Download or read book The New Atlantis and Other Early Science Fiction Tales written by David Lear and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis could be considered the earliest science fiction tale in the English language. Other early science fiction stories in this collection include: -- The Dream of Scipio by Cicero -- True History by Lucian of Samosata -- Icaro-Menippus by Lucian of Samosata -- Urashima Taro -- The Ebony Horse -- The City of Brass -- The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

Download or read book THE NEW ATLANTIS and Other Novellas of Science Fiction written by GENE WOLFE, URSULA K. LE GUIN, JAMES TIPTREE, JR. and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Atlantis written by James Tiptree Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three short novels by some of science fiction's greatest writers -- Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree, Jr., and Gene Wolfe, edited by Robert Silverberg._The New Atlantis_, by Ursula K. Le Guin: In a dark near-future, global warming and a ruined ecology is causing the continents to sink into the oceans just as the towers of Atlantis re-emerge above the sea. Locus award winner and Hugo finalist._Silhouette_, by Gene Wolfe, and _A Momentary Taste of Being_, by James Tiptree, Jr., present two different masterpieces on a similar theme: A deep-space colony exploration ship approaches their target planet, where they must investigate whether or not it's hospitable enough to signal Earth to send more colonists. Things are not as they seem... Nebula / Locus award finalist stories.Three of science fiction's most gifted writers--winners of Hugos, Nebulas, and a National Book Award--unleash their imaginations to present startling glimpses of humanity's future on Earth and in space. Blended into that future are age-old mysteries of the human psyche, mythicized fragments of the past, and the eternal question of biological purpose.In "Silhouette" Gene Wolfe creates a self-contained world, an immense starship on a multi-generational mission to assure continuation of the race by colonizing the stars. It is a world, devised and constructed through man's technical genius, that comes to be threatened by the primitive superstitions and petty jealousies carried into space by the very technicians who serve in science's most ambitious project. The salvation of the mission and of the hundreds of lives bound to it comes to depend on a curious interplay of technology and occult human abilities.Ursula Le Guin remains earthbound, but on a "brave, new world" where a bureaucratic tyranny proves less and less able to cope with supplying the needs of a burgeoning population. A subtle irony pervades her story, "The New Atlantis." Even as government strives to assure permanence of control, geologic upheavals awaken a haunting racial memory of antediluvian civilizations and grandeur long buried beneath the seas.James Tiptree, Jr., confronts a disciplined space crew with humanity's first encounter with a wholly alien life form. Here again the survival of the human race depends on successful location of a new planet where mankind can establish its society with renewed vigor. But out of the questions of how to survive any threat that may be posed by an unknown life form arises a more central question: Is it intended that humanity survive?

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Download or read book Atlantis written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New fiction from a master explores problems of memory, history, & transgression.

Download or read book True History and Other Early Science Fiction Tales written by David Lear and published by Firestone Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucian of Samosata's True History, written almost two thousand years ago, is one of the earliest science fiction tales ever written, and tells of a man's fantastic adventures including a trip to the moon. Other tales in this early science fiction collection include: -- The Dream of Scipio by Cicero -- Icaro-Menippus by Lucian of Samosata -- Urashima Taro -- The Ebony Horse -- The City of Brass -- The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter -- Micromegas by Voltaire

Download or read book Atlantis written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three novellas by a black writer. The novella, Atlantis: Model 1924, describes the sense of wonder experienced by a 17-year-old black youth from the South on his arrival in New York, while Citre et Trans is on a black man who is raped in Greece and the effect this has on his life. By the author of Return to Neveryon.

