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ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Astounding Science Fact & Fiction
Author: Analog Science Fiction/science Fact
Author: John Wood CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction
Author: Analog Science Fact, Fiction
Author: Analog Science Fact/science Fiction
Author: John Wood CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Author: Brian StablefordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135923744
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.
The Second Randall Garrett Megapack
Author: Randall GarrettPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434446751
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
Book Description
"The Second Randall Garrett Megapack" is the follow-up to "The Randall Garrett Megapack." Together, these two volumes encompass 42 classic-era science fiction stories by Randall Garrett. [Note that we omit one story--an early magazine version of a novel included in the second volume--as unnecessary.] This volume includes 5 of Randall Garrett's novels (cowritten with Laurence M. Janifer) and 14 short stories, including entries in the Queen's Own F.B.I. and Lord Darcy series. More than 1,300 pages of great science fiction reading! Complete contents: INSTANT OF DECISION (1953) TIME FUZE (1954) SUITE MENTALE (1956) QUEST OF THE GOLDEN APE (1957) PAGAN PASSIONS (1959) VIEWPOINT (1960) WHAT THE LEFT HAND WAS DOING (1960) PSICHOPATH (1960) THE ASSES OF BALAAM (1961) THE FOREIGN HAND TIE (1961) NOR IRON BARS A CAGE... (1962) UNWISE CHILD (1962) WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED (1963) BRAIN TWISTER (1962) THE IMPOSSIBLES (1963) SUPERMIND (1963) A WORLD BY THE TALE (1963) THIN EDGE (1963) THE EYES HAVE IT (1964) And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see all entries in Wildside's Megapack series -- including volumes of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, westerns, and much, much more!
The First Murray Leinster MEGAPACK ®
Author: Murray LeinsterPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 143444922X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1704
Book Description
This volume assembles 25 novels and short stories by Murray Leinster, published between 1919 and 1963, plus a biographical introduction and a selected bibliography. Contents: MURRAY LEINSTER: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY THE ALIENS A THOUSAND DEGREES BELOW ZERO THE MAD PLANET THE GALLERY GODS THE RED DUST NERVE MORALE: A STORY OF THE WAR OF 1941-43 THE FIFTH-DIMENSION TUBE INVASION SPACE PLATFORM SPACE TUG THE INVADERS OPERATION: OUTER SPACE SAM, THIS IS YOU THE MACHINE THAT SAVED THE WORLD THE MONSTER FROM EARTH’S END LONG AGO, FAR AWAY THE LEADER THE AMBULANCE MADE TWO TRIPS PARIAH PLANET OPERATION TERROR PLANET OF DREAD SCRIMSHAW TALENTS, INCORPORATED THE HATE DISEASE And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 300+ entries in the MEGAPACK® series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, author collections...and much, much more!
Gedanken Fictions
Author: Thomas A. EastonPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1587150697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
John Brunner
Author: Jad SmithPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252094514
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, John Brunner (1934–1995) was one of the most prolific and influential science fiction authors of the late twentieth century. During his exemplary career, the British author wrote with a stamina matched by only a few other great science fiction writers and with a literary quality of even fewer, importing modernist techniques into his novels and stories and probing every major theme of his generation: robotics, racism, drugs, space exploration, technological warfare, and ecology. In this first intensive review of Brunner's life and works, Jad Smith carefully demonstrates how Brunner's much-neglected early fiction laid the foundation for his classic Stand on Zanzibar and other major works such as The Jagged Orbit, The Sheep Look Up, and The Shockwave Rider. Making extensive use of Brunner's letters, columns, speeches, and interviews published in fanzines, Smith approaches Brunner in the context of markets and trends that affected many writers of the time, including Brunner's uneasy association with the "New Wave" of science fiction in the 1960s and '70s. This landmark study shows how Brunner's attempts to cross-fertilize the American pulp tradition with British scientific romance complicated the distinctions between genre and mainstream fiction and between hard and soft science fiction and helped carve out space for emerging modes such as cyberpunk, slipstream, and biopunk.