adventure.
Book Synopsis Tor.com Publishing's Summer of Space Opera Sampler by : Spencer Ellsworth
Download or read book Tor.com Publishing's Summer of Space Opera Sampler written by Spencer Ellsworth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blast off into adventure with psychic powers, half-human revolutions, haunted luxury spaceships, murderous sentient robots, and genetic experiments. Check out excerpts from five short works that will be lighting up the stars in Summer 2017. Starfire: A Red Peace by Spencer Ellsworth, The Ghost Line by Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison, Acadie by Dave Hutchinson, All Systems Red by Martha Wells, and Killing Gravity by Corey J. White. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Interzeit: A Space Opera by : Samuel Eddy
Download or read book Interzeit: A Space Opera written by Samuel Eddy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 years of peace, mankind ascends into the stars, space colonies, and machines of great complexity spread ever deeper into space. The Earth is the centerpiece in an alliance of powers from across the solar system consolidated under The Planetary Cabinet. The Lunar Protectorate, The Federated Colonies of Mars, TianShanTech, and the Kuipterran Autocracy form up the four central powers within the Cabinet. The powers struggle over the Cabinet every ten years in a broadcasted mech tournament known as "The Unified War." After an unexpected result in the final round, events marked by tragedy bring conflict between the inner planets and colonies. In the turmoil, the remaining mech pilots struggle against the disintegration of the century of peace, fighting to protect the innocent from an uncertain future.
Book Synopsis The Pirates of Ersatz (Sci-Fi Space Opera) by : Murray Leinster
Download or read book The Pirates of Ersatz (Sci-Fi Space Opera) written by Murray Leinster and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pirates of Ersatz tells the story of Bran Hodder, a one-time engineer who sets out on a career of interstellar piracy ostensibly to further more legitimate goals. The revised version of this tale was nominated for the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Frederik Pohl reviewed Pirates favorably, saying "It would not seem possible that after thirty years of space-pirate stories any writer could make one come alive; but Bron Hoddan is a rather unique space pirate, and Murray Leinster is a nearly unique science-fiction writer".
Book Synopsis Uncharted Territory: Ardent Redux Saga: Episode 3 (A Space Opera Adventure) by : J. L. Stowers
Download or read book Uncharted Territory: Ardent Redux Saga: Episode 3 (A Space Opera Adventure) written by J. L. Stowers and published by Sixth Moon Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If it’s not one thing, it’s another… or another… or another. The hits just keep coming as Captain Dani Devereaux and the rest of Osirion’s crew take being lost in space to a whole new level. Once again, Dani is faced with a tough decision and little time to weigh her limited options. Doing what she believes is best for her crew is her motto but her choice takes them into an unexplored star system with challenges of its own. How will Dani and her crew survive the unknown, and more importantly, how will they get home? Find out what dangers await for the crew of Osirion in Uncharted Territory!
Download or read book Winter's Orbit written by Everina Maxwell and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sunday Times Bestseller! A 2022 Alex Award Winner! “Sparks fly” (NPR) in Everina Maxwell’s gut-wrenching and romantic space opera debut. Prince Kiem, a famously disappointing minor royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild, has been called upon to be useful for once. He's commanded to fulfill an obligation of marriage to the representative of the Empire's newest and most rebellious vassal planet. His future husband, Count Jainan, is a widower and murder suspect. Neither wants to be wed, but with a conspiracy unfolding around them and the fate of the empire at stake they will have to navigate the thorns and barbs of court intrigue, the machinations of war, and the long shadows of Jainan's past, and they'll have to do it together. So begins a legendary love story amid the stars. Like Ancillary Justice meets Red, White and Royal Blue, Winter’s Orbit is perfect for fans of Lois McMaster Bujold. “High-pitched noises escaped me; I shouted, more than once, 'Now kiss!' ... in a world so relentlessly uncertain, there’s a powerfully simple pleasure in the experience of a promise kept.” —The New York Times Book Review At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis The Risen Empire by : Scott Westerfeld
Download or read book The Risen Empire written by Scott Westerfeld and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling (Philip K. Dick Award special citation and a New York Times Notable Book) comes a sweeping epic, The Risen Empire, Scott Westerfeld's dazzling hardcover debut. The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power has been absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshiped as living gods. No one can touch them. Not until the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary extent. The Rix are cool, relentless fanatics, and their only goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy. They seek to end, by any means necessary, the Emperor's prolonged tyranny of one and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty of their own. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue. Separated by light-years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist senator Nara Oxham must each in their own way, face the challenge of the Rix, and they each will hold the fate of the empire in their hands. The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Opera minora by : Edward Constant Seguin
Download or read book Opera minora written by Edward Constant Seguin and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Alien Hunters: A Space Opera Trilogy by : Daniel Arenson
Download or read book Alien Hunters: A Space Opera Trilogy written by Daniel Arenson and published by Moonclipse. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Got trouble with aliens? Call the Alien Hunters. This bundle includes all three novels in this fast-paced, sci-fi adventure. BOOK 1: Alien Hunters -- The skelkrins. Predators from deep space. Creatures of claws, fangs, and malice. Riff and his crew are the Alien Hunters, ragtag mercenaries who travel the galaxy, trapping and removing cosmic critters. They're just galactic pest controllers, not an army. When the skelkrins attack, will the Alien Hunters be the ones hunting aliens . . . or will aliens hunt them? BOOK 2: Alien Sky -- The Singularity. The day the machines gained awareness. The day they turned cruel. The robotic fleet swarms across the galaxy, slaying all in its path. The Alien Hunters--outgunned, outsmarted, outclassed--fly up to meet these killer robots. The battle between life and machine begins. BOOK 3: Alien Shadows -- On a dead planet orbiting a black hole, shadows stir. Some call them ghosts, others merely figments of the imagination. As these astral beings spread across the cosmos, the Alien Hunters stare into the darkness of deepest space . . . and find terror.
Book Synopsis Opera minora; a collection of essays, articles, lectures and addresses from 1866 to 1882 inclusive by : Edward Constant Seguin
Download or read book Opera minora; a collection of essays, articles, lectures and addresses from 1866 to 1882 inclusive written by Edward Constant Seguin and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In Stravinsky's Orbit by : Klara Moricz
Download or read book In Stravinsky's Orbit written by Klara Moricz and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bolsheviks’ 1917 political coup caused a seismic disruption in Russian culture. Carried by the first wave of emigrants, Russian culture migrated West, transforming itself as it interacted with the new cultural environment and clashed with exported Soviet trends. In this book, Klára Móricz explores the transnational emigrant space of Russian composers Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Dukelsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Nicolas Nabokov, and Arthur Lourié in interwar Paris. Their music reflected the conflict between a modernist narrative demanding innovation and a narrative of exile wedded to the preservation of prerevolutionary Russian culture. The emigrants’ and the Bolsheviks’ contrasting visions of Russia and its past collided frequently in the French capital, where the Soviets displayed their political and artistic products. Russian composers in Paris also had to reckon with Stravinsky’s disproportionate influence: if they succumbed to fashions dictated by their famous compatriot, they risked becoming epigones; if they kept to their old ways, they quickly became irrelevant. Although Stravinsky’s neoclassicism provided a seemingly neutral middle ground between innovation and nostalgia, it was also marked by the exilic experience. Móricz offers this unexplored context for Stravinsky’s neoclassicism, shedding new light on this infinitely elusive term.
