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Download or read book Strange Stars written by Jason Heller and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when rock ’n’ roll met the sci-fi world of the 1970s As the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Derided as nerdy or dismissed as fluff, science fiction rarely gets credit for its catalyzing effect on this revolution. In Strange Stars, Jason Heller recasts sci-fi and pop music as parallel cultural forces that depended on one another to expand the horizons of books, music, and out-of-this-world imagery. In doing so, he presents a whole generation of revered musicians as the sci-fi-obsessed conjurers they really were: from Sun Ra lecturing on the black man in the cosmos, to Pink Floyd jamming live over the broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing; from a wave of Star Wars disco chart toppers and synthesiser-wielding post-punks, to Jimi Hendrix distilling the “purplish haze” he discovered in a pulp novel into psychedelic song. Of course, the whole scene was led by David Bowie, who hid in the balcony of a movie theater to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, and came out a changed man… If today’s culture of Comic Con fanatics, superhero blockbusters, and classic sci-fi reboots has us thinking that the nerds have won at last, Strange Stars brings to life an era of unparalleled and unearthly creativity—in magazines, novels, films, records, and concerts—to point out that the nerds have been winning all along.
Book Synopsis Strange Constellations by : Russell Blackford
Download or read book Strange Constellations written by Russell Blackford and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia has long been thought of by Europeans as an exotic and mysterious land. During the nineteenth century, it was envisioned much as the moon and Mars are today: a distant and uncharted place with hidden possibilities for explorations and adventures. The continent captured the imagination of European writers in the 1800s, and with its settlement, Australia became the setting for tales of lost worlds and ancient civilizations. Australia has since developed a rich national literature, and perhaps because of its novelty and wilderness, it has inspired numerous science fiction writers. This book provides a critical survey of the history of Australian science fiction from its nineteenth century origins to the present. The volume proceeds chronologically, with an introductory section on the origins of Australian science fiction before 1925. It then turns to the rise of traditional science fiction in Australia from 1926 to 1959, with discussions of such writers as James Morgan Walsh, Norma Hemming, and Wynne Whiteford. A section on the period from 1960 to 1974 examines the growing national recognition given to such Australian science fiction writers as David Rome and Jack Wodhams, while a section on science fiction between 1975 and 1984 reviews the rise of small presses and the growth of literary criticism of the genre in Australia. A final section addresses the maturation of Australian science fiction from 1985 to 1998 with attention to Aussiecon Two. Extensive bibliographic information concludes the volume.
Book Synopsis Strange Stars & Alien Shadows by : Ann K. Schwader
Download or read book Strange Stars & Alien Shadows written by Ann K. Schwader and published by Lindisfarne Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann K. "Ankh" Schwader is a well-known science fiction, fantasy, and horror poet, but she is also a prose writer. Here at last is a collection of her dark fiction, including all her Cthulhu Mythos tales to date. Included are "Home Visitor" and "Twenty Mile," both of which have received honorable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, as well as "Mail Order Bride" and "Lost Stars," possibly her best work to date. With a preface by the author, a foreword by Robert M. Price, and cover and interior artwork by Steve Lines. Edited by Kevin L. O'Brien.
Book Synopsis What Strange Stars and Skies by : Avram Davidson
Download or read book What Strange Stars and Skies written by Avram Davidson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creature from space who watched too many American TV programs... A backwoods man who spoke an unearthly language... And the most singular events which occurred in the hovel on the alley off of Eye Street... You'll read about all of them, and many more, in this fascinating collection of stories by Hugo Award-winner Avram Davidson, one of the most original and accomplished writers of modern-day science fiction.
