Author: Piers Anthony Publisher: ISBN: 9780441444250 Category : Fantasy games Languages : en Pages : 0
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In the virtual-reality computer game Killobyte, wheelchair-bound ex-cop Walter Tobin is a hero--and he can have the use of his legs restored. Diabetic Baal Curran is a beautiful princess--and she can forget the illness that drove away her boyfriend. But the game takes on a sinister reality when Walter and Baal are trapped in the system.
Author: Jason Barr Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476634297 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 195
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As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. This study examines how media-fueled paranoia about video gaming--first emerging almost fifty years ago--still resonates in modern science fiction. The author reveals how negative stereotypes of gamers and gaming have endured in depictions of modern gamers in the media and how honest portrayals are still wanting, even in the "forward thinking" world of science fiction.
Author: Marvel Comics Publisher: Marvel Entertainment ISBN: 1302486373 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 471
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Collects Daredevil (1964) #319-332 and Annual #10. It's the epic saga that reintroduced Elektra to the Marvel Universe! The Hand ninja clan unleashes a super-virus on New York, and only Daredevil can stop them - but not without some unexpected help from a long-lost love and a new, armored costume! Can the Man Without Fear come to terms with his past with Elektra in time to halt the Hand's terror plot, even if it means the end of his secret identity? And when Baron Strucker assembles a team of cyber-terrorists to plunge the world's computer systems into global anarchy, will even Captain America's aid be enough to defeat them? Guest-starring Nick Fury, Black Widow and more!
Author: S. N. Lewitt Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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Strange worlds, stranger people...In the clockwork society of tomorrow, everyone is Normal--by genetic design. Except Dante McCall. Dante is one of a kind, with unusual senses and attitudes that brand him a freak and a misfit wherever he goes. Until...banished from Earth, a disaster in space strands him among a starfaring culture so bizarre they make Dante seem Normal. But has he found a home at last--or a trap he can never escape? -- Cover.
Author: Bonnie Kunzel Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 9780810840287 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 172
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This beginning reader's advisory book helps librarians guide young readers to science fiction and fantasy titles. Entries describe titles and list sequels and related books by the same author. Entries are in topical sections such as alien contact, dragons, biotechnology, and postapocalypse. Classics as well as current titles popular with both younger and older teens are included in each category. Kunzel is a teen specialist at Princeton Public Library and is vice president of the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association. Manczuk teaches in the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies at Rutgers University. c. Book News Inc.
Author: Lionel Fenn Publisher: ISBN: 9780441627820 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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An 1880s outlaw finds the perfect hideout: the future. During his desperate run for freedom, gunslinger Diego stumbles into a strange vortex . . . and stumbles out again 100 years later in New York City. Soon he'll find that it's a place even more dangerous than the Wild West.
Author: Rutledge Etheridge Publisher: ISBN: 9780441479627 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 260
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In the far future, mankind heads for the stars, settling peacefully throughout the galaxy. Unfortunately, there is still a very real, very human need for violence. That's where the Duelists come in: they function as bounty hunters, peacekeepers, mercenaries. And with war on the horizon, they're the only fighters left.
Author: J. Patrick Williams Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786428325 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 315
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Digital games have become an increasingly pervasive aspect of everyday life as well as an embattled cultural phenomenon in the twenty-first century. As new media technologies diffuse around the world and as the depth and complexity of gaming networks increase, scholars are becoming increasingly savvy in their approach to digital games. While aesthetic and psychological approaches to the study of digital games have garnered the most attention in the past, scholars have only recently begun to study the important social and cultural aspects of digital games. This study sketches some of the various trajectories of digital games in modern Western societies, looking first at the growth and persistence of the moral panic that continues to accompany massive public interest in digital games. The book then continues with what it deems a new phase of games research exemplified by systematic examination of specific aspects of digital games and gaming. Section One includes four chapters that collectively consider politics and the negotiation of power in game worlds. Section Two details the ideological webs within which games are produced and consumed. Specifically, this important section offers a critical cultural analysis of the hegemony that exists within games and its influence upon players' personal ideologies. To conclude this analysis, Section Three examines game design features that relate to players' self-characterization and social development within digital game worlds. Section Four explores the important relationship between the producers and consumers of digital games, especially insomuch as this relationship is giving rise to a community of novices and professionals who will together determine the future of gaming and--to a degree--popular culture.
Author: Vineta Colby Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 1050
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Provides incisive accounts of 345 writers' lives and works, including critical responses and bibliographies. The authors include novelists, playwrights, and poets who have risen to prominence in the late 1980s as well as essayists, historians, biographers, critics, philosophers, and scientists who have made exceptional contributions to literature. Some included authors are Jean Baudrillard, Andrei Codrescu, Bharati Mukherjee, and Amy Tan. Previous volumes in the series cover Western literature from classical times through the 19th century. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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