Download or read book 3 Books To Know Classic Science Fiction written by Mary Shelley and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Classic Science-Fiction. - The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. - The Scarlet Plague by Jack London.The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. At the time of publication, it was classified as a scientific romance, like Wells's earlier novel The Time Machine. The War of the Worlds has been both popular and influential. It was most memorably dramatized in a 1938 radio program that allegedly caused public panic among listeners who did not know the Martian invasion was fictional. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.
Download or read book Science Fiction Stories written by Tig Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Science Fiction Stories' contains over 30 intriguing tales from this rich and popular vein of fiction.
Download or read book The Year s Best Science Fiction Nineteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 1181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results: Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as: "On K2 with Kanakaredes" by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company. "The Human Front" by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming-of-age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them-and nothing is as it appears to be. "Glacial" by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction. The twenty-six stories in this collection imaginatively takes us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Eleanor Arnason Chris Beckett Michael Blumlein Michael Cassutt Brenda W. Clough Paul Di Filippo Andy Duncan Carolyn Ives Gilman Jim Grimsley Simon Ings James Patrick Kelly Leigh Kennedy Nancy Kress Ian R. MacLeod Ken MacLeod Paul J. McAuley Maureen F. McHugh Robert Reed Alastair Reynolds Geoff Ryman William Sanders Dan Simmons Allen M. Steele Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Howard Waldrop Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.
Download or read book Classic Tales of Science Fiction Fantasy written by Jules Verne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blast off into the unknown with this collection of ten classical works of science fiction and fantasy. Long before we ventured into outer space or explored the most remote regions of the planet, writers have spun stories of what might lie in those unknown worlds, or what awaits humanity in the future. Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy is a collection of ten novels and short stories that blazed the trail for the popular genre. Works by acclaimed authors such as Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, and H. P. Lovecraft will transport the reader to distant places and times—and set the imagination ablaze!
Download or read book Project Hail Mary written by Andy Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
Download or read book Girl in Landscape written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. • "Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile." --Newsday The heroine is young Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to a virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community and the ancient inhabitants, known only as archbuilders. Girl in Landscape finds Jonathan Lethem twisting forms and literary conventions to create a dazzling, completely unconventional tale.
Download or read book American Science Fiction written by Various and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects nine classic science fiction novels from 1953 to 1958.
Download or read book A Fire Upon The Deep written by Vernor Vinge and published by Tor Science Fiction. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new introduction for the Tor Essentials line, A Fire Upon the Deep is sure to bring a new generation of SF fans to Vinge's award-winning works. A Hugo Award-winning Novel! “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.”-David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. Tor books by Vernor Vinge Zones of Thought Series A Fire Upon The Deep A Deepness In The Sky The Children of The Sky Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimm's World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Dune Movie Tie In written by Frank Herbert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING NOVEMBER 3rd, 2023 Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård, with Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides−who would become known as Maud'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.
Download or read book How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Enhanced Edition written by Charles Yu and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced eBook includes video, audio, photographic, and linked content, as well as a bonus short story. Hear TAMMY talk. Learn the origins of Minor Universe 31. See the TM-31. Take a trip in it. Photos and illustrations appear as hyperlinked endnotes. Video and audio are embedded directly in text. *Video and audio may not play on all readers. Check your user manual for details. National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—in fact it may even save his life. Wildly new and adventurous, Yu’s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space–time.
Download or read book Science Fiction Classics written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seven classic tales involving alien invaders, visions of the future, scientific inventions, and space travel presented in an illustrated format by prominent artists working in the fields of comics, book illustration, and fine arts.
Download or read book 3 books to know Dystopian Fiction written by Jack London and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Dystopian Fiction. Samuel Butler used his tale, Erewhon, to satirize the injustices of Victorian England through a utopian society in which all customs and social laws were the exact opposite of what they were in England. This anti-utopian novel, like many experimental Victorian literary works, resists easy categorization. The Sleeper Awakes is a novel by H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The book has elements explored later both in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The Iron Heel is a novel by Jack London, first published in 1907. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern dystopian" fiction, it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and '70s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes. The book is unusual among the literature of the time in being a first-person narrative of a woman protagonist written by a man. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.
Download or read book 3 Science Fiction Stories written by Gerald Vance and published by Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are three imaginative science fiction stories by the great Gerald Vance. Monsoons of Death: A very nice blend of horror story and a study of true bravery on the planet Mars. A newly commissioned lieutenant finds out a lot about both! Larson's Luck: Vance takes us on a lighthearted jaunt into hot shot space ship pilots, piracy and the good part of breaking the rules. Vital Ingredient: Travel far into the future when the sport of boxing still has two muscled opponents battling it out in a ring, but they are simply puppets, every muscle, feint and jab controlled by ring side "managers"; ex fighters who have moved up. The story asks the question: is this how champions are made? And answers it of course in a most satisfying manner. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.
