Teranesia

Author : Greg Egan
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575105461

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Teranesia by Greg Egan Pdf

As a young boy, Prabir Suresh lives with his parents and sister on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian peninsula. Prabir names it Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are studying. Civil war strikes, orphaning Prabir and his sister. Eighteen years later, rumours of bizarre new species of plants and animals being discovered in the peninsula that was their childhood home draw Prabir's sister back to the island - Prabir cannot bear for her to have gone out alone and he follows, persuading a pharmaceutical researcher to take him along as a guide.

Author : Kin Yuen Wong,Gary Westfahl,Amy Kit-sze Chan
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789622097216

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World Weavers by Kin Yuen Wong,Gary Westfahl,Amy Kit-sze Chan Pdf

World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our world has grown more and more interconnected not only due to technological advances, but also to a shared interest in those advances and to what they might lead to in the future. Science fiction has long been both literally and metaphorically linked to the emerging global village. It now takes on the task of exploring how the cybernetic revolution might transform the world and keep it one step ahead of the real world, despite ever-accelerating developments. As residents of a world that is undeniably globalized, science-fictional and virtual, it is incumbent on us to fully understand just how we came to live in such a world, and to envisage where this world may be heading next. World Weavers represents one small but significant step toward achieving such knowledge.

Author : Christopher Palmer
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780819576224

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Castaway Tales by Christopher Palmer Pdf

A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the present Ever since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes through periods of settlement, violence, and reconciliation, and across genres and languages. Showing how subsequent authors have parodied or inverted the castaway tale, Palmer concentrates on the period following H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau. These much darker visions are seen in later novels including William Golding's Lord of the Flies, J. G. Ballard's Concrete Island, and Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory. In these and other variations, the castaway becomes a cannibal, the castaway's island is relocated to center of London, female castaways mock the traditional masculinity of the original Crusoe, or Friday ceases to be a biddable servant. By the mid-twentieth century, the castaway tale has plunged into violence and madness, only to see it return in young adult novels—such as Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins and Terry Pratchett's Nation—to the buoyancy and optimism of the original. The result is a fascinating series of revisions of violence and pessimism, but also reconciliation.

Author : David Seed
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470797013

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A Companion to Science Fiction by David Seed Pdf

A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Author : George Mann
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780337043

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The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by George Mann Pdf

This encyclopedia is the most up-to-date, concise, clear and affordable guide to all aspects of science fiction, from its background to generic themes and devices, from authors (established and new) to films. Science fiction has evolved into one of the most popular, cutting-edge and exciting fiction geners, with a proliferation of modern and classic authors, themes and ideas, movies, TV series and awards. Arranged in an A-Z format, and featuring a comprehensive index and cross-referencing system, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is also the most accessible and easy to use encyclopedia of its kind currently available.

Author : Thomas L. Long
Publisher : Southern Tier Editions
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1560235411

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Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly 1 by Thomas L. Long Pdf

Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly is devoted to the latest names and innovations in gay men's fiction and serves as a forum for discovering new talents. Readers get exclusive "sneak peeks" of the latest works in progress from such prominent writers as Andrew Holleran, Scott Heim, and Bernard Cooper, and new critical examinations of "lost" gay novels.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Books
ISBN : MINN:31951P00853153P

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Australian Book Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen Burnham
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252096297

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Greg Egan by Karen Burnham Pdf

Greg Egan (1961- ) publishes works that challenge readers with rigorous, deeply-informed scientific speculation. He unapologetically delves into mathematics, physics, and other disciplines in his prose, putting him in the vanguard of the hard science fiction renaissance of the 1990s. A working physicist and engineer, Karen Burnham is uniquely positioned to provide an in-depth study of Egan's science-heavy oeuvre. Her survey of the author's career covers novels like Permutation City and Schild's Ladder and the Hugo Award-winning novella "Oceanic," analyzing how Egan used cutting-edge scientific theory to explore ethical questions and the nature of humanity. As Burnham shows, Egan's collected works constitute a bold artistic statement: that narratives of science are equal to those of poetry and drama, and that science holds a place in the human condition as exalted as religion or art. The volume includes a rare interview with the famously press-shy Egan covering his works, themes, intellectual interests, and thought processes.

