Download or read book Hell s Cartographers written by Brian Aldiss and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six bestselling authors provide lively personal histories that provide fascinating insights into the creative process — and offer inspiration for aspiring wordsmiths. Includes essays by Robert Silverberg, Alfred Bester, Harry Harrison, Damon Knight, Frederik Pohl, and Brian W. Aldiss.

Download or read book Voices for the Future written by Thomas D. Clareson and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Quantum Cartographer written by Kristen Keenon Fisher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2033 somewhere in the middle of the Nevada desert . A young woman named Eliza Carrefour stares at the Proctor, a mysterious man who invited himself into her home accompanied by eight henchmen. Eliza, mother of a two-year-old son and a former scientist at Holifax Industries, always knew this day would come. She’s spent too much time uncovering the dark secrets of the shadowy corporation to remain off the radar. She knows too much, and that knowledge has earned her the title “Public enemy number one.” An old friend warned her of her employer’s nefarious deeds at a time when she was much more naive. She was there when he paid the price for what he knew. His history with those at the top rungs of Holifax’s ladder is one that he swore went back much further than Eliza would believe. She always had a hard time swallowing the information he shared but it was all true. And all of his strange predictions have come to pass. All except this dreaded day. The day when past meets present. The day when “the night-dressed men” would find her and more importantly ... her son. They are now certain of his destiny. Past, present, and future. And no cost will be spared in stopping it. Eliza must now make a choice. To be selfish and covet her son, or to relinquish him and give him to his destiny. But to do that she must first outrun an enemy as dark as shadow. As lethal as poison. And as invincible as time itself.

Download or read book The Cartographers written by Peng Shepherd and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY AND LA TIMES BESTSELLER Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize! “The Cartographers is one of those brilliant books you have to read twice.” — Washington Post “There are echoes of Borges and Bradbury, Pynchon and Finian’s Rainbow, but Ms. Shepherd’s exhilarating and enjoyable work casts a magical glow all its own.” — Wall Street Journal From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father’s belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret—one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family’s dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field and Nell’s personal hero. But she hasn’t seen or spoken to him ever since he cruelly fired her and destroyed her reputation after an argument over an old, cheap gas station highway map. But when Dr. Young is found dead in his office at the New York Public Library, with the very same seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, Nell can’t resist investigating. To her surprise, she soon discovers that the map is incredibly valuable and exceedingly rare. In fact, she may now have the only copy left in existence...because a mysterious collector has been hunting down and destroying every last one—along with anyone who gets in the way. But why? To answer that question, Nell embarks on a dangerous journey to reveal a dark family secret and discovers the true power that lies in maps... Perfect for fans of Joe Hill and V. E. Schwab, The Cartographers is an ode to art and science, history and magic—a spectacularly imaginative, modern story about an ancient craft and places still undiscovered.

Download or read book The Cartographer Collection written by Craig Gaydas and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All three books in 'The Cartographer', a series of science fiction novels by Craig Gaydas, now available in one volume! The Cartographer: While exploring a cave, Nathan runs into Science Officer Satou and is taken on a wild adventure across the galaxy. After meeting the Consortium - an intergalactic league of explorers - he learns about the ancient Universal Map. When Nathan accidentally unlocks the map, he triggers a series of events that endangers Earth and the very fabric of their universe. Reborn: Nathan Chambers finds himself in the middle of a war that threatens the survival of humanity and the entire universe. With the help of the intergalactic Consortium and the Twelve Timeless, he must fight on two fronts to prevent history from repeating itself. Nathan must transform from a naive teenager to a true defender if he hopes to save humanity from destruction. Timeless: The Consortium is in chaos, and the Insurgents are struggling for survival. The Twelve Timeless, an ancient collective, aid Nathan and his allies, but their help may not be enough. Nathan is also losing a part of himself with each death of those close to him. Can he find the strength to save the universe and himself, or will he succumb to darkness?

Download or read book The Temporal Cartographer written by Andrew Dunham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farley Snug's office life is interrupted when he discovers a decades-old invitation to his own birthday party in a pile of old '70s records. His curiosity gets the better of him and he embarks on a quest to discover the true purpose of The Time Travellers' Social Club, ensconced in mysterious Ferncombe manor deep in the English countryside. After meeting the club members, Farley is encouraged to set off on his first trip through time using the venerable Mildred, an old floral print sofa in the Great Hall. His travels take him through the 1920s and back into the Dark Ages before a new and sinister problem appears which gives an urgent purpose to the agenda of the club. Deeper and deeper he goes into the time-stream until he finds himself outside time itself. Only the guidance of the hermit Dorgas can deliver him to his ultimate destination...

