Apple Trees on Mars (Russian)
Apple Trees on Mars (Russian)

Author: Т Скоренко

Publisher:

Published: 2014-01-04

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9785905360275

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It's likely that soon literature about Mars will become a science fiction of near future, the one that after reading you can test in this lifetime. But human nature is impatient. And thus enthusiasts of the project "Mars-Tefo" decided to go ahead of time. We are already building analog of Mars station and create interactorium for kids and adults taking into account all scientific developments in this area. Science fiction writers are the ones who help us look into the future, because without the games of imagination, based solely on dry scientific facts, futurology is simply dull and untrustworthy. How to reach you dream? How to seize it? What will colonization of Mars eventually lead to? Authors of "Apple trees on Mars" are answering these questions. And even though it is unlikely that Martian trees will bloom in this century, it is still better to set the higher goal, right?

Visions of Mars
Visions of Mars

Author: Howard V. Hendrix,

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2011-02-21

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0786484705

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Seventeen wide-ranging essays explore the evolving scientific understanding of Mars, and the relationship between that understanding and the role of Mars in literature, the arts and popular culture. Essays in the first section examine different approaches to Mars by scientists and writers Jules Verne and J.H. Rosny. Section Two covers the uses of Mars in early Bolshevik literature, Wells, Brackett, Burroughs, Bradbury, Heinlein, Dick and Robinson, among others. The third section looks at Mars as a cultural mirror in science fiction. Essayists include prominent writers (e.g., Kim Stanley Robinson), scientists and literary critics from many nations.

Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age
Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age

Author: Natalija Majsova

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-04-28

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1793609322

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This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a promising and uncanny present, and eventually an assemblage of nostalgic signifiers, in the history of world cinema, this space age has been linked primarily to the genre of science fiction. Here, aspects of the space age such as humanity’s imminent expansion to space, interplanetary travel, contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, and intergalactic governance and economy were both celebrated and critically interrogated as cosmopolitan ideals and nation-branding strategies. This book presents the contemporary relevance of this genre as heritage and legacy, archive and canon, and a nest of forgotten ideals and warnings, as well as nostalgic anchoring points. The author analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space age. Concepts, crucial to the understanding of space futures of the past, such as utopianism, otherness, liminality, and no(w)stalgia are activated to draw out the fictional tenants of the memory of the Soviet space age, and to establish the limits and potentialities of Soviet (exra)terraformative ambitions.

Russia on Reels
Russia on Reels

Author: Birgit Beumers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1999-12-31

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0755605896

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This is the first book to deal exclusively with Russian cinema of the 1990s. It introduces readers to the currents and common interests of contemporary Russian cinema, offers close studies of the work of filmmakers like Sokurov, Muratova and Astrakhan, reviews the Russian film industry in a period of massive economic transformation, and assesses cinema's function as a definer of Russia's new identity.

Rare Order and Rules in Chaos of Lottery Outcomes
Rare Order and Rules in Chaos of Lottery Outcomes

Author: Yury Goldyrev

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1532081111

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Have you ever wanted to get anything for nothing? Have you ever noticed a temporary order inside the outcomes of absolutely accidental events? Are you among those who have ever tried to reveal an enigma? Well, join the community in that cause. This book is about my unique and, on the whole, victorious ways into the world of lotteries. Up to the summer of 2019 playing lotteries and collecting their prizes have always been more like my hobby than a kind of business because, limitedly, for 3 summer months can I be a lotto player and the rest of the time a successful English tutor, busy with numerous students. Once, on a 1985 spring day, I took part in a Pick 5in 35 draw. A few months later I won my first 4in5 prize with a payout of RR. Today, with all my lotto background summarized in this book, I agree wholeheartly with my Canadian friend Derek’s opinion at the end of his June 22, 2019 email: “With each email I follow your fantastic progress in TOP 3,...the hunch Yury, you have to play the hunch. ...Yes, APS is strong like MOG if ‘CHANCE’ is out to play and if MOG confirms APS. Confirmation is what I seek using MOG-APS and various strategies in GH. Use your inner talent, Yury. I’ve seen it for years, now bet on it. You are a strong player. Your MOG and my APS in KENO are fantastic player strategies no one else has.” In 2005 Derek came across my “The Proven Lotto System” document on eBay and he turned out to be a KENO winner with his own APS lotto system.

A Multiple Community
A Multiple Community

Author: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Publisher: Edições Sesc

Published: 2018-11-22

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 8594931255

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The proposal of this second volume of Leituras is to address the debate on the global South from other models of constructing reality and to speculate on the potential impact of alternative forms of organization on current times. To this end, it compiles a series of non-Western cosmologies which, while not new, present renewed interest and originality for their reduced visibility. Such forms of organization condense a more integrated kind of involvement of the individual with the collective, but also with his symbolic and natural environment; therefore, they have a direct impact on how reality is understood and constructed. This e-book features images that are best viewed on tablets.

The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling
The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling

Author: Andrew L. Jenks

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1501757687

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"Let's go!" With that, the boyish, grinning Yuri Gagarin launched into space on April 12, 1961, becoming the first human being to exit Earth's orbit. The twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant colonel departed for the stars from within the shadowy world of the Soviet military-industrial complex. Barbed wires, no-entry placards, armed guards, false identities, mendacious maps, and a myriad of secret signs had hidden Gagarin from prying outsiders—not even his friends or family knew what he had been up to. Coming less than four years after the Russians launched Sputnik into orbit, Gagarin's voyage was cause for another round of capitalist shock and Soviet rejoicing. The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling relates this twentieth-century icon's remarkable life while exploring the fascinating world of Soviet culture. Gagarin's flight brought him massive international fame—in the early 1960s, he was possibly the most photographed person in the world, flashing his trademark smile while rubbing elbows with the varied likes of Nehru, Castro, Queen Elizabeth II, and Italian sex symbol Gina Lollobrigida. Outside of the spotlight, Andrew L. Jenks reveals, his tragic and mysterious death in a jet crash became fodder for morality tales and conspiracy theories in his home country, and, long after his demise, his life continues to provide grist for the Russian popular-culture mill. This is the story of a legend, both the official one and the one of myth, which reflected the fantasies, perversions, hopes and dreams of Gagarin's fellow Russians. With this rich, lively chronicle of Gagarin's life and times, Jenks recreates the elaborately secretive world of space-age Russia while providing insights into Soviet history that will captivate a range of readers.