Download or read book The Cold Equations written by Tom Godwin and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE UNIVERSE DOESN'T CARE A pilot is on an emergency mission to a planet whose colony is doomed if he doesn't get there fast. He has just enough fuel to reach the planet¾then he finds that he has a stowaway, a young girl wanting to be with her brother on the colony. If the pilot spaces the girl, the ship will barely make it to the planet. If he does not, the ship will crash and both of them as well as the colony will die. What will he do This story rocked science fiction when it first appeared. Also in this volume is Godwin's long-unavailable novel The Survivors, which poses another problem in survival: If hostile aliens have marooned you and hundreds of other people on a nearly uninhabitable planet, how do you not only manage to endure, but to get revenge as well This is a massive volume by a master of science fiction adventure, with added dimensions of speculation and cold, hard realism. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "['The Cold Equations'] is one of the most popular and controversial hard sf stories of the last fifty years. ..." ¾David G. Hartwell, The Ascent of Wonder "The touchstone story for hard-core science fiction is Tom Godwin's 'The Cold Equations'." ¾James Gunn, The Road to Science Fiction, Vol. Ill "[Tom Godwin's SF] exhibited a fine clarity of conception, and considerable narrative verve. ..." ¾John Clute, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction "The impact [of 'The Cold Equations' on publication] was immediate .... The impact of the story . . . remains the same now as then." ¾Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, The Astounding-Analog Reader
Download or read book For The Cold Equations written by Tom Godwin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frontier is a strange place—and a frontier is not always easy to recognize. It may lie on the other side of a simple door marked "No Admittance"—but it is always deadly dangerous.
Download or read book Cold Equations The Body Electric Book III written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Three in the New York Times bestselling Cold Equations trilogy set in the expanded universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation! AT THE CENTER OF THE GALAXY… A planet-sized Machine of terrifying power and unfathomable purpose hurls entire star systems into a supermassive black hole. Wesley Crusher, now a full-fledged Traveler, knows the Machine must be stopped…but he has no idea how. Wesley must enlist the aid of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew, who also fail to halt the unstoppable alien juggernaut’s destructive labors. But they soon divine the Machine’s true purpose—a purpose that threatens to exterminate all life in the Milky Way Galaxy. With time running out, Picard realizes he knows of only one person who might be able to stop the Machine in time to avert a galactic catastrophe—if only he had any idea how to find him…
Download or read book Cold Equations Silent Weapons written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Two in the New York Times bestselling Cold Equations trilogy set in the expanded universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation! A WAR OF LIES Three years after the disastrous final Borg Invasion, a bitter cold war against the Typhon Pact has pushed Starfleet’s resources to the breaking point. Now the rise of a dangerous new technology threatens to destroy the Federation from within. Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew answer a distress call from an old friend, only to become targets in a deadly game of deception. To protect a vital diplomatic mission, they must find a way to identify the spies hiding in their midst, before it’s too late. But Worf soon realizes the crew’s every move has been predicted: Someone is using them as pawns. And the closer they get to exposing their enemy, the deeper they spiral into its trap…
Download or read book Cold Equations The Persistence of Memory written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book One in the New York Times bestselling trilogy set in the expanded universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation! A BRAZEN HEIST Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew race to find out who has stolen Data’s android brother B-4—and for what sinister purpose. A BROKEN PROMISE One desperate father risks all for the son he abandoned forty years ago—but is he ready to pay the price for redemption? A DARING MISSION Against overwhelming odds, and with time running out, Commander Worf has only one chance to avert a disaster. But how high a price will he pay for victory?
Download or read book Star Trek The Next Generation Cold Equations The Body Electric written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wesley Crusher enlists the help of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew to stop a planet-sized Machine of terrifying power from exterminating all life in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Download or read book For The Cold Equations written by Tom Godwin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frontier is a strange place—and a frontier is not always easy to recognize. It may lie on the other side of a simple door marked "No Admittance"—but it is always deadly dangerous.
Download or read book Hot Equations written by Jesse S. Cohn and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds of literary and political “realism” that continue to suppress the radical imagination. Alluding both to the ongoing climate catastrophe and to Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”—that famous touchstone of “hard science fiction”—Hot Equations reads the crises of our "post-normal" moment via works that increasingly subvert genre containment and spill out into the public sphere. Drawing on archives and contemporary theory, author Jesse S. Cohn argues that these imaginative works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror strike at the very foundations of modernity, calling its basic assumptions into question. They threaten the modern order with a simultaneously terrible and promising anarchy, pointing to ways beyond the present medical, ecological, and political crises of pandemic, climate change, and rising global fascism. Examining books ranging from well-known titles like The Hunger Games and The Caves of Steel to newer works such as Under the Pendulum Sun and The Stone Sky, Cohn investigates the ways in which science fiction, fantasy, and horror address contemporary politics, social issues, and more. The “cold equations” that established normal life in the modern world may be in shambles, Cohn suggests, but a New Black Fantastic makes it possible for the radical imagination to glimpse viable possibilities on the other side of crisis.
