Download or read book Anywhere Anywhen Stories of Tomorrow written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended not for SF fans but for teens who don’t ordinarily choose science fiction, this anthology of stories about the future focuses on the timeless aspects of being human. It aims to suggest ideas about the future in a way readers who prefer real-life settings to strangeness will enjoy.This expanded edition of the original hardcover book iincludes stories by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Carol Farley, Mildred Butler, Robert Pierik, and Rick Robersion in additiion to all of Sylvia Engdahl's short fiction.
Download or read book Anywhere Anywhen written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Being Human and Other Essays written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will humans be like in the future? According to science fiction author Sylvia Engdahl, they will be no different from what they're like now. There will be many innovations in technology and ways of daily life, but people are people, wherever and whenever they happen to live, and that's not going to change. In this book Engdahl departs from the theme of space colonization on which her past essays (available in her book From This Green Earth) have focused, and discusses such topics as artificial intelligence, "paranormal" psi powers, healthcare policy, and the coming loss of personal privacy. Her controversial views on these subjects will inspire thought about what the future is likely to bring.
Download or read book Envoy of the Flame written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ardith Moran is elated by the prospect of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, elated enough to stake her life on her conviction that they exist after the exploratory expedition's leaders turn back. The last thing she expects is to fall in love with an alien, much less for their love to play a key role in saving Earth from tyranny and eventual ruin. As a member of the Anthropological Service, he is willing to make sacrifices and expects her to do the same. Can she, influenced by the legacy of the now-legendary Captain of Estel, convince Earthborn people that they can't retreat from the universe? Or will Earth's authorities succeed in killing her to suppress the evidence only she and her fellow envoys can provide? Please note: The original edition of this book published in June 2021, which has a woman's face on the cover, has been withdrawn. This is a revised edition published in September 2022.
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Download or read book Selected Essays on Enchantress from the Stars and More written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2024-05-22 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lead essay in this cellection by the author of Newbery honor book Enchantress from the Stars deals with issues that she wants readers of the novel to be aware of. Too often misinterpretations arise when the story is thought to be an allegory about relations between different cultures of our own world, when it is literally about possible relations between different "human" species of other worlds that have evolved for vastly different lengths of time. The two situations are not comparable, and assuming that they are leads some readers to think the book endorses a view of cultural relations that was rejected by anthropologists long ago. Though much in the story does apply to relationships between individual people of our world, as far as culture is concerned its aim is to counter the all-too-common science fiction view of extraterrestrial aliens either as hostile or as benevolent beings who will step in to solve Earth's problems. Whether or not there really are any aliens, how young people think of them affects how rhey feel about the future of humankind. The rest of the essays in this book are about the author's other Young Adult novels and about subjects relevant to them such as the importance of space exploration and the reality of psi powers. They have been selected from her collections Reflections on Enchantress from the Stars and Other Essays, the Future of Being Human and Other Essays, and From This Green Earth: Essays on Looking Outward, two of which are available only as ebooks. Because of their length these collections cannot be issued as paperbacks at reasonable prices, so this short sampler has been produced for the benefit of readers who have a strong preference for print books and/or audioboox. The following essays are included. Reflections on Enchantress from the Stars Perspective on the Future: The Quest of Space Age Young People Faith as the Focus of Children of the Star Update on the Critical Stage: The Far Side of Evil's Relevance Today A Response to Some Reactions to Journey Between Worlds Breaking Out from Earth's Shell The Role of Psi in Human Affairs The Roots of Disbelief in Human Mind Powers Transhumanism Is a Dead End The Worship of Medical Authority Why I Don‟t Read Much Science Fiction
Download or read book From This Green Earth Essays on Looking Outward written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvia Engdahl became fascinated by the idea of space travel in 1946, and has believed since the early 1950s that expansion of our species to other worlds is vital to the preservation of Earth and the future survival of humankind. Many of the essays in this book express her conviction that we should not be discouraged by the public's reluctance to support space activity, since all past human progress has been brought about by visionaries who did not have the backing of their contemporaries. The shock of realizing during the moon landings that contact with the vast and perhaps peril-fraught universe is no longer mere fiction dampened the enthusiasm of the majority, but this was a natural reaction comparable seventeenth century people's resistance to the idea that Earth is not, as formerly thought, safely enclosed within crystal spheres that hold up the celestial bodies. It will pass, and we need have no doubt that generations who come after us will venture forth from this green Earth and find their way to the stars. The following essays are included. The Once and Future Dream (new) Thoughts on the 50th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing Breaking Out from Earth's Shell Why Does the History of Outlook Toward Space Matter? Confronting the Universe in the Twenty-First Century Space and Human Survival The Only Sensible Way to Deal with Climate Change Update on the Critical Stage: The Far Side of Evil’s Relevance Today Space Colonization, Faith, and Pascal’s Wager Why There Will Never Be an Interplanetary War Humankind's Future in the Cosmos
Download or read book Reflections on Enchantress from the Stars and Other Essays written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the author's collected essays about her Newbery Honor book Enchantress from the Stars and other Young Adult and adult science fiction novels, plus two autobiographical essays. Her comments on Enchantress deal with issues she would like all its readers to be aware of. This is one of three books of essays that replace Reflections on the Future: Collected Essays, which has grown too long and covers too many topics. Most of the essays included appeared there, so if you already have that book you don't need this one. The other two replacement books, including a number of new essays, are focused on space and on the human mind.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St James Guide to Science Fiction Writers written by Jay P. Pederson and published by Detroit, MI : St. James Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of prominent science-fiction authors, written by subject experts.
Download or read book Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults written by Joyce Nakamura and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains updated and revised sketches on nearly 800 of the most widely read authors and illustrators appearing in Gale's Something about the author series.
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Download or read book Your Reading written by Jane Christensen and published by Urbana, Ill. : The Council. This book was released on 1983 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated listing of over 3000 fiction and non-fiction books recommended for junior high and middle school students.
Download or read book Your Reading written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated listing of books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama recommended for junior high and middle school students.
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Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Scot Peacock and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
