Psychohistorical Crisis
Author: Donald Kingsbury
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-10-13
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13: 9780765341952
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Author: Donald Kingsbury
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-10-13
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13: 9780765341952
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Author: Donald Kingsbury
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-10-13
Total Pages: 2154
ISBN-13: 9780765341952
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Author: Donald Kingsbury
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780739471838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Langford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2005-07-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1930997787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of columns by the author, some previously published in SFX magazine.
Author: David G. Hartwell
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-07-10
Total Pages: 958
ISBN-13: 9780765306180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe best-ever anthology of one of science fiction's most vigorous subgenres
Author: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Publisher: Tor Books
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Yu
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2010-09-07
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0307379884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis enhanced eBook includes video, audio, photographic, and linked content, as well as a bonus short story. Hear TAMMY talk. Learn the origins of Minor Universe 31. See the TM-31. Take a trip in it. Photos and illustrations appear as hyperlinked endnotes. Video and audio are embedded directly in text. *Video and audio may not play on all readers. Check your user manual for details. National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—in fact it may even save his life. Wildly new and adventurous, Yu’s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space–time.
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 055390034X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire—both scientists and scholars—and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the most influential in the history of science fiction, celebrated for their unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. In Foundation, Asimov has written a timely and timeless novel of the best—and worst—that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness.
Author: Daniel A. Kealey
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1990-07-05
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1438408536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the psychohistorical schema of Jean Gebser, Kealey analyzes the positions of "environmental ethicists" and concludes that the first four of Gebser's structures of consciousness are inadequate to meet the present crisis. Drawing on Plotinus, Aurobindo, and Max Scheler, Kealey outlines an adequate "fully integral ecological ethic."
Author: David Langford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2003-08-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1592240550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt last, _Up Through an Empty House of Stars_ brings together the best of the never before collected SF reviews and articles that helped build David Langford's towering reputation since 1980. Complementing the review columns collected in _The Complete Critical Assembly_ and the knockabout essays and squibs in _The Silence of the Langford_, this volume's 100 glittering selections mix serious critical insight with the inimitable Langford wit. In 2002 David Langford won his sixteenth Hugo award as Best Fan Writer, for critical and humorous commentary on SF. In the same year his occasionally scandalous SF newsletter _Ansible_ won its fifth Hugo. Langford also received the 2001 Hugo for best short story, and the 2002 Skylark Award. Here he shines a unique light on classics like Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Robert Heinlein and Jack Vance, and analyses major SF -- and major clunkers, and minor eccentrics -- of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, continuing to the latest by such current stars as Gene Wolfe and China Mi, ville. Plus witty asides on crime fiction and its SF links, gleeful examination of writing so bad it's almost good, and (even at his most serious) turns of phrase to make you laugh aloud