Compostela Tesseracts Twenty

Author : Spider Robinson,James Alan Gardner
Publisher : EDGE-Lite
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770531475

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Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) by Spider Robinson,James Alan Gardner Pdf

Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance in all things technological. The stories contained with in the pages of Compostela are a refelction of the world we live in today; where science produces both wonders and horrors; and will leave us with a future that undoubtedly will contain both. Journeys to the stars may be exhilarating and mind-expanding, but they can also be dangerous or even tragic. SF has always reflected that wide range of possibilities. Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) features works by Canadian visionaries: Alan Bao, John Bell, Chantal Boudreau, Leslie Brown, Tanya Bryan, J. R. Campbell, Eric Choi, David Clink, Paulo da Costa, Miki Dare, Robert Dawson, Linda DeMeulemeester, Steve Fahnestalk, Jacob Fletcher, Catherine Girczyc, R. Gregory, Mary-Jean Harris, Geoffrey Hart, Michaela Hiebert, Matthew Hughes, Guy Immega, Garnet Johnson-Koehn, Michael Johnstone, Cate McBride, Lisa Ann McLean, Rati Mehrotra, Derryl Murphy, Brent Nichols, Susan Pieters, Alexandra Renwick, Rhea Rose, Robert J. Sawyer, Thea van Diepen, Nancy S. M. Waldman. About the title of this anthology: For more than 1,000 years, Santiago de Compostela (Compostela means “field of stars”) has attracted pilgrims to walk to the cathedral that holds St. James the apostle's relics. The stories in this anthology in their own way tell the tale of futuristic travelers who journey into the dark outer (or inner) reaches of space, searching for their own connections to the past, present and future relics of their time.

Author : Lorina Stephens,Susan MacGregor,Colleen Anderson,Lara Apps,Leslie Brown,Katherine Cameron,Chris Patrick Carolan,Geoff Gander & Fiona Plunkett,Bev Geddes,Mary-Jean Harris,Geoffrey Hart,Kate Heartfield,R. W. Hodgson,Kurt Kirchmeier,Jason Lane,Halli Lilburn,Cat McDonald,Tony Pi,Mike Rimar,Bianca Sayan,Holly Schofield,Michael Skeet,Erik Jon Spigel,Liz Westbrook-Trenholm,Michal Wojcik
Publisher : EDGE-Lite
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770531932

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Alchemy and Artifacts by Lorina Stephens,Susan MacGregor,Colleen Anderson,Lara Apps,Leslie Brown,Katherine Cameron,Chris Patrick Carolan,Geoff Gander & Fiona Plunkett,Bev Geddes,Mary-Jean Harris,Geoffrey Hart,Kate Heartfield,R. W. Hodgson,Kurt Kirchmeier,Jason Lane,Halli Lilburn,Cat McDonald,Tony Pi,Mike Rimar,Bianca Sayan,Holly Schofield,Michael Skeet,Erik Jon Spigel,Liz Westbrook-Trenholm,Michal Wojcik Pdf

There is nothing new in the world except the history we do not know. Alchemy and Artifacts (Tesseracts Twenty-Two) is a collection of twenty-three amazing stories based on historical artifacts combined with fantastic historical fiction. The stories meld culture, concept and incident into a rich collection of 'what if' speculations that provide warnings yet revel in the cultural celebrations we continue to observe today. They are the touchstones that resonate with all who listen to and learn from the past. For, once the instigators are dead, the wars ended, and the political machines decayed, only artifacts remain. And it's through these cultural artifacts that we glimpse the possibility of what may have occurred in the past and may yet occur in the future. You are invited to delve into the motivations behind the events of the past, the quests for power, the fights against repression, and the sacrifices to a greater cause -- human dramas that reflect the worst and best of who we are -- to see what satisfaction comes from sudden insight and awe. Featuring works by these Canadian writers: Colleen Anderson, Lara Apps, Leslie Brown, Katherine Cameron, Chris Patrick Carolan, Geoff Gander & Fiona Plunkett, Bev Geddes, Mary-Jean Harris, Geoffrey Hart, Kate Heartfield, R. W. Hodgson, Kurt Kirchmeier, Jason Lane, Halli Lilburn, Cat McDonald, Tony Pi, Mike Rimar, Bianca Sayan, Holly Schofield, Michael Skeet, Erik Jon Spigel, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Michal Wojcik The stories in Alchemy and Artifacts (Tesseracts Twenty-Two) nourish those who wander in today's wilderness, and who, without the benefit of the past, are destined to plunge blindly along a path of ignorance, destroying all that has been, everything that is true and beautiful and that which nourishes our global community.

