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Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9780575037717
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (377 download)
Download or read book The Venus Hunters written by J. G. Ballard and published by Orion. This book was released on 1980 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Venus and Adonis written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Kent Stephenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313389098
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Out of the Night and Into the Dream written by Gregory Kent Stephenson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1991-10-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Empire of the Sun and other acclaimed novels and stories, British science fiction writer J. G. Ballard is here given a penetrating analysis, his work being explored in terms of its internal coherence, its continuity and development, and its mythic and metaphysical aspects. Ballard's fiction is widely considered to be a critique of our secular, rational, technological culture, but this study departs from earlier ones that label him a fatalistic or nihilistic writer obsessed with entropy, devolution, and dissolution in showing him, instead, to be most deeply concerned with the redemption and regeneration of the human psyche. With Ballard's focus so much on visionary perception and mystical transcendence, Gregory Stephenson argues for his placement in the Romantic visionary tradition. A comprehensive examination of Ballard's work, this study traces his output and accomplishments over four decades, exploring their thematic development. Ballard is considered in relation to a number of British and American writers of the post-World War II era--within and beyond the often too-rigidly applied categorization of science fiction, as well as to poets and novelists of the past.
Author : Peter Brigg
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0916732835
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (167 download)
Download or read book J.G. Ballard written by Peter Brigg and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Brigg examines the life and work of British author J.G. Ballard, from his science fiction to his mainstream fiction. Starmont Reader's Guide 26.
Author : Gina Hyams
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811845144
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)
Download or read book The Campfire Collection written by Gina Hyams and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can run, but you can't hide... The thinking outdoorsman's handbook to the heebie-jeebies, this third volume of our Campfire Collection gathers thirteen terrifying tales of alien abductions, encounters, and freakish forays into the unknown. Perfect to read aloud around a fire or in the comfort and "relative safety" of a cozy armchair, Thrilling, Chilling Tales of Alien Encounters offers stories from such masters of fright as Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, Damon Knight, and more. Designed with rounded corners, a durable cover, and large type for easy reading by campfire or flashlight, this rugged companion is more than trail-ready for any excursion. With an unnerving introduction by Michael Berry, science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, this creepy collection confirms that sinking feeling that something is just...not...quite...right....
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393339297
Total Pages : 1215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard written by J. G. Ballard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 1215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects all ninety-two of the late author's stories -- including "Prima Belladonna," "Dead Time," and "The Index" -- which span five decades and explore everything from musical orchids to human cannibalism to the secret history of World War III.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871403463
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Rushing to Paradise: A Novel written by J. G. Ballard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] chilling . . . tale about humans who gamely follow their own worst instincts.”—Chicago Tribune Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultivating it into their own private Eden. But paradise is not quite what it seems in this “searing” (Kirkus Reviews) send-up of environmentalism, feminism, and extremism of all sorts.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 146685667X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard written by J. G. Ballard and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of J. G. Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. This collection includes “The Garden of Time,” the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala–fashion’s biggest night. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture. Ballard's voice and vision have long served as a font of inspiration for today's cyber-punks, the authors and futurists who brought the information age into the mainstream.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466856645
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book War Fever written by J. G. Ballard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection by J. G. Ballard, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an end to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories in War Fever feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic-waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island.
Author : Colin Beardon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9789026519390
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Digital Creativity written by Colin Beardon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting highlights from five years of the field journal Digital Creativity , this volume republishes twenty-seven contributions from international artists and scientists.
Author : Andrew May
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319426052
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Pseudoscience and Science Fiction written by Andrew May and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity ... are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference. Both pseudoscience and science fiction (SF) are creative endeavours that have little in common with academic science, beyond the superficial trappings of jargon and subject matter. The most obvious difference between the two is that pseudoscience is presented as fact, not fiction. Yet like SF, and unlike real science, pseudoscience is driven by a desire to please an audience – in this case, people who “want to believe”. This has led to significant cross-fertilization between the two disciplines. SF authors often draw on “real” pseudoscientific theories to add verisimilitude to their stories, while on other occasions pseudoscience takes its cue from SF – the symbiotic relationship between ufology and Hollywood being a prime example of this. This engagingly written, well researched and richly illustrated text explores a wide range of intriguing similarities and differences between pseudoscience and the fictional science found in SF. Andrew May has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in astrophysics from Manchester University. After many years in academia and the private sector, he now works as a freelance writer and scientific consultant. He has written pocket biographies of Newton and Einstein, as well as contributing to a number of popular science books. He has a lifelong interest in science fiction, and has had several articles published in Fortean Times magazine
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404044
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Day of Creation: A Novel written by J. G. Ballard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As Dr. Mallory watches his clinic fail on the parched terrain of central Africa, he dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation. Joined by Noon, a silent adolscent girl who as a child ran with the local guerrillas; Professor Sanger, a documentary filmmaker with a fading reputation; and Nora Warrer, the widow of a Rhodesian veterinary surgeon, the remains of whose menagerie flourish exotically amid the land's new fertility, Mallory sets out for the river's source."--Dust jacket.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 1250171512
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Crash written by J. G. Ballard and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape.
Author : Jeannette Baxter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351925814
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book J.G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination written by Jeannette Baxter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the case that J. G. Ballard's fictional and non-fictional writings must be read within the framework of Surrealism, Jeannette Baxter argues for a radical revisioning of Ballard that takes account of the political and ethical dimensions of his work. Ballard's appropriation of diverse Surrealist aesthetic forms and political writings, Baxter suggests, are mobilised to contest official narratives of postwar history and culture and offer a series of counter-historical and counter-cultural critiques. Thus Ballard's work must be understood as an exercise in Surrealist historiography that is politically and ethically engaged. Placing Ballard's illustrated texts within this critical framework permits Baxter to explore the effects of photographs, drawings, and other visual symbols on the reading experience and the production of meaning. Ballard's textual spectacles raise a variety of questions about the shifting role of the reader and the function of the written text within a predominantly visual culture, while acknowledging the visual contexts of Ballard's Surrealist writings allows a very different historical picture of the author and his work to emerge.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404060
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Drowned World: A Novel (50th Anniversary Edition) written by J. G. Ballard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most powerful and original talents in science fiction comes the story of a new world--a strange world where solar radiation fluctuations have melted the polar ice caps, flooding the land and raising the temperature of the atmosphere.
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1587153300
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (871 download)
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.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631493485
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Running Wild written by J. G. Ballard and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet again J. G. Ballard’s inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence. A massacre rocks a suburban utopia—thirty-two adults murdered, and their children missing—in Running Wild, one of Ballard’s most dazzlingly subversive works of fiction. “To Ballard, lack of choice . . . is a dangerous state of being. In Running Wild, it’s not the children who are doing the running; it is the society that raised them” (San Francisco Chronicle).
