Orgasmachine

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114548

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Orgasmachine by Ian Watson Pdf

The Three Laws of Feministics: 1. Your body is not your own; it belongs to another. Therefore you may not damage it nor, through inaction, allow it to be damaged. 2. You must obey all orders given you by your owner (or in cases of loss of ownership, by any man) even if such orders conflict with the First Law. 3. You may not injure any man, nor through failure to comply with the Second Law, cause him displeasure or mental injury. Women as chattels, as customised sexslaves; bodies freakishly modified to their owners' dictates, personalities preset to order. Welcome to the world of the Orgasmachine. But Jade and Mari escape their masters and dream of revenge, of revolution, of freedom.

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137569578

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The History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts Pdf

This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material in every chapter: a wealth of new readings and original research. The author’s groundbreaking thesis that science fiction is born out of the 17th-century Reformation is here bolstered with a wide range of new supporting material and many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentieth-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan-culture and other modes.

Author : Jennifer Golbeck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319785837

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Online Harassment by Jennifer Golbeck Pdf

Online Harassment is one of the most serious problems in social media. To address it requires understanding the forms harassment takes, how it impacts the targets, who harasses, and how technology that stands between users and social media can stop harassers and protect users. The field of Human-Computer Interaction provides a unique set of tools to address this challenge. This book brings together experts in theory, socio-technical systems, network analysis, text analysis, and machine learning to present a broad set of analyses and applications that improve our understanding of the harassment problem and how to address it. This book tackles the problem of harassment by addressing it in three major domains. First, chapters explore how harassment manifests, including extensive analysis of the Gamer Gate incident, stylistic features of different types of harassment, how gender differences affect misogynistic harassment. Then, we look at the results of harassment, including how it drives people offline and the impacts it has on targets. Finally, we address techniques for mitigating harassment, both through automated detection and filtering and interface options that users control. Together, many branches of HCI come together to provide a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of online harassment and to advance the field toward effective human-oriented solutions.

Author : Chris Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Corporate culture
ISBN : 0978756614

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The DNA of Collaboration by Chris Jones Pdf

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Games Workshop(uk)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0743443241

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Chaos Child by Ian Watson Pdf

The final installment in the epic Inquisition War trilogy finds Jaq Draco hunted by Imperial and alien enemies across the ravaged universe, searching for the means to decipher the Eldar Book of Fate. Tempted to surrender to the powers of Darkness to find the answers, Jaq is haunted by the knowledge that, should he fail, the ultimate apocalypse awaits. Original.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : 1844167674

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The Inquisition War by Ian Watson Pdf

Forty thousand years into the future, the human Imperium struggles for survival against its relentless enemies. Ruthless Inquisitor Jaq Draco uncovers a plot that threatens the very future of mankind - can he unravel the trail of conspiracy before he himself is destroyed by its deadly clutches?

Author : James E. Gunn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810846705

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The Road to Science Fiction: From here to forever by James E. Gunn Pdf

Now in Paperback The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology that covers the development of this genre from its earliest prototypes to the current day. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classrooms in the late 1970s, these volumes became mass-market sellers. Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Edgar Allan Poe's balloon trip in the year 2848 these and other key works are gathered together for the first time in one anthology, complete with revealing commentary on the authors, their eras, and the role each played in establishing what we today recognize as science fiction. Volume 4 From Here to Forever covers the period from 1950-1992, illustrating how science fiction can be as concerned with language and character as much as traditional fiction and anything in the mainstream. Includes stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Matheson, C. M. Kornbluth, Jack Vance, and Pamela Zoline.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114852

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The Book of Ian Watson by Ian Watson Pdf

British Science Fiction award winner Ian Watson graces us here with a brilliant new collection of short stories and essays. Though he dazzles the reader with his footwork in the kaleidoscope intensity of his vision, each piece is plainly the work of a master craftsman. Whether he is dealing with a future culture where whales control us ("The Culling") or taking a hilarious poke at the matter of government funding ("The President's Not for Turning"), his concepts are clear and undeniably logical. True to the highest ideal of science fiction, Watson carries present tendencies of our society to possible conclusions in "Roof Gardens under Saturn," and points a warning finger at the consequences of alienation from the environment. In an innovative style which borders on the experimental, Watson explores in "The Pharaoh and the Mademoiselle" the horrors of fascism. Ian Watson's writing stays with us. He entertains and he makes us think. If in some future and better world politicians were to take advice form writers, Watson should be one of them.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114630

