Strange Worlds Strange Times Amazing Sci Fi Stories

Author : Vinayak Varma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9388326504

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Strange Worlds! Strange Times! Amazing Sci-Fi Stories by Vinayak Varma Pdf

'Here is a fine collection of escape hatches arrayed in front of you: all open, all leading far away from this reality. Why not climb through one and see where it takes you?' What if machines meant to help humans took over their owners? Or if unending traffic jams forced Swedish detectives to levitate around the Indian city of Bluru? How did the deadly cyclone in the Bay of Bengal that had everyone on tenterhooks suddenly calm down? What does one do when killer zombies launch an attack in Chennai or when eager-to-please musical creatures refuse to go back into their pods? And did the giant Tetrahedron appear on the streets of New Delhi to help people see beyond their present reality? Alternate worlds and futures--or pasts--have never seemed as full of potential or as visionary as in these stories by some of the best storytellers in the country, including Manjula Padmanabhan, Jerry Pinto, Vandana Singh, Srinath Perur, Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, J.C. Bose, Indra Das, Shalini Srinivasan, Zac O'Yeah, Sunando C. and Vinayak Varma. Satirical, humorous and thought-provoking, these mindboggling stories will amaze you with their depth of imagination and are a must-read for all sci-fi lovers!

Author : Wallace Wood
Publisher : Woodwork, Wally Wood Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1934331414

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Wally Wood by Wallace Wood Pdf

"Strange Worlds of Science Fiction is the most extensive collection to-date, of sci-fi comics by Hall of Fame creator Wallace Wood."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Scott Tierney
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789824810

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Strange Times by Scott Tierney Pdf

Strange Times compiles ten short stories of fantasy, science-fiction and wonder, ranging from the darkly comical Eight Over Four, set in a world which is overpopulated with giant human-sized spiders; to the altogether more thought-provoking Outlawry, where radical new laws result in a dystopian hotbed of opportunism, for the punishment for crime is now crime itself. Also included are two previously unpublished stories exclusive to this collection: Give Us Your Smile, which describes a surreal situation where smiling becomes mandatory, and Don't Touch That Dial. Strange Times also features The Rings of Yesteryear and The Pause, two stories set in the expanded universe of the author's epic time-travelling adventure, Tomorrow Is Another Year. In times as strange as these, this is a collection not to be missed!

Author : Lena Nguyen
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780756417307

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We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen Pdf

This psychological sci-fi thriller from a debut author follows one doctor who must discover the source of her crew's madness... or risk succumbing to it herself. Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her purpose is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship—all specialists in their own fields—as they assess the colonization potential of the planet, Eos. But frictions develop as Park befriends the androids of the ship, preferring their company over the baffling complexity of humans, while the rest of the crew treats them with suspicion and even outright hostility. Shortly after landing, the crew finds themselves trapped on the ship by a radiation storm, with no means of communication or escape until it passes—and that’s when things begin to fall apart. Park’s patients are falling prey to waking nightmares of helpless, tongueless insanity. The androids are behaving strangely. There are no windows aboard the ship. Paranoia is closing in, and soon Park is forced to confront the fact that nothing—neither her crew, nor their mission, nor the mysterious Eos itself—is as it seems.

Author : Suparno Banerjee
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786836670

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Indian Science Fiction by Suparno Banerjee Pdf

This study draws from postcolonial theory, science fiction criticism, utopian studies, genre theory, Western and Indian philosophy and history to propose that Indian science fiction functions at the intersection of Indian and Western cultures. The author deploys a diachronic and comparative approach in examining the multilingual science fiction traditions of India to trace the overarching generic evolutions, which he complements with an analysis of specific patterns of hybridity in the genre’s formal and thematic elements – time, space, characters and the epistemologies that build the worlds in Indian science fiction. The work explores the larger patterns and connections visible despite the linguistic and cultural diversities of Indian science fiction traditions.

