Conrad S Time Machine

Author : Leo Frankowski
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618243478

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Conrad's Time Machine by Leo Frankowski Pdf

Born to Be Weird... When Tom Kolczyskrenski got his discharge papers from the Air Force, he decided to look up his old pals¾and the world would never be the same. At one time, the oddly mismatched trio had been roommates, then they'd gone their separate ways. Tom, for lack of money, enlisted in the Air Force to learn electronics. The other two had finished college, lan McTavish going into mechanical engineering and a job with GM, and Jim Hasenpfeffer into behavioral science, leading to his having gotten a Department of Defense grant to¾this is serious stuff, now¾study social interactions in motorcycle gangs. So the three set out to be their own motorcycle gang. But these easy riders had barely begun to closely observe their own interactions when they ran across a strange perfectly hemispherical hole in the ground where a house used to be, with everything that had been in the sphere of influence slowly materializing in bits and pieces in the surrounding area. And they found the plans for the machine that had done this, and were sure they could duplicate it and get rich. But before long they would be wishing they had kept on being the three musketeers on bikes, instead of the three stooges of time travel.... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Leo A. Frankowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:671822348

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Conrad's Time Machine by Leo A. Frankowski Pdf

Author : George Edgar Slusser,Patrick Parrinder,Danièle Chatelain
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820322903

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Time Machine by George Edgar Slusser,Patrick Parrinder,Danièle Chatelain Pdf

Acclaimed as a work of genius when first published in 1895, The Time Machine represents a revolution in storytelling. H. G. Wells's first--and greatest--novel has been recognized worldwide as a founding text of the science fiction genre and one of the most seminal narratives of the last hundred years. This collection of essays offers a series of original, penetrating, and wide-ranging perspectives on Wells's masterpiece by an international group of major Wells and science fiction scholars. The authors explore such textual topics as the narrative techniques and mythological undertones of the novel as well as its contribution to modern ideas of time and evolution and its focusing of the intellectual cross-currents of the late nineteenth century. This insightful volume captures the innovative imagination, richness, and fascinating ambiguity that resulted in a classic literary work and demonstrates that Wells's novel is both a visionary story and an unstoppable idea.

Author : Leo A. Frankowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Male friendship
ISBN : OCLC:1148586323

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Conrad's Time Machine by Leo A. Frankowski Pdf

Author : L. Dryden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137500120

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Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells by L. Dryden Pdf

This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an overview of the literary scene in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period.

Author : Cedric Watts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208024

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Conrad’s Heart of Darkness by Cedric Watts Pdf

This book offers a detailed discussion of Conrad’s most brilliant and problematic work. Many significant aspects of Heart of Darkness are examined, from plot and characterisation to imagery and symbolism, and particular attention is paid to its ambiguity and paradoxes. By relating the text to a variety of contexts, Cedric Watts explores Conrad’s central preoccupations as a writer and as a commentator on his age. The first edition of this study appeared in 1977, and reviewers described it as ‘criticism of the highest order’ (Joseph Conrad Today) and ‘an important book’ (Conradiana).

Author : Fritz Leiber,R. A. Lafferty,Keith Laumer,Ron Goulart,Avram Davidson
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479424429

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The Fourth Time Travel MEGAPACK® by Fritz Leiber,R. A. Lafferty,Keith Laumer,Ron Goulart,Avram Davidson Pdf

Time travel remains a favorite subgenre in science fiction, and we are pleased to present another volume of classic tales. From pulp adventure to literary gems, here are stories that range from the ancient past to the far future...20 in all, by masters of their craft! Included are: TIME IN THE ROUND, by Fritz Leiber TRANSFER POINT, by Anthony Boucher GUEST IN THE HOUSE, by Frank Belknap Long A STONE AND A SPEAR, by Raymond F. Jones THE ORDEAL OF COLONEL JOHNS, by George H. Smith PICTURE BRIDE, by William Morrison SERVICE ELEVATOR, by Sam Merwin, Jr. RECRUIT FOR ANDROMEDA, by Milton Lesser A HUSBAND FOR MY WIFE, by William W. Stuart THE SIX FINGERS OF TIME, by R. A. Lafferty RATTLE OK, by Harry Warner, Jr. EGOBOO: Or, The Time Traveler’s Travail, by Manly Banister THE LONG REMEMBERED THUNDER, by Keith Laumer BRIDGEHEAD, by Frank Belknap Long CRUSOE IN NEW YORK, by Ron Goulart TIME TRANSFER, by Arthur Selling I DID NOT HEAR YOU, SIR, by Avram Davidson THE MAN OUTSIDE, by Evelyn E. Smith UNCOMMON CASTAWAY, by Nelson S. Bond OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS, by William Tenn If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2098 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 9781438140629

