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Xanadu's Novella Series: To be...[Human]

Author : Lady Xanadu
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0983972907
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Xanadu's Novella Series: To be...[Human] written by Lady Xanadu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Humans. Earth. It exists in the Milky Way Galaxy. Seemingly, one planet amidst innumerable others in its own galaxy and surrounding galaxies. Earth seems to be the only apparent planet that is hospitable to human & Earth like life forms. What sense is it to have a multitude of universes & planets and only one that bears life? What if Earths’ Milky way Galaxy was just a tiny galaxy on the outskirts of the universe, the boondocks, so to speak. What if closer to the centre of the Universe, we’ll call it the Megaverse, there were hundreds of thousands of planets with hundreds of thousands of life forms and humanoid life forms. Thinking, speaking, living, breathing life forms that are technologically light years ahead of modern day humans. What if…these “Advanced humanoids”, we’ll call them “Neo-Humans”, unlocked the door for creating life? Now what if one of these “Neo-Humans”, even more advanced than the others, decided to go to the “backyard” of the Megaverse, the hidden village, the outskirts of the universe, our little milky way galaxy, and saw what might be a fertile planet, “Earth”, and planted some cells on this planet to observe the evolution of life, maybe in hopes of finding the answer to that timeless question: “Where did we come from?” Maybe , by understanding us, it could understand itself. Maybe this Neo-Human planted a few cells on Earth and watched as those few cells evolved into the billions of different life forms that we know today. Maybe humans are the result of…a science experiment…[Now even if this is true, it doesn’t lessen ones own value or meaning. All of us have value and meaning, life and purpose.] It’s just something I was thinking about one day…Which thus takes us to our new story…[Human]. Please enjoy. -Xanadu

Xanadu's Novells Series

Author : Sir Joshua L-x
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0983972923
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Xanadu's Novells Series written by Sir Joshua L-x and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Xanadu's Novella Series

Author : Sir Joshua L-x
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0983972915
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Xanadu's Novella Series written by Sir Joshua L-x and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if a group of people sought to rid the world of Aids by...destroying all of the samples, both living and non living...in the lab and in people? What if this group sought to "Cleanse" the world of anyone that was morally deficient in some way...such as litter bugs?In this next installment of Xanadu's Novella Series, we bring to ponder the Question "What would happen if...I cleansed the world?"

The Horrors of Love

Author : Jean Dutourd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Horrors of Love written by Jean Dutourd and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Horrors of Love is an often ridiculous, sometimes funny tale of a middle-aged member of the French Chamber of Deputies who becomes tragically involved with his young mistress. At first glance, the story seems to be as obviously and simply French as a pair of lovers sneaking off to a bedsitter in the Square St.-Lambert. Yet it is not only the Gallic spirit that intrigues Dutourd, but the human spirit as well."--Goodreads

Architecture and Modern Literature

Author : David Anton Spurr
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472900803
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Modern Literature written by David Anton Spurr and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the extent to which these two arts define one another in the social and philosophical contexts of modernity. Architecture and Modern Literature will serve as a foundational introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary study of architecture and literature. David Spurr addresses a broad range of material, including literary, critical, and philosophical works in English, French, and German, and proposes a new historical and theoretical overview of this area, in which modern forms of "meaning" in architecture and literature are related to the discourses of being, dwelling, and homelessness.

The Arc and the Machine

Author : Caroline Bassett
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719073427
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book The Arc and the Machine written by Caroline Bassett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arc and the Machine is a timely and original defense of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed.

Trouble and Her Friends

Author : Melissa Scott
Publisher : Lethe Press
ISBN 13 : 1590216008
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Trouble and Her Friends written by Melissa Scott and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the internet. The noir adventurers who got by on wit, bravado, and drugs, who haunt the virtual worlds of cyberspace are up against the edges of civilization.

Nanovision

Author : Colin Milburn
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391481
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Nanovision written by Colin Milburn and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dawning era of nanotechnology promises to transform life as we know it. Visionary scientists are engineering materials and devices at the molecular scale that will forever alter the way we think about our technologies, our societies, our bodies, and even reality itself. Colin Milburn argues that the rise of nanotechnology involves a way of seeing that he calls “nanovision.” Trekking across the technoscapes and the dreamscapes of nanotechnology, he elaborates a theory of nanovision, demonstrating that nanotechnology has depended throughout its history on a symbiotic relationship with science fiction. Nanotechnology’s scientific theories, laboratory instruments, and research programs are inextricable from speculative visions, hyperbolic rhetoric, and fictional narratives. Milburn illuminates the practices of nanotechnology by examining an enormous range of cultural artifacts, including scientific research articles, engineering textbooks, laboratory images, popular science writings, novels, comic books, and blockbuster films. In so doing, he reveals connections between the technologies of visualization that have helped inaugurate nano research, such as the scanning tunneling microscope, and the prescient writings of Robert A. Heinlein, James Blish, and Theodore Sturgeon. He delves into fictive and scientific representations of “gray goo,” the nightmare scenario in which autonomous nanobots rise up in rebellion and wreak havoc on the world. He shows that nanoscience and “splatterpunk” novels share a violent aesthetic of disintegration: the biological body is breached and torn asunder only to be refabricated as an assemblage of self-organizing machines. Whether in high-tech laboratories or science fiction stories, nanovision deconstructs the human subject and galvanizes the invention of a posthuman future.

