Download or read book Microcosmic Tales with J D Olander written by Isaac Asimov and published by D A W Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science-fiction miniatures offer intriguing portraits of a superman who lives in a real world of nuclear danger, an android that dreams of electric love, a universe put right by a cosmic tinkerer, and more
Download or read book Understanding Language Understanding written by Ashwin Ram and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights cutting-edge research relevant to the building of a computational model of reading comprehension, as in the processing and understanding of a natural language text or story. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of reading, with contributions from computer science, psychology, and philosophy. Contributors cover the theoretical and psychological foundations of the research in discussions of what it means to understand a text, how one builds a computational model, and related issues in knowledge representation and reasoning. The book also addresses some of the broader issues that a natural language system must deal with, such as reading in context, linguistic novelty, and information extraction.
Download or read book Demand My Writing written by Jeanne Cortiel and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, especially in its concern with the function of woman-based intertextuality. Although Cortiel deals principally with Russ’s novels, she also examines her short stories, and the focus on critically neglected texts is a particularly valuable feature of the study. "I recommend this book to any reader interested in Russ’s fiction, or in women’s science fiction generally."—Science Fiction Studies
Download or read book Microcosmic Tales written by Isaac Asimov and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction written by Isaac Asimov and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten short novels including works by Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, Dean McLaughlin, Anne McCaffrey, Randall Garrett and Gordon R. Dickson.
Download or read book Foundation s Friends written by Martin H. Greenberg and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No work of science fiction in the twentieth century captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth in the stories and novels of Isaac Asimov. In this volume, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives—and offer personal tributes to the late, great Asimov some years after his death. Foundation's Friends features contributions by Ben Bova, L. Sprague de Camp, Frederik Pohl, Carl Sagan, Harry Turtledove, and others.
Download or read book Visions of Fantasy written by Isaac Asimov and published by Starfire. This book was released on 1991-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced and edited by Asimov, this illustrated collection offers 12 masterful tales from the most popular authors in the fantasy genre. Anne McCaffrey, Jane Yolen, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Madeleine L'Engle, and others offer stories of witches, unearthly voices, shattered spirits, and humorous fantasies. 22 full-page illustrations.
Download or read book The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories written by John L. Apostolou and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains English translations of thirteen Japanese science fiction stories, written since the 1960s.
Download or read book Nightmare Town written by Dashiell Hammett and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction. In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife." "His Brother's Keeper" is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed him. "The Second-Story Angel" recounts one of the most novel cons ever devised. In seven stories, the tough and taciturn Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped, and the dead, and once again shows his uncanny ability to get at the truth. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. And the first study for The Thin Man sends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying. In Nightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett, America's poet laureate of the dispossessed, shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils. Whether they are trying to right wrongs or just trying to survive, all of them are rendered with Hammett's signature gifts for sharp-edged characters and blunt dialogue. Hammett said that his ambition was to elevate mystery fiction to the level of art. This collection of masterful stories clearly illustrates Hammett's success, and shows the remarkable range and variety of the fiction he produced.
Download or read book Death by Horoscope written by Anne Perry and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 2003-07-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories combining mystery with astrology delves into the mystical omens and lethal reckonings that exist in the astral plane and profoundly impact the human heart.
Download or read book Murder My Dear Watson written by John Lellenberg and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy--in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this second collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut volume, Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writers--including Sharyn McCrumb, Carolyn Wheat, Malachi Saxon, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Colin Bruce, Lenore Carroll, Barry Day, Daniel Stashower, and Loren D. Estleman-- celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes in this paperback version. In addition, Christopher Redmond illuminates the vast possibilities that new technology offers in "Sherlock Holmes on the Internet," while in "A Sherlockian Library" editors Lellenberg and Stashower provide a new list of fifty essential titles on Arthur Conan Doyle and the Holmes canon. Finally, an essay by mystery novelist Philip A. Shreffler explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart." This is truly a treasury of never-before-published Sherlockian tales that should not be missed.
Download or read book Phobias written by Wendy Webb and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of spine-tingling stories of phobias features tales by Andrew Klavan, Valerie Frankel, Charles Grant, Jerry and Sharon Ahern, Nancy Holder, and nineteen other writers. Original.
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Download or read book Pulp Masters written by Edward Gorman and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates American pulp fiction, compiling five novellas and one complete novel from the first half of the twentieth century, including crime authors John D. MacDonald, Lawrence Block, and James M. Cain.
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