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Speculative Worlds 4
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Author : Adam Drake
language : en
Publisher: Adam Drake
Release Date : 2020-08-13
Speculative Worlds 4 written by Adam Drake and has been published by Adam Drake this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-13 with Fiction categories.
Here is a double bundle of speculative novels from genre author, Adam Drake. Kingdom Level Four (Kingdom Series Book 4) Kingdom Building 101 Rob's grasp on his fledgling kingdom is tenuous, at best. Expansion is impossible thanks to an angry war-clan of goblins encroaching on the eastern border. Also, monsters and bandits run rampant within the valley threatening his subjects. And since trade is nonexistent and supply lines are dead, the ramshackle village must be kick-started into an economically viable town – one that generates income for the meager royal treasury, instead of sapping it. Solving these problems is his responsibility or the kingdom will never reach level five. But there's a larger concern which casts a dark cloud over everything. His is not the only kingdom and neighboring rulers have started to view this janitor-turned-king as either an exploitable ally... … or easy prey. Escape to the Fringe (Outlaws of the Fringe Book 1) A pair of outlaws searching for riches. A stolen ship with a secret cargo. A strange alien with bizarre abilities. When Ash and Femke Quinly decide to steal a transport ship from the local criminal syndicate, their troubles have just begun. With enemies in relentless pursuit, and their options dwindling, an already dangerous situation becomes more futile. But when the universe is gunning for you, there is one insane option only the truly desperate can take: They must escape to the Fringe! litrpg, fantasy, gamelit, rpg, cyberpunk, series, action, adventure, video games, mmo, role playing games, vr, virtual reality, thriller, wuxia, cultivation, science fiction, bundle, collection, omnibus, space opera
Lontar 3 The Journal Of Southeast Asian Speculative
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Author : Epigram Press
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04-05
Lontar 3 The Journal Of Southeast Asian Speculative written by Epigram Press and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-05 with Southeast Asia categories.
Speculative Communities
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Author : Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-01-17
Speculative Communities written by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-17 with Business & Economics categories.
"In Speculative Communities, Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that financial speculation has moved beyond markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. As ordinary people make exceptional decisions--such as the American election of a populist demagogue or the British vote to leave the European Union--they are moving from time-honored and -tested practices of governance, toward the speculative promise of a different kind of future. Even our methods of building community have shifted to the speculative realm as social media platforms enable and amplify alternative visions of the present and future-these are the "speculative communities" that now shape our personal and political realities. For Komporozos-Athanasiou, "to speculate" means increasingly "to connect," to endorse uncertainty preemptively, and often daringly, as a means of social survival. Finance has thus become the model for society writ large. These financial systems have taken a notable turn in our current era, however. Contemporary capitalism sees the risk-taking, entrepreneurial person being refashioned as a politically disoriented, speculative subject, who embraces the future's radical uncertainty rather than averting it. As Komporozos-Athanasiou shows, virtual marketplaces, new social media, and dating apps function as finance's speculative infrastructures, leading to a new type of imagination across economy and society"--
Worlds Enough Time
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Author : Dan Simmons
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2002-11-26
Worlds Enough Time written by Dan Simmons and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-26 with Fiction categories.
An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats. Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost "cousins"...and an ancient scourge. A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power. The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past. A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human. At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future.
The Apex Book Of World Sf
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Author : Johann Thorsson
language : en
Publisher: Apex World of Speculative Fict
Release Date : 2015
The Apex Book Of World Sf written by Johann Thorsson and has been published by Apex World of Speculative Fict this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Fiction categories.
From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and subverted Japanese folktales, from love in the time of drones to teenagers at the end of the world, the stories in this volume showcase the best of contemporary speculative fiction, wherever it's written.
Speculative Everything
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Author : Anthony Dunne
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2013-12-06
Speculative Everything written by Anthony Dunne and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-06 with Design categories.
How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose “what if” questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want). Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more—about everything—reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures.
Theory For The World To Come
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Author : Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Theory For The World To Come written by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future? The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible. Drawing on speculative fiction and social theory, Theory for the World to Come is the beginning of a conversation about theories that move beyond nihilistic conceptions of the capitalism-caused Anthropocene and toward generative bodies of thought that provoke creative ways of thinking about the world ahead. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on such authors as Kim Stanley Robinson and Octavia Butler, and engages with afrofuturism, indigenous speculative fiction, and films from the 1970s and ’80s to help think differently about the future and its possibilities. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
Dominion
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Author : Nicole Givens Kurtz
language : en
Publisher: AURELIA LEO, LLC
Release Date : 2020-08-17
Dominion written by Nicole Givens Kurtz and has been published by AURELIA LEO, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-17 with Fiction categories.
Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his subjects. Once an old woman's pet, a robot sent to mine an asteroid faces an existential crisis. A magician and his son time-travel to Ngoni country and try to change the course of history. A dead child returns to haunt his grieving mother with terrifying consequences. Candace, an ambitious middle manager, is handed a project that will force her to confront the ethical ramifications of her company's latest project—the monetization of human memory. Osupa, a newborn village in pre-colonial Yorubaland populated by refugees of war, is recovering after a great storm when a young man and woman are struck by lightning, causing three priests to divine the coming intrusion of a titanic object from beyond the sky. A magician teams up with a disgruntled civil servant to find his missing wand. A taboo error in a black market trade brings a man face-to-face with his deceased father—literally. The death of a King sets off a chain of events that ensnare a trickster, an insane killing machine, and a princess, threatening to upend their post-apocalyptic world. Africa is caught in the tug-of-war between two warring Chinas, and for Ibrahima torn between the lashings of his soul and the pain of the world around him, what will emerge? When the Goddess of Vengeance locates the souls of her stolen believers, she comes to a midwestern town with a terrible past, seeking the darkest reparations. In a post-apocalyptic world devastated by nuclear war, survivors gather in Ife-Iyoku, the spiritual capital of the ancient Oyo Empire, where they are altered in fantastic ways by its magic and power.
Matters Of Care
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Author : María Puig de la Bellacasa
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2017-03-21
Matters Of Care written by María Puig de la Bellacasa and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-21 with Science categories.
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures. Matters of Care contests the view that care is something only humans do, and argues for extending to non-humans the consideration of agencies and communities that make the living web of care by considering how care circulates in the natural world. The first of the book’s two parts, “Knowledge Politics,” defines the motivations for expanding the ethico-political meanings of care, focusing on discussions in science and technology that engage with sociotechnical assemblages and objects as lively, politically charged “things.” The second part, “Speculative Ethics in Antiecological Times,” considers everyday ecologies of sustaining and perpetuating life for their potential to transform our entrenched relations to natural worlds as “resources.” From the ethics and politics of care to experiential research on care to feminist science and technology studies, Matters of Care is a singular contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary debate that expands agency beyond the human to ask how our understandings of care must shift if we broaden the world.
The World Jumper The Evers Series Book 4
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Author : Marie-Hélène Lebeault
language : en
Publisher: Beaches and Trails Publishing
Release Date : 2020-12-18
The World Jumper The Evers Series Book 4 written by Marie-Hélène Lebeault and has been published by Beaches and Trails Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-18 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Jump through time, discover ancient secrets, and face the magic that binds worlds. When a family legacy of sorcery and time travel collides with modern threats, young Devlin and Lola must navigate through magical realms and unravel the mysteries of their ancestors to protect their future. In "The World Jumper," the thrilling conclusion to The Evers Series, siblings Devlin and Lola Evers are thrust into a perilous journey across time and magical dimensions. Their adventure begins with the sudden appearance of a long-lost relative, Simon Evers, who claims to be a time traveler from the future. As they delve into the secrets of their family’s past, they uncover the true power of the artifacts in their possession: a mystical pocket watch and an enigmatic marble. With the guidance of their enigmatic ancestor and the help of their friends, Devlin and Lola must master their abilities to protect their family and their world from the malevolent forces seeking to exploit their magic. From the hidden vaults of their ancestral mansion to the awe-inspiring realm of Summerset Isle, home of the High Elves, they encounter allies and adversaries, ancient spells, and timeless challenges. Amidst the chaos, they discover the binding spell placed on their ancestors and the sinister plot of a group known as the Travelers' Council, led by the cunning Donatelli. As the siblings race against time to thwart these threats, they also learn the value of trust, bravery, and the enduring strength of family bonds. "The World Jumper" is a captivating tale of adventure, magic, and the quest for identity in a world where the past, present, and future are intertwined. Join Devlin and Lola as they embrace their destinies and leap into the unknown to save everything they hold dear The World Jumper is the fourth and final book in The Evers Series. The story continues through Tom's perspective in The Blood Mage, book 1 of the Blood Magick Trilogy. Stay in the loop! Join Marie-Hélène's newsletter for writing updates, sales, upcoming events, and special promotions at www.mhlebeault.com