Download or read book Infinite Waters 9 1 Speculative Fiction Short Stories written by Nicholas Rossis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten speculative fiction short stories and flash fiction, written by the award-winning author of Pearseus and Runaway Smile.Although they seem to be concerned with various themes, there are certain passions that run through them. What is the nature of reality; digital and corporeal? Is there more to the world than we can see? How far can we trust our senses? The anthology includes the following stories:"Infinite Waters": A woman seeks her future at a carnival. She discovers more than she expected."The Things We Do for Lust": Beware of time travelers bearing gifts."James' Life": A man with nothing to look forward to but oblivion, discovers it's not that easy to escape his life."Two's a Crowd": Blood runs thicker than water. Especially when you spill it."What's in a Name?": A trip to the tropics has an unexpected ending."The Lucky Bastard": How far will the luckiest man alive go to escape his luck?"A Twist of the Tail": A confused woman meanders through a sleepy town. But not all is as it seems."Is There a Doctor in the House?": A high school student just loves to experiment."Sex and Dinner": A timeless combination. Or is it?"Would You Like Flies With That?": Nothing's scarier than a supermarket."The Hand of God": Nothing has prepared a grizzly veteran for this meeting *.(* first published in The Power of Six)Humorous and poignant, these short stories are exciting, intriguing and imaginative.
Download or read book Infinite Book 1 written by D C L and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing stories written over the course of almost two decades, this eclectic collection affords the reader varied snapshots of my creative mind at work and at play. Most of the stories fall under the category of speculative fiction. A few do not. As a group, they are indirect reflections of my thoughts and feelings before, during and after my years of active psychosis (2005 to 2011). Welcome to the Maya of my Mind...
Download or read book Infinite Sacrifice written by L.E. Waters and published by Rock Castle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya’s shocked to discover it’s not the heaven she imagined; in fact, a life of adventure begins the moment you die. Zachariah, her faithful spirit guide, explains the rules of the dead: in order to regain complete awareness and reunite with loved ones all souls must review their previous lives. Maya plunges warily into her turbulent pasts as a sociopathic High Priest in ancient Egypt; an independent mother protecting a dangerous secret in glorious Sparta; an Irish boy kidnapped and enslaved by Vikings; and a doctor’s wife forced to make an ethical stand in plague-ridden England. All the while, Maya yearns to be with those she cares about most and worries that she hasn’t learned all of heaven’s most vital lessons. Will she be forced to leave the tranquility of heaven to survive yet another painful and tumultuous life? Or worse, accept the bitter reality of having to go back alone? Free, freebie
Download or read book Infinite Book 1 written by D. L. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of eleven short stories, covering a wide range of genres - from speculative (fantasy, sci-fi and horror) to literary fiction.
Download or read book How to Write Science Fiction Fantasy written by Orson Scott Card and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-09-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to write science fiction and fantasy from a master You've always dreamed of writing science fiction and fantasy tales that pull readers into extraordinary new worlds and fantastic conflicts. Best-selling author Orson Scott Card shows you how it's done, distilling years of writing experience and publishing success into concise, no-nonsense advice. You'll learn how to: • utilize story elements that define the science fiction and fantasy genres • build, populate, and dramatize a credible, inviting world your readers will want to explore • develop the "rules" of time, space and magic that affect your world and its inhabitants • construct a compelling story by developing ideas, characters, and events that keep readers turning pages • find the markets for speculative fiction, reach them, and get published • submit queries, write cover letters, find an agent, and live the life of a writer The boundaries of your imagination are infinite. Explore them with Orson Scott Card and create fiction that casts a spell over agents, publishers, and readers from every world.
Download or read book Infinite Faith written by L. E. Waters and published by Rock Castle Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya continues to delve into her past lives after death, and strives to complete the tentative journey required to reunite with her loved ones in heaven. The darkest hour is just before dawn, and in Maya’s last hour, the test of faith proves darkest with two more incarnations: a young woman caught up fighting in the American Civil War, and a German woman institutionalized at the deadly rise of Hitler’s power as he plans to purge Germany of its mentally ill. Maya is tested to a breaking point as she learns the most ethereal of spiritual lessons: faith. Faith in herself, in others, in the future, to the path, and to a higher purpose, even when things don’t go as planned. Special Note: Infinite Faith is not a standalone; side effects of reading the series out-of-order include headache, confusion, and though extremely rare, disinterest in continuing the series.
Download or read book An Infinite Summer written by Christopher Priest and published by Pan. This book was released on 1979 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plot to Save Socrates written by Paul Levinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Levinson's astonishing new SF novel is a surprise and a delight: In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max. The trail leads her to time machines in a gentlemen's club in London and in New York, and into the past--and to a time traveler from her future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades (of the honeyed thighs) to Thomas Appleton, the great nineteenth-century American publisher, to Socrates himself appear. With surprises in every chapter, Paul Levinson has outdone himself in The Plot to Save Socrates.
Download or read book Christian Fantasy written by Colin N. Manlove and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first account of invented stories involving the Christian supernatural. In their development a central concern is found to be the fantasy-making human imagination itself, at first seen as a obstacle to Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein.
