Download or read book Mutants and Mystics written by Jeffrey J. Kripal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Account of how comic book heroes have helped their creators and fans alike explore and express a wealth of paranormal experiences ignored by mainstream science. Delving deeply into the work of major figures in the field - from Jack Kirby's cosmic superhero sagas and Philip K. Dick's futuristic head-trips to Alan Moore's sex magic and Whitley Strieber's communion with visitors - Kripal shows how creators turned to science fiction to convey the reality of the inexplicable and the paranormal they experienced in their lives. Expanded consciousness found its language in the metaphors of sci-fi - incredible powers, unprecedented mutations, time-loops and vast intergalactic intelligences - and the deeper influences of mythology and religion that these in turn drew from ; the wildly creative work that followed caught the imaginations of millions. Moving deftly from Cold War science and Fredric Wertham's anticomics crusade to gnostic revelation and alien abduction, Kripal spins out a hidden history of American culture, rich with mythical themes and shot through with an awareness that there are other realities far beyond our everyday understanding."--Jacket.

Download or read book Mutant Chronicles written by Matt Forbeck and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It will be a dangerous mission. I don’t expect that any of us will survive. But it’s a chance to save mankind, to save our world. Maybe the last chance.” By the end of the twenty-third century, Earth is a plague-ridden, war-ravaged cesspool dominated by megacorporations whose ruthless armies fight one another for power and for the very scarce resources there are left. Capitol fighters Mitch Hunter and Nathan Rooker are battling the opposing forces of the Bauhaus corporation when a cannon blast exposes and destroys an ancient stone seal in the ground. From the bowels of the Earth crawl hordes of necromutants with razorlike boneblades for arms, hideous humanoids that thrive and multiply by commandeering the bodies of dying soldiers. Mitch barely escapes– only to discover that both the rise of the mutants and the “Deliverer” who will save humanity have been prophesied. Unless Mitch and a group of warriors from each of the megacorporations succeed in reaching the hidden horrors and wiping out the mutant scourge, ouir world will literally become a hell on Earth. Now a major motion picture

Download or read book Gold Miner 49 er Book 3 written by Reggie Gould and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marvel s Mutants written by Miles Booy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, Marvel Comics revived the X-Men, a failed title which hadn't used new material for half a decade. It was a marginal project in an industry then in crisis. Five years later, it was the bestseller in a revived comics market. Unusually in the comics world, one man, Chris Claremont wrote the comic over seventeen years, from 1975 to 1991, developing new characters such as Wolverine and Storm, and taking themes from Freudian psychology, Christian temptation narratives, Existentialist philosophy and the language of sub-cultural identity. Marvel's Mutants is the first book to be devoted to the aesthetics of these comics that laid the foundation for the worldwide X-Men franchise we know today. Miles Booy explores Claremont's recurrent themes, the evolution of his reputation as an auteur within a collaborative medium, the superhero genre and the input of the artists with whom Claremont worked. Also covered are the successful spin-off projects, which Claremont wrote: solo Wolverine mini-series and whole new teams of mutant superheroes.

Download or read book The New Mutants written by Ramzi Fawaz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions. In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as “new mutants,” social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from icons of nationalism and white masculinity into actual mutant outcasts, defined by their genetic difference from ordinary humanity. These powerful misfits and “freaks” soon came to embody the social and political aspirations of America’s most marginalized groups, including women, racial and sexual minorities, and the working classes. In The New Mutants, Ramzi Fawaz draws upon queer theory to tell the story of these monstrous fantasy figures and how they grapple with radical politics from Civil Rights and The New Left to Women’s and Gay Liberation Movements. Through a series of comic book case studies—including The Justice League of America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and The New Mutants—alongside late 20th century fan writing, cultural criticism, and political documents, Fawaz reveals how the American superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. The New Mutants provides the first full-length study to consider the relationship between comic book fantasy and radical politics in the modern United States.

Download or read book Mutant I Am written by Radu Olimpiu Gherghel and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brads swim coach at Washington High School has high hopes for his athlete. Exceptionally skilled in the water, Brad is expected to excel and win many competitions. But during a race, the high schooler collapses. Hes diagnosed with an incurable disease that prevents him from ever swimming again, and his doctor doesnt expect him to survive more than five years. To save his life, he undergoes a difficult and unique operation that changes him into a mutant, which allows him to live underwater. Hes alone at the beginning, but then he and his wife, Ada, start a new species called the Gill generation. Many others follow, creating the water world. Its first controlled by the individual countries that made them, and shortly after it becomes independent. This new society evolves beyond expectations, demanding rights from terrestrials through a revolution. The Gills succeed in controlling the entire planet utilizing advanced technology. With the continuous unrest and wars on land, many repatriate to water world. The existence and future of humanity rely on the new species, the Gill civilization.

Download or read book Philip K Dick written by David Sandner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer of science fiction. His works speak to contemporary fears of being continually watched by technology, and the paranoia of modern life in which we watch ourselves and lose our sense of identity. Since his death in 1982, Dick's writing remain frighteningly relevant to 21st century audiences. Dick spent his life in near poverty and it was only after his death that he gained popular and critical recognition. In this new collection of essays, interviews, and talks, Philip K Dick is rediscovered. Concentrating both on recent critical studies and on reassessing his legacy in light of his new status as a "major American author," these essays explore, just what happened culturally and critically to precipitate his extraordinary rise in reputation. The essays look for his traces in the places he lived, in the SF community he came from, and in his influence on contemporary American literature and culture, and beyond.

