Book A Daughter of Our Time and Other Stories

Download or read A Daughter of Our Time and Other Stories PDF, written by I. Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deus X

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  • Author : Joseph A. Citro
  • Publisher : UPNE
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781584653394
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read Deus X PDF, written by Joseph A. Citro and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the "113 Best Books of Modern Horror" by critic Stanley Wiater, Deus-X offers a potent combination of mystery, psychological horror, and spiritual terror. Two seemingly unrelated events set in motion a complex plot: in a secret government installation in California, a political prisoner is grotesquely executed; while on the East Coast, an elderly Vermont farmer vanishes, the victim of an otherwordly abduction. Three amateur investigators with divergent world views--a psychologist, a physicist, and a priest--join forces to discover the relationship between these two events. Stalked by a murderous psychopath intent on stopping them, they encounter UFOs, inexplicable religious phenomena, multiple personalities, and overwhelming psychic violence. They are drawn inexorably forward through the gothic halls of a Canadian hospital for elderly and demented priests to the locked chambers of a covert American repository for space-age weaponry, where they uncover a sinister application of computer technology.

Book The Year s Best Science Fiction  Twenty First Annual Collection

Download or read The Year s Best Science Fiction Twenty First Annual Collection PDF, written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Book Other Americas

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  • Author : Norman Spinrad
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2012-12-21
  • ISBN : 0575117362
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read Other Americas PDF, written by Norman Spinrad and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinrad examines one of his most compelling obsessions - the possible "futures" of America. Street Meat: In New York City, streeties, zonies and subway cannibals are locked in a nighmarish scrabble for rat meat, sex - and survival. The Lost Continent: group of African tourists visit the ruins of Space Age America - a surreal landscape of abandoned skyscrapers, empty streets and dead, rusted machinery. World War Last: The hashish-smoking Sheik of Koram has a plan to trick America and Russia into war. La Vie Continue: In Paris exiled science-fiction author Norman Spinrad ignores a lucrative - but dangerous - bidding war between the KGB and the CIA for the film rights to his story "Riding the Torch".

Book GREGORY and other stories

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Armida Publications Ltd
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9963620728
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read GREGORY and other stories PDF, written by and published by Armida Publications Ltd. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raising Hell

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  • Author : Norman Spinrad
  • Publisher : PM Press
  • Release : 2014-07-01
  • ISBN : 1604869925
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read Raising Hell PDF, written by Norman Spinrad and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an ambitious, alienated, and awesomely talented kid from the Bronx, Norman Spinrad rode the revolutionary “New Wave” of 1960s science fiction to fame, if not fortune. His usually angry, often hilarious, and always radical novels changed the field forever. Once devoted to interplanetary adventure, SF began to explore the uneasy intersection between today’s illusions and tomorrow’s dystopian disasters. It grew dark, grew wild, grew up. An all-new novella designed to take a poke at both Christian fundamentalists and corporate CEOs, Raising Hell is a rousing account of the fight to improve working conditions in Hell, for both demons and the damned, with the help of such deceased immortals as Jimmy Hoffa, John L. Lewis, and César Chávez. Plus… “The Abnormal New Normal,” an impolite inquiry into today’s high-finance low-jinks, which unmasks the manipulations of the 1% and proposes a radical fix. And Featuring: our Outspoken Interview, the usual mix of intimate revelation, gossip, and tales from the front lines of writing and publishing.

Book Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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  • Author : Don D'Ammassa
  • Publisher : Infobase Learning
  • Release : 2015-04-22
  • ISBN : 1438140622
  • Pages : 1697 pages

Download or read Encyclopedia of Science Fiction PDF, written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the science fiction genre of literature, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Book The Green Flag  and Other Stories of War and Sport

Download or read The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport PDF, written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport" by Arthur Conan Doyle. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book The Young Apollo and Other Stories

Download or read The Young Apollo and Other Stories PDF, written by Louis Auchincloss and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together 12 previously unpublished pieces, this collection sparkles with Auchincloss's singular style and, like "East Side Story," reveals in precise, aphoristic prose "not only the textures of this world but also its elemental and evolving truths" ("New York Times").

Book The Massingham Butterfly and Other Stories

Download or read The Massingham Butterfly and Other Stories PDF, written by J. S. Fletcher and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Massingham Butterfly and Other Stories" by J. S. Fletcher. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book The Green Flag

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  • Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Publisher : The Floating Press
  • Release : 2012-06-01
  • ISBN : 1775458733
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read The Green Flag PDF, written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your mental image of the Victorian age consists of parasols, tea parties, prudery, and parlor games, think again. In this collection of thrilling tales from Arthur Conan Doyle, the vigorous masculinity of the era is exposed in all its glory. Stories from the battlefield and the playing field provide a starkly different view of the late nineteenth century.

