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Author : Kate Wilhelm
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 0839826001
Author : Kate Wilhelm
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575120129
A collection of short stories from the award-winning author, Kate Wilhelm. Contains the following: The Mile-Long Spaceship Fear Is a Cold Black Jenny with Wings A Is for Automation Gift from the Stars No Light in the Window One for the Road Andover and the Android The Man without a Planet The Apostolic Travelers The Last Days of the Captain
Author : Kate Wilhelm
Publisher : New York : Berkley
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Interplanetary voyages
ISBN : OSU:32435057546228
Author : James E. Gunn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810846705
Now in Paperback The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology that covers the development of this genre from its earliest prototypes to the current day. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classrooms in the late 1970s, these volumes became mass-market sellers. Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Edgar Allan Poe's balloon trip in the year 2848 these and other key works are gathered together for the first time in one anthology, complete with revealing commentary on the authors, their eras, and the role each played in establishing what we today recognize as science fiction. Volume 4 From Here to Forever covers the period from 1950-1992, illustrating how science fiction can be as concerned with language and character as much as traditional fiction and anything in the mainstream. Includes stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Matheson, C. M. Kornbluth, Jack Vance, and Pamela Zoline.
Author : Mark S. Geston
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575105171
The ship was to be seven miles long, a third of a mile in diameter and have a wing-spread of three and a half miles. It would take two and a half centuries to construct. Its announced purpose: to carry humanity away from its ruined world, from the world that had become a perpetual purgatory. To build this vast ship would require the undivided activity of an entire nation and would mean carrying out a ruthless program of war and conquest, of annihilation and reconstruction, and of education and rediscovery. But was this starship really what it was claimed to be? Or was there a greater secret behind its incredible cost - a secret so strange that no man dared reveal it?
Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588345776
"An illustrated guide to real and imagined spaceships, and how popular culture influenced the development of each"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2098 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 9781438140629
Presents articles on the science fiction genre of literature, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.
Author : Frank Herbert
Publisher : WordFire +ORM
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781614750611
An interstellar agent discovers his latent powers while investigating a warlike planet in this classic sci-fi fantasy by the author of Dune. It’s been centuries since the devastating Rim Wars separated numerous planets from the protection and control of the galactic empire. The Rediscovery and Reeducation Service is dedicated to finding these “lost planets” and returning them to the fold. But not all civilizations are eager to cooperate. Young and charismatic, Lewis Orne is one of the best R&R agents in the organization’s history. But when he identifies troubling signs on the planet of Hamal, he is transferred to Investigative Adjustment, the agency that specializes in dealing with violent worlds. Suddenly, Orne is shuttling to the edge of the galaxy to detect any signs of latent aggression among Hamal’s population. Shortly after making landfall, Orne makes a far more astonishing discovery: he suddenly finds himself in possession of profound extrasensory powers. When these powers become known, he is invited to join Hamal’s company of “gods.” It is an offer too enticing to refuse. Yet being a god comes with certain expectations . . .
Author : John Barry
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781480995185
The Interplanetary Laser Jousting Tournament Or Relativity Revised By: John Barry It is said that two spaceships going away from each other at very high speeds are able to see light from the other travelling at the proper speed of light because space contracts and time slows down. What would happen if these two spacecrafts passed each other? Would space suddenly invert and time change speed? How would a spaceship travelling between two light sources, such as stars, see light from both going the right speed at the same time? If, on the other hand, light travels at a broad range of speeds and we can detect only that which is going the right speed for us, then where is all the other light hiding? An electron in a cyclotron that is accelerated toward a target at close to the speed of light gains mass. If the target were racing away at a near equal speed, would that extra mass turn out to not be there? This book suggests an alternate theory to special relativity and a few experiments to prove it – or help us to learn something new.
Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789602999
In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, investigates the development of this form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. The relationship between utopia and science fiction is explored through the representations of otherness . alien life and alien worlds . and a study of the works of Philip K. Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson and more. Jameson's essential essays, including "The Desire Called Utopia," conclude with an examination of the opposing positions on utopia and an assessment of its political value today.
Author : Robert Borski
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780595386451
Over the years sf and fantasy writer Gene Wolfe has proven himself to be adept at all lengths of fiction. Now in THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT, once again literary detective Robert Borski brings his critical eye and acumen to the wide array of Wolfe's work, from short stories to novellas to mega-book series. Along the way he'll reveal to you the hidden alchemical structure of PEACE, why he thinks Latro and several others may be werewolves, what has happened to the missing twenty-four hours in "Seven American Nights," what Biblical story is retold in the pulpish "Tracking Song," who might or might not be an abo in THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS, and how to navigate your way through dozens of other lupine mazes-all before concluding with an extended examination of Wolfe's dazzling, if often opaque, BOOK OF THE SHORT SUN.
Author : Stanley Lotegeluaki
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781491846148
Jesus Christ is a superstar on millions and billions of other planets besides the earth. Jesus is worshipped throughout infinity, through countless stars and countless universes. He might be the humble carpenter to us, but He is known as God to alien Christians in faraway universes. Jesus is worshipped in endless- infinite multiple universes. Jesus is truly the StarChild. The Church and Israel own a googolplex universes and has doled out some for the nations. The Church and Israel own more universes then there are atoms in our universe of 200 billion galaxies. And each galaxy has about a 100-200 billion stars. If you count the atoms in each star, planet, asteroid, dust particle- the Church owns more universes then all the atoms in our entire universe combined. So Jesus is generous , the Church and Israel is generous and extremely zealous to give you universes and serve you. Jesus is God. He can be in more then one place at once. He is in us and He is in the alien Christians. Christs body can appear in different places at the same time, like when He visits different families in multiple universes at the same time and still remain on His throne in heaven and also in Jerusalem. He is worshipped througout infinity. So worship Him in the spirit like all alien Christians do O human race. We will be one with the cosmos praising Jesus. THE AFRICANS WENT THROUGH THE GREAT TRIBULATION WITH SLAVERY, THE JEWS WENT THROUGH THE TRIBULATION WITH HITLER, THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS WENT THROUGH THE TRIBULATION WHEN THE EUROPEANS EXTERMINATED THEM, THE CHINESE WENT THROUGH THE GREAT TRIBULATION WITH MAO AND THE CULTURAL LEAP FORWARD, THE RUSSIANS WENT THROUGH THE TRIBULATION WITH STALIN. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WERE SPARED THE TRIBULATION ARE THE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS IN THE U.S.A., AND THEY ARE THE LOUDEST IN SAYING A GREAT TRIBULATION WILL HAPPEN TO CHRISTIANS. WAKE UP EVERYBODY ELSE HAS ALREADY GONE THROUGH IT. THE GREAT TRIBULATION STARTED WITH THE DEATH OF STEPHEN UNTIL TODAY 2000 AD +/-. ITS OVER, SORRY YOU MISSED IT, BE HAPPY YOU WERE SPARED. JESUS IS COMING BACK IN MY LIFETIME AND THERE IS NO WAR BEFORE THE SECOND COMING. IT WILL BE AFTER THE 1000 YRS OR 40 BILLION YEARS FROM NOW. ISAIAH 22 PUT A CURSE ON THE VISIONS OF THE SECOND COMING. THATS WHY YOU ARE SO CONFUSED. INTERSTELLAR, INTERGALACTIC, INTERUNIVERSAL SUPERSTAR JESUS CHRIST. WORSHIPPED IN INFINITE UNIVERSES. BY COUNTLESS INFINITE ALIEN CHRISTIANS THATS WHAT JESUS MEANT WHEN HE SAID HE WILL COME BACK WITH GREAT GLORY JESUS IS TRULY THE STARCHILD. INFINITE!!!!
Author : Stanley Lotegeluaki
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452098913
When Jesus comes back at the Second Coming, He will provide us with Antigravity vehicles, teleportation, Super intelligent Robots, Memory Absorption machines that will allow us to put memory from computers directly into our brain (no more school), He will provide us with Spaceships, some 7000 miles long or just one mile long. Jesus will provide the medical cure for aging or wrinkles (women take note). Also He will give us Transmutation capability to change dirt or any substance to any other substance. We can take dirt and rearrange it into- food, tomatoes, bananas, meat or a one ton car.- Anything you want- Just ask Him. Jesus will give the nations universes to live in. United African Continent has already petitioned Him for 10 billion galaxies in this universe and a trillion universes in the Mega, Mega, universe. What will China, Russia, Vietnam, Iran, Japan etc petition Jesus when He comes back ? The Parallel futures of the White race , the Black race and the Asian race. They will all be given universes to live in by The God of Israel. Jesus was Melchizedec ( Heb 7). So He must have been King of Salem in Genesis. Jesus was also King over the Canaanites ! Satan has never been to hell and when he does go there at the Second coming it is to be beaten and thrown out of hell by the inhabitants thereof. (Is 14). The Bible says it took God Generations (Gen 2:4)- not just Seven days to create the earth. That means Evolutionists are right about the time span and method. Theologians misunderstood. God designed and guided Evolutionary process is correct. Generations is to be noted. Where is Jesus? Whatever happened to the end time war between Christians and the U.S.S.R.? Did you know during Moses plagues the God of Israel turned Satans nation to look like frogs, bugs and lice etc. What did you think real demons looked like? Read this book for more.
Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429968370
From a literary perspective, this will certainly be the best collection of the year in science fiction and fantasy. Gene Wolfe, of whom The Washington Post said, "Of all SF writers currently active none is held in higher esteem," has selected the short fiction he considers his finest into one volume. There are many award winners and many that have been selected for various Year's Best anthologies among the thirty-one stories, which include: "Petting Zoo," "The Tree Is My Hat," "The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories," "The Hero as Werewolf," "Seven American Nights," "The Fifth Head of Cerberus," "The Detective of Dreams," and "A Cabin on the Coast." Gene Wolfe has produced possibly the finest and most significant body of short fiction in the SF and fantasy field in the last fifty years, and is certainly among the greatest living writers to emerge from the genres. This is the first retrospective collection of his entire career. It is for the ages. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : A. E. van Vogt
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429983620
The classic novel of non-Aristotelian logic and the coming race of supermen Grandmaster A. E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the 1940s, the Golden Age of classic SF. Of his masterpieces, The World of Null-A is his most famous and most influential. It was the first major trade SF hardcover ever, in 1949, and has been in print in various editions ever since. The entire careers of Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Alfred Bester, Charles Harness, and Philip Jose Farmer were created or influenced by The World of Null-A, and so it is required reading for anyone who wishes to know the canon of SF classics. It is the year 2650 and Earth has become a world of non-Aristotelianism, or Null-A. This is the story of Gilbert Gosseyn, who lives in that future world where the Games Machine, made up of twenty-five thousand electronic brains, sets the course of people's lives. Gosseyn isn't even sure of his own identity, but realizes he has some remarkable abilities and sets out to use them to discover who has made him a pawn in an interstellar plot. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