Author : Sami Ahmad Khan
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786837639

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Star Warriors of the Modern Raj by Sami Ahmad Khan Pdf

India is mutating – and its Science Fiction with it. Star Warriors of the Modern Raj is a critical catalogue of contemporary India’s anglophone SF, a path-breaking work that flits between texts, vantage points and frameworks. An alternative to a Eurocentric perspective of SF, this study avoids essentialising definitions and delves into how the world of SF (text) intersects with that of the writer/reader. Fusing paradigms of Science Fiction Studies, South Asian Studies and Postcolonial Studies, among others, the book explicates how India and its SF negotiate one another. It evolves a ‘transMIT thesis’ to analyse how mythology (M), ideology (I) and technology (T) contour Indian SF and its fictional reimaginings. This study identifies the manifestations of divine beings within SF as differing epistemological categories, locates the modes of marginalisation within Indian popular imagination as altars of alterity, before proceeding to analyse how newer technologies engage with socio-political anxieties in and through SF. Interested in learning about Science Fiction and South Asia? Click on the link below to read Mithila Review interview with Sami Ahmad Khan where he discusses his upcoming volume Star Warriors of the Modern Raj. https://mithilareview.com/ahmad_03_21/

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:492085278

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American Furniture and Decorations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert M Geraci
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789391050306

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Futures of Artificial Intelligence by Robert M Geraci Pdf

Twenty-first century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial recognition, and robotics. For decades, an ideology of apocalyptic progress and cosmic transformation has accompanied the advancement of AI in the United States; that vision is intimately connected to transhumanism, the idea that humanity can transcend its limits, even mortality, using technology. Based on contributions from science and science fiction, advocates of such apocalyptic AI suggest that the world will soon see godlike machine intelligence and that human beings will upload their minds into immortal machine bodies. The arrival of this ideology in India raises questions about how global cultures can contribute to AI technology and our beliefs about AI. These beliefs have gained a foothold in Indian visions of AI, but they have not been accepted uncritically; rather, Indian scientists and futurists revise the transhumanist vision and illustrate how traditional Hindu values can add to the global perspective. By describing the arrival and reconfiguration of transhumanist ideas in India, this book reveals how the nexus of religion and technology contributes to public life and our modern self-understanding while suggesting that the apocalyptic approach to AI should be tempered by other visions. By tracing the movement of apocalyptic AI into India and exploring Indian efforts to redefine those transhumanist aspirations, Futures of Artificial Intelligence opens the door for rethinking our global approach to AI and advocates for technologies and visions of technology that advance human flourishing.

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444710236

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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

The original uncut edition of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Hugo Award winner Robert A Heinlein - one of the most beloved, celebrated science-fiction novels of all time. Epic, ambitious and entertaining, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND caused controversy and uproar when it was first published and is still topical and challenging today. Twenty-five years ago, the first manned mission to Mars was lost, and all hands presumed dead. But someone survived... Born on the doomed spaceship and raised by the Martians who saved his life, Valentine Michael Smith has never seen a human being until the day a second expedition to Mars discovers him. Upon his return to Earth, a young nurse named Jill Boardman sneaks into Smith's hospital room and shares a glass of water with him, a simple act for her but a sacred ritual on Mars. Now, connected by an incredible bond, Smith, Jill and a writer named Jubal must fight to protect a right we all take for granted: the right to love.