The Sword of the Lictor

Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099295402
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book The Sword of the Lictor written by Gene Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Severian, the disgraced apprentice torturer, has reached his place of exile - Thrax, the city of Windowless Rooms, where he must take up his post as Lictor, executioner and torturer. However, he flees the city and heads into the mountains, to meet the mysterious Dr Talos.

No Country for Old Men

Author : Lynnea Chapman King
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810867303
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book No Country for Old Men written by Lynnea Chapman King and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, Cormac McCarthy's novel, No Country for Old Men, was published to wide acclaim, and in 2007, Ethan and Joel Coen brought their adaptation of McCarthy's novel to the screen. The film earned praise from critics worldwide and was honored with four Academy Awards', including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film, scholars offer varied approaches to both the novel and the award-winning film. Beginning with several essays dedicated entirely to the novel and its place within the McCarthy canon, the anthology offers subsequent essays focusing on the film, the adaptation process, and the Coen Brothers more broadly. The book also features an interview with the Coen brothers' long-time cinematographer Roger Deakins. This entertaining and enriching book for readers interested in the Coen Brothers' films and in McCarthy's fiction is an important contribution to both literature and film studies.

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307777790
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Visiting Mrs. Nabokov written by Martin Amis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike

Past Master

Author : R. A. Lafferty
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598536478
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Past Master written by R. A. Lafferty and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf Hall meets The Man in the High Castle in this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of America Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 A.D., where there is trouble in utopia. Can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered? The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel—but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside-down and inside-out. Here are fractured allegories, tales-within-tales, twinkle-in-the-eye surprises, fantastic byways, and alien subjectivities that take one's breath away. Neil Gaiman has described Lafferty “a genius, an oddball, a madman”; Gene Wolfe calls him “our most original writer." Long-hailed by insiders and now with an introduction by Andrew Ferguson as well as unpublished omitted passages included in the notes, Past Master deserves to perplex and delight a wider audience.

Brave New Worlds

Author : John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1597802883
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Brave New Worlds written by John Joseph Adams and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-02 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Huxley's Brave New World, to Orwell's 1984, to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, dystopian books have always been an integral part of both science fiction and literature, and have influenced the broader culture discussion in unique and permanent ways. Brave New Worlds brings together the best dystopian fiction of the last 30 years, demonstrating the diversity that flourishes in this compelling subgenre. This landmark tome contains stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Cory Doctorow, M. Rickert, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, and many others.

The Cambridge History of Science Fiction

Author : Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316733017
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science Fiction written by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.

Tokyo Cyberpunk

Author : Steven T. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230110061
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Cyberpunk written by Steven T. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging some of the most canonical and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art, as well as important technological issues of the day.

In the Flesh

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074341733X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book In the Flesh written by Clive Barker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrifying and forbidding, subversive and insightful, Clive Barker's groundbreaking stories revolutionized the worlds of horrific and fantastical fiction and established Barker's dominance over the otherworldly and the all-too-real. Here, as two businessmen encounter beautiful and seductive women and an earnest young woman researches a city slum, Barker maps the boundless vistas of the unfettered imagination -- only to uncover a profound sense of terror and overwhelming dread.

Everything Belongs to the Future

Author : Laurie Penny
Publisher : Tor.com
ISBN 13 : 0765388278
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Everything Belongs to the Future written by Laurie Penny and published by Tor.com. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day's food and shelter. What kind of world have we made, where human beings can live centuries if only they can afford the fix? What kind of creatures have we become? The same as we always were, but keener. In the ancient heart of Oxford University, the ultra-rich celebrate their vastly extended lifespans. But a few surprises are in store for them. From Nina and Alex, Margo and Fidget, scruffy anarchists sharing living space with an ever-shifting cast of crusty punks and lost kids. And also from the scientist who invented the longevity treatment in the first place. Everything Belongs to the Future is a bloody-minded tale of time, betrayal, desperation, and hope that could only have been told by the inimitable Laurie Penny. "The scariest, most enduring dystopias walk a fine line between parable and prediction. Penny erases that line. In this made-up story, the rich speciate from the poor; in our real world, working class lifespans are declining as the one percent live ever longer lives at ever-greater removes from the rest of us. This is no mere literary device. This is a pitiless allegory, calculated to enrage and terrify its readers." -- Cory Doctorow At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.