Author: Peter Miles
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499027737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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It is the near future. Axel, a computer scientist, with broad, mechanically-inclined hobbies, is working on a prototype matter transmitter. It is erratic and, in an instant, he finds his consciousness has been transmitted across space. It has been received into the brain of a young, male humanoid immediately following the latter's brain-death from a traumatic wound; one that has not, however, left any long-term organic injuries: Axel of Earth has become Lexar of Nandroth. Lexar's race are called the Androthi. Their world has some geophysical similarities to Earth, and some similarity of life forms but with notable exceptions. The civilisations of the Androthi are roughly on the same technological level as 14th century Europe and Asia. Their overwhelming problem is that their world has been invaded by self-replicating robots, the mekkans, which have a highly advanced - and to living creatures deadly - technology. The mekkans are relatively few in number. They require, for their power and construction, minerals that they cannot easily find and mine. To obtain them, they have set about subjugating Nandroth and enslaving the Androthi, either by direct force or by fomenting internecine warfare. Their ultimate intention is to refuel their nuclear?powered space craft and continue their conquest of living worlds in the universe. Axel-Lexar's self-appointed task is to get his fellow Androthi to accept who and what he is, and to get them to help him create, with what resources are available, strategies to defeat the mekkans. Above all, he wants to destroy the mekkan's ability to threaten intelligent life forms on other worlds. The work deals, inter alia, with the nature of the linguistic problems faced by Axel on his becoming Lexar and the means by which he attempts to transform the local technology. He seeks to exploit special features of mekkan engineering and their rigid social structure, in order to subvert their seemingly unassailable power. But, in the meantime, there are defences to organise against the mekkans' highly advanced weapons, and battles to be fought against other Androthi nations who have become the mekkans' allies. To complicate his new life, he finds that Lexar is betrothed to the teenage daughter of the local Lord. She is a highly intelligent, independent and passionate individual, at first disbelieving, then suspicious and finally jealously protective.
Author: Gordon Young
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411679997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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"Colors" is about an Earth like place where our problems have finally been solved, and peace with happiness has ultimately been achieved. One man will try to return to Earth to help us achieve the same goal if he survives to accomplish it. You will wonder about things you may never have questioned after reading "Colors." Enjoy the read!
Author: Nicholas Fisk
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140314168
Category : Antigravity
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Author: Ian Bogost
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262026147
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties. Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive expression, Bogost analyzes rhetoric's unique function in software in general and videogames in particular. The field of media studies already analyzes visual rhetoric, the art of using imagery and visual representation persuasively. Bogost argues that videogames, thanks to their basic representational mode of procedurality (rule-based representations and interactions), open a new domain for persuasion; they realize a new form of rhetoric. Bogost calls this new form "procedural rhetoric," a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation. He argues further that videogames have a unique persuasive power that goes beyond other forms of computational persuasion. Not only can videogames support existing social and cultural positions, but they can also disrupt and change these positions themselves, leading to potentially significant long-term social change. Bogost looks at three areas in which videogame persuasion has already taken form and shows considerable potential: politics, advertising, and learning.
Author: ROBERT SHECKLEY
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471108791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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When a mysterious alien woman from the planet Laertes convinces Dr. Bashir to gamble for her at Quark's gaming tables, things seem innocent enough. Yet the more Dr. Bashir wins, the more things go wrong in the Federation: Ore ships vanish. Planets lose their atmosphere. Suns go nova. The cause and effect is hard to understand, but is proven by the bizarre Laertian science called Complexity Theory. When Bashir tries to stop gambling, a Laertian warfleet appears to force him to continue, while on the planet Laertes itself Major Kira and Science Officer Dax must battle their way through chaos and danger to find a way to stop the Laertians -- and save Deep Space Nine™ and the Federation from utter destruction!