Download or read book The Cartographer s Compass written by MJ Fletcher and published by MJ Fletcher. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cartographer written by Craig Gaydas and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While exploring a cave with his friend, 16-year-old Nathan stumbles upon someone unexpected: Science Officer Satou of The Explorers' League. Satou is equally surprised, and after Nathan breaks through the security barrier, he does the only thing he can and takes Nathan with him, forever changing the balance of the universe. Nathan is introduced to the Consortium: an intergalactic league of explorers, scientists, soldiers and diplomats. He also discovers the Universal Map - an ancient artifact locked away long ago by the mysterious Cartographer. After Nathan accidentally unlocks the Universal Map, a chain of events is set in motion... one that threatens to tear at the very fabric of the universe, and to destroy Earth.

Download or read book Benchmarks Continued 1975 1982 written by Algis Budrys and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of book reviews and essays written for The magazine of fantasy and science fiction.

Download or read book Know Your Place written by Justin R. Phillips and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White evangelicals have struggled to understand or enter into modern conversations on race and racism, because their inherited and imagined world has not prepared them for this moment. American Southerners, in particular, carry additional obstacles to such conversations, because their regional identity is woven together with the values and histories of white evangelicalism. In Know Your Place, Justin Phillips examines the three community loyalties (white, southern, and evangelical) that shaped his racial imagination. Phillips examines how each community creates blind spots that overlap with the others, insulating the individual from alternative narratives, making it difficult to conceive of a world different than the dominant white evangelical world of the South. When their world is challenged or rejected outright, it can feel like nothing short of the end of the world. Blending together personal experiences with ethics and pastoral sensibilities, Phillips traces for white, southern evangelicals a line running from the past through the present, to help his beloved communities see how their loyalties—their stories, histories, and beliefs—have harmed their neighbors. In order to truly love, repair, and reconcile brokenness, you first have to know your place.

Download or read book Topophrenia written by Robert T. Tally and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of geocriticism, literary cartography, and the spatial humanities more generally. The spatial anxiety of disorientation and the need to know one's location, even if only subconsciously, is a deeply felt and shared human experience. Building on Yi Fu Tuan's "topophilia" (or love of place), Tally instead considers the notion of "topophrenia" as a simultaneous sense of place-consciousness coupled with a feeling of disorder, anxiety, and "dis-ease." He argues that no effective geography could be complete without also incorporating an awareness of the lonely, loathsome, or frightening spaces that condition our understanding of that space. Tally considers the tension between the objective ordering of a space and the subjective ways in which narrative worlds are constructed. Narrative maps present a way of understanding that seems realistic but is completely figurative. So how can these maps be used to not only understand the real world but also to put up an alternative vision of what that world might otherwise be? From Tolkien to Cervantes, Borges to More, Topophrenia provides a clear and compelling explanation of how geocriticism, the spatial humanities, and literary cartography help us to narrate, represent, and understand our place in a constantly changing world.

Download or read book Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age written by Anna Maria Guasch Ferrer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age poses fundamental questions and pinpoints topical discussions central to the field of contemporary art studies in the global age. Resulting from a series of conversations that took place at the international conference ""Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age"" (Barcelona 2013), the volume brings together current debates in cultural and identity-based art histories as a means of expanding the territory of contempor...

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Science Fiction written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of three previously out-of-print volumes collects together in one place key areas of research into the genre of science fiction. It critically examines science fiction, establishing its common themes and definitions, and comprehensively assesses the sci-fi world in its entirety.

Download or read book Dante s British Public written by Nick Havely and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first account of Dante's reception in English to address full chronological span of that process. Individual authors and periods have been studied before, but Dante's British Public takes a wider and longer view, using a selection of vivid and detailed case studies to record and place in context some of the wider conversations about and appropriations of Dante that developed in Britain across more than six centuries, as access to his work extended and diversified. Much of the evidence is based on previously unpublished material in (for example) letters, journals, annotations and inventories and is drawn from archives in the UK and across the world, from Milan to Mumbai and from Berlin to Cape Town. Throughout, the role of Anglo-Italian cultural contacts and intermediaries in shaping the public understanding of Dante in Britain is given prominence - from clerics and merchants around Chaucer's time, through itinerant scholars, collectors and tourists in the early modern period, to the exiles and expatriates of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The final chapter brings the story up to the present, showing how the poet's work has been seen (from the fourteenth century onwards) as accessible to 'the many', and demonstrating some of the means by which Dante has reached a yet wider British public over the past century, particularly through translation, illustration, and various forms of performance.

Download or read book Science Fiction Ten Explorations written by Colin N. Manlove and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Science Fiction A Critical Guide written by Patrick Parrinder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range from well-known academic critics to young novelists. The essays establish the common properties of science fiction writing, and assess the history and significance of a field in which critical judgements have often been unreliable. The material ranges from the earliest imaginative journeys to the moon, to later developments of British, American and European science fiction.

Download or read book Brian Aldiss written by Michael R. Collings and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Aldiss's fictional output from the 50's to the 80's.