Science Fiction: Vision of Tomorrow?

Science Fiction: Vision of Tomorrow?

Author: Richard Hantula

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2004-12-15

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780836839524

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Compares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.


Playboy Book of Science Fiction

Playboy Book of Science Fiction

Author: Alice K. Turner

Publisher: Eos

Published: 1999-02-01

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780061073427

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A unique and intriguing collection of short stories from such contributors as Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, and Ursula K. LeGuin covers such topics as the Golden Age, New Wave, Cyberpunk, and Virtual Sex. Reprint.


People of the Book

People of the Book

Author: Rachel Swirsky

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781607012382

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Collects twenty short stories of Jewish science fiction and fantasy from the 2000s, including Eliot Fintushel's "How the Little Rabbi Grew," Neil Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan," Tamar Yellin's "Reuben," and others.


The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

Author: Ted Chiang

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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This curious time-travel novella is a gracefully told lesson about accepting fate-or, as better suits this medieval Arabian setting, the will of Allah. A Baghdad merchant discovers an alchemical device that can send a traveler back in time 20 years. Despite the alchemist's warning that "what is made cannot be unmade," and three illustrative tales about others' attempts to alter the past, the merchant is determined to return to an earlier time to save his long-dead wife


A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Author: Walter M. Miller

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 2001-10-18

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 9780575072206

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First there was the Fallout, the plagues and the madness. Then the bloodletting of the Simplification began, when the people - those few who were left - turned against the rulers, the teachers and the scientists who had turned the world into a barren desert, where great clouds of wrath had destroyed the forests and the fields. All knowledge was destroyed, all the learned killed - and only Leibowitz managed to save some of his books. And the monks of the Order of Leibowitz kept the sacred relics, copying, illuminating and interpreting the holy fragments, slowly fashioning a new Renaissance in a barbarous and fallen world.


The Science Fiction and Fantasy World of Tim White

The Science Fiction and Fantasy World of Tim White

Author: Tim White

Publisher: Avery Publishing Group

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9781850280576

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Tim White’s paintings give shape to the fantastic, to the might-have-been and what-still-could-happen. With its frequently optimistic tone and obsessive attention to detail, White’s art offers a convincing landscape of the imagi-nation. “A collection of White’s vivid commercial works spanning a decade....the captivating paintings that transport the viewer from the outwardly familiar to the alien skies.” —Publishers Weekly.