The Compleat Traveller In Black

Author : John Brunner
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497617698

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The Compleat Traveller in Black by John Brunner Pdf

One journey. Six stories. Mind-blowing fantasy from the Hugo Award winner, “one of the most important science fiction authors” (SF Site). In The Compleat Traveller in Black, six linked tales, comprising one of Brunner’s rare ventures into fantasy, relate the legend of a man with many names, who travels the world with a staff made of light and performs his eternal duty by bringing order to a world filled with chaos. What he dispenses is always asked for but not always welcomed by the recipients. And the world becomes, step by slow step, a better place for those who remain. For each generation, there is a writer meant to bend the rules of what we know. Hugo Award winner (Best Novel, Stand on Zanzibar) and British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential and respected authors of all time, and now many of his classic works are being reintroduced. For readers familiar with his vision, this is a chance to reexamine his thoughtful worlds and words, while for new readers, Brunner’s work proves itself the very definition of timeless.

Author : John Brunner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:65768868

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Traveller in Black by John Brunner Pdf

Author : John Brunner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : UOM:39015008639877

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The Traveler in Black by John Brunner Pdf

Author : John Brunner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0727803085

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The Traveller in Black by John Brunner Pdf

Author : Jad Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252094514

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John Brunner by Jad Smith Pdf

Under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, John Brunner (1934–1995) was one of the most prolific and influential science fiction authors of the late twentieth century. During his exemplary career, the British author wrote with a stamina matched by only a few other great science fiction writers and with a literary quality of even fewer, importing modernist techniques into his novels and stories and probing every major theme of his generation: robotics, racism, drugs, space exploration, technological warfare, and ecology. In this first intensive review of Brunner's life and works, Jad Smith carefully demonstrates how Brunner's much-neglected early fiction laid the foundation for his classic Stand on Zanzibar and other major works such as The Jagged Orbit, The Sheep Look Up, and The Shockwave Rider. Making extensive use of Brunner's letters, columns, speeches, and interviews published in fanzines, Smith approaches Brunner in the context of markets and trends that affected many writers of the time, including Brunner's uneasy association with the "New Wave" of science fiction in the 1960s and '70s. This landmark study shows how Brunner's attempts to cross-fertilize the American pulp tradition with British scientific romance complicated the distinctions between genre and mainstream fiction and between hard and soft science fiction and helped carve out space for emerging modes such as cyberpunk, slipstream, and biopunk.

Author : Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819573919

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Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn Pdf

Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their fantastic worlds. Mendlesohn posits four categories of fantasy—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal—that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author’s stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably political demands of the category in which they choose to write. Each chapter covers at least twenty books in detail, ranging from nineteenth-century fantasy and horror to extensive coverage of some of the best books in the contemporary field. Offering a wide-ranging discussion and penetrating comparative analysis, Rhetorics of Fantasy will excite fans and provide a wealth of material for scholarly and classroom discussion. Includes discussion of works by over 100 authors, including Lloyd Alexander, Peter Beagle, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Crowley, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen King, C. S. Lewis, Gregory Maguire, Robin McKinley, China Miéville, Suniti Namjoshi, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Sheri S. Tepper, J. R. R. Tolkien, Tad Williams

Author : Eric Brown
Publisher : Pan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0330313665

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The Time-lapsed Man and Other Stories by Eric Brown Pdf

Author : Shimon Edelman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262542784

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Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths by Shimon Edelman Pdf

A guide for making sense of life--from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure). This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to the lovers) to thinking (should not be so depressing) to youth (a treasure). In a style that is by turns personal and philosophical, at once informative and entertaining, Edelman offers a series of illuminating takes on the most important aspects of living in the world.

Author : Nick Rennison,Stephen E. Andrews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781408114889

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100 Must-read Fantasy Novels by Nick Rennison,Stephen E. Andrews Pdf

Fantasy is one of the most visible genres in popular culture - we see the creation of magical and imagined worlds and characters in every type of media, with very strong fan bases in tow. This latest guide in the successful Bloomsbury Must-Read series covers work from a wide range of authors: Tolkien, Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Michael Moorcock, Rudyard Kipling and C.S Lewis to very contemporary writers such as Garth Nix and Steven Erikson. If you want to expand your range of reading or deepen your understanding of this genre, this is the best place to start.

