Island Of Truth And Other Stories
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Island Of Truth And Other Stories
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Author : English Language Services
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Release Date : 1964
Island Of Truth And Other Stories written by English Language Services and has been published by MacMillan Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with English language categories.
The Truth And Other Stories
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Author : Stanislaw Lem
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-09-13
The Truth And Other Stories written by Stanislaw Lem and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Fiction categories.
Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.
The Truth And Other Stories
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Author : Stanislaw Lem
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-09-14
The Truth And Other Stories written by Stanislaw Lem and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Fiction categories.
Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.
The Vanishing Island And Other Stories
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Author : Alex M. Castillo
language : en
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Release Date :
The Vanishing Island And Other Stories written by Alex M. Castillo and has been published by Ukiyoto Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
This is a work of fiction based on my childhood memories growing up in a farming village in Capul Island in Northern Samar, Philippines. Most of the stories are based on my own experiences and of the people I grew up with. So if the reader could identify themselves in these pages, I may have been inspired by them. I have long wanted to document the colourful traditions of my hometown as I have written them in my journals. I believe I have written a collective experience of my people in these stories that took me several years to print.
The Encantadas And Other Stories
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-06
The Encantadas And Other Stories written by Herman Melville and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Fiction categories.
This collection features 14 of Melville's short stories reprinted from Harper's and Putnam's magazines, including "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles," a dramatic story set on the Galapagos Islands, plus "The Bell-Tower," more.
The Island Of The Women And Other Stories
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Author : George Mackay Brown
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-03-27
The Island Of The Women And Other Stories written by George Mackay Brown and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with Fiction categories.
In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.
Animal Truth And Other Stories
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Author : Sharona Muir
language : en
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
Release Date : 2022-11-22
Animal Truth And Other Stories written by Sharona Muir and has been published by University of New Orleans Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-22 with Fiction categories.
In Sharona Muir’s unique eco-fabulist tales, fantastic animals and real science lead people through adventure and crisis to metamorphoses of the heart, and surprising truths about being human in the living system. In “Menu: Extinction”, an artist obsessed with the mass extinction of species creates a “banquet” installation in which a mermaid is served as a dish, while the banquet’s imaginary, satanic chef stalks his wife. In “Animal Truth,” a fiercely independent woman researching the genome of a mysterious fish discovers that her lover-collaborator is her own son, given away at birth, and wrestles with the meanings of truth and motherhood. A time travelling billionaire escaping the complexities of contemporary life, in “The Bath of Venus,” has his heart broken by a beautiful creature in Earth’s remote past. Each of these stories spins into gold the prickling straw of contemporary anxieties about our continued life on the planet. By turns playful, terrifying, haunting, and sensuous, the stories in this collection inspire wonder at the interwoven lives of human and nonhuman beings. They are both madly inventive and scientifically literate, and (to cite Anthony Doerr’s praise for her work) “absolutely original.”
The Island Of Truth
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Author : George P. McCallum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Island Of Truth written by George P. McCallum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
Halal Pork And Other Stories
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Author : Cihan Kaan
language : en
Publisher: UpSet Press
Release Date : 2011
Halal Pork And Other Stories written by Cihan Kaan and has been published by UpSet Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
In Halal Pork and Other Stories, Cihan Kaan projects an avant-garde, post 9/11 world, from the perspective of a young Muslim New Yorker. It's a place where Coney Island meets Mars; where hijabi girls are punk rock dervishes; where identity salesmen count pigeons at insane asylums as a cream cheese conspiracy brews in gitmo; where rich boys pay to be Muslim for a day; where the transgendered are holy; and where the bacon is halal. Kaan offers up five urban Sufi tales in the swirling graffiti of Brooklyn.
Waramingo S Boys And Other Stories
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Author : Judith A. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2007-08-17
Waramingo S Boys And Other Stories written by Judith A. Lewis and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-17 with Fiction categories.
A BOLD WALKABOUT ACROSS THE LAND OF VISION, IMAGINATION, AND REALITY "The stories in this book are a combination of my imagination, vision, and experiences and contacts," writes storyteller Judith A. Lewis about this compelling collection of 65 stories about the Australian Outback, the Pacific, India, and traveling. "They came to me in vivid detail and I felt compelled to share these insights into a richer way of looking at our relationship to the Earth." Her theme is the journey, across landscapes, through cultures, or into the vivid realms of visionary experience. Lewis writes evocatively about traveling, in spirit and body, across Aboriginal and cultural terrains, from meeting kangaroo spirits to long-lost fathers. But she writes with equal insight and warmth about the enigmas of the heart, its secrets, joys, aspirations, and epiphanies. A twelve-year-old girl survives an illness by communing with the waratah in bloom. A traveler in Bombay is arrested by beauty amidst the frenetic urban haze. Two twins separated in early childhood journey towards each other. A homeless man constantly walks the highways to bury his past. An Aboriginal medicine man named Waramingo meets the Dreamtime ancestors. "A lot of the visionary stories pertain to the land and its secrets and those who visit it from afar," Lewis says. "I believe that the Earth is alive and awaiting our recognition as are the other dimensions that we all could inhabit. I hope my stories help you remember what you already know, that there is no separation, that everything, from stones to stars, is part of us on this lovely planet."