Download or read book Requiem written by Robert A. Heinlein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling celebration of Robert A. Heinlein and his vision, this book contains many works by the Grand Master of science fiction, including two major novellas, "Destination Moon" and "Tenderfoot in Space".
Download or read book Inside Science Fiction written by James E. Gunn and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Gunn has had a long and distinguished career in science fiction. In addition to his stories and novels, he has written extensively about the reading, writing, and criticism of science fiction. Many of these essays were published in The Science of Science-Fiction Writing (Scarecrow, 2002). A second collection of essays, Inside Science Fiction, was originally published in 1992, and is now available in this revised, updated, and expanded edition. With the addition of five new articles written since 1992, Inside Science Fiction represents Gunn's latest thoughts about the genre. The book is divided into four major sections that tackle various aspects of the genre: - "Getting Inside Science Fiction," in which Gunn discusses his relationship with the genre - "Science Fiction and the Teacher" illustrates various approaches to teaching science fiction - "Science Fiction on Film and Television" deals with the film industry's approaches to science fiction, in particular, Gunn's experiences of seeing his novel The Immortals turned into a made-for-television movie and subsequent series - "Science Fiction and the Real World" examines the impact of science fiction on the world and what the future holds for the genre Inside Science Fiction offers a complete overview of science fiction for readers and viewers from an author, reader, and teacher who has seen it from all sides for more than seventy years.
Download or read book Science Fiction After 1900 written by Brooks Landon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Master of Adventure written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, just how was Tarzan created? Eager to know the inside story about the legendary John Carter and the amazing cities and peoples of Barsoom? Perhaps your taste is more suited to David Innes and the fantastic lost world at the Earth?s core? Or maybe wrong-way Napier and the bizarre civilizations of cloud-enshrouded Venus are more to your liking? These pages contain all that you will ever want to know about the wondrous worlds and unforgettable characters penned by the master storyteller Edgar Rice Burroughs. ø Richard A. Lupoff, the respected critic and writer who helped spark a Burroughs revival in the 1960s, reveals fascinating details about the stories written by the creator of Tarzan. Featured here are outlines of all of Burroughs?s major novels, with descriptions of how they were each written and their respective sources of inspiration. This Bison Books edition includes a new foreword by fantasy writer Michael Moorcock, a new introduction by the author, a final chapter by Phillip R. Burger, as well as corrected text and an updated bibliography.
Download or read book We Who Are About To written by Joanna Russ and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman's quest to die with dignity may doom them all. A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an uncharted barren tundra. With no technical skills and scant supplies, the survivors face a bleak end in an alien world. One brave woman holds the daring answer, but it is the most desperate one possible. Elegant and electric, We Who Are About To... brings us face to face with our basic assumptions about our will to live. While most of the stranded tourists decide to defy the odds and insist on colonizing the planet and creating life, the narrator decides to practice the art of dying. When she is threatened with compulsory reproduction, she defends herself with lethal force. Originally published in 1977, this is one of the most subtle, complex, and exciting science fiction novels ever written about the attempt to survive a hostile alien environment. It is characteristic of Russ's genius that such a readable novel is also one of her most intellectually intricate.
Download or read book Science Fiction and Market Realities written by George Edgar Slusser and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through case studies, other contributors relate science fiction to other forms of "underground" literature, consider the continual cycle of illegitimate art replacing legitimate art, look at young readers of science fiction, chart the rising and falling "stock" of science fiction writers' reputations, and consider the influence of editors on a writer's work.
Download or read book Science Fiction Ethics and the Human Condition written by Christian Baron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what science fiction can tell us about the human condition in a technological world, with the ethical dilemmas and consequences that this entails. This book is the result of the joint efforts of scholars and scientists from various disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach sets an example for those who, like us, have been busy assessing the ways in which fictional attempts to fathom the possibilities of science and technology speak to central concerns about what it means to be human in a contemporary world of technology and which ethical dilemmas it brings along. One of the aims of this book is to demonstrate what can be achieved in approaching science fiction as a kind of imaginary laboratory for experimentation, where visions of human (or even post-human) life under various scientific, technological or natural conditions that differ from our own situation can be thought through and commented upon. Although a scholarly work, this book is also designed to be accessible to a general audience that has an interest in science fiction, as well as to a broader academic audience interested in ethical questions.
Download or read book Signs Taken for Wonders written by Franco Moretti and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling analysis of the relations between high and mass culture, from tragedy and horror to detective fiction and classical realism.
Download or read book Star Trek The Next Generation Cold Equations Silent Weapons written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on Star trek and Star trek: the next generation, created by Gene Roddenberry."
