Silver Egghead

Author : Fritz Leiber
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1628158298
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silver Eggheads  written by Fritz Leiber and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HEADLONG RIOT OF HILARIOUS SCIENCE FICTION SATIRE MEET SOME INSUFFERABLY WONDERFUL CHARACTERS, from the mad, gay, heady world of the "arts" GASPARD DE LA NUIT—human journeyman writer. He has problems with his rampant lover, Heloise Ibsen (assigned to him by his pub­lisher). What he really loves is the giant computer-word-machine that produces his novels—read by other humans—which he oils with devoted care. His closest friend is ZANE GORT—a fine, upstanding, self-employed robot writer. Zane writes books for other robots and is madly in love with MISS BLUSHES—a censor-robix (female robot) of delicate pink. Miss Blushes is something of a prude and rather hysterical: very logical when you consider that her circuits are wired for censorship, but it makes life difficult for Zane. He turns for help to NURSE BISHOP—a small, but formidably beautiful human, who (in addition to the remarkable advice she offers Zane) plays nursemaid to a mysterious group of near-human entities owned by FLAXMAN AND CULLINGHAM—human publishers, whose language is frequently deplorable. To say nothing of the peculiar interest at least one of them has in a luscious platinum robut no, the daring reader must discover this for himself... AND THERE ARE MANY, MANY MORE...

Author : Fritz Leiber
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silver Eggheads written by Fritz Leiber and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1961 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Mann
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811731768
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hairwing and Tube Flies for Salmon and Steelhead written by Chris Mann and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular type of flies used by salmon and steelhead anglers today Over 500 different patterns with origins, distinguishing features, and tying details Catalog of flies with color photos and full dressings for each fly The world's leading fly tiers have contributed their own unique flies and fly-tying advice to this guide to the most widely-used flies for salmon and steelhead. Chris Mann's remarkable computer graphics convey the flies with clinical precision and color accuracy. He has selected over 500 of the best hairwing flies, based on those submitted by leading fly tiers from around the world. This book will inspire fly tiers to try a whole range of exciting new patterns, tying techniques, colors, and materials.

Author : Stanisław Lem
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816689040
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summa Technologiae written by Stanisław Lem and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels and short stories, Lem offered deeply philosophical and bitingly satirical reflections on the limitations of both science and humanity. In Summa Technologiae—his major work of nonfiction, first published in 1964 and now available in English for the first time—Lem produced an engaging and caustically logical philosophical treatise about human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future forms. After five decades Summa Technologiae has lost none of its intellectual or critical significance. Indeed, many of Lem’s conjectures about future technologies have now come true: from artificial intelligence, bionics, and nanotechnology to the dangers of information overload, the concept underlying Internet search engines, and the idea of virtual reality. More important for its continued relevance, however, is Lem’s rigorous investigation into the parallel development of biological and technical evolution and his conclusion that technology will outlive humanity. Preceding Richard Dawkins’s understanding of evolution as a blind watchmaker by more than two decades, Lem posits evolution as opportunistic, shortsighted, extravagant, and illogical. Strikingly original and still timely, Summa Technologiae resonates with a wide range of contemporary debates about information and new media, the life sciences, and the emerging relationship between technology and humanity.

Author : Jon Morris
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594749337
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains written by Jon Morris and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oddest supervillains in comics history, in one amazing art-filled collection of overlooked crooked characters. From the golden age to the modern graphic novel, comic book superheroes need villains to battle. This collection affectionately spotlights the most ridiculous, bizarre, and cringe-worthy ever published, from fandom favorites like MODOK and Egg Fu to forgotten weirdos like Brickbat (choice of weapon: poison bricks). Casual comics readers and diehard enthusiasts alike will relish the hilarious commentary by author Jon Morris and vintage art from obscure old comics.

Author : Michael J. Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022672770X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hope & Scorn written by Michael J. Brown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectuals “have been both rallying points and railed against in American politics, vessels of hope and targets of scorn,” writes Michael J. Brown as he invigorates a recurrent debate in American life: Are intellectual public figures essential voices of knowledge and wisdom, or out-of-touch elites? Hope and Scorn investigates the role of high-profile experts and thinkers in American life and their ever-fluctuating relationship with the political and public spheres. From Eisenhower’s era to Obama’s, the intellectual’s role in modern democracy has been up for debate. What makes an intellectual, and who can claim that privileged title? What are intellectuals’ obligations to society, and how, if at all, are their contributions compatible with democracy? For some, intellectuals were models of civic engagement. For others, the rise of the intellectual signaled the fall of the citizen. Carrying us through six key moments in this debate, Brown expertly untangles the shifting anxieties and aspirations for democracy in America in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. Hope and Scorn begins with “egghead” politicians like Adlai Stevenson; profiles scholars like Richard Hofstadter and scholars-turned-politicians like H. Stuart Hughes; and ends with the rise of public intellectuals such as bell hooks and Cornel West. In clear and unburdened prose, Brown explicates issues of power, authority, political backlash, and more. Hope and Scorn is an essential guide to American concerns about intellectuals, their myriad shortcomings, and their formidable abilities.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826329318
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amnesia in a Republican County written by Gary Soto and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon he discovers that he is in his office at a Baptist college in the Simi Valley of Southern California, a place that is familiar to many Americans as the home of many of the jurors who tried and convicted Rodney King in the 1990s. Silver has become a professor of English! Moreover, as he soon discovers to his horror, he is having an affair with the wife of the college president. And someone seems to be selling drugs on campus and Silver seems to be involved though he doesn't know how."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jp Vishnu Vardhan
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3739664029
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pancha Forkers and the Egghead Robots written by Jp Vishnu Vardhan and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xobo the Robo, possessed by the evil soul of Mr. God, plans the destruction of Mother Nature to reestablish its fictional alien ancestors system of Fathers and Sons. It raised a Robo Family and demonic Army; they run amok and cause devastation.. Militaries fail against Metal Monsters.. Ultimately, five children with Pure Hearts were chosen to stop Lord Xobo. At last, the War begins. Quotes from the book: Lord Xobo - "If there are no plants, no animals, no women, and only reanimated corpses of Fathers and Sons - The Brutons and Kreaks, then a better world, a New World could be created. The human race would have every opportunity to survive without plants, animals and women. Who knows, we may even go to other galaxies and annihilate plants, animals and women everywhere, until only Fathers and Sons remain in the whole universe. We would sing the glorious smell of putrefied corpses forever and ever." Uncle Jumbo - "Master Bodhitaran, I'm sorry to say this, but I have no other choice. I could guess what you are going to ask. I shudder to think about those creatures - Brutons and Kreaks. What little children could do against them? Please don't expect me to send these kids to do war against murderous Robots." Monk Bodhitaran - "No government on Earth has the tech to stand against Xobo and his United Family. Except us. These five children could beat them with the help of these formidable Purple Forks and few of my own magical devices. I'll guide them to victory. Leave them to me, I pledge my life to protect them!"

Author : Alistair D. McGown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hill and Beyond written by Alistair D. McGown and published by . This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The variety that is children's television drama is recalled in this book; shows such as: "Grange Hill"; "Stig of The Dump"; "The Railway Children"; "The Magician's House"; "The Chronicles of Narnia"; and "The Box of Delights". It lists entries on every British-made children's drama to have been shown on UK screens since 1950. Critical appraisals assess the kind of stories told for children, along with all the technical data and trivia. Programmes from the BBC and ITV are assessed, whether they were adaptations of literary classics or new, contemporary dramas, adventure, fantasy or science fiction.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1534 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: