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Book Synopsis The Stuff of Science Fiction by : Gary Westfahl
Download or read book The Stuff of Science Fiction written by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeatedly addressed in science fiction of recent centuries. Based on a packet of original essays that the author assembled for his classes, the book could serve as a supplemental textbook in science fiction classes, but also contains material of interest to science fiction scholars and others devoted to the genre. In some cases, chapters offer thorough surveys of numerous works involving certain subjects, such as imagined vehicles, journeys beneath the Earth and undersea adventures, discovering intriguing patterns in the ways that various writers developed their ideas. When comprehensive coverage of ubiquitous topics such as robots, aliens and the planet Mars is impossible, chapters focus on major themes referencing selected texts. A conclusion discusses other science fiction subjects that were omitted for various reasons, and a bibliography lists additional resources for the study of science fiction in general and the topics of each chapter.
Book Synopsis The Shape of Things To Come - A Science Fiction Classic (Complete Edition) by : H. G. Wells
Download or read book The Shape of Things To Come - A Science Fiction Classic (Complete Edition) written by H. G. Wells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106. In the book, a world state is established as the solution to humanity's problems. As a frame story, Wells claims that the book is his edited version of notes written by an eminent diplomat, Dr Philip Raven, who had been having dream visions of a history textbook published in 2106 and wrote down what he could remember of it. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
Book Synopsis The Science of Science Fiction by : Mark Brake
Download or read book The Science of Science Fiction written by Mark Brake and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are the first generation to live in a science fiction world. Media headlines declare this the age of automation. The TV talks about the coming revolution of the robot, tweets tell tales of jets that will ferry travelers to the edge of space, and social media reports that the first human to live for a thousand years has already been born. The science we do, the movies we watch, and the culture we consume is the stuff of fiction that became fact, the future imagined in our past—the future we now inhabit. The Science of Science Fiction is the story of how science fiction shaped our world. No longer a subculture, science fiction has moved into the mainstream with the advent of the information age it helped realize. Explore how science fiction has driven science, with topics that include: Guardians of the Galaxy: Is Space Full of Extraterrestrials? Jacking In: Will the Future Be Like Ready Player One? Mad Max: Is Society Running down into Chaos? The Internet: Will Humans Tire of Mere Reality? Blade Runner 2049: When Will We Engineer Human Lookalikes? And many more! This book will open your eyes to the way science fiction helped us dream of things to come, forced us to explore the nature and limits of our own reality, and aided us in building the future we now inhabit.
Book Synopsis The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of by : Thomas M. Disch
Download or read book The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of written by Thomas M. Disch and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disch's pragmatic approach to science fiction and its impact on modern life provides a disturbing meditation on the triumph of the genre over rationality and the expiring culture we inhabit in the late 20th century.
Book Synopsis Greatest Science Fiction Classics of H. G. Wells by : H. G. Wells
Download or read book Greatest Science Fiction Classics of H. G. Wells written by H. G. Wells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 2645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Greatest Science Fiction Classics of H. G. Wells" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. Table of Contents: The Time Machine The War of The Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man The First Men in the Moon When the Sleeper Wakes The Shape of Things to Come The Food of the Gods In the Days of the Comet A Modern Utopia The War in the Air The Chronic Argonauts In the Abyss The Star The Crystal Egg
Book Synopsis The Stuff of Stars by : David Litwack
Download or read book The Stuff of Stars written by David Litwack and published by The Seekers. This book was released on 2023-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Seekers fail this time, they risk not a stoning, but losing themselves in the twilight of a never-ending dream. GOLD MEDAL: Feathered Quill Book Award - 2017 - Science Fiction/Fantasy SILVER MEDAL: Readers' Favorite Book Awards - 2016 - Young Adult Sci-Fi WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Summer 2016 - Best Science Fiction WINNER: Awesome Indies Approved "But what are we without dreams?" Against all odds, Orah and Nathaniel have found the keep and revealed the truth about the darkness, initiating what they hoped would be a new age of enlightenment. But the people were more set in their ways than anticipated, and a faction of vicars whispered in their ears, urging a return to traditional ways. Desperate to keep their movement alive, Orah and Nathaniel cross the ocean to seek the living descendants of the keepmasters' kin. Those they find on the distant shore are both more and less advanced than expected. The seekers become caught between the two sides, and face the challenge of bringing them together to make a better world. The prize: a chance to bring home miracles and a more promising future for their people. The cost of failure: unimaginable. "In this YA sci-fi sequel, Litwack pushes his characters into new physical, mental, and emotional realms as they encounter an unusual, tech-based society. A grand, revelatory saga that continues to unfold." Kirkus Reviews EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS the multiple award-winning second book in the extraordinary "The Seekers" series of dystopian sci-fi adventures, from the author of such award-winning greats as The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky, Along the Watchtower, and The Time That's Given.
Book Synopsis Star Stuff: Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories by : Daniel Arenson
Download or read book Star Stuff: Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories written by Daniel Arenson and published by Moonclipse. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction and fantasy stories from a USA Today bestselling author. Carl Sagan famously said that we are made of star stuff. The atoms in our bodies were forged in the hearts of stars. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Science fiction is the literature of ideas. Of exploration. Of imagination. Through science fiction, we get a little closer to knowing the universe. This anthology contains tales of imagination. One novella. Five science fiction stories. One fantasy story. All seven tales ask a question. What if . . . We are made of star stuff. Let's gaze at where we came from . . . and imagine.
