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Book Synopsis The Lunatics of Terra by : John Thomas Sladek
Download or read book The Lunatics of Terra written by John Thomas Sladek and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Sladek's hilarious SF satires may show a world riddled with shambolic flaws, but this (he pointed out) is actually the good news: "My own small ray of hope concerns human frailty. All conspiracies, no matter how monstrous, are ultimately the work of mere imperfect people, whose irresolution or bad judgement or even bad conscience works against the system. They get bunions, their cars break down, their children run away -and all this grit gets into the smooth-running gears of their world domination plans. I hope."
Book Synopsis The Lunatics of Terra by : John Sladek
Download or read book The Lunatics of Terra written by John Sladek and published by Gateway. 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!
Book Synopsis A Checklist of John Sladek by : C. P. Stephens
Download or read book A Checklist of John Sladek written by C. P. Stephens and published by Ultramarine Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by : Don D'Ammassa
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.
Book Synopsis Up Through an Empty House of Stars by : David Langford
Download or read book Up Through an Empty House of Stars written by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, _Up Through an Empty House of Stars_ brings together the best of the never before collected SF reviews and articles that helped build David Langford's towering reputation since 1980. Complementing the review columns collected in _The Complete Critical Assembly_ and the knockabout essays and squibs in _The Silence of the Langford_, this volume's 100 glittering selections mix serious critical insight with the inimitable Langford wit. In 2002 David Langford won his sixteenth Hugo award as Best Fan Writer, for critical and humorous commentary on SF. In the same year his occasionally scandalous SF newsletter _Ansible_ won its fifth Hugo. Langford also received the 2001 Hugo for best short story, and the 2002 Skylark Award. Here he shines a unique light on classics like Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Robert Heinlein and Jack Vance, and analyses major SF -- and major clunkers, and minor eccentrics -- of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, continuing to the latest by such current stars as Gene Wolfe and China Mi, ville. Plus witty asides on crime fiction and its SF links, gleeful examination of writing so bad it's almost good, and (even at his most serious) turns of phrase to make you laugh aloud
Book Synopsis Anacalypsis an Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis by : Godfrey Higgins
Download or read book Anacalypsis an Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis written by Godfrey Higgins and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Complete Critical Assembly by : David Langford
Download or read book Complete Critical Assembly written by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.
Book Synopsis Full-Moon above the Vosges by : Cosmin Stefan Georgescu
Download or read book Full-Moon above the Vosges written by Cosmin Stefan Georgescu and published by Europa Edizioni. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-Moon above the Vosges gives us a dynamic perspective of human life, which unfolds through growth and change. Starting with adolescence, we move on to the events that most mark a man during his growth and maturation. Historical and classical anecdotes give us a perspective of the Earth and humanity through the eyes of the author. The world of personal characters from the author’s life is combined with that of classical and historical culture to which each of us can refer. The work is a perfect blend of personal and collective events that intertwine to narrate the author’s life and personal experiences. The reader is taken on a journey that begins with the writer’s childhood and passion for writing, moves on to his growth and medical career and culminates in his maturity, denoted by his reflections on man and his nature, while the common thread is the feeling of solitude that only the moon can give us. Cosmin Stefan Georgescu has been fascinated by words ever since his childhood, when he used to read and recite poems encouraged by his parents. Both of them being teachers, they were his first model during this early period of life. However, he later decided to become a doctor, graduating in 1997 from Carol Davila University of Medicine in Bucharest. During his career, he didn’t let down his passion, organizing cultural events and subscribing to the Society of Physician Writers in Romania. In 2015 he moved to France, where he has been living ever since. He published books in Romania, UK and France. He was awarded the Romanian “Sentimental Twilight” Prize in 2020 and the Critics’ Prize for his work Letters to God return to sender in 2021.
Book Synopsis John Sladek SF Gateway Omnibus by : John Sladek
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.
Download or read book Wholly Smokes written by John Sladek and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wholly Smokes was the last book completed by one of the most original, brilliant and under-rated American writers of the 20th century. Like so many of John Sladek's earlier books, this is almost impossible to categorize. It's the non-fiction or non-fact history of General Snuff and Tobacco, a very American tobacco company which seems to have been present at, or had bizarre influence on, many great and not-so-great moments of history. John Sladek provides his own indescribable clip-art illustrations. As he says in the Introduction: "The story of GST is also the story of the Badcock family, who owned and operated the company throughout its magnificent history. This book follows that history, stopping to explore a few of its more dazzling events. You will meet the Badcock who kidnapped Pocahontas, the Badcock who burned London, the Badcock who started the American Revolution, the Badcock who almost killed a president, the Badcock who delivered the real Gettysburg address, the Badcock who wanted to prolong World War One (because he was doing so well out of it), the Badcock who tried to bribe Roosevelt, the Badcock who tried to kill Fidel Castro, and many others . . ."