Download or read book 100 Classic Science Fiction Stories Volume Three written by Randall Garrett and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 3756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 science fiction stories make up this massive collection. Works and authors include: Four-Day Planet by Henry Beam Piper The Hour of Battle by Robert Sheckley The House from Nowhere by Arthur G. Stangland The Huddlers by William Campbell Gault Human Error by Raymond F. Jones The Hunted Heroes by Robert Silverberg I Like Martian Music by Charles E. Fritch Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon by Richard Sabia I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber A Stranger Here Myself by Dallas McCord Reynolds If at First You Don't... by John Brudy Impossible Voyage Home by Floyd L. Wallace In Case of Fire by Gordon Randall Garrett In the Cards by Alan Cogan In the Control Tower by Will Mohler The Orbit of Saturn by Roman Frederick Starzl The Year 2889 by Jules Verne and Michel Verne An Incident on Route 12 by James H. Schmitz Revolution by Poul William Anderson Infinite Intruder by Alan Edward Nourse The Infra-Medians by Sewell Peaslee Wright Inside John Barth by William W. Stuart Insidekick by Jesse Franklin Bone Instant of Decision by Gordon Randall Garrett The Instant of Now by Irving E. Cox, Jr. Irresistible Weapon by Horace Brown Fyfe Islands in the Air by Lowell Howard Morrow The Issahar Artifacts by Jesse Franklin Bone It's a Small Solar System by Allan Howard It's All Yours by Sam Merwin The Jameson Satellite by Neil Ronald Jones Jimsy and the Monsters by Walt Sheldon Join Our Gang? by Sterling E. Lanier Joy Ride by Mark Meadows The Judas Valley by Gerald Vance Junior Achievement by William Lee The Junkmakers by Albert R. Teichner The Jupiter Weapon by Charles Louis Fontenay The K-Factor by Harry Harrison The Keeper by Henry Beam Piper Keep Out by Fredric Brown The Kenzie Report by Mark Clifton The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl Know Thy Neighbor by Elisabeth R. Lewis A Knyght Ther Was by Robert F. Young Larson's Luck by Gerald Vance THE LAST DAYS OF EARTH by GEORGE C. WALLIS The Last Evolution by John Wood Campbell The Last Gentleman by Rory Magill Last Resort by Stephen Bartholomew The Last Straw by William J. Smith The Last Supper by T. D. Hamm Lease to Doomsday by Lee Archer Let'em Breathe Space by Lester del Rey Letter of the Law by Alan Edward Nourse The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster The Machine That Saved The World by William Fitzgerald Jenkins Man Who Hated Mars by Gordon Randall Garrett The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton A Matter of Magnitude by Al Sevcik The Measure of a Man by Randall Garrett The Memory of Mars by Raymond F. Jones 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces by James McKimmey The Mightiest Man by Patrick Fahy Millennium by Everett B. Cole The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison Missing Link by Frank Patrick Herbert The Montezuma Emerald by Rodrigues Ottolengui Mr. President by Stephen Arr Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick The Native Soil by Alan Edward Nourse Navy Day by Harry Harrison Next Logical Step by Benjamin William Bova No Moving Parts by Murray F. Yaco The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin Old Rambling House by Frank Patrick Herbert One-Shot by James Benjamin Blish Oomphel in the Sky by Henry Beam Piper Operation Haystack by Frank Patrick Herbert Your Money Back by Gordon Randall Garrett An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse The Penal Cluster by Ivar Jorgensen Piper in the Woods by Philip K. Dick Planetoid 127 by Edgar Wallace Police Operation by H. Beam Piper Postmark Ganymede by Robert Silverberg Project Mastodon by Clifford Donald Simak Proteus Island by Stanley G. Weinbaum The Quantum Jump by Robert Wicks The Radiant Shell by Paul Ernst The Red Room by H. G. Wells The Risk Profession by Donald Edwin Westlake Scrimshaw by William Fitzgerald Jenkins Second Variety by Philip Kindred Dick Shock Absorber by E.G. von Wald Sjambak by John Holbrook Vance Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty This World Must Die! by Horace Brown Fyfe Toy Shop by Henry Maxwell Dempsey Darkness by H. P. Lovecraft
Download or read book Robert Sheckley written by Robert Sheckley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armchair Fiction features the best in classic classic science fiction short story collections. "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. Three" features the works of Robert Sheckley. He was born in New York in 1931 and passed away in 2005. Most of his life was spent concocting brilliant pieces of imaginative mind fodder. What would the perfect woman look like? He pondered what, if anything, would a man be able to eat on a distant planet? Would the end-all to financial worry and violence bring man the utopia he has always searched for? Unlock the answers to these questions and many more with this unmatched collection of Robert Sheckley stories...just waiting to be devoured.
Download or read book Symzonia written by John Cleves Symmes and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symzonia is a hollow Earth story of the extreme. The way the planet is can best be compared to a ball of yarn - a shell with large holes at both the top and bottom that the sea opens into. The inside is occupied by other people, one of them being Symzonians.
Download or read book That Hideous Strength written by C. S. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She had begun by dreaming simply of a face. Its expression was frightening because it was frightened. The face belonged to a man who was sitting hunched up in one corner of a little square room with white-washed walls - waiting, she thought, for those who had him in their power to come in and do something horrible to him. At last the door was opened...She could not make out what the visitor was proposing to him, but she did discover that the prisoner was under sentence of death. Whatever the visitor was offering him was something that frightened him more than that. The visitor, still smiling his cold smile, unscrewed the prisoner's head and took it away. Then all became confused." "The third novel in C.S. Lewis's classic sci-fi trilogy begins with Jane Studdock's horrific nightmare. The next morning she sees the same face in a newspaper - a brilliant French scientist guillotined for poisoning his wife. Jane has the growing feeling that she is being warned of something real and sinister. Her husband, Mark, meanwhile, is drawn into the National Institute for Co-ordinated Experiments, which is engaged in a plan to control human life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