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Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by Don D'Ammassa Pdf

Presents articles on the science fiction genre of literature, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Author : S. Donovan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230513778

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Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture by S. Donovan Pdf

This highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day. Drawing on original archival materials and treating subjects as diverse as Bovril advertising, spirit photography, sea shanties, global tourism, and the new sport of speed-walking, it shows how Conrad's fiction makes a sustained response to early-twentieth-century popular culture and will be of interest to all students, scholars and enthusiasts of Conrad.

Author : Leo A. Frankowski
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0345914392

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The Cross-Time Engineer by Leo A. Frankowski Pdf

Author : Tung Charles M. Tung
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781474431361

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Modernism and Time Machines by Tung Charles M. Tung Pdf

Bridging modernist studies and science fiction scholarshipModernism and Time Machines places the fascination with time in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and art side-by-side with the rise of time-travel narratives and alternate histories in popular culture. Both modernism and this cardinal trope of science fiction produce a range of effects and insights that go beyond the exhilarations of simply sliding back and forth in history. Together the modernist time-obsession and the fantasy of moving in time help us to rethink the shapes of time, the consistency of timespace and the nature of history.Key FeaturesDraws on insights from a range of sources, including critical geography, postcolonial theory, science and technology studies, and time studiesExamines different kinds of objects together: SF, Impressionism, and Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis; evolutionary biology, Eliot's The Waste Land, and Leinster's "e;Sidewise in Time"e;; Woolf, Philip K. Dick's alternate history, and the film Interstellar; bullet time, Faulkner's racialized lag, and Jessica Hagedorn's postcolonial anachronism; "e;big history,"e; Olaf Stapledon's two-billion-year novel of the human species, and Terrence Malick's film Tree of Life

Author : T. Ferguson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137007988

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Victorian Time by T. Ferguson Pdf

Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.

Author : Hans-Peter Wagner
Publisher : WVT (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier)
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783868219210

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A History of British, Irish and American Literature by Hans-Peter Wagner Pdf

The third revised and enlarged edition contains discussions of British, Irish and American literary works up to 2020. Focussing on outstanding writings in prose, poetry, drama and non-fiction, the book covers the time from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 21st century. The feature that makes this literary history unique among its rivals is the coverage of television/web series as a particular form of postmodern drama. The chapters on recent drama now contain detailed analyses of the development of TV and web series from Britain, Ireland and America, with extensive discussions of those series now considered classics. In addition, there are several major innovative features. To begin with, each century is introduced by a survey of the socio-political and cultural backgrounds in which the literary works are embedded. Furthermore, extensive visual material (more than 160 engravings, cartoons and paintings) has been integrated. This visual aspect as well as the introductory sections on art for each century give the reader an excellent idea of the symbiosis between visual and literary representations. Further innovative aspects include - discussions of non-fictional works from literary criticism and theory, travel writing, historiography, and the social sciences - analyses of such popular genres as crime fiction, science fiction, fantasy, the Western, horror fiction, and children’s literature - footnotes explaining technical and historical terms and events - a detailed glossary of literary terms - chronological tables for British/Anglo-Irish and American literatures an updated (cut-off date 2020), extensive bibliography containing suggestions for further reading

Author : A. Mousoutzanis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137430144

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Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s-1990s by A. Mousoutzanis Pdf

Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siècle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.

Author : John Batchelor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000652369

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Lord Jim by John Batchelor Pdf

Published in 1900, Conrad’s Lord Jim can in many ways be seen as the first ‘modern’ novel. This important full study of the book, originally published in 1988, emphasizes the outstanding historical and artistic significance of Conrad’s masterpiece. John Batchelor pursues the ways in which Conrad dramatizes with unprecedented fidelity a relationship between friends and also explores what for Conrad is clearly a central truth about the human condition, namely the inalienable loneliness of man. The book provides a full discussion of the biographical and literary contexts of the novel, making use of the original manuscript and tracing the literary influences and sources of Conrad’s writing. It also considers the novel’s technical innovations, including Conrad’s ‘impressionism’ and its method of dramatization. Further chapters are devoted to a detailed commentary on the text and the book concludes with a study of the novel’s critical reception since its first publication. This volume will be essential reading for all students of literature and particularly for those with an interest in Conrad’s place in the development of modern fiction.