Download or read book Sci fi Scenes and Monster Dreams written by Jan Peterson Ewen and published by Meriwether Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These highly creative and imaginative scenes will produce out-of-this-world laughs for both actors and audience! The 16-scene collection includes original stories as well as spoofs of popular movies, books, and television shows. Perfect for classroom use or performance, these sketches include 2 to 6 (or even more!) actors and run 5 to 10 minutes. Complete production notes make it easy to bring these royalty-free skits to life onstage! Actors of all ages and experience levels will appreciate the many roles that can be played by either gender, and the table of contents includes the cast size and running time for each scene. In addition to containing laugh-out-loud scenes, this valuable resource also focuses on important acting skills such as comedic timing, pantomime, using accents, and physical characterization.
Download or read book Frankenstein Dreams written by Michael Sims and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest. Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein Dreams, Michael Sims has gathered many of the very finest stories, some by classic writers such as Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, and H.G. Wells, but many that will surprise general readers. Dark visions of the human psyche emerge in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "The Monarch of Dreams," while Mary E. Wilkins Freeman provides a glimpse of “the fifth dimension” in her provocative tale "The Hall Bedroom.' With contributions by Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Fuller, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others, each introduced by Michael Sims, whose elegant introduction provides valuable literary and historical context, Frankenstein Dreams is a treasure trove of stories known and rediscovered.
Download or read book The Sci Fi Movie Guide written by Chris Barsanti and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the trashy to the epic, from the classics to today's blockbusters, this cinefile’s guidebook reviews nearly 1,000 of the biggest, baddest, and brightest from every age and genre of cinematic science fiction! Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday reality. Whether nostalgic for the future or fast-forwarding to the present, The Sci-Fi Movie Guide: The Universe of Film from Alien to Zardoz covers the broad and widening range of science-fiction movies. You’ll find more than just Star Wars, Star Trek, and Transformers, with reviews on many overlooked and under-appreciated gems and genres, such as ... Monsters! Pacific Rim, Godzilla, The Thing, Creature from the Black Lagoon Superheroes: Thor, Iron Man, X-Men, The Amazing Spider-man, Superman Dystopias: THX 1138, 1984, The Hunger Games Avant-garde masterpieces: Solaris, 2001, Brazil, The Man Who Fell to Earth Time travel: 12 Monkeys, The Time Machine, Time Bandits, Back to the Future Post-apocalyptic action: The Road Warrior, I Am Legend, Terminator Salvation Comedy: Dark Star, Mars Attacks!, Dr. Strangelove, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, Mystery Science Theater 3000 Aliens! The Day the Earth Stood Still, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Contact, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Signs Mad scientists! Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Abominable Dr. Phibes Shoot-em-ups: Aliens, Universal Soldier, Starship Troopers What the...?: Battlefield Earth, Prayer of the Rollerboys, Repo: The Genetic Opera, Tank Girl, The 10th Victim Animation: WALL-E, Akira, Ghost in the Shell Small budgets, big ideas: Donnie Darko, Primer, Sound of My Voice, Computer Chess Neglected greats: Things to Come, Children of Men Epics: Metropolis, Blade Runner, Cloud Atlas and many, many more categories and movies!! In addition to the nearly one thousand science fiction film reviews, this guide includes fascinating and fun Top-10 lists and sidebars that are designed to lead fans to similar titles they might not have known about. The Sci-Fi Movie Guide: The Universe of Film from Alien to Zardoz will help ensure that you will never again have to worry about what to watch next. Useful both as a handy resource or a fun romp through the film world of science fiction. It also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness.
Download or read book Madmen s Dreams written by Eric S. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aliens... Angels... Demons... Zombies... Ancient Evils... Modern Horrors... These are MADMEN'S DREAMS. Eric S. Brown and D. Richard Pearce present a deranged collection of 34 horror and sci-fi tales so startling they could only come from the nightmares of the insane. Brown and Pearce take the reader into the darkest corners of the madhouse in these tales that run the gamut from classic horror and science fiction to intense action and psychological terror. "Madmen's Dreams" is a peak at the inner workings of an unstable mind.
Download or read book Starring on Bay Street written by Jan Peterson Ewen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous, heart-warming & inspirational! The Westside Center for the Arts in Port Claire, Washington is home to a cast of lovable, quirky characters and the artistic director who tries to hold her amateur troupe together despite the challenges. Framed by a five-week production of The Pirates of Penzance, "Starring on Bay Street" tells of a group of courageous women who reinvent their lives through a beginning acting class, an elderly actor and his young protege, and the challenges that face director Adrian Williams as she puts the needs of the theater above her own. "Starring on Bay Street" will touch your heart and inspire you to find your inner muse. Jan Peterson Ewen, author of Fractured Fairy Tale Scenes for Student Actors (Meriwether, 2013) and Sci-Fi Scenes and Monster Dreams (Meriwether/Pioneer Drama, 2015) uses her talent for writing dialogue and her years of experience in a grass-roots local theater to create rich characters and humorous scenarios that will keep you flipping the pages.
