Download or read book The Paradox of Buck Nowlan written by Chris Johnson and published by Chris Johnson. This book was released on 2023-06-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Buck Nowlan, the inventor of the highly-secret time-machine called the ChronoSpace, is back on a new journey filled with danger, mystery, and unexpected twists. Returning from his honeymoon, Tony discovers a shocking secret about his personal history, but investigating it means breaking a promise to his wife Erin: not to travel back in time before the birth of their first-born. However, curiosity gets the better of him and he travels back to minutes after his own birth, only to be thrown further into time by his malfunctioning ChronoSpace. As he jumps through time, he witnesses some of the most devastating disasters in human history and crosses paths with other time-travellers, some of whom become allies in his quest to return home, while others have sinister plots in mind. Tony must navigate the dangers of the past and present, all while learning the true meaning of trust, loyalty, and sacrifice. Get ready for a pulse-pounding journey that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Will Tony make it back to his own time, or will he be trapped in the past forever?
Download or read book The Paradox of Buck Nowlan written by Chris Johnson and published by Chronospace. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Buck Nowlan, the inventor of the highly-secret time-machine called the ChronoSpace, is back on a new journey filled with danger, mystery, and unexpected twists. Returning from his honeymoon, Tony discovers a shocking secret about his personal history, but investigating it means breaking a promise to his wife Erin: not to travel back in time before the birth of their first-born. However, curiosity gets the better of him and he travels back to minutes after his own birth, only to be thrown further into time by his malfunctioning ChronoSpace. As he jumps through time, he witnesses some of the most devastating disasters in human history and crosses paths with other time-travellers, some of whom become allies in his quest to return home, while others have sinister plots in mind. Tony must navigate the dangers of the past and present, all while learning the true meaning of trust, loyalty, and sacrifice. Get ready for a pulse-pounding journey that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Will Tony make it back to his own time, or will he be trapped in the past forever?
Download or read book Bootstrap s Journey written by Chris Johnson and published by Chris Johnson. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Claire Hilyer receives a mysterious letter and package from her best friend Tony, she thinks it an unexpected romantic gesture. Then she learns Tony sent it over twenty-five years ago, before his birth. Intrigued, Claire visits Tony's house. She arrives in time to see him fighting a stranger, and a moment later, they vanish before her eyes into the past. Tony's package is a cry for help from 2017 to Claire. He must learn to survive without money, family or friends in an era before his birth. Meanwhile, a deadly enemy craves Tony's invention - a time travelling device - for his own deadly purposes and stalks him from the past and the future. Can Claire save Tony and bring him home before time runs out?
Download or read book Sci Fi Art written by Stephen Holland and published by Harper Design. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book features the best science fiction art created over the last 150 years. Chapters bring to light the most groundbreaking and talked about sci-fi art in every medium from comic books and movies to posters and video games. Full-color throughout.
Download or read book Gender Race and American Science Fiction written by Jason Haslam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the preservation of and challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF linguistically and culturally, the study argues that this mode is not only able to illuminate the cultural and social histories of gender and race, but so too can it intervene in those histories, and highlight the ruptures present within them. The volume moves between material history and the linguistic nature of SF fantasies, from the specifics of race and gender at different points in American history to larger analyses of the socio-cultural functions of such identity categories. SF has already become central to discussions of humanity in the global capitalist age, and is increasingly the focus of feminist and critical race studies; in combining these earlier approaches, this book goes further, to demonstrate why SF must become central to our discussions of identity writ large, of the possibilities and failings of the human —past, present, and future. Focusing on the interplay of whiteness and its various 'others' in relation to competing gender constructs, chapters analyze works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip Francis Nowlan, George S. Schuyler and the Wachowskis, Frank Herbert, William Gibson, and Octavia Butler. Academics and students interested in the study of Science Fiction, American literature and culture, and Whiteness Studies, as well as those engaged in critical gender and race studies, will find this volume invaluable.
Download or read book Science Fiction Book Review Index 1923 1973 written by Halbert W. Hall and published by Detroit : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foundryside written by Robert Jackson Bennett and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The exciting beginning of a promising new epic fantasy series. Prepare for ancient mysteries, innovative magic, and heart-pounding heists.”—Brandon Sanderson “Complex characters, magic that is tech and vice versa, a world bound by warring trade dynasties: Bennett will leave you in awe once you remember to breathe!”—Tamora Pierce In a city that runs on industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itself—the first in a dazzling new series from City of Stairs author Robert Jackson Bennett. Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic—the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience—have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine. But if they can unlock the artifact’s secrets, they will rewrite the world itself to suit their aims. Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia dead, and the artifact for themselves. And in the city of Tevanne, there’s nobody with the power to stop them. To have a chance at surviving—and at stopping the deadly transformation that’s under way—Sancia will have to marshal unlikely allies, learn to harness the artifact’s power for herself, and undergo her own transformation, one that will turn her into something she could never have imagined.
