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 The Best Animal Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy written by Donald J. Sobol and published by Warne. This book was released on 1979-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve eerie stories featuring animals, real and monstrous.
Download or read book Zoo 2000 Twelve Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy Beasts written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about humans and animals living in the future focus on man's ignorance and greed
Download or read book Animal Alterity written by Sherryl Vint and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title uses readings of science fiction texts to explore how animals are central to our perception of humanity. Arguing that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns, the author expresses an urgent need to reconsider the human-animal boundary in a world of genetic engineering, factory farming, species extinctions, and increasing evidence of animal intelligence, emotions, and tool use. Mapping the complex terrain of human relations with non-human animals, the book offers an intervention into the contentious ongoing discussions of the post-human.
Download or read book Mechanical Animals written by Lauren Beukes and published by Hex Publishers LLC. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechanical Animals presents a biomimicry menagerie of animalistic machines that blur the lines between what is and isn't nature's design. Featuring 15 original stories by today's top science fiction and fantasy authors and contextual mecha-fauna essays by Insect Lab Studio maker, Mike Libby, and SF encyclopedist and author Jess Nevins.
Download or read book The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy written by Bruce Shaw and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though animal stories and fables stretch back into the antiquity of ancient India, Persia, Greece and Rome, the reasons for writing them and their resonance for readers (and listeners) remain consistent to the present. This work argues that they were essential sources of amusement and instruction--and were also often profoundly unsettling. Such authors in the realm of the animal fable as Tolkien, Freud, Voltaire, Bakhtin, Cordwainer Smith, Karel Capek, Vladimir Propp, and many more are discussed.
Download or read book The Island of Doctor Moreau Science Fiction Classic written by H. G. Wells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Island of Doctor Moreau (Science Fiction Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction, called "an exercise in youthful blasphemy". The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, who creates human-like beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
Download or read book Science Fiction Stories written by R.A. Hogan and published by Dappled Worlds Press, LLC . This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distant worlds, warped histories, strange creatures, and eerie futures: this collection of ten short stories will take you on journeys through alien worlds, Antarctic nights, high-tech dystopian futures, and fictions of America’s past.
Download or read book Vegetarianism and Science Fiction written by Joshua Bulleid and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian literature have had a real-world impact on the awareness and spread of vegetarianism and animal advocacy, as well as how the genres' engagements have been altered to reflect changes in ethical and environmental philosophy. Author Joshua Bulleid examines the representation of vegetarianism in the works of major science fiction authors, including Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Marge Piercy, Octavia E. Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood within their evolving social contexts, tracing the development of vegetarian trends and their science fictional representations from the early-nineteenth century to the present day.
Download or read book Bestiarium Crypozoologicum written by Chad Arment and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 23 short stories for cryptozoology and cryptofiction enthusiasts, with strange creatures and beasts from the past, from mammoths to giant snakes, cave dwellers to sky beasts. Stories include those by such well-known authors as Jack London, H. G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as several which have only just been dug up and reprinted for the first time here.
Download or read book Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2 volumes written by Robin Anne Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of science fiction and fantasy increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. This book examines women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy across a range of media and genres, such as fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music. The first volume offers survey essays on major topics, such as sexual identities, fandom, women's writing groups, and feminist spirituality; the second provides alphabetically arranged entries on more specific subjects, such as Hindu mythology, Toni Morrison, magical realism, and Margaret Atwood. Entries are written by expert contributors and cite works for further reading, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students and general readers love science fiction and fantasy. And science fiction and fantasy works increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. Older works demonstrate attitudes toward women in times past, while more recent works grapple with contemporary social issues. This book helps students use science fiction and fantasy to understand the contributions of women writers, the representation of women in the media, and the experiences of women in society.
Download or read book THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU written by H. G. Wells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Island of Doctor Moreau" is a science fiction, called "an exercise in youthful blasphemy". The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, who creates human-like beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
Download or read book Science fiction the Early Years written by Everett Franklin Bleiler and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.
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 Stuff of Science Fiction written by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeatedly addressed in science fiction of recent centuries. Based on a packet of original essays that the author assembled for his classes, the book could serve as a supplemental textbook in science fiction classes, but also contains material of interest to science fiction scholars and others devoted to the genre. In some cases, chapters offer thorough surveys of numerous works involving certain subjects, such as imagined vehicles, journeys beneath the Earth and undersea adventures, discovering intriguing patterns in the ways that various writers developed their ideas. When comprehensive coverage of ubiquitous topics such as robots, aliens and the planet Mars is impossible, chapters focus on major themes referencing selected texts. A conclusion discusses other science fiction subjects that were omitted for various reasons, and a bibliography lists additional resources for the study of science fiction in general and the topics of each chapter.
Download or read book The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction written by Mark Bould and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years. Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganises historical coverage of the genre to emphasise new geographical areas of cultural production and the growing importance of media beyond print. It also updates and expands the range of frameworks that are relevant to the study of science fiction. The periodisation has been reframed to include new chapters focusing on science fiction produced outside the Anglophone context, including South Asian, Latin American, Chinese and African diasporic science fiction. The contributors use both well- established critical and theoretical approaches and embrace a range of new ones, including biopolitics, climate crisis, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, energy humanities, game studies, medical humanities, new materialisms and sonic studies. This book is an invaluable resource for students and established scholars seeking to understand the vast range of engagements with science fiction in scholarship today.
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.