Author : Grzegorz Trębicki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443875264

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Worlds So Strange and Diverse by Grzegorz Trębicki Pdf

This book represents an analysis of contemporary fantasy (non-mimetic) literature in all its richness and diversity, and offers a preliminary definition of the major fields of taxonomical interest, in addition to marking some of the unmapped territories of “fantastic” fiction. In its first part, the book presents an overview of all major previous theoretical discussions of the issue, particularly those by Tzvetan Todorov, Rosemary Jackson, Darko Suvin, Brian Attebery, Marek Oziewicz and Farah Mendlesohn. The second part of the book provides an interesting comprehensive taxonomy of its own, based on the notion of supragenological types of literature, first introduced by Andrzej Zgorzelski.

Author : Maura Heaphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598845068

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Science Fiction Authors by Maura Heaphy Pdf

For students, scholars, readers' advisors, and curious SF readers and fans, this guide provides an easy-to-use launch pad for researching and learning more about science fiction writers and their work. Emphasizing the best popular and contemporary authors, this book covers 100 SF writers, providing for each: • a brief biographical sketch, including a quote from theauthor, awards, etc. • a list of the author's major works (including editions and other writings) • research sources-biographies, criticism, research guides, and web sites • In addition, you'll find read-alike lists for selected authors. For anyone wanting to find information on popular SF authors, this should be the first stop.

Author : Joseph L. Sanders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313368448

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Functions of the Fantastic by Joseph L. Sanders Pdf

This collection of 23 essays represents the best papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Scholars representing diverse perspectives on the fantastic address a variety of works—including those by Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen Donaldson, Ursula Le Guin, Jean Baudrillard, Anatole France, William Blake, and Angela Carter. Subjects addressed range from children's tales and classic literature to paper sculptures and popular television series. Containing provocative applications of scholarly observation to practical life, this volume will be of interest to scholars of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and popular culture, and to others who want to know which topics are currently in vogue in the field.

Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587153303

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Complete Critical Assembly by David Langford Pdf

This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.

Author : John Brunner
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497617933

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The Whole Man by John Brunner Pdf

This “story of a severely handicapped man in a Dystopic world . . . very much reminds you of the Cyberpunk novels that would appear 20 years later” (Wanderings). In A Whole Man, a baby boy is born in a hospital surrounded by the chaos of battle and civil unrest. The birth is unremarkable and little noted, but the child, Gerald Howson, turns out to be very special. He is afflicted by infirmities and bodily flaws, but his mind becomes a miraculous device, capable of telepathic marvels that can, and do, change the world. But the power fantasies that sometimes tempt him are deadly to those near him and can ultimately threaten the whole of the world. And a man in a physical envelope that inspires pity and fright turns out to be the embodiment of a superman. This ebook was originally published in the United Kingdom under the title Telepathist. For each generation, there is a writer meant to bend the rules of what we know. Hugo Award winner (Best Novel, Stand on Zanzibar) and British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential and respected authors of all time, and now many of his classic works are being reintroduced. For readers familiar with his vision, it is a chance to reexamine his thoughtful worlds and words, while for new readers, Brunner’s work proves itself the very definition of timeless.

Author : Joe Haldeman,John Brunner,Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504060110

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The Face of Chaos by Joe Haldeman,John Brunner,Philip José Farmer Pdf

War looms over Sanctuary in the fifth Thieves’ World® anthology compiled by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Phule’s Company series. The invasion by the Beysibs, an amphibious humanoid race, brings unusual prosperity to the city of Sanctuary. But underneath the glittering façade lies a ticking time bomb, for the nefarious residents of Sanctuary don’t take kindly to an invasion—well-meaning or otherwise . . . Join Janet Morris, C. J. Cherryh, Robert Lynn Asprin, Lynn Abbey, David Drake, and Diana L. Paxson as their stories unravel the fates of Sanctuary’s favorite liars, thieves, assassins, and warriors. “Abbey . . . understands Sanctuary and its characters. She also knows how to write a short story with a strong main character, a riveting plot that contains twists and turns, and a satisfying resolution. Best story in the book . . . Lalo is the most interesting of all of the characters in Thieves’ World and his stories are always interesting. Paxson . . . spins an interesting and well written yarn that closes the book nicely.” —brianbookreviews.blogspot.com