Download or read book Anatomy of Wonder written by Neil Barron and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work is an essential tool for collection development, research, reference, and readers' advisory work."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis BattleTech: Shrapnel, Year One by : Philip A. Lee
Download or read book BattleTech: Shrapnel, Year One written by Philip A. Lee and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2023-08-26 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strap into the Cockpit! Proudly carrying the battle standard for BattleTech short fiction, the first year of Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine continues the tradition of explosive, hard-hitting stories set in the war-torn, BattleMech-dominated interstellar future of the 31st century. In this collection of issues #1–4, you will attempt to escape from a bandit king’s stronghold, ally with longtime enemies on the front lines of the swift and merciless Clan invasion, and fight brutal arena duels on the game world of Solaris VII. You will defend your home in the Deep Periphery from opportunistic invaders, share tales of victory and woe at a popular MechWarrior bar, and discover a long-abandoned ’Mech that helps build an idealistic young woman’s sense of purpose. Then go beyond the story and forge your own legend with in-universe articles, conspiracy theories, technical readouts, unit and planet digests, playable scenarios, role-playing adventures, weapons catalogs, social commentaries, and much, much more! This collection also includes the entire four-part Kell Hounds serial novel, If Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot… by New York Times-bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole. Tighten your safety harness, thumb off your weapon safeties, and march into battle to see where it all began, with heart-wrenching stories and powerful game features penned by long-time BattleTech luminaries and exciting new authors. Note: this is the same file that all Kickstarter Mercenaries backers have already received. If you backed the campaign at any level, you have already received this file as part of your pledge.
Book Synopsis BattleTech: Shrapnel, Issue #3 by : Philip A. Lee, Ed.
Download or read book BattleTech: Shrapnel, Issue #3 written by Philip A. Lee, Ed. and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DAY THE STAR LEAGUE DIED! Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine brings you more BattleMech action from the war-torn 31st century and beyond! Celebrate Star League Day with tales of a long-abandoned ’Mech rediscovered and pressed into service, a quest for vengeance in enemy territory, the resurgence of old ghosts, and the threat of bitter betrayal in the face of long odds. Charge headlong into technical readouts, assassin conspiracies, in-depth equipment articles, playable holiday-themed scenarios, and more—all from BattleTech veterans, fan favorites, and new authors: Michael A. Stackpole Loren L. Coleman Blaine Lee Pardoe Bryan Young Bryn Bills Charles Dalmas Chris Hussey Daniel Isberner Alex Kaempen Craig A. Reed, Jr. Eric Salzman Lance Scarinci David Smith Tom Stanley
Book Synopsis New Maps: More Uncollected John Sladek by : John Sladek
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:
Book Synopsis Lovers and Lunatics by : Jennifer Willis
Download or read book Lovers and Lunatics written by Jennifer Willis and published by Jennifer Willis. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her boss orders her into space with her worst coworker, Hannah Cuthbertson wishes she could say no. The young TV producer’s job is on the line when she floats aboard a fledgling salvage ship to promote a new reality show. Even worse, she has to work one-on-one with the “Face of Space” himself—Gary Nelson, the perfectly groomed and professionally sculpted show host she abhors. Gary is everything Hannah isn’t—he’s charming and cool and genuinely enthusiastic about space exploration, including their boss’s latest ill-conceived show about salvaging valuable space junk. And Gary seems set on disrupting Hannah’s plan to keep her head down, do her work, and then get her feet back on the ground so she can get off the reality show circuit once and for all. But one dangerous and hair-raising coincidence after another proves this is no ordinary assignment. As frenemy space crews compete for the same treacherous payday, Hannah and Gary must put their differences aside to get to the bottom of an insidious conspiracy before they become the victims of a convenient accident far above the Earth’s surface. With their lives on the line and an undeniable heat escalating between them, Gary and Hannah are confronted with the unscripted reality that their professional friction belies a very real gravitational pull. Could true love be lurking in low Earth orbit? Lovers and Lunatics is the second book in the spicy sci-fi Mars Adventure Romance Series. If you like space adventure, shady intrigue, and getting frisky in microgravity, you’ll love M.A.R.S. Start reading today!
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art ... With the derivation and definition of all the terms in general use. Edited by W. T. Brande ... assisted by Joseph Cauvin, etc by : William Thomas BRANDE
Download or read book A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art ... With the derivation and definition of all the terms in general use. Edited by W. T. Brande ... assisted by Joseph Cauvin, etc written by William Thomas BRANDE and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