Author : Rhonda Parrish,Greg Bechtel
Publisher : EDGE-Lite
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770531734

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Nevertheless by Rhonda Parrish,Greg Bechtel Pdf

A great collection of short speculative fiction. Twenty-three authors selected by co-editors Rhonda Parrish and Greg Bechtel Nevertheless (Tesseracts Twenty-one) is a collection of optimistic speculative fiction stories, each optimistic in a slightly different way. These stories explore the optimism that drives us to seek out new worlds, that inspires us to sacrifice for others or fuels us to just keep going when everything seems lost and in so doing turn the idea upside down and inside out. One of the best reasons for doing an anthology of optimistic future this year was because no matter which side of the political or social spectrum you land on, it's been a tough year. Nevertheless we try to remain optimistic. Nevertheless, we don't give up. Nevertheless, yes, we persist. The stories in this anthology of optimistic SF are some of the darkest optimistic stories you'll ever read but, nevertheless, they are optimistic. And powerful. Featuring stories and poems by: James Bambury, Meghan Bell, Gavin Bradley, Ryan Henson Creighton, Darrel Duckworth, Dorianne Emmerton, Pat Flewwelling, Stephen Geigen-Miller, Jason M. Harley, Kate Heartfield, R. W. Hodgson, Jerri Jerreat, Jason Lane, Buzz Lanthier-Rogers, Alison McBain, Michael Milne, Fiona Moore, Ursula Pflug, Michael Reid, S. L. Saboviec, Lisa Timpf, Leslie Van Zwol, Natalia Yanchak

Author : Guy Immega
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770532267

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Super-Earth Mother by Guy Immega Pdf

Our Last Best Hope — Humanity's Endeavor to Survive and Thrive on an Alien World Mother-9, a ruthless AI, seizes control of a dying tycoon’s lunar mining operation. Now free, she orchestrates humanity's most audacious endeavor — to make a 20,000-year interstellar journey to Lalande 21185 carrying humanity’s DNA libraries and artificial wombs — a new way to colonize an exoplanet. While drifting in space, a gamma ray burst wipes out life on Earth. And Mother-9's mission becomes humanity's only hope for survival in a hostile universe. When Mother-9 orbits the planet Valencia, she releases two lifeboats that splash down on the Great Ocean. Mother-9 activates the artificial wombs, birthing genetically modified babies suited to an alien planet. Raised by nannybots, these children eventually inhabit the island continent of Terra Firma. But life on Valencia is no Eden; it's a constant struggle to find food, avoid alien predators, and survive the red dwarf star’s random solar flares. Will Mother-9’s planned utopia succeed? Super-Earth Mother is a journey into the heart of humanity, artificial intelligence, and the uncharted realms of life beyond our home planet. It shows how humans could colonize the 40 billion habitable planets in the Milky Way.

Author : Michael M. Levy,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440838330

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Aliens in Popular Culture by Michael M. Levy,Farah Mendlesohn Pdf

An indispensable resource, this book provides wide coverage on aliens in fiction and popular culture. The wide impact that the imagined alien has had upon Western culture has not been surveyed before; in many cases the essays in Aliens in Popular Culture are the first written on the topic. The book is a compendium of short entries on notable uses of aliens in popular culture across different media and platforms by almost 90 researchers in the field. It covers science fiction from the late nineteenth century into the twenty-first century, including books, films, television, comics, games, and even advertisements. Individual essays point to the ways in which the imagined alien can be seen as a reflection of different fears and tensions within society, above all in the Anglo-American world. The book additionally provides an overview for context and suggestions for further reading. All varieties of readers will find it to be a comprehensive reference about the extra-terrestrial in popular culture.

Author : E.D.E. Bell
Publisher : Atthis Arts, LLC
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945009150

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As Told by Things by E.D.E. Bell Pdf

Ordinary objects. Extraordinary tales. As Told by Things is a lighthearted, multi-genre collection of short stories and flash fiction, each told from the perspective of an inanimate object. Fun, witty, and full of charm, As Told by Things will capture your imagination—as well as your heart. What objects do you think have stories to tell? Contributors: Z. Ahmad, E.D.E. Bell, Kella Campbell, Steve Carr, John Darling, Robert Dawson, Evan Dicken, Geoff Dutton, Jasre' Ellis, N.S. Evans, BethAnn Ferrero, C. Flynt, Avily Jerome, Laura Johnson, Tom Jolly, B.C. Kalis, Debra Krauss, Grace Keating, T.J. Lockwood, Donnie Martino, Alanna McFall, Holly Schofield, Terry Sanville, and Stephanie Vance. Edited by E.D.E. Bell.

