Download or read book Nordenholt s Million written by J.J. Connington and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

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Download or read book Nordenholt s Million written by J. J. Connington and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nordenholt's Million, businessman Stanley Nordenholt goes on a mission to save the world from becoming a dystopian wasteland after the viral spread of a bacteria that renders farmlands barren. Sci-fi lovers will be thrilled by this precursor to today's sci-fi hits.

Download or read book Nordenholt s Million written by Alfred Walter Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nordenholt s Million written by Alfred Walter Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Masters of the Humdrum Mystery written by Curtis Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Alfred Walter Stewart--revealing their work to be more complex, as puzzles and as social documents, than Symons allowed. By championing the intrinsic merit of these mystery writers, the study demonstrates that reintegrating the "Humdrums" into mystery genre studies provides a fuller understanding of the Golden Age of detective fiction and its aftermath.

Download or read book Speculative Modernism written by William Gillard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculative modernists--that is, British and American writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--successfully grappled with the same forces that would drive their better-known literary counterparts to existential despair. Building on the ideas of the 19th-century Gothic and utopian movements, these speculative writers anticipated literary Modernism and blazed alternative literary trails in science, religion, ecology and sociology. Such authors as H.G. Wells and H.P. Lovecraft gained widespread recognition--budding from them, other speculative authors published fascinating tales of individuals trapped in dystopias, of anti-society attitudes, post-apocalyptic worlds and the rapidly expanding knowledge of the limitless universe. This book documents the Gothic and utopian roots of speculative fiction and explores how these authors played a crucial role in shaping the culture of the new century with their darker, more evolved themes.

Download or read book Science fiction the Early Years written by Everett Franklin Bleiler and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.

Download or read book No Past Is Dead written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not altogether surprising that Ambrose Brenthurst was found brutally murdered outside Fountain Court the night he had presided over the diner meeting of the 'Hernshaw Thirteen Club'. Many were the potential murderers - some of them guests at the diner. But when a second murder takes place it precipitates a crisis in which investigator Sir Clinton Driffield must penetrate a maze of conflicting evidence to spot the murderer.

Download or read book Common Sense Is All You Need written by J J Connington and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pickford's body was found hanging from a beam in his garage, Inspector Loxton was sure that it was a case of suicide following a series of financial and domestic worries. Then came the criminologist with his slogan, 'Common sense is all you need', and in ten minutes he upset the inspector's hypothesis. Further evidence pointed so clearly in one direction that the arrest and the conviction of the criminal seemed almost a matter of form. But both the Inspector and the expert are way off course, and it is left to the Chief Constable to clear up the mystery ... 'Mr Connington has the art of writing delightful detective novels' Baltimore Evening Sun

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Download or read book Ultimate Island written by Nicholas Ruddick and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-01-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study confronts current influential theories that science fiction is either an American phenomenon or an international one. The study rejects the idea that British science fiction is distinguishable only by its pessimistic outlook--while also rejecting the idea that other designations, such as scientific romance or speculative fiction, better fit the British product. Instead, the study traces the evolution of British science fiction, showing how H. G. Wells synthesized various strains in English literature, and how later writers, conscious of this Wellsian tradition, built upon Wells's literary achievement. An introduction defines what might reasonably be placed under the heading British science fiction, and why. Chapter 1 examines previous critical ideas about the nature of British science fiction, revealing that most of them are based on untested assumptions. Chapter 2 explores the significance of the dominant motif of the island in British SF --a motif that suggests that British SF and mainstream English literature have been long and fruitfully intertwined. Chapters 3 and 4 deal respectively with British disaster fiction before and after the Second World War. They focus on why British science fiction has so frequently seemed obsessed with catastrophe. Chapter 5, a polemical conclusion, deals with the future of British science fiction based on its current predicament. Ultimate Island forms a theoretical counterpart to the author's recently-published British Science Fiction: A Chronology 1478-1990 (Greenwood 1992), which defines the historical scope of the field.