Author: Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher: Ace
ISBN: 9780441007844
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In these stories from the pages of "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", acclaimed science-fiction writers--such as Urusla K. Le Guin, Bruce Sterling, and Mike Resnick--present their own provocative visions of what an ideal world is really like.
Isaac Asimov's Utopias
Author: Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher: Ace
ISBN: 9780441007844
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In these stories from the pages of "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", acclaimed science-fiction writers--such as Urusla K. Le Guin, Bruce Sterling, and Mike Resnick--present their own provocative visions of what an ideal world is really like.
Publisher: Ace
ISBN: 9780441007844
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In these stories from the pages of "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", acclaimed science-fiction writers--such as Urusla K. Le Guin, Bruce Sterling, and Mike Resnick--present their own provocative visions of what an ideal world is really like.
Isaac Asimov's Utopia
Author: Roger MacBride Allen
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 9780441004713
Category : Robots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The world of Inferno will soon be uninhabitable unless a daring plan is enacted--drop a comet to create new rivers that would save the planet but could also destroy Inferno.
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 9780441004713
Category : Robots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The world of Inferno will soon be uninhabitable unless a daring plan is enacted--drop a comet to create new rivers that would save the planet but could also destroy Inferno.
Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction
Author: Judith A. Little
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Using selections from writers like Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree jr., and many others, this collection shows how the imagined worlds of science fiction create hold experiments for testing feminist hypotheses and for interpreting philosophical questions about humanity, gender, equality and more. Four main themes: Part 1, 'Human nature and reality', concentrates on whether there is an intrinsic difference between males and females. Part 2, 'Dystopias: the worst of all possible worlds', portrays misogynistic societies uncomfortably familiar to the early 21st-century reader. Part 3, 'Separatist utopias: worlds of difference', assembles stories that scrutinize both the virtues and vices of separatism. In Part 4, 'Androgynous utopias: worlds of equality', the authors create worlds that anticipate the consequences, good and bad, of perfect sexual equality in education, intelligence, capability, and reproduction.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Using selections from writers like Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree jr., and many others, this collection shows how the imagined worlds of science fiction create hold experiments for testing feminist hypotheses and for interpreting philosophical questions about humanity, gender, equality and more. Four main themes: Part 1, 'Human nature and reality', concentrates on whether there is an intrinsic difference between males and females. Part 2, 'Dystopias: the worst of all possible worlds', portrays misogynistic societies uncomfortably familiar to the early 21st-century reader. Part 3, 'Separatist utopias: worlds of difference', assembles stories that scrutinize both the virtues and vices of separatism. In Part 4, 'Androgynous utopias: worlds of equality', the authors create worlds that anticipate the consequences, good and bad, of perfect sexual equality in education, intelligence, capability, and reproduction.
Utopia and the Ideal Society
Author: J. C. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521275514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This text provides a major study for all those working in the fields of 16th- and 17th-century political and social thought.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521275514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This text provides a major study for all those working in the fields of 16th- and 17th-century political and social thought.
Beyond This Horizon
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1625793146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy.... But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman is definitely not a good idea.... With an all new afterword by Tony Daniel. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1625793146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy.... But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman is definitely not a good idea.... With an all new afterword by Tony Daniel. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Isaac Asimov's Inferno
Author: Roger MacBride Allen
Publisher: Millennium Orion Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781857984033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A key politician is murdered and hysteria breaks out about the free-roaming robots.Caliban, a robot, is called upon to intercede between robots & huma
Publisher: Millennium Orion Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781857984033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A key politician is murdered and hysteria breaks out about the free-roaming robots.Caliban, a robot, is called upon to intercede between robots & huma
Isaac Asimov, the Foundations of Science Fiction
Author: James E. Gunn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Galaxy book.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Galaxy book.
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Science Fiction
Author: Gerry Canavan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316733017
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316733017
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
The Utopian Fantastic
Author: Martha A. Bartter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313072612
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Utopia forms a major aspect of human desire, one that is as important as religion. Understanding utopia and the ways in which it can collapse into dystopia is crucial in many disciplines. Fantastic literature (including science fiction and fantasy) is the only form of literature that takes utopia/dystopia seriously. Therefore, analysis of these works provides a basis for serious experimentation in social science. In this volume, critics analyze contemporary literary thought experiments such as 1984 and We. They show how utopian experiments can easily slide into dystopia. Exploring these fictional sociocultural, political experiments gives us new ways to think about our lives and culture. While literature, history, and political science professors may find this book useful, it can also serve as a call to arms to anyone dedicated to maintaining freedom and humane living in the world today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313072612
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Utopia forms a major aspect of human desire, one that is as important as religion. Understanding utopia and the ways in which it can collapse into dystopia is crucial in many disciplines. Fantastic literature (including science fiction and fantasy) is the only form of literature that takes utopia/dystopia seriously. Therefore, analysis of these works provides a basis for serious experimentation in social science. In this volume, critics analyze contemporary literary thought experiments such as 1984 and We. They show how utopian experiments can easily slide into dystopia. Exploring these fictional sociocultural, political experiments gives us new ways to think about our lives and culture. While literature, history, and political science professors may find this book useful, it can also serve as a call to arms to anyone dedicated to maintaining freedom and humane living in the world today.