Lazantis Rising

Author : Ursula Dyck
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 103913906X
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lazantis Rising written by Ursula Dyck and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ushaya Landau, sixty-four and recently retired from Trends & Styles magazine company, is looking forward to finally having time to visit her kids, see friends, and relish her gardens...until she is visited by a host of alien titans from the world of Lazantis. These creatures give her the ability to gift others with superpowers—and change her life forever. Armed with her new ability and the responsibility that comes with it, Ushaya decides to impart powers on eighteen world leaders. But if she hopes having powers will transform the way politics works, she is sorely mistaken. This satirical, allegorical fantasy is nothing short of a political parody, following Ushaya and the world leaders through trade negotiations, politics, social issues, and environmental concerns. When they discover that there is more to these benevolent aliens than meets the eye, will they be able to put their petty differences aside and work together to save the world?

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789602998
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeologies of the Future written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, investigates the development of this form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. The relationship between utopia and science fiction is explored through the representations of otherness . alien life and alien worlds . and a study of the works of Philip K. Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson and more. Jameson's essential essays, including "The Desire Called Utopia," conclude with an examination of the opposing positions on utopia and an assessment of its political value today.