Download or read book On a Pale Horse written by Piers Anthony and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first novel of the Incarnations of Immortality, Piers Anthony combines a gripping story of romance and conflicting loyalties with a deeply moving examination of the meaning of life and death. This is a novel that will long linger in the reader's mind. Shooting Death was a mistake, as Zane soon discovered. For the man who killed the Incarnation of Death was immediately forced to assume the vacant position! Thereafter, he must speed over the world, riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others. Zane was forced to accept his unwelcome task, despite the rules that seemed woefully unfair. But then he found himself being drawn into an evil plot of Satan. Already the prince of Evil was forging a trap in which Zane must act to destroy Luna, the woman he loved. He could see only one possible way to defeat the Father of Lies. It was unthinkable—but he had no other solution!
Download or read book Earth written by David Brin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic hard science fiction-thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Startide Rising, a man-made black hole threatens the future of Earth. Scientist Alex Lustig has created a tiny, yet very destructive, problem—a microscopic black hole that he accidentally dropped into Earth’s core. Now, racing to keep it from consuming the planet, he begins to suspect something even stranger is going on. Something linked to civilization’s expanding information web. And with the planet overpopulated and neglect taking its toll on the environment, there are those who demand a harsh solution: that Mother Earth would be better off without humanity at all . . . A Finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel “The Moby-Dick of the whole Earth movement.” —Locus “A powerful, cautionary tale.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Brin has conceived his story on a supremely ambitious scale, and executed it with all of the skills at his command.” —Chicago Sun-Times “It is indeed a book that anyone interested in the survival of our terrifying species should read.” —Interzone
Download or read book A Matter for Men written by David Gerrold and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cartoonists Works and Characters in the United States Through 2005 written by John Lent and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This penultimate work in John Lent's series of bibliographies on comic art gathers together an astounding array of citations on American cartoonists and their work. Author John Lent has used all manner of methods to gather the citations, searching library and online databases, contacting scholars and other professionals, attending conferences and festivals, and scanning hundreds of periodicals. He has gone to great length to categorize the citations in an easy-to-use, scholarly fashion, and in the process, has helped to establish the field of comic art as an important part of social science and humanities research. The ten volumes in this series, covering all regions of the world, constitute the largest printed bibliography of comic art in the world, and serve as the beacon guiding the burgeoning fields of animation, comics, and cartooning. They are the definitive works on comic art research, and are exhaustive in their inclusiveness, covering all types of publications (academic, trade, popular, fan, etc.) from all over the world. Also included in these books are citations to systematically-researched academic exercises, as well as more ephemeral sources such as fanzines, press articles, and fugitive materials (conference papers, unpublished documents, etc.), attesting to Lent's belief that all pieces of information are vital in a new field of study such as comic art.
Download or read book Armageddon 2419 A D written by Philip Francis Nowlan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking novella that gave rise to science fiction’s original space hero, Buck Rogers. In 1927, World War I veteran Anthony Rogers is working for the American Radioactive Gas Corporation investigating strange phenomena in an abandoned coal mine when suddenly there’s a cave-in. Trapped in the mine and surrounded by radioactive gas, Rogers falls into a state of suspended animation . . . for nearly five hundred years. Waking in the year 2419, he first saves the beautiful Wilma Deering from attack and then discovers what has befallen his country: The United States has descended into chaos after Asian powers conquered the world with advanced weaponry centuries before. All that’s left are ragtag gangs battling for survival against their brutal overlords. But when Rogers shows them how to band together and fight for more than mere survival, he sparks a revolution that will decide the fate of the future world. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Download or read book Science fiction Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under Eastern Eyes written by Janice Kulyk Keefer and published by University of London Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Into the Out Of written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonic spirit-beings are stealing into our world in this fantasy adventure from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Damned Trilogy. Earth is being invaded by the shetani—-spirit creatures so small and stealthy that only one man knows about the increasing peril. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil both in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he must recruit the help of two others: government agent Joshua Oak and a feisty young woman named Merry Sharrow. Only the three of them can keep the shetani from destroying reality as we know it.
Download or read book Rhyme and Reason written by John Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Do We Quote written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .
