The Tragic Thread In Science Fiction

Author : Robert H. Waugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1614982465

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The Tragic Thread in Science Fiction by Robert H. Waugh Pdf

For decades, Robert H. Waugh has been a scintillating critic of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. A leading analyst of H. P. Lovecraft, Waugh now brings his critical talents to the assessment of an array of fantasy and science fiction writers, past and present. In a trilogy of essays, Waugh studies David Lindsay's pioneering novel A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), probing its relations to the work of Goethe and its distinctive vocabulary. Two essays discuss the largely ignored work of Olaf Stapledon, while another pair of essays examine key novels by Arthur C. Clarke. Subsequent pieces reveal Waugh's acumen in analyzing the work of William Gibson (Neuromancer), the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories and other works by Fritz Leiber, and parallels between Leiber's work and that of James Tiptree, Jr. The book concludes with a rumination on Lovecraft's collaborative science fiction story "In the Walls of Eryx." Waugh illuminates the complexities of all these authors' works with effortless elegance and panache. Robert H. Waugh is a former professor of English at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the author of the essay collections The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H. P. Lovecraft (2006) and A Monster of Voices: Speaking for H. P. Lovecraft (2011) as well as the short story collection The Bloody Tugboat and Other Witcheries (2015). He has also published several volumes of poetry.

Author : Gregory Benford,Clifford D. Simak,Norman Spinrad
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 0006146147

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Threads of Time by Gregory Benford,Clifford D. Simak,Norman Spinrad Pdf

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0860000516

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Threads of Time by Gregory Benford Pdf

Author : Tim Maughan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374718602

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Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan Pdf

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL! The Guardian's Pick for Best Science Fiction Book of the Year! A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet BEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it’s become a center of creative counterculture. But it’s fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes off to meet his boyfriend in New York City—now the apotheosis of the new techno-utopian global metropolis? AFTER: An act of anonymous cyberterrorism has permanently switched off the Internet. Global trade, travel, and communication have collapsed. The luxuries that characterized modern life are scarce. In the Croft, Mary—who has visions of people presumed dead—is sought out by grieving families seeking connections to lost ones. But does Mary have a gift or is she just hustling to stay alive? Like Grids, who runs the Croft’s black market like personal turf. Or like Tyrone, who hoards music (culled from cassettes, the only medium to survive the crash) and tattered sneakers like treasure. The world of Infinite Detail is a small step shy of our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience. With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet, the End of the World as We Know It.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2720 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547768470

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The Greatest Science Fiction Novels & Stories by H. G. Wells by H. G. Wells Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this thoughtfully assembled collection of the greatest science fiction books written by the incomparable H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of The Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man The First Men in the Moon When the Sleeper Wakes The Shape of Things to Come The Food of the Gods In the Days of the Comet A Modern Utopia The War in the Air The Chronic Argonauts In the Abyss The Star The Crystal Egg

Author : Gavin Parkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781381434

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Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics by Gavin Parkinson Pdf

Although the self-definition of Surrealism and the initial defining of science fiction as a genre both took place in the 1920s and the links between the two are manifest, no full study has appeared till now on Surrealism and SF. Across ten original essays, Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics looks at how the Surrealist movement in France and the USA used, informed, contributed to, and criticised SF from that moment, whilst including discussion of the related genre of comics. Among its aims are a reassessment of Jules Verne in the light of Surrealism and an analysis of the debate in the 1950s on the 'new' Anglo-American literature arriving in France. This received, in fact, a mixed reception from the Surrealists of that decade even though writers and intellectuals close to the movement in the 1920s were directly responsible for its success. The book includes further essays on the subsequent impact of Surrealism on SF novelists J.G. Ballard and Alan Burns, and features essays that argue for Salvador Dalí's closeness to SF in the 1960s and his disagreement with the earlier scientific romance defined by Verne. The chapters that bring in comics range from theoretical discussions of the relation between the original comic strips of Rodolphe Töpffer and the key Surrealist technique of automatism, used in art and writing, through the cybernetic implications of the proto-SF Surrealist ciné-roman 'M. Wzz...' of 1929, which has never discussed in any detail before, to the 1948 Vache paintings by René Magritte, inspired by Louis Forton's strip Les Pieds nickelés. This pioneering set of essays shows how Surrealism from the 1920s to the 1970s did not just receive and adapt SF but impacted the genre in its later manifestations.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 7349 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547810476

