Nebula Maker Four Encounters
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Nebula Maker Four Encounters
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Author : Olaf Stapledon
language : en
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Release Date : 1983
Nebula Maker Four Encounters written by Olaf Stapledon and has been published by Dodd Mead this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
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Nebula Maker
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Author : Olaf Stapledon
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-10-02
Nebula Maker written by Olaf Stapledon and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-02 with Fiction categories.
The narrator of Nebula Maker stands on a hill and sees a vision that leads him to the birth of the universe. He witnesses the creation of the nebulae and the formation of galactic communities as well as the flowering of the personalities of the nebulae. The establishment of pacific and militaristic camps and their relationship leads to events of cosmic strife, not unlike the history of our world in the twentieth century.
Four Encounters
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Author : Olaf Stapledon
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-08-29
Four Encounters written by Olaf Stapledon and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with Fiction categories.
Four Encounters is an unfinished work by the writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon, written in the late 1940s but only published 26 years after the author's death. It takes place in contemporary (post World War II) Britain, and describes four meetings with various characters who are named for the spiritual quality that best defines them: a Christian, a scientist, a mystic and a revolutionary. There were originally to have been ten encounters, but Stapledon died before the project was completed.
Olaf Stapledon
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Author : Robert Crossley
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1994-07-01
Olaf Stapledon written by Robert Crossley and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
William Olaf Stapledon is best remembered for the extraordinary works of speculative fiction he published between 1930 and 1950. As a novelist, he was known as the spokesman for the Age of Einstein and has influenced writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Arthur C. Clarke, and Doris Lessing. This biography is the first to draw on a vast body of unpublished and private documents—interviews, correspondence, archival material, and papers in private hands—to reveal fully the internal struggles that shaped Stapledon's life and reclaim for public attention a distinctive voice of the modern era. Late in his life in an unpublished "letter to the future" Stapledon unwittingly provided the rationale for his biography: "It is just possible that my very obscurity may fit me to speak more faithfully for my period than any of its great unique personalities. A pacifist in World War I, an advocate of European unity and world government, one of the first teachers in the Workers' Educational Association, and an early protestor against apartheid, Stapledon turned utopian beliefs into practical politics. With roots in the shipping worlds of Devon, Liverpool, and the Suez Canal, he was transformed from a self-described provincial on the margins of English literary and political life into a visionary idealist who attracted the attention of scientists, journalists, and novelists, and, given his left-wing political affiliations, even the F.B.I. Stapledon's novels—Last and First Men, Star Maker, Odd John, and Sirius—have gathered a passionate following, and they have seldom been out of print in the last twenty-five years. But the personal experiences and political commitments that shaped this creative work have, until now, barely been known. Robert Crossley's work reveals how, in public and in private, in his social activism as in his fiction, Olaf Stapledon embodied many of the modern era's anxieties and hopes that allow his works to continue to speak to and for the future.
Darwin Among The Machines
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Author : George B. Dyson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-09-04
Darwin Among The Machines written by George B. Dyson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-04 with Science categories.
As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries -- from Thomas Hobbes to John von Neumann -- who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and artificial mind. Weaving a convincing, occasionally frightening narrative of the evolution of the global network, Dyson explores the limits of Darwinian evolution to suggest what lies ahead. Computer programs and worldwide networks are combining to produce an evolutionary theater in which the distinctions between nature and technology are increasingly obscured, he argues. We are living in the midst of an experiment -- one that echoes the prehistory of human intelligence and the origins of life. Now in a new paperback edition, this classic work on the emergence of collective mechanical intelligence will resonate for generations to come.
Stellar Engineering
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Author : Greg Matloff
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2019-04-01
Stellar Engineering written by Greg Matloff and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-01 with Science categories.
In terms of the scale of the galaxy, both in space and time, we humans are new comers. Though we are newly on the scene, we are already thinking about how to create large structures in space. Recently, analysis of data from one of the stars in the Kepler data set has led to speculation regarding huge artificial structures (called Stapledon/Dyson Spheres) constructed by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. The NASA Kepler space observatory has been observing light curves of about 100,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyre. This star, popularly dubbed “Tabby’s Star” after the first name of the astronomer leading one of the data reduction teams, shows intriguing periodic dips in its luminosity. Stellar Engineering starts by considering terrestrial organisms, and early humans, who have constructed, on their scale, “megastructures,” and continues with a history of the development of the stellar engineering concept. Kepler data on the subject star is reviewed as is observational data on other possible Stapledon/Dyson Sphere candidates. Possible applications of such enormous constructs are discussed, as well as the intriguing speculation that we might live in a Stapledon/Dyson swarm of alien space habitats within our Solar System’s Kuiper Belt. The chapter frontispiece art illuminates the ideas presented.
Star Maker
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Author : Olaf Stapledon
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2004-05-24
Star Maker written by Olaf Stapledon and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-24 with Fiction categories.
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The Mammoth Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction
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Author : George Mann
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
The Mammoth Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction written by George Mann and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Fiction categories.
This encyclopedia is the most up-to-date, concise, clear and affordable guide to all aspects of science fiction, from its background to generic themes and devices, from authors (established and new) to films. Science fiction has evolved into one of the most popular, cutting-edge and exciting fiction geners, with a proliferation of modern and classic authors, themes and ideas, movies, TV series and awards. Arranged in an A-Z format, and featuring a comprehensive index and cross-referencing system, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is also the most accessible and easy to use encyclopedia of its kind currently available.
Odd John
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Author : Olaf Stapledon
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-04-12
Odd John written by Olaf Stapledon and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-12 with Fiction categories.
John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans are mere playthings to him. And Odd John has a plan - to create a new order on Earth, a new supernormal species. But the world is not ready for such a change ...
The Gospel According To Science Fiction
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Author : Gabriel Mckee
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
The Gospel According To Science Fiction written by Gabriel Mckee and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Religion categories.
Explores the theological nature of science fiction, drawing on examples from television, literature, and films to explain how science fiction can help people understand not only who they are but who they will become.