Pocket Apocalypse

Author : Seanan McGuire
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101602409

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Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire Pdf

The fourth book in New York Times-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us. "The only thing more fun than an October Daye book is an InCryptid book." —Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Sookie Stackhouse series Endangered, adjective: Threatended with extinction or immidiate harm. Australia, noun: A good place to become endangered. Alexander Price has survived gorgons, basilisks, and his own family—no small feat, considering that his family includes two telepaths, a reanimated corpse, and a colony of talking, pantheistic mice. Still, he’s starting to feel like he’s got the hang of things…at least until his girlfriend, Shelby Tanner, shows up, asking pointed questions about werewolves and the state of his passport. From there, it’s just a hop, skip, and a jump to Australia, a continent filled with new challenges, new dangers, and yes, rival cryptozoologists who don’t like their “visiting expert” very much. Australia is a cryptozoologist’s dream, filled with unique species and unique challenges. Unfortunately, it’s also filled with Shelby’s family, who aren’t delighted by the length of her stay in America. And then there are the werewolves to consider: infected killing machines who would like nothing more than to claim the continent as their own. The continent which currently includes Alex. Survival is hard enough when you’re on familiar ground. Alex Price is very far from home, but there’s one thing he knows for sure: he’s not going down without a fight.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137076571

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Imagining Apocalypse by NA NA Pdf

This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to their historical moment. Not surprisingly, war recurs throughout this material, as a critical turning-point, fulfilment of prophecy, or prelude to a new age. In particular the essays explore the issue of whether modern apocalypse is seen as an ending or a beginning, considered under its political, ethnic and gendered aspects. Among the writers covered are H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon and such contemporary figures as Michael Moorcock, J. G. Ballard and Storm Constantine.

Author : Jason Boyett
Publisher : Relevant Media Group
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0976035715

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Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse by Jason Boyett Pdf

In this humorous look at today's culture's ongoing love affair with the "End Times," the author provides a handful of anecdotes, acknowledgments of the phenomenon in pop culture and insights that precede each chapter.

Author : Roslyn Weaver
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786484652

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Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film by Roslyn Weaver Pdf

Australia has been a frequent choice of location for narratives about the end of the world in science fiction and speculative works, ranging from pre-colonial apocalyptic maps to key literary works from the last fifty years. This critical work explores the role of Australia in both apocalyptic literature and film. Works and genres covered include Nevil Shute’s popular novel On the Beach, Mad Max, children’s literature, Indigenous writing, and cyberpunk. The text examines ways in which apocalypse is used to undermine complacency, foretell environmental disasters, critique colonization, and to serve as a means of protest for minority groups. Australian apocalypse imagines Australia at the ends of the world, geographically and psychologically, but also proposes spaces of hope for the future.

Author : Mark Payne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691205427

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Flowers of Time by Mark Payne Pdf

"For all of its current popularity, contemporary apocalyptic fiction-novels set during or after events that devastate the world as we know it-is part of a long tradition that includes the Biblical story of Noah, the epic of Gilgamesh, and the Works and Days of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, as well as the vast array of modern examples. In this short, essayistic book, the author focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction in which new forms of life emerge from catastrophe, how the survivors adapt to the altered conditions of existence, and the various ways in which the past asserts its claims on them-both the immediate past of the world that was lost, and the deep past of prehistory and imagination that returns with this loss. In Payne's view, "post-apocalyptic fiction is political theory in fictional form. Instead of producing arguments in favor of a particular form of life, it shows what it would be like to live that life." In a world in which there is no more capitalism and no more nation state, characters have to relearn basic survival skills and return to earlier forms of social life. They acquire new capabilities, which bring new satisfactions they could not have anticipated in the world that is gone. In the post-apocalyptic world, they disentangle themselves from old ways of thinking and their misconceptions of human happiness. In this way, Payne argues, post-apocalyptic fiction is the pastoral of our time. The individualism and small-scale social relations of post-apocalyptic fiction are not naïve, but instead the necessary ground for choosing the freedoms and capabilities readers would want to see preserved in any future collective that might emerge from them"--

