Author: Jim Theis
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809562618
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction. Instead, a miracle happened, and transcribed and photocopied texts began to circulate in science fiction circles, gaining a wide and incredulous audience among both professionals and fans. It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose.
The Eye of Argon
Author: Jim Theis
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809562618
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction. Instead, a miracle happened, and transcribed and photocopied texts began to circulate in science fiction circles, gaining a wide and incredulous audience among both professionals and fans. It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809562618
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction. Instead, a miracle happened, and transcribed and photocopied texts began to circulate in science fiction circles, gaining a wide and incredulous audience among both professionals and fans. It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose.
Grïgnyr the Ecordian: A Retelling of the Eye of Argon
Author: Geoff Bottone
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781798747803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In 1970, Jim Theis penned a fantasy novella called The Eye of Argon. It would soon become immortalized in fandom as the "worst fantasy story ever." Mr. Theis claimed that he was so hurt by the constant mockery that he would never write anything ever again. In 2018, Geoff Bottone read The Eye of Argon for, perhaps, the dozenth time and discovered, to his surprise, that there was an actual story lurking beneath the misspellings and malapropisms of the original. With editing pen in hand, he set out on a lonely, and perhaps futile, quest to redeem Mr. Theis' work by using its foundation to tell an interesting and fun story.That story has now been finished, and it is up to you to judge whether Mr. Bottone's efforts were successful, or merely mad folly.For Ecordia!
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781798747803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In 1970, Jim Theis penned a fantasy novella called The Eye of Argon. It would soon become immortalized in fandom as the "worst fantasy story ever." Mr. Theis claimed that he was so hurt by the constant mockery that he would never write anything ever again. In 2018, Geoff Bottone read The Eye of Argon for, perhaps, the dozenth time and discovered, to his surprise, that there was an actual story lurking beneath the misspellings and malapropisms of the original. With editing pen in hand, he set out on a lonely, and perhaps futile, quest to redeem Mr. Theis' work by using its foundation to tell an interesting and fun story.That story has now been finished, and it is up to you to judge whether Mr. Bottone's efforts were successful, or merely mad folly.For Ecordia!
Argon
Author: E. L. Patrick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995814103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The first child vanishes early one evening, rocking the calm border town of Argon. Twelve-year-old Robbie Larsen watches his friend disappear but buries the haunting truth in a bid for acceptance. As the search stretches from hours into days, suspicion and fear cast some into a frenzy and turn the spotlight square on the newest citizens of Argon: the Larsens. When a second child disappears, Robbie discovers a dark secret that threatens to tear the town-and his family-apart. Argon is a story of a search for community among strangers, the devastating effect of secrets we hide and choices we make, and the subtle inhumanity that lurks inside us all.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995814103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The first child vanishes early one evening, rocking the calm border town of Argon. Twelve-year-old Robbie Larsen watches his friend disappear but buries the haunting truth in a bid for acceptance. As the search stretches from hours into days, suspicion and fear cast some into a frenzy and turn the spotlight square on the newest citizens of Argon: the Larsens. When a second child disappears, Robbie discovers a dark secret that threatens to tear the town-and his family-apart. Argon is a story of a search for community among strangers, the devastating effect of secrets we hide and choices we make, and the subtle inhumanity that lurks inside us all.
Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue
Author: John Scalzi
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1466822066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. An over-the-top, humorous short story representing the prologue for a "future" book (written as an April Fool's Joke) published on Tor.com. The title of the series and book was created from an amalgamation of the most commonly used words in fantasy and science fiction novels over the previous decade. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1466822066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. An over-the-top, humorous short story representing the prologue for a "future" book (written as an April Fool's Joke) published on Tor.com. The title of the series and book was created from an amalgamation of the most commonly used words in fantasy and science fiction novels over the previous decade. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Argon Factor
Author: Heather Harlow
Publisher: Heather Harlow Books
ISBN: 9781627471718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In a futuristic world, where Earth's cities are still recovering from being ravaged by gang wars, cyber crime is at it's peak and threatens the world's digitized monetary supply.Susan Caldwell, is a newly hired security development manager at GTS, the company that controls the world's monetary supply and data. The sophisticated systems have been hacked and now people on Susan's team are being killed while they try to fix the breach.Susan, who trusts no man, must rely upon the GTS CEO, Christoph Baldric, to keep her safe. Little does she know that he's the Argon alien commander on Earth. She doesn't want a hookup with him, especially since she has plans for her own future and having a baby through the fertility clinic. She's excited about her pending future, that is, if she is still alive.Christoph Baldric's mission is to protect the Earth's humans and nurture them so that eventually his people can merge with the humans. Christoph's planet, Argon, was blown up when their major sun exploded into a black hole. The people of Argon have been studying and nurturing Earth for many millennia as a new, potential home. Now is the time to make Earth their home and begin merging with Earth's humans, making both races stronger. But first, they must save Earth from the Grogan's, the Argon nemesis from their home universe, Baldracon, who want to eliminate all life on Earth and take the planet for their own.
Publisher: Heather Harlow Books
ISBN: 9781627471718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In a futuristic world, where Earth's cities are still recovering from being ravaged by gang wars, cyber crime is at it's peak and threatens the world's digitized monetary supply.Susan Caldwell, is a newly hired security development manager at GTS, the company that controls the world's monetary supply and data. The sophisticated systems have been hacked and now people on Susan's team are being killed while they try to fix the breach.Susan, who trusts no man, must rely upon the GTS CEO, Christoph Baldric, to keep her safe. Little does she know that he's the Argon alien commander on Earth. She doesn't want a hookup with him, especially since she has plans for her own future and having a baby through the fertility clinic. She's excited about her pending future, that is, if she is still alive.Christoph Baldric's mission is to protect the Earth's humans and nurture them so that eventually his people can merge with the humans. Christoph's planet, Argon, was blown up when their major sun exploded into a black hole. The people of Argon have been studying and nurturing Earth for many millennia as a new, potential home. Now is the time to make Earth their home and begin merging with Earth's humans, making both races stronger. But first, they must save Earth from the Grogan's, the Argon nemesis from their home universe, Baldracon, who want to eliminate all life on Earth and take the planet for their own.
The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon
Author: Bert Coules
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435232931
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play is a dramatization of Daniel Keyes's story about a retarded adult who desperately wants to be able to read and write.
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435232931
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play is a dramatization of Daniel Keyes's story about a retarded adult who desperately wants to be able to read and write.
Rhapsody
Author: Elizabeth Haydon
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812570816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Fantasy-roman.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812570816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Fantasy-roman.
Whole Wide World
Author: Paul McAuley
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765340276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Science fiction-roman.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765340276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Science fiction-roman.
The Periodic Table
Author: Primo Levi
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0679444637
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him. The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0679444637
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him. The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe
Author: Alex White
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316412082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A crew of outcasts tries to find a legendary ship before it falls into the hands of those who would use it as a weapon in this science fiction adventure series for fans of The Expanse and Firefly. A washed-up treasure hunter, a hotshot racer, and a deadly secret society. They're all on a race against time to hunt down the greatest warship ever built. Some think the ship is lost forever, some think it's been destroyed, and some think it's only a legend, but one thing's for certain: whoever finds it will hold the fate of the universe in their hands. And treasure that valuable can never stay hidden for long. . .
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316412082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A crew of outcasts tries to find a legendary ship before it falls into the hands of those who would use it as a weapon in this science fiction adventure series for fans of The Expanse and Firefly. A washed-up treasure hunter, a hotshot racer, and a deadly secret society. They're all on a race against time to hunt down the greatest warship ever built. Some think the ship is lost forever, some think it's been destroyed, and some think it's only a legend, but one thing's for certain: whoever finds it will hold the fate of the universe in their hands. And treasure that valuable can never stay hidden for long. . .