Book Synopsis What Came from the Stars by : Gary D. Schmidt
Download or read book What Came from the Stars written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Book Synopsis Speare Morgan and The Mysterious Penglipur Lara by : Samantha Manon
Download or read book Speare Morgan and The Mysterious Penglipur Lara written by Samantha Manon and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the end of term holidays and Grandma has agreed to house sit for her friend. She is joined by Irwan, Intan and Speare Morgan. This is no ordinary house, but a mansion built long ago by a wealthy merchant with a colourful life. One night, a family friend drops by. He was once a Penglipur Lara, a storyteller. That evening after dinner, he entertains them by telling the story of a mysterious disappearance from within a hidden room in the mansion, which was sealed and forgotten after a tragic event. Unknown to them, the room hides a bigger secret, one that is linked to the past and a common enemy. Digging deeper into each clue, they uncover the true identity of the Shadow Demon and are shocked when Grand Uncle Dragalileo informs them that the Kingdom of Flames is under threat by a new enemy. With the approaching of the eclipse, they have one last chance to save the very one that had tried to kill them.
Book Synopsis The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron Comprehending All His Suppressed Poems. Embellished with a Portrait and a Sketch of His Lordship's Life ... Third Edition by : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Download or read book The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron Comprehending All His Suppressed Poems. Embellished with a Portrait and a Sketch of His Lordship's Life ... Third Edition written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Demands by : Fannie Sydnor Cartmell
Download or read book Two Demands written by Fannie Sydnor Cartmell and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature by : John Clark Ridpath
Download or read book The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ridpath Library of Universal Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dark Constellations by : Pola Oloixarac
Download or read book Dark Constellations written by Pola Oloixarac and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac’s visionary new novel races from the world of 19th-century science to an ultra-surveilled near future, exploring humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, and leaping forward to the next steps in human evolution. Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century mania for scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruun researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another. Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet and becomes a prominent hacker, riding the wave of transformations brought about by distributed networks, mass surveillance, and new flows of globalized capital. The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: A research group works on a project that will allow the Ministry of Genetics to track every movement of the country’s citizens without their knowledge or consent, using sensors that identify DNA at a distance. But the new technology contains within it the seeds of a far more radical transformation of human life and civilization. In a novel of towering ambition, Oloixarac’s complexly intertwining stories reveal the power that resides in the world’s most deeply shadowed spaces.
Author :Norman K. Glendenning Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :1468404911 Total Pages :402 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (684 download)
Book Synopsis Compact Stars by : Norman K. Glendenning
Download or read book Compact Stars written by Norman K. Glendenning and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whole decades research collated, organised and synthesised into one single book! Following a 60-page review of the seminal treatises of Misner, Thorne, Wheeler and Weinberg on general relativity, Glendenning goes on to explore the internal structure of compact stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars, hybrids, strange quark stars, both the counterparts of neutron stars as well as of dwarfs. This is a self-contained treatment and will be of interest to graduate students in physics and astrophysics as well as others entering the field.
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Download or read book Alden's Cyclopedia of Universal Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The University of Literature... by : William Harrison De Puy
Download or read book The University of Literature... written by William Harrison De Puy and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Alden's cyclopedia of universal literature by : John B Alden
Download or read book Alden's cyclopedia of universal literature written by John B Alden and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :David A.J. Seargent Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :9781441964243 Total Pages :304 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (642 download)
Book Synopsis Weird Astronomy by : David A.J. Seargent
Download or read book Weird Astronomy written by David A.J. Seargent and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Astronomy appeals to all who are interested in unusual celestial phenomena, whether they be amateur or professional astronomers or science buffs who just enjoy reading of odd coincidences, unexplained observations, and reports from space probes that "don’t quite fit." This book relates a variety of "unusual" astronomical observations – unusual in the sense of refusing to fit easily into accepted thinking, or unusual in the observation having been made under difficult or extreme circumstances. Although some of the topics covered are instances of "bad astronomy," most are not. Some of the observations recorded here have actually turned out to be important scientific breakthroughs. Included are some amusing anecdotes (such as the incident involving "potassium flares" in ordinary stars and the story of Abba 1, the solar system’s own flare star!), but the book’s purpose is not to ridicule those who report anomalous observations, nor is it to challenge scientific orthodoxy. It is more to demonstrate how what's "weird" often turns out to be far more significant than observations of what we expect to see.
Download or read book Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
