Download or read book Virtual Nightmare written by S. F. Black and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy, the new kid in town, meets a strange kid in a chat room, and they talk on-line about Andy's old town. That night while he's sleeping, Andy dreams he meets his chat room pal, only the kid turns out to be a little old man. When Andy wakes up for real nothing is the same -- especially Andy. In fact, he's turned into an old man. Andy decides he'd better learn about the past quickly -- so he can escape from the future.

Download or read book The Tale of the Virtual Nightmare written by Ted Pedersen and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam has found the ultimate game. It consumes all his time and concentration. But Sam is getting thinner, distracted. He won't even show his best friend Cady his new game. He's spending more and more time behind his locked door--until the day he doesn't come out. Cady breaks into the room. All she sees is Sam's computer with its blank screen, just waiting for her.

Download or read book Virtual Nightmare written by Frederik Pohl and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual Nightmare, first published as "The Tunnel Under The World" in 1955, is a science fiction short novel that explores the theme of simulated reality and the simulation hypothesis. The Simulation Hypothesis proposes that reality is in fact a simulation (most likely a computer simulation). Some versions rely on the development of a simulated reality, a proposed technology that would seem realistic enough to convince its inhabitants. The hypothesis has been a central plot device of many science fiction stories and films. The novel follows the life of Guy Burckhardt who wake up from a terrible nightmares in his house in Tylerton on June 15. Guy dismisses the dream and goes to work as usual, the downtown offices of Contro Chemicals, which operates a highly automated and robot-staffed petrochemicals plant. But something is not right; he is surrounded everywhere by loud and all-pervasive advertising jingles for everything from cigarettes to freezers. Guy Burckhardt begins to question the nature of his reality when strange events occur to him and it becomes apparent that there are many things about his world, and indeed his life, that do not hold up to close scrutiny. The novel has been adapted for several media including "Virtual Nightmare", a made-for-TV horror film produced in 2000, and appeared in a 1956 radio broadcast episode of X Minus One. It was also produced by the BBC as a 1966 series 2 episode of the anthology series Out of the Unknown. The novel inspired the screen script of the "Special Service" episode of The Twilight Zone and the development of the spec script of the 1998 American satirical comedy-drama film The Truman Show. It also offered inspiration for the 1999 virtual reality movie The Thirteenth Floor and the classic cyberpunk movie The Matrix. This print edition contains other Fredrik Pohl's short stories from that era, including Simulacra (The Day Of The Boomer Dukes), Pythias, Survival Kit, The Hated and The Knights of Arthur.

Download or read book Bureaucratic Nightmares written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Government Information and Regulation and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Virtual Nightmare written by Aaron Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in a virtual world where death is real, but you must fight just to survive. Shane, a casual gamer accidentally stumbles upon a hidden gaming club that is trying out futuristic, virtual gaming suits. He is welcomed to test the amazing and super secret technology. Little does he know, the test will be far more dangerous then he ever could have imagined. If he stays in the game his life is forfeit, but to escape is certain death.

Download or read book Computerworld written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-02-21 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network.

Download or read book Virtual and Augmented Reality Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 1845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual and augmented reality is the next frontier of technological innovation. As technology exponentially evolves, so do the ways in which humans interact and depend upon it. Virtual and Augmented Reality: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on the trends, techniques, and uses of virtual and augmented reality in various fields, and examines the benefits and challenges of these developments. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics, such as human-computer interaction, digital self-identity, and virtual reconstruction, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for researchers, academics, professionals, theorists, students, and practitioners interested in emerging technology applications across the digital plane.

Download or read book Joss Whedon vs the Horror Tradition written by Kristopher Karl Woofter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means. Woofter and Jowett's collection looks at how Whedon revisits existing feminist tropes in the '70s and '80s “slasher” craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods; as well as exploring new concepts on “cosmic dread” and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly. Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon's genre-based universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond.

Download or read book The Illuminist Army written by Brother Abaris and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." – Morpheus, The Matrix There are two armies in the world: The Enlightened Army and the Endarkened Army... the Army of Reason and the Army of Unreason, the Army of the Truth and the Army of the Lie. Which army will you join? What's your sacred cause: the single, objective Truth, or the subjective "all truths" = "all lies"? Only one army is fighting to clear the way to the Truth... the Illuminist Army. Only the greatest heroes – the Grail Knights – can find the Truth. The Grail Knights are the vanguard of the Illuminist Army. Will you be joining them at the front line in the Great War for Truth?

Download or read book The Thousand Years War Glooba Edition written by Angel Ramon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Virtual Reality Nightmare written by Tom Germann and published by Tom Germann. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron and his friends made it out of the Virtual Reality competition and did well. Now though they have to deal with the fall out. Everything seems changed and different. Washed out and boring. But they don’t have time to worry about that. The second alien invasion is now inbound. The robots and their masters learned from the last time and are carrying out a larger invasion with better planning. Ron and crew will have to survive the impact of the meteors that are the precursor to invasion. Then the hordes of people that have been driven insane by the attack. Finally, they are going to have to join the resistance and be ready to fight. The robots have new models and learn fast. Super weapons are in production as soon as the robots secure their landing zones and the military is reeling as it tries to deal with displaced populations and an enemy that has planned this attack out after decades spent watching the planet. Ron will have to use every ounce of his ability he has developed in the virtual reality games he’s played. His tactics, knowledge and resourcefulness will be tested to the very limits of his breaking point. If he succeeds, then he and his friends will survive to continue the fight. But a mistake could cost the entire team their lives. Sometimes the choice is not in your hands. What is really going on though? And is the AI in league with the robotic invaders or does it have some other worse plan for Ron and his friends?

