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Future and Fantastic Worlds

Author : Sheldon Jaffery
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1557420025
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Future and Fantastic Worlds written by Sheldon Jaffery and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future and Fantastic Worlds embodies an unusual approach to the field of bibliographic research, including over 700 annotations of every DAW book published through mid-1987, with indexes by author, artist, and title, providing a massive guide to modern SF writers and their works, with much background data. Interspersed throughout the book are numerous wry, irreverent, and amusing observations offered by the late and highly respected researcher in this extremely valuable genre tool.

The Fabulous Future?

Author : Morton Schapiro
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810131978
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Fabulous Future? written by Morton Schapiro and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and a technologically enhanced totalitarianism worse than any yet seen? The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040 draws its inspiration from a more optimistic time, and tome, The Fabulous Future: America in 1980, in which Fortune magazine celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary by publishing the predictions of thought leaders of its time. In the present volume, the world’s leading specialists from diverse fields project developments in their areas of expertise, from religion and the media to the environment and nanotechnology. Will we be happier, and what exactly does happiness have to do with our economic future? Where is higher education heading and how should it develop? And what is the future of prediction itself? These exciting essays provoke sharper questions, reflect unexpectedly on one another, and testify to our present anxieties about the surprising world to come.

Future and Fantastic Worlds

Author : Sheldon Jaffery
Publisher : Millefleurs
ISBN 13 : 9780893709921
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Future and Fantastic Worlds written by Sheldon Jaffery and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1987 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Usborne Book of the Future

Author : Kenneth William Gatland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780727011879
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book The Usborne Book of the Future written by Kenneth William Gatland and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar

Author : Bonnie J. Buratti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107152747
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar written by Bonnie J. Buratti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A senior planetary astronomer leads this personal tour of NASA's latest Solar System discoveries.

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316491357
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book How Long 'til Black Future Month? written by N. K. Jemisin and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories. "Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles Times"Gorgeous" -- NPR Books"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold." -- Entertainment Weekly Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.

Fantastic Worlds

Author : Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198020244
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Worlds written by Eric S. Rabkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979-06-07 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales of fairies and elves, ghost stories, high fantasy, and stories of social criticism and the conflict between science and religion, this volume presents a diverse selection of writings that all share the same capacity to liberate the human spirit through the wild mental acrobatics of fantasy.

Fantastic Worlds: A Fantasy Anthology

Author : Christie Golden
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1950020142
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Worlds: A Fantasy Anthology written by Christie Golden and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology mixes exciting lands, beloved characters, and new adventures. From the distinct voices of twelve authors, Fantastic Worlds has a story for everyone.

BP 250

Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809512068
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book BP 250 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Annotated Bibliography of the First 300 Publications of the Borgo Press, 1975-1998

Science Fiction Illustration

Author : Pie International Co., Ltd.
Publisher : Pie International
ISBN 13 : 9784756255228
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction Illustration written by Pie International Co., Ltd. and published by Pie International. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering unknown worlds. An illustration anthology focusing on Science Fiction. A devastated apocalyptic world, a society with advanced science, humans and cities that are a fusion of machines and advanced technology, characters traveling through an infinite universe, novel gadgets with huge potential, the future that we dreamed of during childhood... This book is a large-format anthology that introduces 32 contemporary creators and their works depicting near-future and imaginary worlds with a variety of illustration styles and outstanding techniques. Enjoy these highlights from the world of science fiction illustration printed in vivid color and with beautiful binding. Also, at the end of the book, a feature showing the making of the illustrations by Atsuya Uki, a visual artist and illustrator who has been creating a unique world with his vivid colors and bold compositions.These dramatic and captivating visions invite us to explore unknown worlds and remind us of the discoveries of a future yet to be seen. From the "S"ukoshi "F"ushigi (A Little Weird) world hidden in the daily lives of boys and girls to mysterious creatures and robotic mecha that stir up the imagination of the story, you'll come to appreciate various genres of the "S"cience "F"iction world.Immerse yourself in the breathtaking and astounding worldview and images created by 32 creators.

The Dark Fantastic

Author : Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479806072
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Fantastic written by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”

Magic Casement

Author : Dave Duncan
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497606454
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Magic Casement written by Dave Duncan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man of His Word series debut—a novel “with enough fresh ideas to allow it to sit unashamedly alongside the great fantasy books of recent times” (Fantasy Book Review). “Duncan’s unique concept of goblins, fauns, and imps adds a new twist to this imaginative fantasy adventure” as Princess Inosolan is forced to leave behind her carefree childhood—as well as her dear friend, the stableboy Rap (Library Journal). Now of marriageable age, she is sent to a finishing school to hone the skills that all noble ladies should possess. Mystery, menace, and the gods appear in short order, as Inos and Rap begin to discover their magical powers, even as Inos is courted by a charming man with motives far more dangerous than the eye—and heart—can see . . . “Magic Casement has a charm and vibrant sense of humor. . . . If it’s traditional fantasy adventure with a bit of nudge-nudge wink-wink you’re after, Dave Duncan is your go-to guy.” —SFReviews.net