Author: Nick Adams
Publisher: Elliptical Publishing
ISBN: 1916105696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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“This needs to be picked up by Netflix and made into a TV show. Absolutely brilliant” – Goodreads "In the vein of great writers like Harry Harrison and Robert A Heinlein" - Amazon “Nick Adams is a storyteller of rare ability” – Goodreads “I read a lot of sci-fi and this is in the top percent” – Amazon “Superb writing, editing and excellent storytelling” – Kobo “The best sci-fi series I have read in a while” – Amazon The Aspirant Bache Loftt wants nothing more than to follow in his father’s footsteps and be an engineering officer on one of the galaxy’s most powerful, state of the art starships. He has the grades, he has the aptitude – and his application for the naval academy is in. All he has to do is wait for the call up. Then he witnesses a double murder. Barely escaping with his life, can he evade the unlimited resources of a galactic syndicate hunting for him and uncover a conspiracy that involves the very institution he’s determined to join? The Aspirant: a tale of friendships, betrayals, unspeakable crimes – and greed. The Bache Loftt Series The Aspirant The Recruit The Lieutenant
Author: Veronica Scott
Publisher: Veronica Scott
ISBN: 0997881240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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He rescued her from space pirates ... but can he keep them both safe from the far greater evil stalking a deserted planet? Space travel without Kidnap & Ransom insurance? Not a good idea. University instructor and researcher Sara Bridges can't afford it, so when pirates board her cruise liner, she's taken captive along with the mistress of a wealthy man, and brought to a deserted planet. When a military extraction team sent to rescue the mistress refuses to take Sara too, she's left to the mercies of a retired Special Forces soldier, along as consultant. Reluctantly reactivated and coerced into signing up for the rescue operation to the planet Farduccir where he once was deployed, Sgt. Johnny Danver just wants to get the job done. But when the team leader leaves one captured woman behind, he breaks away to rescue her himself. As Johnny and Sara traverse the barren landscape, heading for an abandoned base where they hope to call Sectors Command for help, they find villages destroyed by battle and stripped of all inhabitants. A lone survivor tells a horrific tale of the Sectors' alien enemy, the Mawreg, returning after being pushed out ... Searching for evidence to give the military, Johnny is captured. He regains consciousness in a Mawreg cage--with Sara next to him. Death is preferable to what the aliens will do to them... And even if they do escape their captors, can they alert the military in time to prevent another invasion of the Sectors?
Author: Vorzsak Milan
Publisher: Letras
ISBN: 6060718981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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What is the purpose of evolution? Why is velocity in the Universe limited to the speed of light? She is an elf from before the evolution of mankind, plunged into the year 2456. She claims to be the one who aided Father Earth in the design of all species of life on Earth. But her Parent has now sent her to the time of the ending of the world, which she swears to prevent. In her original life before the Ice Age, she struggles with Black, the leader of a tribe of primitive Homo sapiens. She despises him for his rough nature, but she eventually understands that it is her duty to get him started on the bumpy road to evolution. In her present, the intelligent races of the galaxy are pooling knowledge through the Archives, a galactic network of alien transmissions, to break the lightspeed barrier and finally open up the galaxy. But what is needed to make the Earth endless? This novel is a unique, fantastic theory on the history of evolution, based on hard, historic facts blended with fun fantasy. It also probes the future possibilities of mankind, as well as the laws of physics that govern the Universe, which humankind needs to see as a challenge in order to conquer the stars. It is a standalone story, but also the first part of a trilogy whose next volumes will also be published in the near future. The second volume, Endless Mars details the struggles of a long-ago Martian race to escape their dying planet, while the third instalment, entitled Endless Space, rounds up the story of all the intelligent races of the galaxy.
Author: Mark Clifton
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486843343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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One of the most literary and innovative science-fiction writers of the early 1950s, Mark Clifton introduced sophisticated psychological insights into the characters who populated his tales of alien encounters, expanding technology, revolution against political theocracy, and space colonization. The title tale, centering on a psychologist who uncovers a hidden colony of otherworldly invaders and craftily orchestrates their doom, is accompanied by nine other perceptive and witty stories.
Author: David Hatcher Childress
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
ISBN: 9781931882170
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Revised, expanded new edition of the weird science classic-a compilation of material on Anti-Gravity, Free Energy, Flying Saucer Propulsion, UFOs, Suppressed Technology, NASA Cover-ups and more. Includes: - Photos of Area 51 in Nevada - How to build a flying saucer - Arthur C. Clarke on anti-gravity - Crystals and their role in levitation - Secret government research and development - Nikola Tesla on how anti-gravity airships could draw power from the atmosphere - Bruce Cathie's Anti-Gravity Equation - NASA, the Moon and Anti-Gravity - The mysterious technology used by the ancient Hindus of the Rama Empire - The Rand Corporation's 1956 study on Gravity Control - T. Townsend Brown's electro-gravity experiments - How equations exist for electro-gravity and magneto-gravity - Schematics, photos and illustrations with patents, technical illustrations, photos, & cartoons