Author : Paul Clayton
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475233930

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Strange Worlds by Paul Clayton Pdf

It's 2012. The Mayan Calendar has come to an end and Strange Worlds appear...In the future, the love of a young man's life is slowly dying. He would do almost anything to keep her alive…except that! — AmythingIn Dog Man, it turns out that Oscar the tomcat was just misunderstood — with deadly consequences…A love sick young man attempts to tap the power of an ancient religion to secure the affections of a girl on their class trip to Christland… The dead come briefly back to life every year when the astral dimensions align in Day, or Two, of The Dead. You're mildly amused by it all until one in particular insists on coming to your house…A cynical young 'player', adrift in the modern, amoral age, meets God on a mountain top and his life is changed forever — but not in any way he'd ever imagined.Clayton channels the spirits of Huxley, Orwell and Philip K. Dick in these and ten other intelligent, provocative and highly entertaining stories. “Clayton's strong character writing carries the book…” — Publishers Weekly

Author : H.G. Wells
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9783985945634

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Thirty Strange Stories by H.G. Wells Pdf

Thirty Strange Stories H. G. Wells - Thirty Strange Stories: by H. G. Wells Annotated by Ablaze BlissOutstanding series collection Publishing in 1897 here are 30 stories from a variety of fantastic genres:, Strange Romance ,Occult Ghost, Fantasy, Monsters, and Science Fiction.

Author : Avon Periodicals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1533565309

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Strange Worlds #8 by Avon Periodicals Pdf

When it comes to Golden Age science-fiction, few series' contained a star-studded line-up like STRANGE WORLDS: Kubert, Kinsler, Wood, Orlando, Fawcette, and others - masters of the day! On top of this talent you have some of the most exciting stories and concepts in Mid-20th Century comics, along with rockets and spacemen and aliens and ray-guns and - of course - bikini clad space women!STRANGE WORLDS #1-9 contain original material, and we have it all for you in three volumes. The title was revived a few years later (beginning at #18), with reprints and then war stories, but the first nine issues are the gems you need, the complete series you demand!Nine individual issues;A Great 3- Volume collection;Altogether in the giant CLASSIC COMICS LIBRARY #365!RARE COMICS CAN BE HARD TO FIND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. These books are reprinted from the best available images, and the books will be updated as new copies are uncovered. Sometimes the early and rarer books reflect the age and the condition of the originals. Our books are NOT digitally remastered; they are taken from scans of actual comics. Many people enjoy these authentic characteristics. If you are not entirely happy, please contact us for exchange or refund at any time! If you send us your contact/delivery information, as a book is updated, you will receive a revised version free of charge!ALL STORIES - NO ADSGet the complete catalog by contacting [email protected] VISIT OUR WEB STORE ATwww.classiccomicslibrary.biz

Author : Micaiah Johnson
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593135068

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The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse in this stunning debut, a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD • “Gorgeous writing, mind-bending world-building, razor-sharp social commentary, and a main character who demands your attention—and your allegiance.”—Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—NPR, Library Journal, Book Riot Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total. On this dystopian Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now what once made her marginalized has finally become an unexpected source of power. She has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security. But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined—and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world but the entire multiverse. “Clever characters, surprise twists, plenty of action, and a plot that highlights social and racial inequities in astute prose.”—Library Journal (starred review)

Author : Miles John Breuer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803219311

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The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories by Miles John Breuer Pdf

Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuer s first publication, The Man with the Strange Head ; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first time); stories such as Gostak and the Doshes and Mechanocracy ; and Breuer s essay The Future of Scientifiction, one of the early critical statements of the genre. Also included are some of the author s letters from the Discussions column of Amazing Stories. Much of what we know as science fiction saw the light and found its themes, styles, and modes in the science fiction magazines of the early twentieth century. It was in these magazines of the 1920s and 1930s that Breuer often led the way. Breuer himself found his inspiration in the work of H. G. Wells and in turn influenced science fiction masters from Jack Williamson to Robert A. Heinlein. The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories collects the best work of this pioneer of the genre.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664108258

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Thirty Strange Stories by H. G. Wells Pdf

"Thirty Strange Stories" is an outstanding collection by one of the world's most known science fiction writers. This collection shows a wide range of Wells' topics, including science fiction, horror, crime, and suspense stories. It contains such famous works as "The Strange Orchid," "The Lord of the D ynamos," "In the Abyss," and "The Cone and The Red Room."