Download or read book The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood written by Evdokia Stefanopoulou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood focuses on the American science fiction (SF) film during the period 2001-2020, in order to provide a theoretical mapping of the genre in the context of Conglomerate Hollywood. Using a social semiotics approach in a systematic corpus of films, the book argues that the SF film can be delineated by two semiotic squares -the first one centering on the genre's more-than-human ontologies (SF bodies), and the second one focusing on its imaginative worlds (SF worlds). Based on this theoretical framework, the book examines the genre in six cycles, which are placed in their historical context, and are analyzed in relation to cultural discourses, such as technological embodiment, race, animal-human relations, environmentalism, global capitalism, and the techno-scientific Empire. By considering these cycles -which include superhero films, creature films, space operas, among others-as expressions of the genre's basic oppositions, the book facilitates the comparison and juxtaposition of films that have rarely been discussed in tandem, offering a new perspective on the multiple articulations of the SF film in the new millennium.
Download or read book Infinity and the Mind written by Rudy Rucker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic exploration of infinity In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the “Mindscape,” where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Using cartoons, puzzles, and quotations to enliven his text, Rucker acquaints us with staggeringly advanced levels of infinity, delves into the depths beneath daily awareness, and explains Kurt Gödel’s belief in the possibility of robot consciousness. In the realm of infinity, mathematics, science, and logic merge with the fantastic. By closely examining the paradoxes that arise, we gain profound insights into the human mind, its powers, and its limitations. This Princeton Science Library edition includes a new preface by the author.
Download or read book Necromancer Awakening written by Nat Russo and published by Erindor Press. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Knowledge in the absence of wisdom is a dangerous thing." Texas archaeology student Nicolas Murray has an ironic fear of the dead. A latent power connecting him to an ancient order of Necromancers floods his mind with impossible images of battle among hive-mind predators and philosopher fishmen. When a funeral service leaves him shaken and questioning his sanity, the insidious power strands him in a land where the sky kills and earthquakes level cities. A land where the undead serve the living, and Necromancers summon warriors from ancient graves to fight in a war that spans life and afterlife. If Nicolas masters the Three Laws of Necromancy, he can use them to get home. But as he learns to raise and purify the dead-a process that makes him relive entire lifetimes in the span of a moment-the very power that could bring him home may also prevent his return. For the supreme religious leader, the Archmage Kagan, has outlawed Necromancy, and its practitioners risk torture and execution. As warring nations hunt Necromancers to extinction, countless dead in limbo await a purification that may never come. Nicolas's power could be his way home... Or it could save a world that wants him dead.
Download or read book The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two A written by Robert Silverberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysteries and marvels of the science fiction world are brought to life in this compilation of stories representing the work of major authors in this field.
Download or read book Trouble the Waters written by Sheree Thomas and published by Third Man Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction tales of ancient waters in all its myriad forms. Meet techno savvy water spirits, bayou saints and sirens, robots and river rootwomen, a pod of joyful space whales, and a castle of water-born terrors and mysteries. Including work by Nalo Hopkinson, Jaquira Diaz, Andrea Hairston, Linda D. Addison, Rion Amilcar Scott, Marie Vibbert, Maurice Broaddus, and other breakout beautiful voices, these stories and poems celebrate the most vital of elemental forces, water.
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Science Fiction written by David Seed and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. Taking Frankenstein as its formative work, it assembles stories and excerpts from narratives exploring the complex impact of new technologies like the telegraph and later the cinema, or new scientific practices like mesmerism (hypnotism) and microscopy. The selected authors range from those famous within the realist tradition like George Eliot and Mark Twain to scientists like the physician Silas Weir Mitchell and the inventor Thomas Edison. They repeatedly destabilize their narratives so that some come to resemble scientific records and frequently leave their endings unresolved, encouraging the reader to speculate about their subjects, which include extensions to the senses, new inventions, and challenges to individual autonomy. Many focus on experiments but might combine scientific enquiry with the supernatural, producing hybrid narratives as a result which are difficult to classify.
Download or read book Infinite Science Fiction One written by Joanna Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a sentient space ship lost in deep space to a man whose hatred of robots risks tearing his family apart, the characters in this collection of short stories will stay with you long after you've turned the last page. Discover the future face of human trafficking through the eyes of a little girl, follow an ancient tribe's shaman as he embarks on a journey to save his people, or share in an astronaut's final moments as an alien growth takes over his body; these are just some of the thrilling adventures packed into Infinite Science Fiction One. Infinite Science Fiction is intended to be a long-running series of anthologies. We aim to collect some of the best science fiction stories from all over the world. We will be back. # TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction by Dany G. Zuwen - "REAL" by Janka Hobbs - "BY THE NUMBERS" by Tim Major - "TIN SOUL" by Elizabeth Bannon - "SIX MINUTES" by P. Anthony Ramanauskas - "MATCHMAKER" by John Walters - "THE WEDDING" by Nick Hilbourn - "SLOW" by Jay Wilburn "GOSPEL OF" by Rebecca Ann Jordan - "THE SILENT DEAD" by Dan Devine - "NOTHING BESIDE REMAINS" by Matthew S. Dent - "THE NIGHT WITH STARS" by William Ledbetter - "BUTTERFLIES" by Doug Tidwell - "MESSAGE OF WAR" by Michaele Jordan - "ROLLING BY IN THE MOONLIGHT" by Liam Nicholas Pezzano - "INFINITY" by J.B. Rockwell