Download or read book Human Error written by Raymond F. Jones and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the rainy year. Last year had been the dry one, and it would come again. But they wouldn't be here to see it, Captain Louis Carnahan thought. They had seen four dry ones, and now had come the fourth wet one, and soon they would be going home. For them, this was the end of the cycle. At first they had kept track of the days, checking each one off on their calendars, but the calendars had long since been mingled indistinguishably with the stuff of the planet itself—along with most of the rest of their equipment. By that time, however, they had learned that the cycle of wet and dry seasons was almost precisely equivalent to a pair of their own Terran years, so they had no more need for the calendars. But at the beginning of this wet season Carnahan had begun marking off the days once again with scratches on the post of the hut in which he lived. The chronometers were gone, too, but one and three-quarters Earth days equalled one Serrengian day, and by that he could compute when the ships from Earth were due.
Book Synopsis The Shape of Things To Come by : H. G. Wells
Download or read book The Shape of Things To Come written by H. G. Wells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106. In the book, a world state is established as the solution to humanity's problems. As a frame story, Wells claims that the book is his edited version of notes written by an eminent diplomat, Dr Philip Raven, who had been having dream visions of a history textbook published in 2106 and wrote down what he could remember of it. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
Book Synopsis The Shape of Things to Come by : Herbert George Wells
Download or read book The Shape of Things to Come written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Shape of Things to Come" is one of the great classics of science fiction. Originally written in 1929, this masterly work of science fiction has already confirmed H G Wells' status as a remarkable soothsayer, and provides glimpses of what is perhaps yet to come. The book is written as a sort of historical account. It tells of how a world state could be considered an answer to Earth's problems. After a large plague wipes out much of humanity, a dictatorship takes over, taking away all religion and uniting the world. If someone opposes the dictatorship, they are given a choice to commit suicide in an environment of their choice. However, the dictatorship is later overthrown and the world state dissolves. Spanning the years from 1929 to 2105, it describes future generations and predicts the advent of wars, advancing technology and sweeping cultural changes.
Book Synopsis Speaking of Science Fiction by : Paul Walker
Download or read book Speaking of Science Fiction written by Paul Walker and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection by : Gardner Dozois
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardner Dozois, science fiction's foremost editor, consistently selects the field's best work each year with this showcase anthology. This year's collection presents sterling short stories from veterans and newcomers alike, including Stephen Baxter, Alan Brennert, Carolyn Ives Gilman, James Patrick Kelly, Geoffrey A. Landis, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Reed, William Sanders, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Rounded out with Dozois's insightful Summation of the Year in SF and a long list of Honorable Mentions, this anthology is the book for every science fiction fan.
Book Synopsis Science Fiction: A Critical Guide by : Patrick Parrinder
Download or read book Science Fiction: A Critical Guide written by Patrick Parrinder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range from well-known academic critics to young novelists. The essays establish the common properties of science fiction writing, and assess the history and significance of a field in which critical judgements have often been unreliable. The material ranges from the earliest imaginative journeys to the moon, to later developments of British, American and European science fiction.
Book Synopsis The 57th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Henry Slesar by : Henry Slesar
Download or read book The 57th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Henry Slesar written by Henry Slesar and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Slesar was a science fiction author during the Golden Age of the genre, writing not just for the leading magazines, but for movies and television, most notably Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. Included in this volume are 10 of his classic tales THE SHOW MUST GO ON DREAM TOWN HEART MY FATHER, THE CAT RELUCTANT GENIUS THE DELEGATE FROM VENUS THE STUFF THE SUCCESS MACHINE BRAINCHILD A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR If you enjoy this volume of our best-selling MEGAPACK® series, check your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 400+ other volumes, covering not only science fiction, but fantasy, horror, westerns, mysteries, and many other subjects.
Book Synopsis The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction by : Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
Download or read book The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction written by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today’s world. As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and sophistication, it shares a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. A strikingly high proportion of today’s films, commercial art, popular music, video games, and non-genre fiction are what Csicsery-Ronay calls “science fictional” —stimulating science-fictional habits of mind. We no longer treat science fiction as merely a genre-engine producing formulaic effects, but as a mode of awareness, which frames experiences as if they were aspects of science fiction. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction describes science fiction as a constellation of seven diverse cognitive attractions that are particularly formative of science-fictionality. These are the “seven beauties” of the title: fictive neology, fictive novums, future history, imaginary science, the science-fictional sublime, the science-fictional grotesque, and the Technologiade, or the epic of technoscience’s development into a global regime.
Book Synopsis The Shape of Things to Come by : Herbert George Wells
Download or read book The Shape of Things to Come written by Herbert George Wells and published by London : Transworld. This book was released on 1967 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Slimy Things Did Crawl by : Susan Kaye Quinn
Download or read book Slimy Things Did Crawl written by Susan Kaye Quinn and published by Twisted Space LLC. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn’t be possible. Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.