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H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works by H. G. Wells Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of fiction works, history and politics. Wells is called a father of science fiction. Table of Contents: A Modern Utopia Ann Veronica Bealby In the Days of the Comet The Chronic Argonauts The First Men in the Moon The Invisible Man The Island of Dr Moreau The New Machiavelli The Passionate Friends The Prophetic Trilogy The Research Magnificent The Sea Lady The Secret Places of the Heart The Soul of a Bishop The Time Machine The Undying Fire The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The World Set Free Tono-bungay When the Sleeper Wakes Collections of Short Stories Short Stories: A Catastrophe A Deal in Ostriches A Dream of Armageddon A Slip Under the Microscope A Story of the Days to Come A Story of the Stone Age A Tale of the Twentieth Century A Talk with Gryllotalpa How Gabriel Became Thompson How Pingwill Was Routed In the Abyss Le Mari Terrible Miss Winchelsea's Heart Mr. Brisher's Treasure Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation Mr. Marshall's Doppelganger Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland My First Aeroplane Our Little Neighbour Perfect Gentleman on Wheels Pollock and the Porroh Man The Empire of the Ants The Flying Man The Grisly Folk The Inexperienced Ghost The Land Ironclads The Lord of the Dynamos The Loyalty of Esau Common The Magic Shop The Man Who Could Work Miracles The Man with a Nose The Moth The New Accelerator The New Faust The Obliterated Man The Pearl of Love The Presence by the Fire The Purple Pileus The Rajah's Treasure The Reconciliation The Red Room The Sea Raiders The Star The Stolen Body The Story of the Last Trump The Story of the Stone Age The Temptation of Harringay The Thing in No. 7 The Thumbmark The Treasure in the Forest The Wild Asses of the Devil ...

Author : Alexandra Pierce,Mimi Mondal
Publisher : Twelfth Planet Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781922101433

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Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler by Alexandra Pierce,Mimi Mondal Pdf

Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the science fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour. Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection explore Butler’s depiction of power relationships, her complex treatment of race and identity, and her impact on feminism and women in Science Fiction. Follow the luminescent threads that connect Octavia E. Butler and her body of work to the many readers and writers who have found inspiration in her words, and the complex universes she created.

Author : Charles Yu
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307379887

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition) by Charles Yu Pdf

This enhanced eBook includes video, audio, photographic, and linked content, as well as a bonus short story. Hear TAMMY talk. Learn the origins of Minor Universe 31. See the TM-31. Take a trip in it. Photos and illustrations appear as hyperlinked endnotes. Video and audio are embedded directly in text. *Video and audio may not play on all readers. Check your user manual for details. National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—in fact it may even save his life. Wildly new and adventurous, Yu’s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space–time.

Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780415974608

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Science Fact and Science Fiction by Brian M. Stableford Pdf

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Author : James Gunn,Marleen Barr,Matthew Candelaria
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137078988

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Reading Science Fiction by James Gunn,Marleen Barr,Matthew Candelaria Pdf

Science Fiction is illuminated by world class scholars and fiction writers, who introduce the history, concepts and contexts necessary to understanding the genre. Their groundbreaking approach provides insights into today's SF world and makes learning how to read Science Fiction an exciting collaborative process for teachers and students.

Author : Keith M. Johnston
Publisher : Berg
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857850560

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Science Fiction Film by Keith M. Johnston Pdf

Science Fiction Film develops a historical and cultural approach to the genre that moves beyond close readings of iconography and formal conventions. It explores how this increasingly influential genre has been constructed from disparate elements into a hybrid genre. Science Fiction Film goes beyond a textual exploration of these films to place them within a larger network of influences that includes studio politics and promotional discourses. The book also challenges the perceived limits of the genre - it includes a wide range of films, from canonical SF, such as Le voyage dans la lune, Star Wars and Blade Runner, to films that stretch and reshape the definition of the genre. This expansion of generic focus offers an innovative approach for students and fans of science fiction alike.

