Author: Avram Davidson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144054588X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Earth is flat, empty, weary, and bare. Her children, too, had left her, all but a few who lived peacefully off the land. And then came the Kar-Chee, to crack Earth open and suck out what remained of her richness, threatening the twilight of th old planet with an evil beyond anything that had gone before. With them they brought their servants, beasts so creul and horrible that men could recall their like only from ancestral nightmares, and named them “Dragons . . .”
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780441732944
Category : Life on other planets
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Author: Avram Davidson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440545901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Prime World: Home of the Universe’s Most Elite Dragon Hunt Generations after Liam and his tribe defend Britland from the Devils that threatened Earth, new danger stalks on her forests and rebuilt cities. The Hunt Corporation has turned the remote, nearly forgotten Prime World into a game preserve. Far away from the meddling of the Confederation, the rich and carefree have turned the tables on their enemies of old. The prey: the dragons of the Kar-Chee. But the locals—descendents from the same humans who fought off the insect-like dragon masters a few hundred years before—are far from satisfied with the new ruling class. Violent and angry, they protect secrets and conspiracies that could bring the Hunt Corporation to its knees . . . or turn Prime World into another feudal playground for centuries to come.
Author: Firdawsī
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670034857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire. 15,000 first printing.
Author: Stanley G. Weinbaum
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026895851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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"The Black Flame" starts several hundred years after most of mankind is wiped out by a plague and tells the story of a family of immortals who seek to conquer the world with advanced science. Its story concerns a brother and sister who have become immortal.
Author: Gary Westfahl
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476677387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these conspicuous gaps in the critical literature by focusing on various connections between science fiction and economics, with some attention to related fields such as politics and government. Its seventeen contributors include five award-winning scholars, five science fiction writers, and a widely published economist. Three topics are covered: what noted science fiction writers like Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, and Kim Stanley Robinson have had to say about our economic and political future; how the competitive and ever-changing publishing marketplace has affected the growth and development of science fiction from the nineteenth century to today; and how the scholars who examine science fiction have themselves been influenced by the economics of academia. Although the essays focus primarily on American science fiction, the traditions of Russian and Chinese science fiction are also examined. A comprehensive bibliography of works related to science fiction and economics will assist other readers and critics who are interested in this subject.
Author: R. Reginald
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0941028763
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Author: Avram Davidson
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612102859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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When the menace of Dr. Ludwig Sanzmann first appeared, like a cloud no bigger than a man's hand, Dr. Fred B. Turbyfil, at twenty-seven, had been the youngest museum director in the country; and now at thirty-five he was still one of the youngest.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473205840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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'She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS 'A tour de force' EVENING STANDARD Earth-scientist Rocannon has been leading an ethnological survey on a remote world populated by three native races: the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia, and the warrior clan, Liuar. But when the technologically primitive planet is suddenly invaded by a fleet of ships from the stars, rebels against the League of All Worlds, Rocannon is the only survey member left alive. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this newly discovered world - and finds that legends grow around him as he fights.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062470949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati Enquirer The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Darkness Box" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
