Welcome To Dystopia

Author : K. G. Anderson,Richard Bowes,Elizabeth Bourne,Scott Bradfield,J. S. Breukelaar,Jennifer Marie Brissett,Becca Caccavo,Don D'Ammassa,Stephanie Feldman,Eric James Fullilove,Ron Goulart,Eileen Gunn,Leslie Howle,Matthew Hughes,Janis Ian,Michael Kandel,Heather Lindsley,Lisa Mason,Barry N. Malzberg,David Marusek,Marry Anne Mohanraj,James Morrow,Ruth Nestvold,Deji Bryce Olukotun,Marguerite Reed,Robert Reed,Madeleine E. Robins,Jay Russell,Geoff Ryman,James Sallis,J. M. Sidorova,Brian Francis Slattery,Harry Turtledove,Deepak Unnikrishnan,TS Vale,Leo Vladimirsky,Ray Vukcevich,Ted White,Paul Witcover,N. Lee Wood,Jane Yolen,Thomas Kaufsek,Paul La Farge,Yoon Ha Lee,Michael Libling
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682191279

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Welcome to Dystopia by K. G. Anderson,Richard Bowes,Elizabeth Bourne,Scott Bradfield,J. S. Breukelaar,Jennifer Marie Brissett,Becca Caccavo,Don D'Ammassa,Stephanie Feldman,Eric James Fullilove,Ron Goulart,Eileen Gunn,Leslie Howle,Matthew Hughes,Janis Ian,Michael Kandel,Heather Lindsley,Lisa Mason,Barry N. Malzberg,David Marusek,Marry Anne Mohanraj,James Morrow,Ruth Nestvold,Deji Bryce Olukotun,Marguerite Reed,Robert Reed,Madeleine E. Robins,Jay Russell,Geoff Ryman,James Sallis,J. M. Sidorova,Brian Francis Slattery,Harry Turtledove,Deepak Unnikrishnan,TS Vale,Leo Vladimirsky,Ray Vukcevich,Ted White,Paul Witcover,N. Lee Wood,Jane Yolen,Thomas Kaufsek,Paul La Farge,Yoon Ha Lee,Michael Libling Pdf

In this diverse and vigorous mix of stories by newcomers and luminaries, writers offer their takes on what life might hold for us in the next few years. The resulting visions of war, oppression, and daily struggle are sometimes humorous, sometimes terrifying (and occasionally both), but always thought-provoking.

Author : Luke O'Neil
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682192153

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Welcome to Hell World by Luke O'Neil Pdf

When Luke O’Neil isn’t angry, he’s asleep. When he’s awake, he gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power its way to the public sphere since Hunter S. Thompson smashed a typewriter’s keys. Welcome to Hell World is an unexpurgated selection of Luke O’Neil’s finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the O’Neil grinder. He details failings in his own life and in those he observes around him: and the result is a book that is at once intensely confessional and an energetic, unforgettable condemnation of American mores. Welcome to Hell World is, in the author’s words, a “fever dream nightmare of reporting and personal essays from one of the lowest periods in our country in recent memory.” It is also a burning example of some of the best writing you’re likely to read anywhere.

Author : Gordon Van Gelder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-25
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 1682191265

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Welcome to Dystopia by Gordon Van Gelder Pdf

"Writers offer their takes on what life might hold for us in the next few years. The resulting visions of war, oppression, and daily struggle are sometimes humorous, somethimes terrifying (and occasionally both), but always thought provoking." --page 4 of cover.

Author : Gordon Van Gelder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949017079

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Welcome to Dystopia by Gordon Van Gelder Pdf

Author : Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015006756038

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Between Dystopia and Utopia by Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs Pdf

Author : John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597802888

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Brave New Worlds by John Joseph Adams Pdf

From Huxley's Brave New World, to Orwell's 1984, to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, dystopian books have always been an integral part of both science fiction and literature, and have influenced the broader culture discussion in unique and permanent ways. Brave New Worlds brings together the best dystopian fiction of the last 30 years, demonstrating the diversity that flourishes in this compelling subgenre. This landmark tome contains stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Cory Doctorow, M. Rickert, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, and many others.

Author : Gordon Van Gelder
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935928270

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Welcome to the Greenhouse by Gordon Van Gelder Pdf

Welcome to the Greenhouse, an all original science fiction anthology, imagines the possibilities that climate change poses for our future – from the grim to the hopeful, the absurd to the all-too-real.

