Memories of the Space Age
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Arkham House
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "Cape Canaveral" stories, eight stories originally published between 1962 and 1985.
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Myths of the Space Age
Author: Daniel Cohen
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpace Myths, Busted!
Author: Angie Smibert
Publisher: Science Myths, Busted!
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781632353054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExposes 12 of the most enduring myths about space. Full-color spreads give readers essential information about each myth, including why it exists, the key players who proved it wrong, and what the truth really is.
Urban Legends from Space
Author: Bob King
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1624148972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFun, Outrageous Space Stories, Debunked! In this Internet age where science fiction masquerades as fact, even the most rational person might find themselves wondering: Could NASA have faked the moon landings? Are we sure the government isn’t using chemtrails to experiment on people? And did NASA really spend millions on “space pens”? Urban Legends from Space cuts through the fog of myth to bring the truth behind these questions, and 48 other celestial legends, out into the open. In examining the shaky claims behind these many misconceptions and taking us step-by-step through the concrete evidence that contradicts them, expert Bob King debunks each myth and exposes the scientific truth at its core. Along the way, King offers us the tools we need to become more discerning observers of the world around us and more responsible sharers of information overall.
Remembering the space age: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference
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Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780160867118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoviet Space Mythologies
Author: Slava Gerovitch
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2015-06-18
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0822980967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space, or were they mere passengers riding safely aboard fully automated machines? Tensions between Soviet cosmonauts and space engineers were reflected not only in the internal development of the space program but also in Soviet propaganda that wavered between praising daring heroes and flawless technologies. Soviet Space Mythologies explores the history of the Soviet human space program within a political and cultural context, giving particular attention to the two professional groups—space engineers and cosmonauts—who secretly built and publicly represented the program. Drawing on recent scholarship on memory and identity formation, this book shows how both the myths of Soviet official history and privately circulating counter-myths have served as instruments of collective memory and professional identity. These practices shaped the evolving cultural image of the space age in popular Soviet imagination. Soviet Space Mythologies provides a valuable resource for scholars and students of space history, history of technology, and Soviet (and post-Soviet) history.
Remembering the Space Age
Author: Steven J. Dick
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Publisher: Proceedings of October 2007 conference, sponsored by the NASA History Division and the National Air and Space Museum, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch in October 1957 and the dawn of 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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Myths for the Modern Age
Author: Win Scott Eckert
Publisher: Monkeybrain
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781932265149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his classic biographies of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip Jose Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSE FARMER'S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer's successors-scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians-who bring even more fictional characters into the fold.
TechGnosis
Author: Erik Davis
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2015-03-17
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1583949305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTechGnosis is a cult classic of media studies that straddles the line between academic discourse and popular culture; it appeals to both those secular and spiritual, to fans of cyberpunk and hacker literature and culture as much as new-thought adherents and spiritual seekers How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? In TechGnosis—a cult classic now updated and reissued with a new afterword—Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication. Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as electricity and alchemy; online roleplaying games and religious and occult practices; virtual reality and gnostic mythology; programming languages and Kabbalah. The final chapters address the apocalyptic dreams that haunt technology, providing vital historical context as well as new ways to think about a future defined by the mutant intermingling of mind and machine, nightmare and fantasy.