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Converts by Ian Watson Pdf

He is a financial giant but the Sponsor wants more - he wants to become a super human, to be the modern-day Adam, father to a new generation of humans with heightened DNA. He had the viral injection to change himself, the will to do it, and now all he needs is an Eve to join him on his journey. He thinks he's found the perfect match in Jean Sandra Norwich, a woman convinced she is trapped between the genes of her mother and daughter. The Sponsor offers her freedom - and so much more, the chance to be the mother of all Superbeings. But she will get more than she bargained for. CONVERTS is a masterpiece of science fiction and Ian Watson has superbly reworked Ovid's METAMORPHOSES to create an extraordinary futuristic tale.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114487

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The Book of the Stars by Ian Watson Pdf

Trapped by the evil Edrick in a locked room, Yaleen is cold-bloodedly murdered. But it is not the end of Yaleen's story, for she is given a second life - a reincarnation on Earth as a 'cherub'. Soon she encounters Godmind, the megalomaniac artificial deity which controls life on Earth - and maintains a brutal labour colony on the Moon for any who dare to rebel. Bit by bit, Yaleen comes to understand the horrifying project of the Godmind...

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114593

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God's World by Ian Watson Pdf

The sudden appearance of angelic beings bearing a mystical space drive and a summons to ''God's World'' launches an international crew of scientists on a voyage to the far limits of space. There they become embroiled in an alien war that will decide the fate of all creation . . .

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114661

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The Fire Worm by Ian Watson Pdf

Psychiatrist John Cunningham is secretly also "Jack Cannon", author of popular horror novels. Under hypnotic regression, John's patient Tony reveals a bizarre and horrifying tale of a "past life" lived on Tyneside in the 1950s, involving two schoolboys and a weird creature with paranormal powers lurking in caves beneath Tynemouth Castle. As John regresses Tony through earlier lives as far back as the 14th century it begins to seem that the local legend, captured in folksong, of a malevolent Lambton Worm may have had a basis in fact: that it was, in fact, the salamander of alchemical belief, summoned by an alchemist known as Raymond Lully, and possibly still locked below Tynemouth Castle And while John Cunningham is exploring Tony's multiple personalities, he begins to experience personality problems of his own, as Jack Cannon beings to assert his own individuality.

Author : Michael K. Iwoleit
Publisher : p.machinery
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783957657633

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VERNE'S HEIRS – Snapshots of French Science Fiction by Michael K. Iwoleit Pdf

Under the motto "Verne's Heirs: Snapshots of French Science Fiction" it includes the following stories: Michael Shreve: Editorial Claude Ecken: Paralysis Claude Ecken: Team Spirit Pierre Pelot: First Death Jean-Louis Trudel: The Way to Compostela Jean-Claude Dunyach: Paranamanco Jacques Barbéri: The Soul of Scanners José Moselli: The City in the Abyss Maurice Renard: Them! Jean-Claude Dunyach: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To French Science Fiction InterNova #4 has just been uploaded. This time it's a theme issue about French science fiction, compiled in collaboration with translator Michael Shreve and French sf veteran Jean-Claude Dunyach. It includes stories by Claude Ecken, Pierre Pelot, Jean-Louis Trudel, Jean-Claude Dunyach and Jacques Barbéri, two rediscovered classics by Maurice Renard and José Moselli with introductions by Michael Shreve and an exclusive update of Jean-Claude Dunyach's "Hitch Hiker's Guide to French Science Fiction".

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114678

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Whores of Babylon by Ian Watson Pdf

Alex Winter and Deborah Tate arrive by hovercraft at the city of Babylon, lying on the river Euphrates in the Arizona desert. He is a sociology drop-out from the University of Oregon at Eugene who wants to become a Babylonian. She has a much stranger ambition. Their minds are babbling in the Greek that has been pumped into them via computer interface at the University of Heuristics. To them, English has yet to be invented and the young king Alexander lies dying in his palace. The city is dominated by the tower of Babel, its spiral roadway curling up towards the heavens and wide enough for several donkey carts. And women sit outside the Temple of Ishtar, waiting for some stranger to drop a coin in their laps. The prospect seems to fascinate Deborah. She wants to become one of the Whores of Babylon.

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575114685

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Meat by Ian Watson Pdf

When Saul and Diane save a wild rabbit from a hungry weasel in a quiet country lane, they inadvertently unleash the vengeance of a bloodthirsty, carnivorous force. Soon their sanity and their lives are at risk - as are the young people of a cell of the Animal Liberation Front with whom they join forces to learn the terrible secrets of their rural village. A visit to a battery chicken shed turns into an animal Auschwitz, where Saul is held prisoner. And a raid on a butcher's shop brings to murderous life a full size model of the meatman which, armed with a butcher's cleaver, goes hunting for blood and MEAT!