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Author : Eric Frank Russell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sinister Barrier written by Eric Frank Russell and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Frank Russell
Publisher : www.PulpFictionBook.Store
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Sinister Barrier written by Eric Frank Russell and published by www.PulpFictionBook.Store. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Fort said, “I think we’re property.” And that is the plot of ‘Sinister Barrier.‘ We are cattle, a source of psychic energy for beings that exist as pure energy. They feed off of our emotions and our strongest emotions are lust, hate, and fear. And so they manipulate us to display our strongest emotions for their psychic vampirism. Ghastly crimes are the everyday meal for these beings; wars are banquets for their delectations. One scientist discovers these invisible beings of energy and is able to warn others before he dies. And then, many die. One dogged investigator is pursued cross-country and back as he puts together a meeting of minds to free humanity from these invisible tyrants. Sinister Barrier was published in 1939 in the initial issue of Unknown. It was the cover story.
Author : M. Karonski
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080872551
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Random Graphs '85 written by M. Karonski and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a wide range of Random Graphs subjects, this volume examines series-parallel networks, properties of random subgraphs of the n-cube, random binary and recursive trees, random digraphs, induced subgraphs and spanning trees in random graphs as well as matchings, hamiltonian cycles and closure in such structures. Papers in this collection also illustrate various aspects of percolation theory and its applications, properties of random lattices and random walks on such graphs, random allocation schemes, pseudo-random graphs and reliability of planar networks. Several open problems that were presented during a special session at the Seminar are also included at the end of the volume.
Author : Tanner F. Boyle
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641900
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction written by Tanner F. Boyle and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Fort was an American researcher from the early twentieth century who cataloged reports of unexplained phenomena he found in newspapers and science journals. A minor bestseller with a cult appeal, Fort's work was posthumously republished in the pulp science fiction magazine Astounding Stories in 1934. His idiosyncratic books fascinated, scared, and entertained readers, many of them authors and editors of science fiction. Fort's work prophesied the paranormal mainstays of SF literature to come: UFOs, poltergeists, strange disappearances, cryptids, ancient mysteries, unexplained natural phenomena, and everything in between. Science fiction authors latched on to Fort's topics and hypotheses as perfect fodder for SF stories. Writers like Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, H.P. Lovecraft, and others are examined in this exploration of Fortean science fiction--a genre that borrows from the reports and ideas of Fort and others who saw the possible science-fictional nature of our reality.
Author : Joshua Blu Buhs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226831485
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Think to New Worlds written by Joshua Blu Buhs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about Charles Fort, his followers, and the surprising influence they have had on science fiction, the avant-garde, UFOlogy, and more broadly on the role of spirituality and conspiracy in the modern world. Fort was an author and maverick philosopher who wrote four non-fiction books about anomalies-rains of frogs, mysterious disappearances, unexplained lights in the sky-for which he offered hypotheses that even he did not (always) accept as true. His books developed into a monistic philosophy that denounced science as a machine for generating truth. In his view, science was a small part of a larger system in which truth and falsity were constantly transforming one into the other. This was not a rejection of the modern world but, instead, its fulfillment: Fort prophesied the next stage in intellectual evolution after the scientific era. He inspired four overlapping groups: members of the Fortean Society; science fiction fans and writers; avant-garde artists; and flying saucer enthusiasts. First We Must Think to New Worlds takes up each of these groups in turn to ask: How can the human imagination be expanded? What is the fundamental structure of the universe? And, how does power move? As they developed their responses, Fort's followers mixed Forteanism with Fundamentalism, New Agery, and conspiracy, as well as a host of other forms of modern enchantments, such as the ironic imagination, scientific wonder, and Theosophical syncretism. Each chapter is interrupted by and concludes with shorter sections that focus on particular Forteans or Fortean events as a way to deepen themes"--
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1592240550
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Up Through an Empty House of Stars written by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, _Up Through an Empty House of Stars_ brings together the best of the never before collected SF reviews and articles that helped build David Langford's towering reputation since 1980. Complementing the review columns collected in _The Complete Critical Assembly_ and the knockabout essays and squibs in _The Silence of the Langford_, this volume's 100 glittering selections mix serious critical insight with the inimitable Langford wit. In 2002 David Langford won his sixteenth Hugo award as Best Fan Writer, for critical and humorous commentary on SF. In the same year his occasionally scandalous SF newsletter _Ansible_ won its fifth Hugo. Langford also received the 2001 Hugo for best short story, and the 2002 Skylark Award. Here he shines a unique light on classics like Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Robert Heinlein and Jack Vance, and analyses major SF -- and major clunkers, and minor eccentrics -- of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, continuing to the latest by such current stars as Gene Wolfe and China Mi, ville. Plus witty asides on crime fiction and its SF links, gleeful examination of writing so bad it's almost good, and (even at his most serious) turns of phrase to make you laugh aloud
Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0941028755
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Author : Gavin Parkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781381437
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics written by Gavin Parkinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the self-definition of Surrealism and the initial defining of science fiction as a genre both took place in the 1920s and the links between the two are manifest, no full study has appeared till now on Surrealism and SF. Across ten original essays, Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics looks at how the Surrealist movement in France and the USA used, informed, contributed to, and criticised SF from that moment, whilst including discussion of the related genre of comics. Among its aims are a reassessment of Jules Verne in the light of Surrealism and an analysis of the debate in the 1950s on the 'new' Anglo-American literature arriving in France. This received, in fact, a mixed reception from the Surrealists of that decade even though writers and intellectuals close to the movement in the 1920s were directly responsible for its success. The book includes further essays on the subsequent impact of Surrealism on SF novelists J.G. Ballard and Alan Burns, and features essays that argue for Salvador Dalí's closeness to SF in the 1960s and his disagreement with the earlier scientific romance defined by Verne. The chapters that bring in comics range from theoretical discussions of the relation between the original comic strips of Rodolphe Töpffer and the key Surrealist technique of automatism, used in art and writing, through the cybernetic implications of the proto-SF Surrealist ciné-roman 'M. Wzz...' of 1929, which has never discussed in any detail before, to the 1948 Vache paintings by René Magritte, inspired by Louis Forton's strip Les Pieds nickelés. This pioneering set of essays shows how Surrealism from the 1920s to the 1970s did not just receive and adapt SF but impacted the genre in its later manifestations.
Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0060819227
Total Pages : 1844 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3 written by C. S. Lewis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters found in Volume II reveal inside accounts of how The Screwtape Letters came to be written, the early meetings of the Inklings (with J.R.R. Tolkien giving readings about "hobbits" and "Middle Earth"), how C.S. Lewis became popular through BBC radio talks, but mostly how this quiet professor in England touched the lives of many through an amazing discipline of personal correspondence.
Author : Mike Resnick
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1592241603
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Resnick at Large written by Mike Resnick and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 61 essays and articles include Mike Resnick's work for galaxyonline.com, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, book introductions, and much, much more! Features an introduction by Robert J. Sawyer
