The Chalk Giants

Author : Keith Roberts
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575104287
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chalk Giants written by Keith Roberts and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AFTER THE APOCALYPSE the hazardous evolution of mankind continues. And in primeval response to the disaster, humanity's solutions to catastrophe carve the harsh new world in violent patterns of magic and myth, rite and religion. Brave images scar the ancient hills, the clash of swords and the ageless power of sexuality sign-post another, bloodsoaked path to civilisation.

Author : Ari Berk
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Giants written by Ari Berk and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavish exploration of giants touches on folklore and myth, truth and whimsy, ranging from tales of giants in ancient Greece to the Celts and their Green Knight. Includes flaps, booklets, gatefolds, and an elegant tassel. Illustrations.

Author : Keith Roberts
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 158715031X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lemady written by Keith Roberts and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jolly Roger Bradfield
Publisher : Purple House Press
ISBN 13 : 9781948959490
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giants Come in Different Sizes written by Jolly Roger Bradfield and published by Purple House Press. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As far as I've been able to determine, giants come in roughly three sizes: 'Very' big, 'Way, WAY' big, and 'Good grief, would you look at THAT!' big. It is possible there there may be even larger ones, but I've never personally seen any. A few folks, mostly adults, contend that there are no such things as giants. I will not waste your time nor mine disputing such radical theories. They probably don't believe in the Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy either. Blasphemy. In addition (and you may not believe this) there are folks who dispute the fact that hamburgers grow on bushes. Good grief...doesn't anyone major in agriculture anymore? I know for a fact that a certain fast-food chain started this rumor. Want scientific proof? Well, there are pictures of several hamburger bushes in this very book. Jolly Roger

Author : Keith Roberts
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 9780575105225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keith Roberts SF Gateway Omnibus written by Keith Roberts and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As author and illustrator, Keith Roberts did more than most to define the look of UK science fiction magazines in the 1960s. In addition to his BFSA Award wins, he was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. He is perhaps best known for his seminal alternate history novel, Pavane, but his work covered a broad range of SF's tropes and settings, as can be seen from the titles collected in this omnibus: The Chalk Giants, Kiteworld and The Grain Kings. THE CHALK GIANTS: After the apocalypse the hazardous evolution of mankind continues. And in primeval response to the disaster, humanity's solutions to catastrophe carve the harsh new world in violent patterns of magic and myth, rite and religion. Brave images scar the ancient hills, the clash of swords and the ageless power of sexuality sign-post another, bloodsoaked path to civilisation. KITEWORLD: Powerful churches have long kept their grip on the people with a theology of fear that makes formidable demons out of the poor, weak mutants of the surrounding badlands. To ward off these specters, an elaborate, tradition-encrusted system of kites with hex signs or armed observers fly over the realm. The men of this Kite Corps, performing hazardous duty to sustain a myth, are driven to find a separate peace, to transform, if they can, disillusionment into enlightenment, to move forward from an assumption of guilt to an assumption of responsibility. THE GRAIN KINGS: They call them The Grain Kings. Gigantic mechanical monarchs of the wheat-bearing plains that were once the frozen Alaskan wastes. Whole eco-systems in themselves, they can supply the food so desperately needed by the teeming millions of our overpopulated planet. But even now, as the whole world waits in hungry suspense, the great powers battle for control of the prairies and two competing combine harvesters find they are heading on a course of collision.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780941978
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Food of the Gods written by H. G. Wells and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1904, this forgotten classic is sci-fi and dystopia at its best, written by the creator and master of the genre Following extensive research in the field of "growth," Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood light upon a new mysterious element, a food that causes greatly accelerated development. Initially christening their discovery "The Food of the Gods," the two scientists are overwhelmed by the possible ramifications of their creation. Needing room for experiments, Mr. Besington chooses a farm that offers him the chance to test on chickens, which duly grow monstrous, six or seven times their usual size. With the farmer, Mr. Skinner, failing to contain the spread of the Food, chaos soon reigns as reports come in of local encounters with monstrous wasps, earwigs, and rats. The chickens escape, leaving carnage in their wake. The Skinners and Redwoods have both been feeding their children the compound illicitly—their eventual offspring will constitute a new age of giants. Public opinion rapidly turns against the scientists and society rebels against the world's new flora and fauna. Daily life has changed shockingly and now politicians are involved, trying to stamp out the Food of the Gods and the giant race. Comic and at times surprisingly touching and tragic, Wells' story is a cautionary tale warning against the rampant advances of science but also of the dangers of greed, political infighting, and shameless vote-seeking.

Author : Keith Roberts
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575104252
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pavane written by Keith Roberts and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1588: Queen Elizabeth is felled by an assassin's bullet. Within the week, the Spanish Armada had set sail, and its victory changed the course of history. 1968: England is still dominated by the Church of Rome. There are no telephones, no television, no nuclear power. As Catholicism and the Inquisition tighten their grip, rebellion is growing.

Author : Andrew M. Butler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846318343
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solar Flares written by Andrew M. Butler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as confused, self-involved, and stale. The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf - on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism, ecology and sexuality, on the other hand it broke box office records with Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and Superman: The Movie. Beginning with chapters on the First sf and New Wave authors who published during the 1970s, Solar Flares examines the ways in which the genre confronted a new epoch and its own history, including the rise of fantasy, the sf blockbuster, children's sf, pseudoscience and postmodernism. It explores significant figures such as Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler. From Larry Niven's Ringworld to Thomas M. Disch's On Wings of Song, from The Andromeda Strain to Flash Gordon and from Doctor Who to Buck Rogers, this book reclaims seventies sf writing, film and television - alongside music and architecture - as a crucial period in the history of science fiction.

Author : David Honeyman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giants and Pigmies (geological) written by David Honeyman and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Stewart
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313663
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Longing written by Susan Stewart and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world.