Book The Legend of Gold and Other Stories

Download or read The Legend of Gold and Other Stories PDF, written by Jun Ishikawa and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four stories and novella translated in this volume represent the best short fiction by Ishikawa Jun (1899-1987), one of the most important modernist writers to appear on the Japanese literary stage during the years before and after World War II. Throughout his career, Ishikawa resisted the tide of popular opinion to address issues of political and artistic significance and thereby paved the way for a generation of Japanese internationalists and experimentalists, including Abe Kobo and Oe Kenzaburo. Highly acclaimed and respected in Japan, Ishikawa remains little known in the West-in part because of the tendency of Western critics and readers of Japanese literature to focus on writers concerned with aesthetic issues. Combining a strong interest in politics with a brilliant use of modernist techniques, Ishikawa's work defies easy categorization. Banned in 1938, "Mars' Song" has been called the finest example of anti-war fiction written during Japan's march to war in China and the Pacific. In it Ishikawa denounces the chorus of jingoism that swept Japan, and via a metafictional tale within a tale, he warns against the suicidal destruction to which complicity in warmongering will lead. The allegorical "Moon Gems," written in the spring of 1945, further explores the tenuous position of the writer moving against the current in a country not only still at war but very near defeat. In "The Legend of Gold" and "The Jesus of the Ruins," both from 1946, Japan has been reduced to a charred wasteland yet Ishikawa envisions destruction as fertile ground for rebirth and resurrection. Finally, the semi-surrealistic novella The Raptor plumbs the meanings and possibilities of peace in the post-Occupation era. William Tyler's eminently readable translations are faithfully expressive of stylistic and tonal nuances in the original works. In a perceptive introduction and the critical essays that follow, Tyler emphasizes Ishikawa's importance as an anti-establishment--even "resistance"--writer and argues that the writer's political iconoclasm goes hand-in-hand with the modanizumu of his literary experimentation. The Legend of Gold will be of tremendous importance in enlarging a Western understanding of the development of the writer's role as social critic and the evolution of the modernist movement in postwar Japan.

Book Murder on the Einstein Express and Other Stories

Download or read Murder on the Einstein Express and Other Stories PDF, written by Harun Šiljak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories touches upon many genres: Normed Trek is a clever and witty Alice-in-Wonderland-type narrative set in the realm of mathematical analysis, The Cantor Trilogy is a dystopia about the consequences of relying upon computer-based mathematical proofs, In Search of Future Time bears the flavor of Tales from Arabian Nights set in the future, and – last but not least - Murder on the Einstein Express is a short, non-technical primer on probabilities and modern classical physics, disguised as a detective story. Written primarily for an audience with some background or a strong interest in mathematics, physics and computer science (in particular artificial intelligence), these stories explore the boundaries between science and fiction in a refreshingly unconventional fashion. In the Afterthoughts the author provides some further insights and annotations.

Book The Green Flag  and Other Stories of War and Sport

Download or read The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport PDF, written by Артур Конан Дойл and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Iron Dream

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  • Author : Norman Spinrad
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2014-06-30
  • ISBN : 0575117222
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read The Iron Dream PDF, written by Norman Spinrad and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Spinrad's 1972 alternate history, gives us both a metafictional what-if novel and a cutting satire of one of the 20th century's most evil regimes . . . In 1919, a young Austrian artist by the name of Adolf Hitler immigrated to the United States to become an illustrator for the pulp magazines and, eventually, a Hugo Award-winning SF author. This volume contains his greatest work, Lord of the Swastika: an epic post-apocalyptic tale of genetic 'trueman' Feric Jagger and his quest to purify the bloodline of humanity by ruthlessly slaughtering races of the genetically impure - a quest Norman Spinrad expertly skewers through ironic imagery and over-the-top rhetoric. Spinrad hoped to expose some unpalatable truths about much of SF and Fantasy literature and its uncomfortable relationship with fascist ideologies - an aim that was not always apparent to neo-fascist readers. In order to make his aims clear to the hard-of-understanding, Spinrad added an imaginary critical analysis by a fictional literary scholar, Homer Whipple, of New York University.

Book Agent of Chaos

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  • Author : Norman Spinrad
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2011-09-29
  • ISBN : 0575117206
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read Agent of Chaos PDF, written by Norman Spinrad and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Tyrant rules the solar system with absolute terror. Only one man dares to fight back. The time is the 24th century. Humankind populates the entire solar system from icy Pluto to boiling Mercury. Great domed cities, humming factories, hordes of workers, all feed the power of the dictatorship that controls all life. Only a small group among the cowed population dares rebel in a struggle that pits democracy against tyranny. But there is a third force at work as well. A mysterious band of assassins whose final solution to the problem of humanity's fate is as terrifying as it is irresistible - one of them is known as the AGENT OF CHAOS.

Book Little Heroes

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  • Author : Norman Spinrad
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2012-12-21
  • ISBN : 0575117273
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read Little Heroes PDF, written by Norman Spinrad and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muzic Inc had become a music industry giant by staying one step ahead of the game, but for some reason APs (totally cybernetic rock stars) had failed to ship gold. That was where Glorianna O'Toole came in. The Crazy Old Lady of Rock and Roll was well into her sixties, but with her producer they hoped to synthesize an AP that would really take off. Glorianna hated everything Muzic Inc had done to the rebel music of her youth, but for the sake of a steady supply of designer dust she was prepared to try and rekindle the revolutionary music spirit of the 1960s. Meanwhile, at street level, the wire wizards had come up with a new piece of technology: a portable trip machine that made Owsley acid look like a vitamin supplement...