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 New Atlantis written by Lavie Tidhar and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A complex, layered and hugely enjoyable story” –Bestsf “Lovely work” –Locus When a mysterious message arrives from vanished New Atlantis, a restless Mai undertakes the perilous journey to its drowned isles. But the journey is long and hard: through the Blasted Plains and the ancient cities of Tyr and Suf, through shipwreck and wilderness. For this is a world where ants develop inexplicable weapons, where a lonely robot lives surrounded by cats in the ruins of old Paris, and where floating coral islands host sleeping sentience. Mai’s journey takes her by land, sea and air to the islands of New Atlantis, and to the nightmare prison buried underneath old London. On her way she will find heartbreak and love – and a new life, awakening. PRAISE FOR NEW ATLANTIS “Excellent... not a word is wasted” –Sfcrowsnest “Amazing” –1000yearplan “A wonderful, imaginative story” –SFRevu PRAISE FOR LAVIE TIDHAR Winner – The World Fantasy Award Winner – The John W. Campbell Award Winner – The British Fantasy Award Winner – The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize Winner – The Neukom Literary Arts Award Winner – The Kitschies Award Winner – The BSFA Award “Tidhar is a genius at conjuring realities that are just two steps to the left of our own.” –NPR “Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells.” –Library Journal “In a genre entirely of his own, and quite possibly a warped genius.” –Ian McDonald, author of River of Gods “One of the foremost science fiction authors of our generation.” –Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Gods of Jade and Shadow “Already staked a claim as the genre’s most interesting, most bold, and most accomplished writer.” –Locus “One of science fiction’s great voices.” –Starburst

Download or read book The Dream of Scipio and Other Early Science Fiction Tales written by David Lear and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dream of Scipio by Cicero is perhaps the earliest science fiction tale ever written, telling of a man's voyage to the heavens. Other early science fiction tales in this collection include: -- True History by Lucian of Samosata -- Icaro-Menippus by Lucian of Samosata -- Urashima Taro -- The Ebony Horse -- The City of Brass -- The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter -- Micromegas by Voltaire

Download or read book Micromegas and Other Early Science Fiction Tales written by David Lear and published by Firestone Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micromegas was first published in 1752 and is one of Voltaire's best-known works. The story tells of two giant extraterrestrials who travel across the solar system, eventually reaching the Earth. Other science fiction tales in this collection include: -- The Dream of Scipio by Cicero -- True History by Lucian of Samosata -- Icaro-Menippus by Lucian of Samosata -- Urashima Taro -- The Ebony Horse -- The City of Brass -- The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

Download or read book Zed written by Joanna Kavenna and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] insightful, unsettling look at how technology impacts our lives. . .Kavenna has skillfully made our present feel like dystopian fiction.” USA TODAY Named a Best Book of 2020 by USA TODAY From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we do—before we do. One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm . . . now what to do with all these messy people? Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle's supposedly omniscient 'lifechain' don't work, or, they've been hacked. Both scenarios are impossible to imagine and signal the end of Beetle's technotopia and life as we know it. Dazzlingly original and darkly comic, Zed asks profound questions about who we are, what we owe to one another, and what makes us human. It describes our moment—the ugliness and the beauty—perfectly. Kavenna is a prophet who has seen deeply into the present—and thrown back her head and laughed.

Download or read book The Mighty Orinoco written by Jules Verne and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1898, and part of Jules Verne's famous series "Voyages Extraordinaires, " this fantastic tale a young man's search for his father along Venezuela's then-uncharted Orinoco River contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure storyQas well as a unique feminist twist.

Download or read book New Atlantis and The City of the Sun written by Francis Bacon and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campanella was a student of logic and physics; Bacon focused on politics and philosophy — but despite their authors' differences, both of these utopian visions reflect the spirit of 17th-century philosophy.

Download or read book Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery written by Judy A. Hayden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one's conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one's beliefs and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this did not come without serious and complex challenges. Advances in astronomy, such as the theories of Copernicus, the development of the telescope, and Galileo's discoveries and descriptions of the moon sparked intense debate in Early Modern literary discourse. The essays in this collection demonstrate that this discourse not only stimulated international discussion about lunar voyages and otherworldly habitation, but it also developed a political context in which these new discoveries and theories could correspond metaphorically to New World exploration and colonization, to socio-political unrest, and even to kingship and regicide.

Download or read book New Atlantis written by Raymond Bryan and published by Der Drehbuchverlag. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Am letzten Abendmahl wird die Menschheit bis zum Ende ihrer Tage zu kauen haben. - Gregor Brand 31.03.2010: In der Karibik wird eine bisher unbekannte Insel entdeckt. Wissenschaftler finden auf der drei Quadratkilometer großen Insel ein ihnen völlig fremdes Ökosystem. Die Entdeckung völlig neuer Spezies lässt die gesamte Menschheit den Atem anhalten. Die Insel wird auf den Namen "New Atlantis" getauft. Es handelt sich um eine aktualisierte Auflage! (5. Februar 2016)

Download or read book Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History written by K. Reilly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.