Download or read book Animals and Science Fiction written by Nora Castle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Box Set 170 Dystopian Novels Space Adventures Lost World Classics Apocalyptic Tales written by Jules Verne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 12917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Box Set: 170+ Dystopian Novels, Space Adventures, Lost World Classics & Apocalyptic Tales' presents an unparalleled amalgamation of literary genius, weaving together the profound imaginations of some of the most paramount figures in the science fiction genre. The anthology spans a multitude of themes including dystopia, interstellar travel, exploration of unknown worlds, and the existential ponderings of humanity in the face of apocalypse, realized through a diverse range of literary styles, from the suspenseful and foreboding atmospheres crafted by H.P. Lovecraft to the intricate societal critiques embodied by George Orwell. This collection not only showcases the broad spectrum of speculative fiction but also highlights standout pieces that have fundamentally shaped the course of science fiction literature. The contributing authors and editors, from Jules Vernes pioneering adventures to H.G. Wells groundbreaking societal allegories, represent an era-spanning cadre of visionaries who collectively pressed the boundaries of the imagination and confronted the societal and philosophical questions of their times. Their works, deeply entrenched in varying historical, cultural, and literary movements - from the romanticism of Mary Shelleys 'Frankenstein' to the modernist satire in Aldous Huxleys 'Brave New World' - provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution of science fiction as a reflective lens on society. For readers seeking to immerse themselves in the expansive universe of speculative fiction, this anthology offers an extraordinary journey through time and space, exploring humanitys greatest fears, hopes, and ethical dilemmas. By traversing the imaginations of over forty authors, the collection affords a unique opportunity to engage with the seminal texts that have defined and continued to shape the science fiction landscape. Delve into the 'SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Box Set' to experience the vast educational value, embrace the diversity of thought, and partake in the ongoing dialogue between these monumental works and the present-day reader.
Download or read book The Science of Science Fiction written by Matthew Brenden Wood and published by Nomad Press. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early science fiction imagined a world with space travel, video calls, and worldwide access to information, things we now know as NASA’s human spaceflight program, Skype, and the Internet. What next? Could we really bring back the dinosaurs, travel to a distant star, or live on Mars? In The Science of Science Fiction, readers ages 12 to 15 explore the science behind classic and modern science fiction stories, including artificial intelligence, androids, and the search for alien life. They learn how cutting edge concepts, including time dilation and genetic manipulation, influence today’s fiction. The Science of Science Fiction promotes critical thinking skills through inquiry, discovery, research, analysis, and reflection of key scientific ideas and concepts made popular by many titles in science fiction. Each chapter features informative sidebars and video and website links for an in-depth look at key topics. Science-minded experiments include a simple demonstration of artificial gravity using a bucket of water and calculating the speed of light using chocolate in a microwave. This variety of resources ensures the material is accessible to students with diverse learning styles.
Download or read book Animals Machines and AI written by Erika Quinn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentient animals, machines, and robots abound in German literature and culture, but there has been surprisingly limited scholarship on non-human life forms in German studies. This volume extends interdisciplinary research in emotion studies to examine non-humans and the affective relationships between humans and non-humans in modern German cultural history. In recent years, fascination with emotions, developments in robotics, and the burgeoning of animal studies in and beyond the academy have given rise to questions about the nature of humanity. Using sources from the life sciences, literature, visual art, poetry, philosophy, and photography, this collection interrogates not animal or machine emotions per se, but rather uses animals and machines as lenses through which to investigate human emotions and the affective entanglements between humans and non-humans. The COVID-19 pandemic made us more keenly aware of the importance of both animals and new technologies in our daily lives, and this volume ultimately sheds light on the centrality of non-humans in the human emotional world and the possibilities that relationships with non-humans offer for enriching that world.
Download or read book Five Minute Science Fiction Stories for Kids written by Sergio Rijo and published by SERGIO RIJO. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Five-Minute Science Fiction Stories for Kids: Sci-Fi Stories for Young Explorers" invites young readers to journey through captivating tales of imagination and wonder. Within these pages, you'll meet intrepid young adventurers, brave young inventors, and imaginative young minds, all exploring the limitless possibilities of the universe. These science fiction stories are crafted to spark curiosity, empathy, and the boundless potential within every child. They'll transport young explorers to distant planets, introduce them to time-traveling inventors, and immerse them in the creative world of robots, aliens, and futuristic technology. As the young protagonists navigate thrilling adventures, readers will learn valuable lessons about friendship, creativity, and the beauty of embracing one's uniqueness. The stories demonstrate the power of connection, knowledge sharing, and the ability to work together to create a brighter, harmonious future. Perfect for bedtime or quick moments of adventure, each story can be enjoyed in just five minutes. With vibrant storytelling, "Five-Minute Science Fiction Stories for Kids" is not only a gateway to endless imagination but also a source of inspiration for young minds, encouraging them to explore the wonders of the universe and the depths of their own creativity. This collection of science fiction stories is a world of possibilities waiting to be discovered by young readers. Whether they dream of becoming young inventors, intrepid explorers, or imaginative storytellers, this book is an invitation to embark on exciting journeys, ignite curiosity, and celebrate the marvels of science fiction. Open the cover and let your young explorers set out on thrilling adventures within the pages of "Five-Minute Science Fiction Stories for Kids." The future is bright, and the universe is theirs to explore.