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781434449832

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Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction by Brian Stableford Pdf

Although the problems of writing fantasy and science fiction include all those pertaining to the writing of any kind of fiction, particular problems arise in stories in which unprecedented things can and do happen, as well as stories that often involve unhuman characters of various sorts, and that might require the elaborate design of entire imaginary worlds. This book provides an elementary introduction to problems of those kinds, and the ways in which they modify the general problems of writing fiction. It also suggests strategies that might enable the problems to be handled constructively and productively. The author has published more than seventy novels in the field, more than twenty short story collections, and more than twenty related works of non-fiction; he has, as the saying goes, been there, done that, and chewed his t-shirt in relevant frustration. Robert Reginald says: "An absolutely first-rate guide to writing fantastic literature. Stableford has much to say that potential writers of ALL fiction might find valuable, interesting, and highly illuminating. His reasonable discussion and dissection of the basic issues facing authors of creative fiction--and the solutions to be found to each problem--are dollops of solid gold advice, in this editor's humble opinion. Every would-be author should read this book--and more than once!"

Author : Gretchen E. Minton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474280389

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The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play by Gretchen E. Minton Pdf

The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its over-the-top and highly theatrical approach to revenge, The Revenger's Tragedy has emerged as one of the most compelling examples of a drama by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This collection of ten newly-commissioned essays situates the play with respect to other Middleton and Shakespeare works as well as repertory, showcasing recent research about the play's engagement with issues such as religion, genre, race, language and performance.

Author : Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,George MacDonald,Percy Greg,Jack London,Arthur Conan Doyle,Ernest Bramah,Jonathan Swift,Cleveland Moffett,William Morris,Anthony Trollope,Richard Jefferies,Samuel Butler,David Lindsay,Edward Everett Hale,Edward Bellamy,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Edgar Wallace,Francis Bacon,Robert Cromie,Abraham Merritt,Ignatius Donnelly,Owen Gregory,H. G. Wells,Stanley G. Weinbaum,Fred M. White,H. P. Lovecraft,Garrett P. Serviss,Henry Rider Haggard,Mary Shelley,Malcolm Jameson,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Lewis Grassic Gibbon,Otis Adelbert Kline,C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne,Edwin A. Abbott,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Gertrude Barrows Bennett,Hugh Benson,Margaret Cavendish,James Fenimore Coope
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 10715 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547754701

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SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Collection by Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,George MacDonald,Percy Greg,Jack London,Arthur Conan Doyle,Ernest Bramah,Jonathan Swift,Cleveland Moffett,William Morris,Anthony Trollope,Richard Jefferies,Samuel Butler,David Lindsay,Edward Everett Hale,Edward Bellamy,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Edgar Wallace,Francis Bacon,Robert Cromie,Abraham Merritt,Ignatius Donnelly,Owen Gregory,H. G. Wells,Stanley G. Weinbaum,Fred M. White,H. P. Lovecraft,Garrett P. Serviss,Henry Rider Haggard,Mary Shelley,Malcolm Jameson,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Lewis Grassic Gibbon,Otis Adelbert Kline,C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne,Edwin A. Abbott,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Gertrude Barrows Bennett,Hugh Benson,Margaret Cavendish,James Fenimore Coope Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this unique Sci-Fi collection with carefully picked out stories from out of space, thrilling intergalactic adventures, dystopian novels and the greatest sci-fi classics: H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of the Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man... Edgar Wallace: Planetoid 127 The Green Rust... Otis Adelbert Kline: The Venus Trilogy The Mars Series Malcolm Jameson: Captain Bullard Series Garrett P. Serviss: Edison's Conquest of Mars A Columbus of Space The Sky Pirate... Arthur Conan Doyle: The Professor Challenger Series Jules Verne: 20.000 Leagues under the Sea The Mysterious Island... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Last Man Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Jack London: Iron Heel The Scarlet Plague The Star Rover... Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde George MacDonald: Lilith H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines She William H. Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land... Edgar Allan Poe: Some Words with a Mummy Mellonta Tauta... H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Cats of Ulthar Celephaïs Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward: 2000–1887 Equality... Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Owen Gregory: Meccania the Super-State Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels William Morris: News from Nowhere Samuel Butler: Erewhon Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race James Fenimore Cooper: The Monikins Hugh Benson: Lord of the World Fred M. White: The Doom of London Ignatius Donnelly: Caesar's Column Ernest Bramah: The Secret of the League Arthur D. Vinton: Looking Further Backward Robert Cromie: The Crack of Doom Cleveland Moffett: The Conquest of America Richard Jefferies: After London Francis Stevens: The Heads of Cerberus Percy Greg: Across the Zodiac David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus Stanley G. Weinbaum: Stories from the Solar System Edward Everett Hale: The Brick Moon Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster... Francis Bacon: New Atlantis C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne: The Lost Continent Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Three Go Back