Author: GENE WOLFE, URSULA K. LE GUIN, JAMES TIPTREE, JR.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
THE NEW ATLANTIS and Other Novellas of Science Fiction
Author: GENE WOLFE, URSULA K. LE GUIN, JAMES TIPTREE, JR.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The New Atlantis
Author: James Tiptree Jr.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781005624002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Three short novels by some of science fiction's greatest writers -- Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree, Jr., and Gene Wolfe, edited by Robert Silverberg._The New Atlantis_, by Ursula K. Le Guin: In a dark near-future, global warming and a ruined ecology is causing the continents to sink into the oceans just as the towers of Atlantis re-emerge above the sea. Locus award winner and Hugo finalist._Silhouette_, by Gene Wolfe, and _A Momentary Taste of Being_, by James Tiptree, Jr., present two different masterpieces on a similar theme: A deep-space colony exploration ship approaches their target planet, where they must investigate whether or not it's hospitable enough to signal Earth to send more colonists. Things are not as they seem... Nebula / Locus award finalist stories.Three of science fiction's most gifted writers--winners of Hugos, Nebulas, and a National Book Award--unleash their imaginations to present startling glimpses of humanity's future on Earth and in space. Blended into that future are age-old mysteries of the human psyche, mythicized fragments of the past, and the eternal question of biological purpose.In "Silhouette" Gene Wolfe creates a self-contained world, an immense starship on a multi-generational mission to assure continuation of the race by colonizing the stars. It is a world, devised and constructed through man's technical genius, that comes to be threatened by the primitive superstitions and petty jealousies carried into space by the very technicians who serve in science's most ambitious project. The salvation of the mission and of the hundreds of lives bound to it comes to depend on a curious interplay of technology and occult human abilities.Ursula Le Guin remains earthbound, but on a "brave, new world" where a bureaucratic tyranny proves less and less able to cope with supplying the needs of a burgeoning population. A subtle irony pervades her story, "The New Atlantis." Even as government strives to assure permanence of control, geologic upheavals awaken a haunting racial memory of antediluvian civilizations and grandeur long buried beneath the seas.James Tiptree, Jr., confronts a disciplined space crew with humanity's first encounter with a wholly alien life form. Here again the survival of the human race depends on successful location of a new planet where mankind can establish its society with renewed vigor. But out of the questions of how to survive any threat that may be posed by an unknown life form arises a more central question: Is it intended that humanity survive?
The New Atlantis
Author: Robert SilverbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The New Atlantis
Author: Robert SilverbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9780446940313
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
New Atlantis
Author: Francis BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
New Atlantis
Author: Raymond BryanPublisher: Der Drehbuchverlag
ISBN: 3990429949
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 40
Book Description
Am letzten Abendmahl wird die Menschheit bis zum Ende ihrer Tage zu kauen haben. - Gregor Brand 31.03.2010: In der Karibik wird eine bisher unbekannte Insel entdeckt. Wissenschaftler finden auf der drei Quadratkilometer großen Insel ein ihnen völlig fremdes Ökosystem. Die Entdeckung völlig neuer Spezies lässt die gesamte Menschheit den Atem anhalten. Die Insel wird auf den Namen "New Atlantis" getauft. Es handelt sich um eine aktualisierte Auflage! (5. Februar 2016)
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
Atlantis
Author: Samuel R. DelanyPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819552836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
New fiction from a master explores problems of memory, history, & transgression.
THE NEW ATLANTIS
Author: GENE WOLFEThe Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
Author: Justine LarbalestierPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819501379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
How women and feminism helped to shape science fiction in America. Runner-up for the Hugo Best Related Book Award (2003) The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction is a lively account of the role of women and feminism in the development of American science fiction during its formative years, the mid-20th century. Beginning in 1926, with the publication of the first issue of Amazing Stories, Justine Larbalestier examines science fiction's engagement with questions of femininity, masculinity, sex and sexuality. She traces the debates over the place of women and feminism in science fiction as it emerged in stories, letters and articles in science fiction magazines and fanzines. The book culminates in the story of James Tiptree, Jr. and the eponymous Award. Tiptree was a successful science fiction writer of the 1970s who was later discovered to be a woman. Tiptree's easy acceptance by the male-dominated publishing arena of the time proved that there was no necessary difference in the way men and women wrote, but that there was a real difference in the way they were read.