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The Folk of the Fringe

Orson Scott Card
The Folk of the Fringe Book PDF

Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429966535

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In Orson Scott Card's classic apocalyptic science fiction novel The Folk of the Fringe, only a few nuclear weapons fell in America--the weapons that destroyed the nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret, formed from the vestiges of Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. The climate has changed. The Great Salt Lake has filled up to prehistoric levels. But there, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again. A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful organizations, or even by great men alone. It must be renewed by individual men and women, one by one, working together to make a community, a nation, a new America. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Look at the Evidence

John Clute
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Author : John Clute
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473219823

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For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Look at the Evidence is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. It covers the period between 1987 and 1992.

Toward Other Worlds

Michael R. Collings
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Author : Michael R. Collings
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434457929

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Toward Other Worlds by Michael R. Collings Pdf

This collection of 25 essays of literary criticism includes pieces on British poet John Milton, British fantasy writer C. S. Lewis, American horror writer Stephen King, American SF and fantasy writer Orson Scott Card, British horror writer Clive Barker, and several others. Complete with bibliography and index.

Fringe Florida

Lynn Waddell
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Author : Lynn Waddell
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780813047812

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Most people visit the Sunshine State for its theme parks and beaches, but there is another side to Florida, an underbelly few tourists ever see, a periphery most residents know about but--out of decorum or discomfort--prefer not to discuss. In Fringe Florida, Lynn Waddell explores the frequently exotic, often sensational, and sometimes illicit worlds of the oddest state in the nation. Waddell takes the reader on a colorful journey to meet the most unconventional of Floridians in unbelievable and spectacular places. At Fetish Con, she befriends furries and pony girls. She travels to Cassadaga, the oldest active Spiritualist community in the South, where trained mediums converse with the dead, and to the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, where one can eat a hot dog while watching a reenactment of the Crucifixion. She interviews the founder of the Leather & Lace Motorcycle Club, a Daytona Beach-area grandmother who hosts the club's annual gathering at her subdivision home where scores of lady bikers camp out on her lawn. At an Animal Amnesty Day outside Busch Gardens, Waddell meets exotic reptile owners who give up their beloved-but no-longer-manageable pets and others who vie to take home the cast-offs. If you've ever wanted to parade around on a pimped-out swamp buggy amidst a couple thousand beer-swigging mud boggers or fall asleep with a python hissing in your ear, been tempted to bring a Capuchin monkey in a stroller to a Little League game, or contemplated sitting on the beach waiting to be picked up by a UFO but couldn’t quite bring yourself to such extremes, Fringe Florida is for you.

Highways of the Mind

Helen J. Burgess,Jeanne Hamming
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Author : Helen J. Burgess,Jeanne Hamming
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812291797

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Highways of the Mind by Helen J. Burgess,Jeanne Hamming Pdf

Stories of the open road have a powerful sway over our imagination, particularly in America, where the vast web of interstate highways transformed the national identity as well as the national landscape. Sometimes seen as the harbinger of a golden future, other times as the conduit of a dehumanized dystopia, the highway reflects some of our most potent fantasies as well as our deepest anxieties about modernity, ecology, commerce, and individuality. In a work rich in embedded multimedia, Helen J. Burgess and Jeanne Hamming look at cultural and media representations of the highway in planning documents, industrial films, corporate ephemera, and science fiction narratives to explore how these stories of the road have reconfigured how we think about ourselves and our world. Highways of the Mind, available only on the Apple iBookstore site in iBook format, shows how the stories we tell about the highway—whether in the service of national pride, corporate advertising, urban planning, or apocalyptic warnings—determine how we imagine, or fail to imagine, the possibilities for human action in built environments.

Pathfinder

Orson Scott Card
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Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416991793

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Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card Pdf

From the internationally bestselling author of "Ender's Game"--a brand-new series that draws readers into the world of Rigg, a teenager who possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people's pasts.

Physics on the Fringe

Margaret Wertheim
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Author : Margaret Wertheim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780802778734

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Physics on the Fringe by Margaret Wertheim Pdf

For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of "outsider physicists," many without formal training and all convinced that they have found true alternative theories of the universe. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own complete theory of matter and energy and gravity that he demonstrates with experiments in his backyard,-with garbage cans and a disco fog machine he makes smoke rings to test his ideas about atoms. Captivated by the imaginative power of his theories and his resolutely DIY attitude, Wertheim has been following Carter's progress for the past decade. Centuries ago, natural philosophers puzzled out the laws of nature using the tools of observation and experimentation. Today, theoretical physics has become mathematically inscrutable, accessible only to an elite few. In rejecting this abstraction, outsider theorists insist that nature speaks a language we can all understand. Through a profoundly human profile of Jim Carter, Wertheim's exploration of the bizarre world of fringe physics challenges our conception of what science is, how it works, and who it is for.

