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Teranesia
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Author : Greg Egan
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-12-30
Teranesia written by Greg Egan and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-30 with Fiction categories.
As a young boy, Prabir Suresh lives with his parents and sister on an otherwise uninhabited island in a remote part of the Indonesian peninsula. Prabir names it Teranesia, populating it with imaginary creatures even stranger than the evolutionarily puzzling butterflies that his parents are studying. Civil war strikes, orphaning Prabir and his sister. Eighteen years later, rumours of bizarre new species of plants and animals being discovered in the peninsula that was their childhood home draw Prabir's sister back to the island - Prabir cannot bear for her to have gone out alone and he follows, persuading a pharmaceutical researcher to take him along as a guide.
Teranesia
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Author : Greg Egan
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-01
Teranesia written by Greg Egan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01 with categories.
World Weavers
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Author : Kin Yuen Wong
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2005-11-01
World Weavers written by Kin Yuen Wong and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our world has grown more and more interconnected not only due to technological advances, but also to a shared interest in those advances and to what they might lead to in the future. Science fiction has long been both literally and metaphorically linked to the emerging global village. It now takes on the task of exploring how the cybernetic revolution might transform the world and keep it one step ahead of the real world, despite ever-accelerating developments. As residents of a world that is undeniably globalized, science-fictional and virtual, it is incumbent on us to fully understand just how we came to live in such a world, and to envisage where this world may be heading next. World Weavers represents one small but significant step toward achieving such knowledge.
Castaway Tales
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Author : Christopher Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-10
Castaway Tales written by Christopher Palmer 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 2016-05-10 with Literary Collections categories.
A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the present Ever since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes through periods of settlement, violence, and reconciliation, and across genres and languages. Showing how subsequent authors have parodied or inverted the castaway tale, Palmer concentrates on the period following H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau. These much darker visions are seen in later novels including William Golding's Lord of the Flies, J. G. Ballard's Concrete Island, and Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory. In these and other variations, the castaway becomes a cannibal, the castaway's island is relocated to center of London, female castaways mock the traditional masculinity of the original Crusoe, or Friday ceases to be a biddable servant. By the mid-twentieth century, the castaway tale has plunged into violence and madness, only to see it return in young adult novels—such as Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins and Terry Pratchett's Nation—to the buoyancy and optimism of the original. The result is a fascinating series of revisions of violence and pessimism, but also reconciliation.
A Companion To Science Fiction
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Author : David Seed
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-06-09
A Companion To Science Fiction written by David Seed and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
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.
Harrington Gay Men S Fiction Quarterly 1
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Author : Thomas L. Long
language : en
Publisher: Southern Tier Editions
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Harrington Gay Men S Fiction Quarterly 1 written by Thomas L. Long and has been published by Southern Tier Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly is devoted to the latest names and innovations in gay men's fiction and serves as a forum for discovering new talents. Readers get exclusive "sneak peeks" of the latest works in progress from such prominent writers as Andrew Holleran, Scott Heim, and Bernard Cooper, and new critical examinations of "lost" gay novels.
Australian Book Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Australian Book Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Books categories.
T Ran Sie
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Author : Greg Egan
language : fr
Publisher: livre de poche
Release Date : 2006
T Ran Sie written by Greg Egan and has been published by livre de poche this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
"Le jeune Prabir, neuf ans, enfant surdoué, vit avec ses parents, biologistes indiens, sur une île vierge et paradisiaque du Pacifique. Ces chercheurs étudient une espèce nouvelle de papillons, splendides et mystérieux, qui ne devrait pas exister selon les lois de l'évolution darwinienne. Mais lorsque la guerre s'abat sur l'île et que ses parents sont tués, Prabir doit fuir avec sa petite sœur, Madhusree. Depuis l'autre bout du monde, le destin le ramènera vingt ans plus tard sur cette île où des espèces entières semblent surgir du néant pour, peut-être, menacer l'humanité. Greg Egan, l'un des meilleurs écrivains actuels de science-fiction, raconte ici la vie tourmentée d'un homme qui devient le porteur d'une prodigieuse énigme scientifique." [Source : 4e de couv.]
After The Celebration
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Author : Ken Gelder
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2009-01-01
After The Celebration written by Ken Gelder and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
After the Celebration explores Australian fiction from 1989 to 2007, after Australia's bicentenary to the end of the Howard government. In this literary history, Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman combine close attention to Australian novels with a vivid depiction of their contexts: cultural, social, political, historical, national and transnational. From crime fiction to the postmodern colonial novel, from Australian grunge to 'rural apocalypse fiction', from the Asian diasporic novel to the action blockbuster, Gelder and Salzman show how Australian novelists such as Frank Moorhouse, Elizabeth Jolley, Peter Carey, Kim Scott, Steven Carroll, Kate Grenville, Tim Winton, Alexis Wright and many others have used their work to chart our position in the world. The literary controversies over history, identity, feminism and gatekeeping are read against the politics of the day. Provocative and compelling, After the Celebration captures the key themes and issues in Australian fiction: where we have been and what we have become.