Download or read book Escape the Pain to Survive written by Katherine Nelson and published by eLectio Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOUR CHOICE . . . YOUR LIFE . . . YOUR FREEDOM? Five years ago, The New Waiver Program was founded, offering teens of ages 15 to 17 the opportunity to sign up for a secret military based training project without parental consent. The program provides the perfect opportunity for troubled youth to leave their pasts behind and discover a promising future serving their country . . . or does it? Seventeen-year-old Sam Jones of Denver, Colorado, escapes an abusive home to join the cause. Already lost and confused, seeking to find her way, she believes nothing could ever compare to the past she left behind. It doesn’t take long before she realizes that with one simple signature, she signed her life and soul away to a living nightmare designed to transform her into a “human killing machine.” Worse, as more dark secrets and mysteries are revealed, it appears clearer than ever that there’s no way out. Haunted by her violent past, the only answers may lie with the one she fears the most . . . a mysterious, faceless tyrant. Will she take a leap of faith and trust before it’s too late? Could that same leap of faith cost her everything?

Download or read book The Hacker and the Ants written by Rudy Rucker and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2003-01-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerzy Rugby is alone in the real world, recently separated from his wife and kids, but thankfully he still has his job as a computer programmer -- blissfully hacking away in the cyberworld, aiding the GoMotion Corporation in its noble quest to create intelligent robots. Then one day an ant gets into his computer, then into Studly, his personal robot ... then millions and millions of the nasty viral pests invade satellite television, infecting television broadcasts with digitized ants. Authorities trace the virus back to its source, finding a dead dog, a cut cable, and a bloody robot stuffed into the trunk of Jerzy's car. Is Jerzy Rugby the callous virtual criminal the media brands him, or is he just a set-up patsy for a larger conspiracy? Jerzy must now get to the bottom of the insectile plague before the insanity of his virtual nightmare becomes reality. Book jacket.

Download or read book Heritage in the Digital Era written by Rodanthi Tzanelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? ‘Heritage’ usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and so serves to reproduce national communities over time. However, media industries have the power to transform national lands and histories into generic landscapes and ideas through digital reproductions or modifications, prompting renegotiations of belonging in new ways. Contemporary media allow digital environments to function as transnational classrooms, creating virtual spaces of debate for people with access to televised, cinematic and Internet ideas and networks. This book examines a range of popular cinematic interventions that are reshaping national and global heritage, across Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australasia. It examines collaborative or adversarial articulations of such enterprise (by artists, directors, producers but also local, national and transnational communities) that blend activism with commodification, presenting new cultural industries as fluid but significant agents in the production of new public spheres. Heritage in the Digital Era will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, film studies, tourist studies, globalization theory, social theory, social movements, human/cultural geography, and cultural studies.

Download or read book Songman written by Marilyn Wriede and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Let me in, let me in,” the Songman pleaded. What did these words mean? Kidnapped and tortured, Mary Meyers had no idea. Her only thought was to escape from the lyrical miscreant and his fiendish henchman, Dobson. When the opportunity came, Mary slipped away and traveled back home. Yet her house was cold, deserted. Too exhausted to leave, she huddled in a corner and fell asleep. Read McClaine discovered Mary’s frozen body late at night, and his only thought was to rush her to Bridgeport Hospital. However, upon reviving in the warmth of Read’s truck, Mary blatantly refused medical attention. What choice did he have but to take her to his cabin? Now Mary was warm, well-fed. If she could spend a few months in Read’s home and grow stronger, enhance her strange power, she could face the Songman again. Was there another reason she didn’t want to leave? Was she falling in love with Read McClaine, a man who detested marriage? It was time. The Songman was calling to her, willing her to return. Was she strong enough to defeat him? If she failed, her newfound friends would die, including the man she loved, Read McClaine.

Download or read book The Scientism Delusion Techno Mysticism And Techno Spiritual Warfare Exploring the Connections Between Scientism and Luciferianism written by Gregory Garrett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This enthralling page turner breaks all the molds, and fearlessly exposes the deepest darkest intrigue in history...The Luciferian Agenda for a New World Order. In it, we learn of the Luciferian roots of Modern Science, as the reader is transported back in time to the insidious origins of modern-day Scientism, the current religion of most scientists today. Through an excursion into the roots of Scientism, Mr. Garrett deftly retraces the historical antecedents of Scientism, echoing back to The Secret Mystery Schools of Kabbalistic, Egyptian Hermeticism, onwards into the true nature of Freemason and Alchemical Occultist, Sir Isaac Newton, and then further into the nefarious Vatican Jesuit Priesthood, whose hidden hand can be linked to the creation of The Illuminati, as well as the current Luciferian New Age Religion. Finally, the serpentine path leads up into modern Freemasonic Luciferian, NASA, and then to The Jesuit Controlled Alien Deception about to take hold of the world." --Christian Chesterfield Ph.D.

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