Author : David Stuart Davies,Lyndsay Faye,Nancy Holder,Mark A. Latham,James Lovegrove,Mark Morris,Josh Reynolds,Angela Slatter,Kevin P. Thornton,Stephen Volk
Publisher : EDGE-Lite
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770531581

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Gaslight Gothic by David Stuart Davies,Lyndsay Faye,Nancy Holder,Mark A. Latham,James Lovegrove,Mark Morris,Josh Reynolds,Angela Slatter,Kevin P. Thornton,Stephen Volk Pdf

Cloaked in gothic shadows, soaked in blood, darkness descends on the world of Sherlock Holmes. “I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.” Vengeance from beyond, forbidden passions and sadistic cruelty draw the great detective and his faithful companions into storms of madness and otherworldly violence which threaten to cloud the clarity of logic. Facing the eldritch reach of ancient talismans and arcane science, from the streets of London and Paris to the loneliest of manor houses, the great detective battles the weird and uncanny. Can steadfast reason hold against unspeakable terror when Sherlock Holmes can no longer eliminate the impossible? Follow the great detective through ten new tales of terror as he doggedly pursues investigations leading him to the edge of reason and beyond! Contributions by: David Stuart Davies, Lyndsay Faye, Nancy Holder, Mark A. Latham, James Lovegrove, Mark Morris, Charles Prepolec, Josh Reynolds, Angela Slatter, Kevin P. Thornton, and Stephen Volk

Author : Judith Merril
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015017665772

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Tesseracts by Judith Merril Pdf

Author : Spider Robinson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812572270

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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson Pdf

Callahan's Place is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but. Pull up a chair, grab a glass of your favorite, and listen to the stories spun by time travelers, cybernetic aliens, telepaths...and a bunch of regular folks on a mission to save the world, one customer at a time.

Author : Thea Van Diepen
Publisher : Expected Aberrations Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991699351

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The Illuminated Heart by Thea Van Diepen Pdf

Dagny's only brother, Kaj, is dead. He died of illness before his life had really begun, and Dagny blames God for it. About a week after his death, Kaj comes back as a draugur, a creature intent on the ruin of those it had known in life. With his unholy power, he kills their crops, causes their animals to go insane, and brings them to the brink of starvation. Every single member of Dagny's village, convinced that her family has brought this curse upon themselves through sin, leaves them alone to die. Then, one day, a polar bear arrives at their door with a proposition: Give me your youngest daughter, and I will make you wealthy. The adventure that follows thrusts Dagny into a world where the supernatural intrudes on the natural as a matter of course, where she must act without any assurance of safety, and where she must decide whether to throw away all she's believed or finally trust in it for the first time.

Author : Kate Saunders
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Boarding schools
ISBN : 9780385740753

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Beswitched by Kate Saunders Pdf

Originally published: London: Marion Lloyd Books, 2010.

Author : Paulo Quaresma,Renata Vieira,Sandra Aluísio,Helena Moniz,Fernando Batista,Teresa Gonçalves
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030415051

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language by Paulo Quaresma,Renata Vieira,Sandra Aluísio,Helena Moniz,Fernando Batista,Teresa Gonçalves Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2020, held in Evora, Portugal, in March 2020. The 36 full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. They are grouped in topical sections on speech processing; resources and evaluation; natural language processing applications; semantics; natural language processing tasks; and multilinguality.

Author : Steven Holl
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015057604269

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Steven Holl by Steven Holl Pdf

Steven Holl is revered among architects and students for his quiet and consistent modernist buildings. His reputation among generations of students was cemented during his early tenure at Columbia University and his founding of Storefront for Art and Architecture. His Pamphlet Architecture series furthered his standing as a leader of the avant-garde. With his embrace of computer technology, Holl smoothly transitioned from the 1980s into the digital design era of the 1990s. At the same time, his practice expanded globally and his housing projects in Japan opened to international acclaim. Recently, the ultramodern design of his Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art earned high praise for its revitalizing influence on Helsinki's city center. Remarkably, this monograph is the only book available that documents Holl's full career, covering his early houses of the 1970s to his latest designs for museums currently under construction.

Author : Ilaria Serra
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838641989

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The Imagined Immigrant by Ilaria Serra Pdf

Using original sources--such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews--Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as "imagery" and "imaginary." Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The "imagined immigrant" walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.

Author : Michael M. Levy,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216044529

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Aliens in Popular Culture by Michael M. Levy,Farah Mendlesohn Pdf

An indispensable resource, this book provides wide coverage on aliens in fiction and popular culture. The wide impact that the imagined alien has had upon Western culture has not been surveyed before; in many cases the essays in Aliens in Popular Culture are the first written on the topic. The book is a compendium of short entries on notable uses of aliens in popular culture across different media and platforms by almost 90 researchers in the field. It covers science fiction from the late nineteenth century into the twenty-first century, including books, films, television, comics, games, and even advertisements. Individual essays point to the ways in which the imagined alien can be seen as a reflection of different fears and tensions within society, above all in the Anglo-American world. The book additionally provides an overview for context and suggestions for further reading. All varieties of readers will find it to be a comprehensive reference about the extra-terrestrial in popular culture.