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Author: Damon Knight
Publisher: Chicago : Advent Publishers
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the decade from 1951 to 1960 Damon Knight was the outstanding critic of science fiction books. His reviews were not mere statements of his personal preferences. His skillful essays told why they were good or bad.
Author: Michele Pierson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002-05-23
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0231500807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix, is just the latest advance in the evolution of special effects. Even as special effects have been marveled at by millions, this is the first investigation of their broader cultural reception. Moving from an exploration of nineteenth-century popular science and magic to the Hollywood science fiction cinema of our time, Special Effects examines the history, advancements, and connoisseurship of special effects, asking what makes certain types of cinematic effects special, why this matters, and for whom. Michele Pierson shows how popular science magazines, genre filmzines, and computer lifestyle magazines have articulated an aesthetic criticism of this emerging art form and have helped shape how these hugely popular on-screen technological wonders have been viewed by moviegoers.
Author: Neil Barron
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: 2004-12-30
Total Pages: 1026
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic work is an essential tool for collection development, research, reference, and readers' advisory work."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Eric Leif Davin
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780739112670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Partners in Wonder' explores our knowledge of women and science fiction between 1936 and 1965. It describes the distinctly different form of science fiction that females produced, one that was both more utopian and more empathetic than that of their male counterparts.
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-07-14
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13: 0307378322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution. Through the lives of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, who forever changed the public conception of the solar system; of Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas experiments revolutionized chemistry; and of the great Romantic writers, from Mary Shelley to Coleridge and Keats, who were inspired by the scientific breakthroughs of their day, Holmes brings to life the era in which we first realized both the awe-inspiring and the frightening possibilities of science—an era whose consequences are with us still. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Richard Holmes's Falling Upwards.
Author: Bernie Freytag
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11-02
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781087908823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFind Wonder in the Ordinary is not only the story of one person's journey back to their inner child, but it also is a guide for the reader do the same. As children, we view the world quite differently. With a sense of wonder. As we grow older, this is somewhat pushed out of us. Occasionally we all have moments where something reminds us of being a child, but they are usually fleeting moments. This book helps regain that focus. Through natural wonders and mysteries of the Universe, you are reminded how to find the fascination within ordinary things...and beyond. As the writer states, this book is "more like a drinking buddy", a companion that will definitely change how you see the world. In other words, it is a kid's book for adults.
Author: Tommy Wonder
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780945296171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Pantano
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-26
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of short stories that bend the mind, pull the heartstrings, and explore the eternal questions of existence. Originally published as videos seen by millions on Robert Pantano's popular YouTube channel Pursuit of Wonder, The Hidden Story of Every Person contains thirty-one of Pantano's short fiction stories, including The Nova Effect, The Last Thought You'll Ever Have, and The Beginning & End of Humanity. The collection offers wide-ranging reimaginations of reality, both familiar and distant, comfortable and unsettling, each story probing into different science and philosophically driven themes, including the essence of self, the nature of reality, the role of chance in life, the implications of technology, humanity's place in the cosmos, the experience of anxiety, regret, compassion, and much more. The stories contained have been re-edited and improved since their original publications in video form but broadly remain consistent.
Author: David Gerrold
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers advice for would-be science fiction writers, covering such topics as setting, plot, character, and dialogue, as well as the mechanics of grammar, tense, sentence structure, and paragraph transition.
Author: Kenn Kington
Publisher:
Published: 1999-06
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780966871203
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