Xenograffiti

Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809519003
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Xenograffiti written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new retrospective collection spanning almost forty years, Pilgrim Award- and Collector's Award-winning fantasy novelist, critic, and bibliographer Robert Reginald contributes forty-five essays on writers of fantastic literature, including such major and minor figures as: Piers Anthony, Edwin Lester Arnold, Margaret Atwood, John Kendrick Bangs, Leslie Barringer, John Bellairs, Arthur Byron Cover, Lindsey Davis, Alexander de Comeau, Daphne du Maurier, R. Lionel Fanthorpe, H. Rider Haggard, Charlotte Haldane, Edward Heron-Allen, Eleanor M. Ingram, Vernon Knowles, Katherine Kurtz, Andrew Lang, Fritz Leiber, Bruce McAllister, Ward Moore, Robert Nathan, Sir Henry Newbolt, William F. Nolan, John Norman, Keith Roberts, Michael Reaves, Brian Stableford, and George Zebrowski. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography and history of the publications of Starmont House, Inc., and FAX Collector's Editions, a selection of reviews and obituaries, a bibliography, and detailed index. This unique literary collection will prove of interest both to students and researchers alike. This second edition features fifteen new pieces, including the author's earliest published critique (1968), and a number of original autobiographical reflections on his life and career penned shortly after his heart attack in 2003.

The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures

Author : Kristina Baudemann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000529894
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures written by Kristina Baudemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the future in Indigenous North American speculative literature and digital arts. Asking how different Indigenous works imagine the future and how they negotiate settler colonial visions of what is to come, the chapters illustrate that the future is not an immutable entity but a malleable textual/digital product that can function as both a colonial tool and a catalyst for decolonization. Central to this study is the development of a methodology that helps unearth the signifying structures producing the future in selected works by Darcie Little Badger, Gerald Vizenor, Stephen Graham Jones, Skawennati, Danis Goulet, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Postcommodity, Kite, Jeff Barnaby, and Ryan Singer. Drawing on Jason Lewis’s "future imaginary" as the theoretical core, the book describes the various forms of textual representation and virtual simulation through which notions of Indigenous continuation are expressed in literary and new media works. Arguing that Indigenous authors and artists apply the aesthetics of the future as a strategy in their works, the volume conceptualizes its multimedia corpus as a continuously growing archive of, and for, Indigenous futures.

Administering Affect

Author : Daniel White
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503632202
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Administering Affect written by Daniel White and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the worlds that state administrators manage become the feelings publics embody? In Administering Affect, Daniel White addresses this question by documenting the rise of a new national figure he calls "Pop-Culture Japan." Emerging in the wake of Japan's dramatic economic decline in the early 1990s, Pop-Culture Japan reflected the hopes of Japanese state bureaucrats and political elites seeking to recover their country's standing on the global stage. White argues that due to growing regional competitiveness and geopolitical tension in East Asia in recent decades, Japan's state bureaucrats increasingly targeted political anxiety as a national problem and built a new national image based on pop-culture branding as a remedy. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork among rarely accessible government bureaucrats, Administering Affect examines the fascinating connection between state administration and public sentiment. White analyzes various creative policy figures of Pop-Culture Japan, such as anime diplomats, "Cool Japan" branding campaigns, and the so-called "Ambassadors of Cute," in order to illustrate a powerful link between practices of managing national culture and the circulation of anxiety among Japanese publics. Invoking the term "administering affect" to illustrate how anxiety becomes a bureaucratic target, technique, and unintended consequence of promoting Japan's national popular culture, the book presents an ethnographic portrait of the at-times surprisingly emotional lives of Japan's state bureaucrats. In examining how anxious feelings come to drive policymaking, White delivers an intimate anthropological analysis of the affective forces interconnecting state governance, popular culture, and national identity.

Dreaming the Future

Author : Clifford A. Pickover
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615924175
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming the Future written by Clifford A. Pickover and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For countless generations people of every culture have practiced a broad range of dramatic and sometimes frightening techniques to peer into the future. In this fascinating book acclaimed author Clifford Pickover presents a nearly exhaustive list of fortune-telling techniques, from the ominous practice of human sacrifice to reading clues on the Internet.Pickover not only explores a vast and colorful array of methods of prediction--including dreaming--he also evaluates the accuracy of some of the most astonishing prophecies made throughout history. Just how accurate were such famous soothsayers as Nostradamus, the Delphic Oracle, Edgar Cayce, the children of Fatima (whose third vision has only recently been revealed), and dozens more?This book takes us one step further by exploring our own inner psyches: Why does looking into the future provide a source of solace in a world filled with uncertainty, disease, and chance? And why do the most noted prognosticators so often warn of natural catastrophes of biblical proportions, such as earthquakes and floods that will signal the end of the world?Through insight and wit, Pickover will unlock the door of your imagination with engrossing mysteries, intriguing illustrations, and even modern patents and computer techniques. Also included is a range of practical experiments and recipes--from Stone Age to New Age.Prepare yourself for a strange but captivating ride!

Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction

Author : Anna Neill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000392724
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction written by Anna Neill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Victorian anthropology made two apparently contradictory claims: it distinguished "civilized man" from animals and "primitive" humans and it linked them though descent. Paradoxically, it was by placing human history in a deep past shaped by minute, incremental changes (rather than at the apex of Providential order) that evolutionary anthropology could assert a new form of human exceptionalism and define civilized humanity against both human and nonhuman savagery. This book shows how fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions—utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children’s fables—untether human and nonhuman animal agency from this increasingly orthodox account of the deep past. As they imagine worlds that lift the evolutionary constraints on development and as they collapse evolution into lived time, these stories reveal (and even occupy) dynamic landscapes of cognitive descent that contest prevailing anthropological ideas about race, culture, and species difference.