The Art of Storytelling

Amy E. Spaulding
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Author : Amy E. Spaulding
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780810877771

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Designed for anyone who wants to develop the skill of telling stories, this volume provides advice on choosing, learning, and presenting stories, as well as discussions on the importance of storytelling through human history and its continued significance today.

Seventh Son

Orson Scott Card
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Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429964937

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American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults" From the author of Ender's Game, an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift wisely. But dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl with second sight can protect him. Includes an excerpt of Orson Scott Card's new novel, THE LOST GATE! The Tales of Alvin Maker series Seventh Son Red Prophet Prentice Alvin Alvin Journeyman Heartfire The Crystal City At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Last Shadow

Orson Scott Card
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Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250252135

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The Last Shadow by Orson Scott Card Pdf

Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe—the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it is allowed to escape from Lusitania. One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out every world in the Starways Congress, killing billions. Is the only answer another great Xenocide? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Religion in Science Fiction

Steven Hrotic
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Author : Steven Hrotic
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472527455

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Religion in Science Fiction investigates the history of the representations of religion in science fiction literature. Space travel, futuristic societies, and non-human cultures are traditional themes in science fiction. Speculating on the societal impacts of as-yet-undiscovered technologies is, after all, one of the distinguishing characteristics of science fiction literature. A more surprising theme may be a parallel exploration of religion: its institutional nature, social functions, and the tensions between religious and scientific worldviews. Steven Hrotic investigates the representations of religion in 19th century proto-science fiction, and genre science fiction from the 1920s through the end of the century. Taken together, he argues that these stories tell an overarching story-a 'metanarrative'-of an evolving respect for religion, paralleling a decline in the belief that science will lead us to an ideal (and religion-free) future. Science fiction's metanarrative represents more than simply a shift in popular perceptions of religion: it also serves as a model for cognitive anthropology, providing new insights into how groups and identities form in a globalized world, and into how crucial a role narratives may play. Ironically, this same perspective suggests that science fiction, as it was in the 20th century, may no longer exist.

The Worthing Saga

Orson Scott Card
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Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429967297

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The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card Pdf

Orson Scott Card is "a master of the art of storytelling" (Booklist), and The Worthing Saga is a story that only he could have written. It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Some created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built. It came near to destroying humanity. After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Celtic Modern

Martin Stokes,Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, The University of Chicago
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Author : Martin Stokes,Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, The University of Chicago
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780585482828

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Celtic Modern by Martin Stokes,Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, The University of Chicago Pdf

This resource offers an opportunity to reflect critically on some of the insistent 'othering' that has accompanied much cultural production in and on the Celtic World, and that have prohibited serious critical engagement with what are sometimes described as the 'traditional' and 'folk' music of Europe.

Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870

Hilary Marland
Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780 1870 Book PDF

Author : Hilary Marland
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521325757

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Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870 by Hilary Marland Pdf

This ambitious book presents an across-the-board study of medicine, in any urban centre, for any period of British history. By selecting Wakefield and Huddersfield as contrasting types of northern towns, and examining in details their systems of medical care, Dr Marland has written a local history that says something important about the country as a whole. Wakefield and Huddersfield contrasted in their economic demographic and social development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, allowing an effective comparative analysis of medical facilities in the two communities. By drawing on diverse sources: from Poor Law and philanthropy to self-help organisations, fringe medicine and medical practice, the book places the development of medical services against the backdrop of the communities in which they evolved, their class structure, organization and social, civic and economic developments.

Treason

Orson Scott Card
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Author : Orson Scott Card
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429967150

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Treason by Orson Scott Card Pdf

From the bestselling author of the Ender Universe novels comes Orson Scott Card's Treason Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad"--radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh... and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet without hard metals--or the means of escape--iron is power in the race to build a spacecraft. Iron is the promise of freedom, which may never be fulfilled as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination. Now charged with a mission of conquest--and exile--Lanik devises a bold and dangerous plan... a quest that may finally break the vicious chain of rivalry and bloodshed that enslaves the people of Treason as the Offworld never could. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.