Download or read book Mutants in Avalon written by James Wallis and published by Palladium Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1991-08 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strokes written by John Clute and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Strokes is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. It covers the period between 1966 and 1986.

Download or read book Mutant Message Down Under written by Marlo Morgan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "New York Times" bestseller, Morgan leads readers on the fictional spiritual odyssey of an American woman in the Australian outback.

Download or read book Ultimate Comics X Men By Brian Wood Vol 3 written by Brian Wood and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Ultimate Comics X-Men #29-33. "World War X" begins! It's Tian vs. Utopia when Jean Grey takes on Kitt y Pryde! Will the planet be torn apart when the two mutant nations go to war? Alliances are broken, sides are chosen and betrayals abound - but after a sneak attack on Utopia, and Jean's strict warning that the rest of the world should stay out of the war, will the global mutant-on-mutant conflict finally unite...or divide mutants forever? As World War X claims its first casualties, Kitty Pryde becomes a revolutionary redux, Mach Two displays startling new powers, and James Hudson proves he's more than just his father's son!

Download or read book Mutants Clones and Killer Corn written by Samantha Seiple and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history of genetics and biotechnology, and discusses their uses in the future, including growing human organs for transplants and re-creating the dinosaurs.

Download or read book Mutants of Bain written by Darryl T. Mallard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing population of Meta-humans/Mutants had become the growing cause of great concern for the U.S government and the "human" American population at large, so the government established a mutant research and educational facility on a small U.S territory, the Caribbean Island of Bain, for the purpose of studying and educating young mutants so that they could become useful and responsible American citizens. Not long later, the facility, staff, mutants and the entire island vanished from the face of the earth, along with several of America's top scientist and military personnel. That was five years ago, but now Bain Island has reappeared and one hundred and fifty years has past on the island and now the native humans need help. A human utopia, built at the expense and suffering of generations of mutant slaves, has been violently overthrown. In its place is a powerful mutant society dominated by ferocious female headed clans backed by a savage male warrior caste...and now the humans bow low! To the American President and people, the mutants and island are of the United States. They must surrender their sovereignty, land and technology. The human slaves must be freed! The mutant queen and her warriors do not agree.

Download or read book EVOLUTION OF MAN TO HUMAN written by and published by DAR GAZALA AHAD. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man, a simple word but distinct, prominent and dominant over the other creations on the surface of earth. Man possesses a unique kind of intelligence, by which he has conquered every realm of the earth. How he evolved from man to human is an interesting fact. What makes him a human being? I have chosen to write about this subject of evolution of man to human because all through my life I was pondering on this fact. As I began writing, I wondered how beautiful a brain is that develops wonderful ideas. I realized I should pen down my thoughts and feelings. Is the intelligence of man boon or bane? My quest for knowing the main reason behind the positive and negative behavior of the Human beings was somehow solved. How man has evolved from the cave man to a human and still evolving to a cave human. What makes him selfish and selfless being. I hope that when you go through these thoughts and analysis given in the book you will think the same way as I have thought during the writing of this book. Life of man is just a play of energy.

Download or read book Single Cell Omics written by Debmalya Barh and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single-cell Omics, Volume 2: Advances in Applications provides the latest single-cell omics applications in the field of biomedicine. The advent of omics technologies have enabled us to identify the differences between cell types and subpopulations at the level of the genome, proteome, transcriptome, epigenome, and in several other fields of omics. The book is divided into two sections: the first is dedicated to biomedical applications, such as cell diagnostics, non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), circulating tumor cells, breast cancer, gliomas, nervous systems and autoimmune disorders, and more. The second focuses on cell omics in plants, discussing micro algal and single cell omics, and more. This book is a valuable source for bioinformaticians, molecular diagnostic researchers, clinicians and several members of biomedical field interested in understanding more about single-cell omics and its potential for research and diagnosis. Covers the diverse single cell omics applications in the biomedical field Summarizes the latest progress in single cell omics and discusses potential future developments for research and diagnosis Written by experts across the world, it brings different points-of-view and study cases to fully give a comprehensive overview of the topic

Download or read book X Men Red By Al Ewing Vol 4 written by Al Ewing and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects X-Men Red (2022) 14-18. The FALL OF X is felt on Arakko! As the Brotherhood reels from the cataclysmic events of the Hellfire Gala, Genesis takes advantage of the chaos - and declares war! Two vast mutant armies clash, and Arakko's idols fall. But this is only the beginning of a conflict that will remake the Red Planet. Under siege in Port Prometheus, Storm readies to hold the line against the ultimate bioweapon. Meanwhile, the Fisher King finds himself tormented by his strange new abilities - and the secrets in his memory might turn the tide of the Genesis War. But as the Four Horsemen ride across the land and daemon armies sweep through the skies, Genesis launches her endgame - and Storm and the Brotherhood must fight for their lives. The Revelation is here - and so is Apocalypse!

Download or read book Alice in the Land of Plants written by Yiannis Manetas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that plants do not need to move? How does a nonmotile organism have sex or defend itself? Why are some plants virtually immortal? What is the mechanism that allows plants to exploit a practically inexhaustible extraterrestrial energy source? How do plants regulate the composition of our planet’s atmosphere? Why have there not been mass extinctions among plants as there have been among animals? How do plants communicate with one another? In the end, are plants intelligent organisms? These are some of the questions the author discusses to demonstrate that plants are wrongly considered to be simple organisms lacking specific behaviour and intelligence. This book promises to be as pleasant a surprise as Alice’s experience in the white rabbit’s warren, in which she encountered a world very different from ours. The author explains the biology of plants following Einstein's maxim that everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.