Download or read book No Longer Dreams written by Danielle Ackley-McPhail and published by Lite Circle Books. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lite Circle Books announces it newest illustrated anthology, No Longer Dreams. This quality collection of horror, fantasy and science fictions stories includes never-before-printed works by John C. Wright and Will McDermott, as well as contributions by C.J. Henderson, Darrell Schweitzer, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Tee Morris and many others.
Download or read book Uneasy Dreams written by Gary A. Smith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a tremendous amount of renewed interest in the output of Britain's Hammer Films. But there remain a great number of worthwhile British horror films, made at the same time by other companies, that have received little attention. The author provides a comprehensive listing of British horror films--including science fiction, fantasy, and suspense films containing horror-genre elements--that were released between 1956 and 1976, the "Golden Age" of British horror. Entries are listed alphabetically by original British title, from Vincent Price in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) to Zeta One (1969). Entries also include American title, release information, a critique of the film, and the film's video availability. The book is filled with photographs and contains interviews with four key figures: Max J. Rosenberg, cofounder of Amicus Productions, one of the period's major studios; Louis M. Heyward, former writer, film executive and producer; Aida Young, film and television producer; and Gordon Hessler, director of such films as The Oblong Box and Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Download or read book The Dreaming Void written by Peter F. Hamilton and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewers exhaust superlatives when it comes to the science fiction of Peter F. Hamilton. His complex and engaging novels, which span thousands of years—and light-years—are as intellectually stimulating as they are emotionally fulfilling. Now, with The Dreaming Void, the first volume in a trilogy set in the same far-future as his acclaimed Commonwealth saga, Hamilton has created his most ambitious and gripping space epic yet. The year is 3589, fifteen hundred years after Commonwealth forces barely staved off human extinction in a war against the alien Prime. Now an even greater danger has surfaced: a threat to the existence of the universe itself. At the very heart of the galaxy is the Void, a self-contained microuniverse that cannot be breached, cannot be destroyed, and cannot be stopped as it steadily expands in all directions, consuming everything in its path: planets, stars, civilizations. The Void has existed for untold millions of years. Even the oldest and most technologically advanced of the galaxy’s sentient races, the Raiel, do not know its origin, its makers, or its purpose. But then Inigo, an astrophysicist studying the Void, begins dreaming of human beings who live within it. Inigo’s dreams reveal a world in which thoughts become actions and dreams become reality. Inside the Void, Inigo sees paradise. Thanks to the gaiafield, a neural entanglement wired into most humans, Inigo’s dreams are shared by hundreds of millions–and a religion, the Living Dream, is born, with Inigo as its prophet. But then he vanishes. Suddenly there is a new wave of dreams. Dreams broadcast by an unknown Second Dreamer serve as the inspiration for a massive Pilgrimage into the Void. But there is a chance that by attempting to enter the Void, the pilgrims will trigger a catastrophic expansion, an accelerated devourment phase that will swallow up thousands of worlds. And thus begins a desperate race to find Inigo and the mysterious Second Dreamer. Some seek to prevent the Pilgrimage; others to speed its progress–while within the Void, a supreme entity has turned its gaze, for the first time, outward. . . . BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Peter F. Hamilton's The Temporal Void.
Download or read book Static Dreams Volume One written by tara caribou and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the dark mindscape of our twisted dreams come tales of revenge and righteous vindication, deep-seated mistrust and hidden truths brought into the light. Where a young woman is able to sift through the minds of her enemies and destroy them through sheer thought before they can consume her. Where a man only allowed to speak a mere one hundred words carries out grim assigned tasks before death comes for him. And where a group of sweet old ladies may just as easily ring up your purchase as invite you to tea and cake, which just might turn out to be your very last meal. So dim down your lights and clutch your blankets to your chin, for tonight you'll find yourself wrapped up deep in these sweet static dreams. Featuring nine short stories written by A.P. Christopher, River Dixon, Robert Birkhofer, Agyani, Lou Rasmus, Braeden Michaels, M. Ennenbach, Mark Ryan and tara caribou.
Download or read book Fractured Fairy Tales for Student Actors written by Jan Peterson Ewen and published by Meriwether Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These royalty-free scenes are laugh-out-loud funny and clever, to boot! Based on familiar nursery rhyme characters, Ewen put a comedic spin on their situations. For instance, ESPN newscasters are interviewing Jack out at the track where he does his training for candlestick jumping. The 20 scenes are evenly split between five-minute scenes for 2 to 3 characters and ten-minute scenes for 5 to 20 characters. Most of the characters may be played by either gender, and several scenes can be expanded to accommodate an entire classroom. Unlike most scene books, the table of contents even indicates the cast size and genders along with a one line summary. Easy to use and fun for all ages, you'll love the colorful characters and creative situations in these short, hysterical scenes.
