The Disestablishment Of Paradise

Author : Phillip Mann
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575132647
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disestablishment of Paradise written by Phillip Mann and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise. The human settlers - farmers and scientists - are finding that their crops won't grow and their lives are becoming more and more dangerous. The indigenous plant life - never entirely safe - is changing in unpredictable ways, and the imported plantings wither and die. And so the order is given - Paradise will be abandoned. All personnel will be removed and reassigned. And all human presence on the planet will be disestablished. Not all agree with the decision. There are some who believe that Paradise has more to offer the human race. That the planet is not finished with the intruders, and that the risks of staying are outweighed by the possible rewards. And so the leader of the research team and one of the demolition workers set off on a journey across the planet. Along the way they will encounter the last of the near-mythical Dendron, the vicious Reapers and the deadly Tattersall Weeds as they embark on an adventure which will bring them closer to nature, to each other and, eventually, to Paradise.

Author : Russell Blackford
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319616854
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination written by Russell Blackford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original book, Russell Blackford discusses the intersection of science fiction and humanity’s moral imagination. With the rise of science and technology in the 19th century, and our continually improving understanding of the cosmos, writers and thinkers soon began to imagine futures greatly different from the present. Science fiction was born out of the realization that future technoscientific advances could dramatically change the world. Along with the developments described in modern science fiction - space societies, conscious machines, and upgraded human bodies, to name but a few - come a new set of ethical challenges and new forms of ethics. Blackford identifies these issues and their reflection in science fiction. His fascinating book will appeal to anyone with an interest in philosophy or science fiction, or in how they interact. “This is a seasoned, balanced analysis of a major issue in our thinking about the future, seen through the lens of science fiction, a central art of our time. Everyone from humanists to technologists should study these ideas and examples. Blackford’s book is wise and savvy, and a delight to read as well.” Greg Benford, author of Timescape.

Author : Henry Alford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dean Alford on Disestablishment written by Henry Alford and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Larsen
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 177656376X
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monsters in the Garden written by David Larsen and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this anthology of Aotearoa-New Zealand science fiction and fantasy ranges from the satirical novels of the 19th-century utopians &– one of which includes the first description of atmospheric aerobreaking in world literature &– to the bleeding edge of now. Spaceships and worried sheep. Dragons and AI. The shopping mall that swallowed the Earth. The deviant, the fishy and the rum, all bioengineered for your reading pleasure.Featuring stories by some of the country's best known writers as well as work from exciting new talent, Monsters in the Garden invites you for a walk on the wild side. We promise you'll get back safely. Unchanged? Well, that's another question.

Author : Marguerite Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350021245
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antipodean Antiquities written by Marguerite Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.

Author : Joan Elizabeth Goodman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618494811
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise written by Joan Elizabeth Goodman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1542, eager to escape the French Huguenot household of her harsh father, sixteen-year-old Marguerite de la Rocque sails with her equally stern uncle, the Sieur de Roberval, to the New World, where she is left alone on an island with only her young Catholic lover and her chaperone to help her survive.

Author : Kevin Rushby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise written by Kevin Rushby and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought up by parents who belonged to and were expelled from a fundamentalist Christian sect, Kevin Rushby learnt when young that promises of paradise are not always what they seem. From the Church in the Middle Ages to the people who prepare suicide bombers, or even Make Poverty History campaigners, there is always someone promising a better tomorrow if only we'll do what they say. Rushby sets out on two journeys: a physical one to the Mountain of the Assassins in Iran, home of the myth that 'bright-eyed maidens of Paradise' await those who die serving Allah. And an intellectual one, back through the history of our ideas about Paradise in the Judaeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. The Ancient Greeks divided writing into tales of the gods (mythos) and verifiable facts (logos). Rushby reveals the reasons why we have come to live in such a divided world by showing how rationalist thought stretches from Pythagoras to Jacobean England and how tales of the gods have brought destruction and terror, from the Book of Relevations to the London Underground in 2005. See www.kevinrushby.com

Author : Stephen Couper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780722137956
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dying of Paradise written by Stephen Couper and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529077508
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Paradise written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of A Little Life. To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the elusive idea of utopia; driven by Hanya Yanagihara’s understanding of our desire to protect those we love – lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens – and the pain that ensues when we cannot. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love as they please (or so it seems). In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. In 2093, in a world torn apart by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him – and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearance. What unites these characters, and these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human – fear, love, shame, loneliness – and the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise. 'I’m not sure I’ve ever missed the world of a book as much' - Observer ‘Not only rare . . . revolutionary’ - Michael Cunningham ‘Prepare to weep in public and be utterly transformed’ - Stylist

Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101568852
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Remembered Earth written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in the Poseidon's Children series from the acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. One hundred and fifty years from now, Africa has become the world’s dominant technological and economic power. Crime, war, disease and poverty have been practically eliminated. The Moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. And Ocular, the largest scientific instrument in history, is about to make an epochal discovery... Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his long-running studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey’s family, which controls the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans for him. After the death of his grandmother Eunice—the erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur—something awkward has come to light on the Moon, so Geoffrey is dispatched there to ensure the family name remains untarnished. But the secrets Eunice died with are about to be revealed—secrets that could change everything...or tear this near utopia apart.