Download or read book Maverick written by Bruce Bethke and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FICTION-SCIENCE FICTION
Download or read book Aliens Robots Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H P Lovecraft Isaac Asimov and William Gibson written by John L. Steadman and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. P. Lovecraft’s aliens are extra-terrestrial, terrestrial & trans-dimensional entities, totally unlike any other aliens in science fiction literature. In contrast, Isaac Asimov's and William Gibson’s aliens are human created positronic robots and virtual reality constructs, or 'idols'. Lovecraft’s great theme is alien indifferentism, tinged with a malevolence that escalates into an existential, apocalyptic threat against humankind, while for Asimov and Gibson, alien inclusionism is the norm. The robots and the VR idols integrate into society and their influence appears to be beneficial. But this is only on the surface. In this book, John L. Steadman demonstrates that there is ultimately little difference between alien indifferentism and alien inclusionism in the fictional works of these three great writers. For in fact, the robots and the VR idols evolve into monsters whose actions bring about outcomes which are every bit as terrifying as anything in Lovecraft’s work. Humans tend to be isolates ('alien'-ated). The reader is invited to question this, and to consider the possibility that an alien perspective, or platform, might, perhaps, be crucial if we intend on seeing ourselves clearly and understanding exactly what it means to be human.
Download or read book Humanity written by Jerry Oltion and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refuge written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.
Download or read book Isaac Asimov s Robots and Aliens written by Bruce Bethke and published by Ibooks. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pair of robot mysteries, enhanced with a pair of essays by Asimov himself, reflects the colorful world of thinking robots, subterranean Earth dwellers and witty repartee that characterized the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning landscape of the beloved author of The Caves of Steel and Robots and Empire. Two Complete Novels
Download or read book Intruder written by Robert Thurston and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Robots and Aliens, the late science fiction genius Isaac Asimov put forth a challenge to a talented group of science fiction writers: What would happen if the robots of Asimov's universe were to meet alien races? Would the Three Laws of Robotics that protect both humans and robots still apply when dealing with a species that is neither...? INTRUDER Derec Avery has at last returned to the original Robot City, only to discover that it has been reprogrammed in ways that do not make sense. Together with his companion, Ariel, and his father, he must find and defeat the Watchful Eye, the strange force that has bent the city to its own ends. Can the trio solve the new mystery of Robot City before it comes tumbling down around them? ALLIANCE Robot City has been restored, but can it last? Three shape-changing, renegade robots threaten to destroy the city, but are they really capable of disobeying the Three Laws? Derec and Ariel must convince the renegades that an alliance, not a robot revolution,,is in their best interest -- but will they succeed? The futures of mankind and robotkind wait for the answers!
Download or read book Robots and Aliens Isaac Asimov s 1 written by Stephen Leigh and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEYOND AURORA AWAITS A BRAVE NEW UNIVERSE OF ROBOTS ? AND ALIENSA man without memory, tied by blood to a city of robots. At his side, a mysterious woman whose life and memory he saved, whose love he has won for a second time. His name is Derec; hers is Ariel. And their story has only begun to be toldIn Robot City, the late science fiction genius Isaac Asimov challenged a talented group of science fiction writers to resolve the conundrums he set for them in the context of his famous Three Laws of Robotics. In Robots and Aliens, a new challenge was put forth: What would happen if the robots of Asimov's universe were to meet alien races? Would the Three Laws that protect humans and robots still apply when dealing with a species that is neither?This pair of adventures, enhanced with a pair of essays by Asimov himself, continue the saga of Robot City, where the finest minds in science fiction enter the most futuristic landscape in robot history!
Download or read book Intruder written by Robert Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Isaac Asimov's spectacular robot tradition, Thurston provides a gripping tale of Derec and Ariel as they strive to unravel the mystery of the newly reprogrammed Robot City and cure Dr. Avery's madness. But they don't have much time before Robot City comes tumbling down around them.
Download or read book Renegade written by Cordell Scotten and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ariel follows her lover, Derec, to a planet of robots, where Derec is summoned to solve the mystery of the robots and aliens before a robot war erupts
Download or read book I Robot written by Isaac Asimov and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. The development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored in nine science fiction stories.
Download or read book The Complete Stories written by Isaac Asimov and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1990 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 48 science fiction stories by Isaac Asimov.
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Download or read book Isaac Asimov s Cyborg written by William F. Wu and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man without a memory, trapped in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman who claims to know who he is, but refuses to tell him. Together they must find an insane cyborg stalking the streets of Robot City, a time bomb indistinguishable from ordinary robots. The young man's name is Derec. The identity of his femail companion and the location of the cyborg are just two of the mysteries he must solve within the fantastic confines of a most unlikely metropolis.
Download or read book Isaac Asimov s Robots and Aliens written by Bruce Bethke and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maverick: Derec Avery should be able to control the network of robotic cities, but the cities are not working as they should, and they are becoming dangerous. Somebody else is tampering with them -- Dr. Janet Anastasi, Derec's mother. Unwittingly, her interference is about to start a war between humans and aliens. Cataclysmic forces are gathering and Derec must find a way to prevent destruction!
Download or read book Changeling written by Stephen Leigh and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Asimov's Robot City series, Robots and Aliens. Derec is a man without memory, yet he is called to protect a metropolis of robots from deadly wolf-like creatures that threaten the city with destruction.
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Download or read book Isaac Asimov s Robot and Aliens 1 written by Isaac Asimov and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2001 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man without memory, tied by blood to a city of robots. At his side, a mysterious woman whose life and memory he saved, whose love he has won for a second time. His name is Derec; hers is Ariel. In Changeling, Derec must answer the call of a besieged city on an alien planet. His new challenge is to protect a fantastic metropolis of robots from wolf-like beings that stalk the perimeters and threaten its destruction! In Renegade, Ariel finds herself the sole human on a planet of positronic robots and an alien race of shocking intelligence. Can Derec and Ariel solve the mysteries of the robots and the aliens in time to stop an all-out-war?