Download or read book Must See Sci fi written by Sloan De Forest and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-Fi showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind-bending movies ever made. From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre. They are movies that embed themselves in the depths of the mind, coloring our view of day-to-day reality and probably fueling a few dreams (and nightmares) along the way. In Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-Fi, fifty unforgettable films are profiled, including beloved favorites like The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Fantastic Voyage (1966), groundbreaking shockers like Planet of the Apes (1968) and Alien (1979), and lesser-known landmarks like Things to Come (1936) and Solaris (1972). Illustrated by astounding color and black-and-white images, the book presents the best of this mind-bending genre, detailing through insightful commentary and behind-the-scenes stories why each film remains essential viewing. A perfect gift for any film buff or sci-fi fanatic!
Download or read book Fever Dream written by Samanta Schweblin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.
Download or read book To Sleep Perchance to Dream written by Tanya Allan and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Gilbert was an old soldier who had served his nation well. Invalided out of the army after a landmine ripped apart his vehicle, killing his friends and effectively ending his career, Mike struggled in civilian life.Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is common-place these days, and Mike found himself in a Combat Fatigue unit in South East England, as the dreams he experienced started affecting his every moment. The dreams - of a weird world so far from reality and yet too close for comfort.Mike had fought humans all his career, but the enemy of his dreams were anything but human.Their name was the word that human parents used to scare the children - an onomatopoeic word. They wanted a word to describe them, so they raised their arms, formed claws with the hands and made a roaring noise - the noise they believed a monster would make.They were called the "Yruar".Not that these humans spoke English, had they done so, the word could be literally translated as 'Monster'.Nobody thought the Yruar were intelligent enough to have a name for themselves. That was mistake number one.Nobody thought they were intelligent enough to realise the humans were taking their land.That was mistake number two.Once they took the land, drained it, built their houses, sowed their crops and trees into it, nobody thought they'd be prepared to fight to recover the land that had been stolen.That was mistake number three.The war had been doing on for many years and neither side was winning.The humans were constructors - the constructed dwellings, machines (crude ones), tools, books, weapons, farms and systems of administration. They could read and write and they didn't believe the Yruar were anything other than beasts.They fought the Yruar with weapons.The Yruar called themselves a word that literally translated would be the 'people'. They did not construct anything. Rather, they used their environment as a partner not as a consumer. They lived in harmony with everything that surrounded them and until humans arrived, they were strangers to extreme violence.The Yruar had to adapt or the crazy humans would annihilate them. They learned from their mistakes and developed weapons from the flora and fauna amongst which they lived. One of these weapons was an innocuous-looking fungus that was spherical and possessed spores that, when released, caused serious psychotic episodes in any unfortunate creature (human or otherwise) that might ingest some.One human warrior called Kara ingested spores on two separate occasions. She ended up in a field hospital in which there was more likelihood of dying of infection or disease then on the front line of battle.Nobody knew the psychotic properties of the spores. Nobody told her that weird things could happen. Nobody knew that somehow the mind of an old soldier called Mike in a hospital bed in England managed to find its way into her mind when both were asleep.Nobody knew that the event would change the future forever.
Download or read book Shadows Dreams Nightmares written by Charles Anderson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadow Dreams Nightmare features Jim LeMay's Shadow Jack, Richard Friesen's The Tower of Dreams, Wayne Faust and Charles Eugene Anderson's Europa Nightmare. Four Colorado writers produced this collection of three epic stories. They all had the great fortune to work closely with the late Nebula Award-winning author and Horror Grandmaster Edward Bryant. That felt much like serving under a compassionate Medieval Guild-master. They feel honored for the opportunity to learn as his apprentice writers and sorely miss their mentor and friend. All three stories are a fine mixture of storytelling that brings different types of speculative fiction together into one gigantic book. It will keep readers delighted for many hours of enjoyment.
Download or read book Consider This written by Chuck Palahniuk and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more. Clear-eyed, sensitive, illuminating, and knowledgeable, Consider This is Palahniuk's love letter to stories and storytellers, booksellers and books themselves. Consider it a classic in the making.
Download or read book Dawn of Dreams written by Bronwyn LeRoux and published by Digits. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a park, two strangers meet by chance . . . Only to discover they share a magical ability. And both their families hide the same secret . . . In 2073, Jayden and Kayla become friends and realize they can both see a terrifying creature that's invisible to everyone else. Bonded by magic, they investigate their bizarre connection and learn their lives are built on lies, and that reality bends in many directions . . . Determined to uncover the truth, they set out on an epic quest. But a malevolent force pursues them relentlessly, stopping at nothing to end their journey. Can Jayden and Kayla unravel the mysteries of the past and ensure the earth has a future, or will their world be forever cursed? If you live for futuristic paranormal fantasy, you'll love this breakneck adventure that reviewers are raving about! Grab your copy and find out why readers want to know, "When is Destiny Book 2 coming out!!?" Don't wait - Click the BUY button NOW!
Download or read book Tales of Known Space written by Larry Niven and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1975 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