Author : Ken Gelder,Paul Salzman
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0522859216

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After The Celebration by Ken Gelder,Paul Salzman Pdf

After the Celebration explores Australian fiction from 1989 to 2007, after Australia's bicentenary to the end of the Howard government. In this literary history, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman combine close attention to Australian novels with a vivid depiction of their contexts: cultural, social, political, historical, national and transnational. From crime fiction to the postmodern colonial novel, from Australian grunge to 'rural apocalypse fiction', from the Asian diasporic novel to the action blockbuster, Gelder and Salzman show how Australian novelists such as Frank Moorhouse, Elizabeth Jolley, Peter Carey, Kim Scott, Steven Carroll, Kate Grenville, Tim Winton, Alexis Wright and many others have used their work to chart our position in the world. The literary controversies over history, identity, feminism and gatekeeping are read against the politics of the day. Provocative and compelling, After the Celebration captures the key themes and issues in Australian fiction: where we have been and what we have become.

Author : Jeanne Gomoll
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794702868

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James Tiptree, Jr. Award Cumulative List by Jeanne Gomoll Pdf

Author : Greg Egan
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575105454

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Permutation City by Greg Egan Pdf

The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes something way beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - and much more - Permutation city is filled with the sense of wonder.

Author : Greg Egan
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473232303

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The Best of Greg Egan by Greg Egan Pdf

Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificial intelligence, higher mathematics, science vs religion, the nature of consciousness, and the impact of technology on the human personality. All these ideas and more find their way into this generous and illuminating collection, the clear product of a man who is both a master storyteller and a rigorous, exploratory thinker. The Best of Greg Egan contains twenty stories and novellas arranged in chronological order, and each of them is a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem, including the Hugo Award-winning novella "Oceanic", a powerful account of a boy whose deeply held religious beliefs are undermined by what he comes to learn about the laws of the physical world. This book really does represent the best of Greg Egan, and it therefore takes its place among the best of contemporary SF. Startling, intelligent and always hugely entertaining, it provides an ideal introduction to one of the most accomplished and original writers working today. This is an important and provocative collection, and it deserves a place on the serious science fiction reader's permanent shelf.

Author : Greg Egan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3453179277

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Teranesia by Greg Egan Pdf

Author : Greg Egan
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575105430

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Distress by Greg Egan Pdf

On the utopian, man-made island, Stateless, Nobel Prize winner Violet Mosala is close to solving the greatest problem of her career - the quest for the ultimate Theory of Everything (TOE) is almost over. Burned out by recording the abuses of biotech for his TV news syndicate, Andrew Worth grabs the chance to follow Violet's story. In contrast the world of theoretical physics seems like an anaesthetised mathematical heaven, where everything is cool and abstract. He could not have been more wrong. One by one Mosala's rival quantum physicists are disappearing from the scientific summit at Stateless. But why? Is it something to do with Violet herself, or is there some other, more esoteric, force at work undermining the Theory of Everything Conference?

Author : Greg Egan
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575088139

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Incandescence by Greg Egan Pdf

A million years from now, the galaxy is divided between the vast, cooperative meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, and the silent occupiers of the galactic core known as the Aloof. The Aloof have long rejected all attempts by the Amalgam to enter their territory, but have permitted travellers to take a perilous ride as unencrypted data in their communications network, providing a short-cut across the galaxy's central bulge. When Rakesh encounters a traveller, Lahl, who claims she was woken by the Aloof on such a journey and shown a meteor full of traces of DNA, he accepts her challenge to try to find the uncharted world deep in the Aloof's territory from which the meteor originated. Roi and Zak live inside the Splinter, a world of rock that swims in a sea of light they call the Incandescence. Living on the margins of a rigidly organised society, they seek to decipher the subtle clues that can reveal the true nature of the Splinter. In fact, the Splinter is orbiting a black hole, which is about to capture a neighbouring star, wreaking havoc. As the signs of danger grow, Roi, Zak, and a growing band of recruits struggle to understand and take control of their fate. Meanwhile, Rakesh is gradually uncovering their remote history, and his search for the lost DNA world ultimately leads him to a civilisation trapped in cultural stagnation, and startling revelations about the true nature and motives of the Aloof.