Author: Thomas Edward Smith
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244010153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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In the future mankind is splintered among the stars. A thousand different races and powers all vying for dominance. All of them are dependent upon the interstellar trade routes controlled and maintained by the Trade Lords, interstellar feudal lords bathed in blood and glory. It's a life that Simon Mai, last survivor of his family, was born into... ...and life that may eventually kill him.
Author: Jaroslav Kalfar
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316273406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery. Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Prochv°zka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him both the chance at heroism he's dreamt of, and a way to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he ventures boldly into the vast unknown. But in so doing, he leaves behind his devoted wife, Lenka, whose love, he realizes too late, he has sacrificed on the altar of his ambitions. Alone in Deep Space, Jakub discovers a possibly imaginary giant alien spider, who becomes his unlikely companion. Over philosophical conversations about the nature of love, life and death, and the deliciousness of bacon, the pair form an intense and emotional bond. Will it be enough to see Jakub through a clash with secret Russian rivals and return him safely to Earth for a second chance with Lenka? Rich with warmth and suspense and surprise, Spaceman of Bohemia is an exuberant delight from start to finish. Very seldom has a novel this profound taken readers on a journey of such boundless entertainment and sheer fun. "A frenetically imaginative first effort, booming with vitality and originality . . . Kalfar's voice is distinct enough to leave tread marks."-Jennifer Senior, New York Times
Author: Dave Addey
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 168335334X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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A designer’s deep dive into seven science fiction films, filled with “gloriously esoteric nerdery [and] observations as witty as they are keen” (Wired). In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design. The book delves deep into 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, WALL·E, and Moon, studying the design tricks and inspirations that make each film transcend mere celluloid and become a believable reality. These studies are illustrated by film stills, concept art, type specimens, and ephemera, plus original interviews with Mike Okuda (Star Trek), Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall), and Ralph Eggleston and Craig Foster (Pixar). Typeset in the Future is an obsessively geeky study of how classic sci-fi movies draw us in to their imagined worlds.
Author: Michael Goodrum
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526135949
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative of horror comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive and explores, instead, the ways in which these texts manifest white male fears over America’s changing sociological landscape. It examines two eras: the pre-CCA period of the 1940s up to 1954, and the post-CCA era to 1975. The book examines each of these periods through the lenses of war, gender, and race, demonstrating that horror comics at this time were centered on white male victimhood and the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other. It is of interest to scholars of horror, comics studies, and American history.
Author: United States. Office of Special Assistant to the Postmaster General
Publisher:
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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: J. & J. Leighton
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
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Author: Horst Woldemar Janson
Publisher: Prentice Hall Art History
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Category : Lithography
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
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Author: United States Post Office Department. Division of Philately
Publisher:
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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Category : Prints
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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