Video Gaming In Science Fiction

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Download Video Gaming In Science Fiction PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Video Gaming In Science Fiction book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page

Video Gaming In Science Fiction

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Jason Barr
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-09-11

Video Gaming In Science Fiction written by Jason Barr and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Literary Criticism categories.

 As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. This study examines how media-fueled paranoia about video gaming—first emerging almost fifty years ago—still resonates in modern science fiction. The author reveals how negative stereotypes of gamers and gaming have endured in depictions of modern gamers in the media and how honest portrayals are still wanting, even in the “forward thinking” world of science fiction.

Playing The Universe

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : David G. Mead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Playing The Universe written by David G. Mead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Electronic games categories.

Science Fiction Video Games

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Neal Roger Tringham
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2014-09-10

Science Fiction Video Games written by Neal Roger Tringham and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-10 with Computers categories.

Understand Video Games as Works of Science Fiction and Interactive Stories Science Fiction Video Games focuses on games that are part of the science fiction genre, rather than set in magical milieux or exaggerated versions of our own world. Unlike many existing books and websites that cover some of the same material, this book emphasizes critical analysis, especially the analysis of narrative. The author analyzes narrative via an original categorization of story forms in games. He also discusses video games as works of science fiction, including their characteristic themes and the links between them and other forms of science fiction. Delve into a Collection of Science Fiction Games The beginning chapters explore game design and the history of science-fictional video games. The majority of the text deals with individual science-fictional games and the histories and natures of their various forms, such as the puzzle-based adventure and the more exploratory and immediate computer role-playing game (RPG).

Science Fiction Hobby Games

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Neal Tringham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-06-21

Science Fiction Hobby Games written by Neal Tringham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-21 with Games categories.

Science Fiction Hobby Games serves as a history and guide to tabletop gaming franchises set in original science-fictional milieux. Its subject is the pen and paper role playing games and model and counter based wargames that preceded modern videogames and still evolve alongside them, as well as the gamebooks, board games, card games and postal games that are their less famous cousins. Included are detailed critical overviews of more than a hundred fantastical universes published between 1969 and 2013, along with essays on popular types of tabletop game and the natures of their settings and stories. Throughout, sf games are treated as an integral part of the long history of science fiction, and as a new way of enabling its explorations of the future and other worlds. Based on the author's contributions to the Hugo Award winning third edition of the Clute and Nicholls Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, this book contains an extra 20,000 words on additional games and other topics, specially written for this new version of the text.

The World Is Born From Zero

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Cameron Kunzelman
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-07-18

The World Is Born From Zero written by Cameron Kunzelman and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-18 with History categories.

The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. Cameron Kunzelman argues that the video game medium is centered on the evaluation and production of possible futures by following video game studies, media philosophy, and science fiction studies to their furthest reaches. Claiming that the best way to understand games is through rigorous formal analysis of their aesthetic strategies and the cultural context those strategies emerge from, Kunzelman investigates a diverse array of games like The Last of Us, VA-11 Hall-A, and Civilization VI in order to explore what science fiction video games can tell us about their genres, their ways of speculating, and how the medium of the video game does (or does not) direct us down experiential pathways that are both oppressive and liberatory. Taking a multidisciplinary look at these games, The World is Born From Zero offers a unique theorization of science fiction games that provides both science fiction studies and video game studies with new tools for thinking how this medium and mode inform each other.

Science Fiction Literature Through History 2 Volumes

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Gary Westfahl
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2021-07-19

Science Fiction Literature Through History 2 Volumes written by Gary Westfahl and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-19 with Literary Criticism categories.

This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar. This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference books, such as plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels. Some science fiction films, television programs, and video games are also mentioned, particularly when they are relevant to written texts. Its focus is on science fiction in the English language, though due attention is given to international authors whose works have been frequently translated into English. Since science fiction became a recognized genre and greatly expanded in the 20th century, works published in the 20th and 21st centuries are most frequently discussed, though important earlier works are not neglected. The texts are designed to be helpful to numerous readers, ranging from students first encountering science fiction to experienced scholars in the field.

Arena

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Holly Jennings
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-04-05

Arena written by Holly Jennings and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-05 with Fiction categories.

A fast-paced and gripping near-future science fiction debut about the gritty world of competitive gaming... Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. She’s died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier... The RAGE tournaments—the Virtual Gaming League’s elite competition where the best gamers in the world compete in a no-holds-barred fight to the digital death. Every bloody kill is broadcast to millions. Every player is a modern gladiator—leading a life of ultimate fame, responsible only for entertaining the masses. And though their weapons and armor are digital, the pain is real. Chosen to be the first female captain in RAGE tournament history, Kali Ling is at the top of the world—until one of her teammates overdoses. Now, she must confront the truth about the tournament. Because it is much more than a game—and even in the real world, not everything is as it seems. The VGL hides dark secrets. And the only way to change the rules is to fight from the inside...

The Oxford Handbook Of Science Fiction

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Rob Latham
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01

The Oxford Handbook Of Science Fiction written by Rob Latham and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

The excitement of possible futures found in science fiction has long fired the human imagination, but the genre's acceptance by academe is relatively recent. No longer marginalized and fighting for respectability, science-fictional works are now studied alongside more traditional art forms. Tracing the capacious genre's birth, evolution, and impact across nations, time periods, subgenres, and media, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction offers an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of this robust area of scholarly inquiry and considers the future directions that will dictate the terms of the scholarly discourse. The Handbook begins with a focus on questions of genre, covering topics such as critical history, keywords, narrative, the fantastic, and fandom. A subsequent section on media engages with film, television, comics, architecture, music, video games, and more. The genre's role in the convergence of art and everyday life animates a third section, which addresses topics such as UFOs, the Atomic Era, the Space Race between the US and USSR, organized religion, automation, the military, sexuality, steampunk, and retrofuturism. The final section on worldviews features perspectives on SF's relationship to the gothic, evolution, colonialism, feminism, afrofuturism, utopianism, and posthumanism. Along the way, the Handbook's forty-four original essays cover novels by the likes of Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Philip K. Dick, and Octavia Butler; horror-tinged pulp magazines like Weird Tales; B-movies and classic films that include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Star Wars; mind-bending TV shows like The Twilight Zone and Dr. Who; and popular video games such as Eve Online. Showing how science fiction's unique history and subcultural identity have been constructed in ongoing dialogue with popular discourses of science and technology, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction acknowledges the full range of texts and modalities that make science fiction today less a genre than a way of being in the world.

Sector 5 The Battle For Earth

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : R. J. White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-11-19

Sector 5 The Battle For Earth written by R. J. White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-19 with categories.

Sean Virgil is a complete loser. He's unemployed, overweight and practically penniless. The only escape from his morose life is the solace he finds while playing video games. When he moves out of the real world and in to the virtual world, he can be handsome and powerful, a hero or a villain; anyone else other than the loser that he really is.When real life sucks and the virtual world is the only escape, the lines can become blurred on what reality is. Can a video game change the concepts of reality and fiction? Can the actions that take place within a game effect the real world? Can a penniless, game-addicted loser change the real world for the better?Nothing is what it seems and questions will be answered.In this fast-paced, science fiction, drama, you will walk away wondering what's real and what's fiction. A video game can cause complete strangers lives to intertwine and unlikely heroes to emerge.

Writing For Video Game Genres

DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Wendy Despain
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2009-02-26

Writing For Video Game Genres written by Wendy Despain and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-26 with Computers categories.

This book, written and edited by members of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Game Writing Special Interest Group, follows the acclaimed Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing to deliver practical advice from seasoned veterans on the special challenges of writing for first-person shooter games (FPS), role-playing games (R