Author : Katarzyna Boruń-Jagodzińska
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015064924759

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Pocket Apocalypse by Katarzyna Boruń-Jagodzińska Pdf

Author : Peter Cowie
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0306810468

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The Apocalypse Now Book by Peter Cowie Pdf

A cinematic legend: The making of Francis Ford Coppola's epic about Vietnam and the folly of war, based on unprecedented access to Coppola's private archives

Author : Seanan McGuire
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101576878

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Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire Pdf

First book in New York Times-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us. "The only thing more fun than an October Daye book is an InCryptid book." —Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Sookie Stackhouse series Cryptid, noun: Any creature whose existence has not yet been proven by science. See also "Monster." Crytozoologist, noun: Any person who thinks hunting for cryptids is a good idea. See also "idiot." Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night... The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity—and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance. Sounds pretty simple, right? It would be, if it weren't for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos supermodels, and the trained monster-hunter sent by the Price family's old enemies, the Covenant of St. George. When a Price girl meets a Covenant boy, high stakes, high heels, and a lot of collateral damage are almost guaranteed. To complicate matters further, local cryptids are disappearing, strange lizard-men are appearing in the sewers, and someone's spreading rumors about a dragon sleeping underneath the city...

Author : Bernd Hubert Janzen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Apocalypse in motion pictures
ISBN : UCR:31210021189715

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Roddenberry's Faith in Star Trek by Bernd Hubert Janzen Pdf

Author : Mark O'Connell
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780385543019

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Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell Pdf

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with the future, by the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine. “Deeply funny and life-affirming, with a warm, generous outlook even on the most challenging of subjects.” —Esquire We’re alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. A pandemic draws our global community to a halt. Everywhere you look there’s an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on earth is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based writer Mark O’Connell is consumed by these questions—and, as the father of two young children, he finds them increasingly urgent. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization’s collapse. He engages with would-be Mars colonists, preppers, right-wing conspiracists. And he bears witness to places, like Chernobyl, that the future has already visited—real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. What emerges is an absorbing, funny, and deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with what’s ahead.

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KUL:KULGB009453

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Arcana Coelestia by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf

Author : Hugh Kenner
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015013086767

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A Sinking Island by Hugh Kenner Pdf

The island, of course, is England. Having considered the modern writers of America in A Homemade World and Ireland in A Colder Eye, Kenner turns to the third of International Modernism's "three provinces." His judgment is often harsh -- he argues that in the last quarter of the twentieth century "there's no longer an English literature" -- but his book is a pure delight in its pungent, lively, and thoughtful amalgam of anecdote and critical analysis, detective work and celebration.

Author : Jeanine Marie Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X79247

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Pirates Vs. Ninjas by Jeanine Marie Webb Pdf

Author : Nancy Grubb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040553813

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Revelations by Nancy Grubb Pdf

This concise but illuminating introduction to the sources, symbolism, and meanings of the biblical Book of Revelation brings together visionary images by some of the greatest artists of Western culture, including Fra Angelico, William Blake, Hieroymous Bosch, Michelangelo, Raphael, Peter Paul Rubens, Luca Signorelli, and J.M.W. Turner. 250 illustrations, 247 in color.

Author : Alyson Pendlebury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114583581

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Portraying 'the Jew' in First World War Britain by Alyson Pendlebury Pdf

The book focuses on Britain during the First World War and the immediate post-war period, and examines the use of biblical imagery with regard to representations of the nation and its perceived enemies. The study is constructed around four rhetorical themes: 'crusade', 'conversion', 'crucifixion' and 'apocalypse', and traces these through a wide variety of texts, including public lectures, sermons, press articles, political speeches and memoirs, pre-millennialist writings, cartoons, plays, poetry and popular fiction. The central argument is that in the context of rhetorically constructed 'Christian warfare', religious language took on political significance, and old allegations against Jews began to recirculate. The study examines the religious, political and sexual fears associated by Christians with Jews during and after the war, and discusses the ways in which Anglo-Jewish writers, including G. B. Stern, Gilbert Frankau and Isaac Rosenberg, responded to these developments.