Download or read book The Science Fiction Collection 35 Sci Fi Books Illustrated written by Ray Bradbury and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction has been called the "literature of ideas", and it often explores the potential consequences of scientific, social, and technological innovations. Besides providing entertainment, it can also criticize present-day society and explore alternatives. Put together a list of 35 must-read science fiction books and don’t make anyone angry. Ray Bradbury A LITTLE JOURNEY ZERO HOUR MORGUE SHIP LAZARUS COME FORTH JONAH OF THE JOVE-RUN DEFENSE MECH ROCKET SUMMER THE MONSTER MAKER ASLEEP IN ARMAGEDDON Isaac Asimov YOUTH Philip K. Dick THE EYES HAVE IT BEYOND THE DOOR BEYOND LIES THE WUB OF WITHERED APPLES THE CRAWLERS SURVEY TEAM SOUVENIR HUMAN IS MEDDLER TONY AND THE BEETLES THE GUN THE HANGING STRANGER ADJUSTMENT TEAM THE DEFENDERS Kurt Vonnegut 2 B R 0 2 B E.M. Forster THE MACHINE STOPS Robert Louis Stevenson THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE Arthur Machen THE GREAT GOD PAN Arthur Conan Doyle THE LOST WORLD Edwin A. Abbott FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS Jules Verne A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH H. G. Wells THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU THE INVISIBLE MAN THE TIME MACHINE THE WAR OF THE WORLDS Fahrenheit 451, I, Robot, Foundation, The Caves of Steel, Guide to Space and Earth, The Gods Themselves, Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, VALIS trilogy, Second Variety, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey
Download or read book New Texas Mail Order Omega Science Fiction Mpreg Non shifter Alpha Omega Romance written by Tabatha Austin and published by Tabatha Austin. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre: SciFi MPreg / Alpha Omega Romance What would you sacrifice for love? Tax trouble, family responsibility, and a public scandal with an outed governor. All tools used by the United States Government to send viable gay men like Thomas into the Volardi re-population program. The terms are simple: Sign up for thirty days and change into an alien Omega. If you aren’t mated in that time, you’re back on Earth as a Human. Helian’s rugged good looks and staunch Alpha male aura only tell part of his story. Inside, behind the virile persona lies someone who longs for someone to love. When an intriguing Earthling arrives on New Texas, he thinks his dreams have come true, but that elation is only temporary because Thomas has no intention of being mated to the handsome cowboy. The stakes are high. The clock is ticking. Thomas’ resolve to never surrender makes him an even bigger target for other unmated Alphas whom might not take no for an answer. Will Helian convince the reluctant Thomas to surrender or will his quest for love end in heartache? Note: New Texas Mail Order Omega is a complete standalone alpha/omega non-shifter mpreg (male pregnancy) romance. This 76,000-word science fiction m/m novel contains detailed descriptions of steamy sex with a muscled alien cowboy. Includes anal and oral situations with a firm touch of dominance.
Download or read book The Dangerous Animals Club written by Stephen Tobolowsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated character actor presents a spiritually inquisitive, autobiographical collection of personal reflections that explores life's great mysteries and the art of stagecraft during encounters with famous film directors, ghosts, pygmy hippos and more.
Download or read book Animals written by Don LePan and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues. Large Print. At the center of this dystopian novel lies a philosophical premise: that the line between human and animal is too unclear to justify inhumane treatment of the latter-whether pet or farm animal. In a twenty-second century America, a combination of mass extinction and economic hardship has led people to look for an alternate source of meat: disabled human beings, stripped of their humanity, who are either kept as pets or farmed, with cruel efficiency, as food. Sam is one such person, a deaf child abandoned by his mother and adopted as a pet. The "found manuscript" that tells his story, and the accompanying scholarly commentary, paint a convincing picture of moral decline and ethical inconsistency on a devastating scale.
Download or read book Gothic Animals written by Ruth Heholt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing cutting-edge theory on non-human animals, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theory, this book takes the Gothic genre into new territory. After the dissemination of Darwin’s theories of evolution, nineteenth-century fiction quickly picked up on the idea of the ‘animal within’. Here, the fear explored was of an unruly, defiant, degenerate and entirely amoral animality lying (mostly) dormant within all of us. However, non-humans and humans have other sorts of encounters, too, and even before Darwin, humans have often had an uneasy relationship with animals, which, as Donna Haraway puts it, have a way of ‘looking back’ at us. In this book, the focus is not on the ‘animal within’ but rather on the animal ‘with-out’: other and entirely incomprehensible.
