Science Fiction And Empire

Author : Patricia Kerslake
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846310249

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Science Fiction and Empire by Patricia Kerslake Pdf

From its beginnings, science fiction has experimented with imperialistic scenarios of alien invasion, extraterrestrial exploitation, xenophobia, and colonial conquest. In Science Fiction and Empire, Patricia Kerslake brings contemporary thinking about postcolonialism and imperialism to bear on a variety of classic sci-fi novels and films, including The War of the Worlds, Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, and Star Wars. The first book to identify the consequences of empire in science fiction, Kerslake’s study is a compelling investigation of the political ramifications of how we imagine our future. “Science Fiction and Empire is thought-provoking and insightful, . . . the kind of large-scale postcolonial work that science fiction has needed for quite some time.”—Science Fiction Studies

Author : Samuel R. Delany
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015028745233

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Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany Pdf

Author : Scott Westerfeld
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429989785

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The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling (Philip K. Dick Award special citation and a New York Times Notable Book) comes a sweeping epic, The Risen Empire, Scott Westerfeld's dazzling hardcover debut. The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power has been absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshiped as living gods. No one can touch them. Not until the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary extent. The Rix are cool, relentless fanatics, and their only goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy. They seek to end, by any means necessary, the Emperor's prolonged tyranny of one and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty of their own. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue. Separated by light-years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist senator Nara Oxham must each in their own way, face the challenge of the Rix, and they each will hold the fate of the empire in their hands. The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : George Tomkyns Chesney,P G Wodehouse,Julius Vogel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798684230356

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Science Fiction of the British Empire by George Tomkyns Chesney,P G Wodehouse,Julius Vogel Pdf

The British Empire was largely accidental. During the 17th and 18th centuries, a small island nation accrued a patchwork scattering of commercial monopolies, isolated ports, utopian experiments, and surrendered colonies. By the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the British Empire was the largest the world had ever seen. The shape of the Empire was amorphous, its machinery unwieldy, its values contradictory, and its legacy ambivalent. Science fiction developed along with it, to celebrate and critique the imperial project. This volume features rarely reprinted stories from across the United Kingdom, India, Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, including the "Poet of the Empire" Rudyard Kipling, Indian nationalist Shoshee Chunder Dutt, New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Julius Vogel, Catholic theologian G.K. Chesterton, Muslim feminist Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, Canadian satirist Stephen Leacock, military alarmist George Tomkyns Chesney, and "Jeeves and Wooster" creator P.G. Wodehouse.

Author : Arkady Martine
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250186454

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A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Pdf

Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel A Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019 A Best Book of 2019: Library Journal, Polygon, Den of Geek An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and “Not the Booker Prize” Nominee A Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee "A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."—Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion—all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation. A fascinating space opera debut novel, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is an interstellar mystery adventure. "The most thrilling ride ever. This book has everything I love."—Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky And coming soon, the brilliant sequel, A Desolation Called Peace! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Patricia Kerslake
Publisher : Liverpool Science Fiction Text
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1846315042

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Science Fiction and Empire by Patricia Kerslake Pdf

From its beginnings, science fiction has experimented with imperialistic scenarios of alien invasion, extraterrestrial exploitation, xenophobia, and colonial conquest. In Science Fiction and Empire, Patricia Kerslake brings contemporary thinking about postcolonialism and imperialism to bear on a variety of classic sci-fi novels and films, including The War of the Worlds, Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, and Star Wars. The first book to identify the consequences of empire in science fiction, Kerslake’s study is a compelling investigation of the political ramifications of how we imagine our future. “Science Fiction and Empire is thought-provoking and insightful, . . . the kind of large-scale postcolonial work that science fiction has needed for quite some time.”—Science Fiction Studies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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INTERGALACTIC EMPIRES by Anonim Pdf

Author : William B. Fischer
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879722584

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The Empire Strikes Out by William B. Fischer Pdf

German science fiction offers a most interesting contribution to the history and criticism of science fiction. William B. Fischer examines two writers, Kurd Lasswitz and Hans Dominik. He concludes that German science fiction is in distinct contrast to the "normative" tradition of modern Anglo-American science fiction and to many other literary traditions as well. His book demonstrates vividly the social relevance and enduring cultural vitality of science fiction.

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : OCLC:12768469

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Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov Pdf

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429971770

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Hidden Empire by Orson Scott Card Pdf

The war of words between right and left collapsed into a shooting war, and raged between the high-technology weapons on each side, devastating cities and overrunning the countryside. At the close of Empire, political scientist and government adviser Averell Torrent had maneuvered himself into the presidency of the United States. And now that he has complete power at home, he plans to expand American imperial power around the world. Opportunity comes quickly. There's a deadly new plague in Africa, and it is devastating the countryside and cities. President Torrent declares American solidarity with the victims, but places all of Africa in quarantine until a vaccine is found or the disease burns itself out. And he sends Captain Bartholomew Coleman, Cole to his friends, to run the relief operations and protect the American scientists working on identifying the virus. If Cole and his team can avoid dying of the plague, or being cut down by the weapons of fearful African nations, they might do some good. Or they might be out of the way for good. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062014382

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Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg Pdf

No power on Earth can resist the might of Imperial Rome, so it has been and so it ever shall be. Through brute force, terror, and sheer indomitable will, her armies have enslaved a world. From the reign of Maximilianus the Great in A.U.C. 1203 onward through the ages -- into a new era of scientific advancement and astounding technologies -- countless upstarts and enemies arise, only to be ground into the dust beneath the merciless Roman bootheels. But one people who suffer and endure throughout the many centuries of oppressive rule dream of the glorious day that is coming -- when the heavens themselves will be opened to them…and the ships they are preparing in secret will carry them on their "Great Exodus" to the stars.

Author : Nathaniel Isaacson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780819576675

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Celestial Empire by Nathaniel Isaacson Pdf

How colonialism profoundly influenced the emergence of Chinese science fiction Challenging assumptions about science fiction's Western origins, Nathaniel Isaacson traces the development of the genre in China, from the late Qing Dynasty through the New Culture Movement. Through careful examination of a wide range of visual and print media—including historical accounts of the institutionalization of science, pictorial representations of technological innovations, and a number of novels and short stories—Isaacson makes a case for understanding Chinese science fiction as a product of colonial modernity. By situating the genre's emergence in the transnational traffic of ideas and material culture engendered by the presence of colonial powers in China's economic and political centers, Celestial Empires explores the relationship between science fiction and Orientalist discourse. In doing so it offers an innovative approach to the study of both vernacular writing in twentieth-century China and science fiction in a global context. Hardcover is un-jacketed.

Author : Andrew Gordon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 074255578X

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Empire of Dreams by Andrew Gordon Pdf

A look at various science fiction, fantasy, and horror films directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the contemporary filmmakers.

Author : Clifford D. Simak
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547398479

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Empire by Clifford D. Simak Pdf

The entire galaxy relies on a sole energy source owed by one organization. Behind their monopoly stands the desire to dominate all the planets. They seemed unstoppable, however a couple of maverick scientists will stand their way when accidentally develop a completely new form of energy...

Author : Edward Elmer Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547192619

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Children of the Lens by Edward Elmer Smith Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Children of the Lens" by Edward Elmer Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.