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Author : John McLoughlin
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 067169779X
In the not-too-distant future, after a One-Day War separates the world into two opposing power blocs, a Soviet space probe discovers Charon, an ancient, god-like computer system that has been studying Earth for centuries
Author : John McLoughlin
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0708839770
Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781476624327
From their discovery in the 19th century to the dawn of the Nuclear Age, dinosaurs were seen in popular culture as ambassadors of the geological past and as icons of the “life through time” narrative of evolution. They took on a more foreboding character during the Cold War, serving as a warning to mankind with the advent of the hydrogen bomb. As fears of human extinction escalated during the ecological movement of the 1970s, dinosaurs communicated their metaphorical message of extinction, urging us from our destructive path. Using an eclectic variety of examples, this book outlines the three-fold “evolution” of dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters in pop culture, from their poorly understood beginnings to the 21st century.
Author : Kevin R. Smith
Publisher : Kevin R. Smith
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Indexes, covers and tables of contents of Paperback Inferno (issues 43-97, 1983-1992), the paperback reviews journal of the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA). As well as complete tables of contents of all these issues, this book includes indexes to every book and magazine reviewed, every cover artist, and every letter writer, along with summary statistics of the issues.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : PSU:000030379336
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106020081086
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : PSU:000030377721
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : American literature
ISBN : MINN:31951000583302Z
Author : David Pringle
Publisher : Aldershot, Hants, England : Scolar Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009795456
This edition offers short, evaluative descriptions of around 3500 novels, brief statements and reviews by critics and a guide to sequels, related titles and film versions. New to this edition is expanded coverage of books of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. Also new is the category novelizations and spin-off fiction, a section which reflects the tremendous growth in these publications since the 1980s. All science fiction movie novelizations are covered, as well as a selection of radio and television science fiction novelizations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015064546693
Adult books are categorized by genre (i.e., fiction, mystery, science fiction, nonfiction). Along with bibliographic information, the expected date of publication and the names of literary agents for individual titles are provided. Starred reviews serve several functions: In the adult section, they mark potential bestsellers, major promotions, book club selections, and just very good books; in the children's section, they denote books of very high quality. The unsigned reviews manage to be discerning and sometimes quite critical.
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989-09
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015033709570
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : UVA:X001498421
Author : R. Reginald,Mary Wickizer Burgess,Daryl Furumi Mallett
Publisher : Detroit : Gale Research
Page : 1536 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015003032613
Science fiction constitutes one of the largest and most widely read genres in literature, and this reference provides bibliographical data on some 20,000 science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction books, as well as nonfiction monographs about the literature. A companion to Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1700-1974 (Gale, 1979), the present volume is alphabetically arranged by approximately 10,000 author names. The entry for each individual work includes title, publisher, date and place published, number of pages, hardbound or paperback format, and type of book (novel, anthology, etc.). Where appropriate, entries also provide translation notes, series information, pseudonyms, and remarks on special features (such as celebrity introductions). Includes indexes of titles, series, awards, and "doubles" (for locating volumes containing two novels). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Ignatius Frederick Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029232637
The literature of future wars is an exciting and popular genre embracing classics such as The War of the Worlds and mass-market bestsellers such as The Amtrak Wars. Here sci-fi meets the spy thriller, the war novel meets the novel of dystopia, quality fiction meets the bestseller. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Erskine Childer's The Riddle of the Sands, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 are typical in combining critical and commercial success. This new edition of Voices Prophesying War shows how the genre developed, accounts for its success, and describes how it is still changing. The first examples of such fiction are as much concerned with politics as with war. The Anonymous Reign of George VI, published in 1763 and set in 1918 describes the triumphant imperialism of an English monarch who still leads his troops into battle on horseback. A century later the first recognizable classic of the genre, The Battle of Dorking, played on the theme of unpreparedness for war, describing a Prussian invasion of the British Isles. Imaginary invasions by the French, Germans, Americans, Russians, Soviets, and, of course, Martians, followed in huge numbers. Throughout the nineteenth century novelists wrote with increasing sophistication on the technology of war; often, as in the case of Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells, they were in advance of the generals and scientists, and their prophesies were fulfilled, in terrible fashion, by two world wars. Since the Second World War American authors have come to the fore, and the nuclear age has produced such classics as Nevil Shute's On the Beach. The Cold War has also given rise to a great many bestsellers, some, like General Sir John Hackett's The Third WorldWar, marking a return to an older theme - of predictions of war by professional soldiers. This new edition of Voices Prophesying War examines recent work in detail and includes a unique checklist of all major future war fiction (in English, French, and German) to have appeared since the eighteenth century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015058003057