Author : Daniel Cojocaru
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443883528

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Violence and Dystopia by Daniel Cojocaru Pdf

Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphasis on the problem of conflictive mimesis and scapegoating violence, and a critical introduction to Girard’s theory. The second chapter is devoted to J.G. Ballard’s seminal novel Crash (1973), Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996) and Rant (2007), and Brad Anderson’s film The Machinist (2004). It is argued that the car crash functions as a metaphor for conflictive mimetic desire and leads to a quasi-sacrificial crisis as defined by Girard for archaic religion. The third chapter focuses on the psychogeographical writings of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd. Walking the streets of London the pedestrian represents the excluded underside of the world of Ballardian speed. The walking subject is portrayed in terms of the expelled victim of Girardian theory. The fourth chapter considers violent crowds as portrayed by Ballard’s late fiction, the writings of Stewart Home, and David Peace’s GB84 (2004). In accordance with Girard’s hypothesis, the discussed narratives reveal the failure of scapegoat expulsion to restore peace to the potentially self-destructive violent crowds. The fifth chapter examines the post-apocalyptic environments resulting from failed scapegoat expulsion and mimetic conflict out of control, as portrayed in Sinclair’s Radon Daughters (1994), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003), and Will Self’s The Book of Dave (2006).

Author : Bård Norheim,Joar Haga
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031089848

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The Three Fears Every Leader Has to Know by Bård Norheim,Joar Haga Pdf

Fear is an inescapable part of how human beings experience reality. The impact of fear becomes particularly evident in a crisis. When a crisis strikes, be it a war, a pandemic, global warming or a financial crisis, leaders are challenged to exercise sound judgement by speaking and acting. This book argues that there are three fears every leader has to know – apocalyptic fear, political fear, and private fear. By appealing to these three fears in an adequate manner, a leader’s appeal to fear may serve a constructive purpose in a crisis.

Author : Jessica Norledge
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030931032

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The Language of Dystopia by Jessica Norledge Pdf

This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice. Drawing upon stylistic, cognitive-poetic and narratological approaches, the work proposes a stylistic profile of dystopia, arguing for a reader-led discussion of genre that takes into account reader subjectivity and personal conceptualisations of prototypicality. In examining and identifying those aspects of language that characterise dystopian narratives and the experience of reading dystopian fictions, the work discusses in particular the manipulation and construction of dystopian languages, the conceptualisation of dystopian worlds, the reading of dystopian minds, the projection of dystopian ethics, the unreliability of dystopian refraction, and the evolution and hybridity of the dystopian genre.

Author : Michael D. Gordin,Helen Tilley,Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400834952

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Utopia/Dystopia by Michael D. Gordin,Helen Tilley,Gyan Prakash Pdf

The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar Britain, this interdisciplinary collection provides new understandings of the utopian/dystopian experience. The essays look at such issues as imaginary utopian perspectives leading to the 1856-57 Xhosa Cattle Killing in South Africa, the functioning racist utopia behind the Rhodesian independence movement, the utopia of the peaceful atom and its global dissemination in the mid-1950s, the possibilities for an everyday utopia in modern cities, and how the Stalinist purges of the 1930s served as an extension of the utopian/dystopian relationship. The contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Igal Halfin, Fredric Jameson, John Krige, Timothy Mitchell, Aditya Nigam, David Pinder, Marci Shore, Jennifer Wenzel, and Luise White.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250164643

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories. In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. Featuring short stories from acclaimed authors such as Indrapramit Das, Nancy Kress, Alastair Reynolds, Eleanor Arnason, James S.A. Corey & Lavie Tidhar, an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466807303

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

This collection launched the popular and long-running "The Year's Best Science Fiction" series: Fantastic Science Fiction! The Year's Best -- And Biggest Collection Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already famous and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. Writers like: Poul Anderson Joe Haldeman Tanith Lee George R.R. Martin Robert Silverberg James Tiptree, Jr. Vernor Vinge Gene Wolfe Plus writers who are newer to the field, but just as excellent! These are the stories that will vie for the Hugo and Nebula Awards this year. And we've got them all! Not ten. Not twenty. 25 GREAT SF TALES. Each one is chosen by renowned SF writer and editor Gardner R. Dozois. Among them are "Black Air" by Kim Stanley Robinson, "Blood Music" and "Hardfought" by Greg Bear, "Blind Shemmy" by Jack Dann, "Cicada Queen" by Bruce Sterling and "Slow Birds" by Ian Watson.

Author : Tim Maughan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Matthew Kane
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780741424952

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A Player's Guide to Deminar by Matthew Kane Pdf