Download or read book Animals and Agency written by Sarah E. McFarland and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the primary focus of inquiry. Section I presents studies of actual animals demonstrating agency; Section II moves agency into new terrain while considering key representations of animal agency in literature; Section III analyzes animals as mediators and as conveyances of human-to-human communication;and Section IV investigates the agency of beings who defy conventional species categories. The Envoi demonstrates how the microscopic polyp is interwoven into notions of agency and mythical superagency. This volume's interdisciplinary explorations press hard on issues of agency to open up space for more questions about how we can understand relationships between the human and the nonhuman.
Download or read book Thinking Italian Animals written by D. Amberson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world.
Download or read book Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty First Century Narrative written by Sonia Baelo-Allué and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of the 21st century, by Dave Eggers, William Gibson, John Shirley, Tom McCarthy, Jeff Vandermeer, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, Cixin Liu and Helen Marshall. Some of these works engage in the premises and perils of transhumanism, while others explore the qualities of the (post)human in a variety of dystopian futures marked by the planetary influence of human action. From a critical posthumanist perspective that questions anthropocentrism, human exceptionalism and the centrality of the ‘human’ subject in the era of the Anthropocene, the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.
Download or read book The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments written by Andrew Linzey and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.3 million animals in experiments—a normalization of the unthinkable on an immense scale. In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death, animal experiments constitute one of the major moral issues of our time. Given today’s deeper understanding of animal sentience, the contributors to this volume argue that we must afford animals a special moral consideration that precludes their use in experiments. The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments begins with the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics's groundbreaking and comprehensive ethical critique of the practice of animal experiments. A second section offers original writings that engage with, and elaborate on, aspects of the Oxford Centre report. The essayists explore historical, philosophical, and personal perspectives that range from animal experiments in classical times to the place of necessity in animal research to one researcher's painful journey from researcher to opponent. A devastating look at a contemporary moral crisis, The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments melds logic and compassion to mount a powerful challenge to human cruelty.
Download or read book Reading Together written by Noah Brown and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Together is the essential guide for parents interested in starting a book club with their kids and raising their children to become book-loving adults. This book is the first guide to parent-child book clubs. Written by a group of moms and their adolescent children who started a book club while the kids were in first grade, this how-to book shares the dos and don'ts they learned over more than 100 meetings and 100 books. Brimming with insight and inspiration, Reading Together includes the details of organizing and structuring meetings, tips on finding diverse books and choosing titles that spur discussion, common book club challenges and how to overcome them, and more. Readers will also find plenty of curated booklists with brilliant recommendations for middle grade and YA readers across genres, from sci-fi to mystery, adventure, and graphic novels. This book is a go-to gift for bookish parents who hope to raise a reader and connect with their community through the magic of books. ONE-OF-A-KIND: With detailed advice gathered over more than a decade and an engaging story at its core, Reading Together is an inspiring and useful handbook for parents looking to start a book club of their own and nurture a love of reading in their kids. A WINNING FORMULA: This book promises a stronger parent-child bond and is a pure celebration of books and reading—a winning recipe. GIFT APPEAL: Reading Together is an attractive gift or impulse-buy for a bookish parent or a parent of bookish kids. Perfect for: • Bookish parents with children • Parents of bookish children • Parents looking to encourage reluctant readers • Parents looking for after-school activities that are good for their kids • Grandparents of school-age children • Elementary school teachers and librarians
Download or read book When Animals Die written by Katja M. Guenther and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking collection that explores human–animal relations and deaths with depth and hope When Animals Die is an innovative collection of essays that delves into the intricate and uneasy dynamics between humans and other-than-human animals, particularly concerning animal deaths, which are predominantly caused by humans. This groundbreaking book brings together prominent scholars from various disciplines to address the challenging field of animal death studies, incorporating perspectives from social sciences, humanities, biological sciences, and perspectives from beyond academia. The collection explores profound questions about the experience of animal death for both animals and humans. It examines how humans rationalize animal deaths and utilize deceased animals, and sheds light on the interconnectedness of animal death with issues like race, colonialism, gender, capitalism, and other systems of inequality that humans have established and perpetuated. By confronting these pertinent issues, When Animals Die seeks to deepen our awareness of the relationship between animal death and humanity’s involvement in it. While grappling with the reality of humans’ impact on the earth, the collection offers hope for an alternative future that does not entail the mutual destruction of human and other-than-human animals.
Download or read book The Moral Lives of Animals written by Dale Peterson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges popular beliefs to reveal the animal kingdom's impulses toward cooperation, generosity and fairness, citing numerous examples of animals who have compromised their own safety to protect each other and what humans can learn from animal codes of behavior. By the author of Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man. 50,000 first printing.
