The Myth and Reality of Space Exploration – the Final Frontier
The Myth and Reality of Space Exploration – the Final Frontier

Author: Deon L. Pinson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-06-02

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1462882218

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Using humor, science, and science fiction, the author describes the next generation of space exploration, which is both possible and on the near horizon. Mankind fails, in some respect, to make the next leap, no matter what the subject or endeavor is about. Some, satisfied that they have achieved the goal, establish no new goal, and in essence, do not take their idea to the next level, and the next after that. The United States and the world got to space, then quit and became complacent. As a species, mankind, we are ready now for that next leap, first to the planet Mars, then beyond to the rest of the solar system. Once the next test is finalized, the universe opens to mankind, because the next risk is the last risk in establishing our identity universally. We, the aliens from Earth, will land. The final frontier opens up for the voyages of the future. Read the book, understand the reality, and in both life and beyond your present realities, always take another step. Jedidiah

Space, the Final Frontier?
Space, the Final Frontier?

Author: Giancarlo Genta

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-02-13

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780521814034

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What are our motivations for going into space? Where does our long-term space future lie? Why, and how, should we strive to reach, if not for the stars, at least for the Moon and Mars? This exciting book looks first at the progress that has already been made in our attempts to explore and expand beyond the Earth. Current and past space technologies and space stations are described, and the effects of the space environment on the human body are explained. A discussion of the merits of the robotic exploration of space is followed by a look at our exploration of the Moon and Mars. Final chapters touch on propulsion methods required for leaving our solar system, and ask which of the possibilities for future space travel is most likely to succeed. This thought provoking book will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of space exploration.

The Myths of Reality
The Myths of Reality

Author: Simon Danser

Publisher: Heart of Albion

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 187288380X

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'The Myths of Reality' reveals how reality is culturally constructed in an ever-continuing process from mythic fragments transmitted by the mass media and adapted through face-to-face and Internet conversations.

The Postnational Fantasy
The Postnational Fantasy

Author: Masood Ashraf Raja

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0786485558

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In twelve critical and interdisciplinary essays, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science fiction and postcolonialism, issues of ethnicity, nation and transnational discourse. Altogether, these essays chart a new discursive space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fantasy studies work cooperatively to expand our understanding of the fantastic, while simultaneously expanding the scope of postcolonial discussions.

Politicians and Rhetoric
Politicians and Rhetoric

Author: J. Charteris-Black

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-10-26

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0230319890

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This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to understand how politicians are able to persuade.

Star Trek as Myth
Star Trek as Myth

Author: Matthew Wilhelm Kapell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2010-03-16

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0786455942

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In the past, the examination of myth has traditionally been the study of the "Primitive" or the "Other." More recently, myth has been increasingly employed in movies and in television productions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Star Trek television and movie franchise. This collection of essays on Star Trek brings together perspectives from scholars in fields including film, anthropology, history, American studies and biblical scholarship. Together the essays examine the symbolism, religious implications, heroic and gender archetypes, and lasting effects of the Star Trek "mythscape."

Neo-Frontier Spaces in Science Fiction Television
Neo-Frontier Spaces in Science Fiction Television

Author: Sebastian J. Müller

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2023-04-17

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 147664957X

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The idea of the frontier--once, the geographical borderline moving further and further West across the North American continent--has shaped American science fiction television since its beginnings. TV series have long adapted the frontier myth to outer space and have explored American Wests of the future. This book takes a deeper look at the futuristic frontiers within such series as Star Trek, Firefly, Terra Nova, Defiance and The 100, revealing how they rethink colonialism, the environment, spaces of risk and utopian/dystopian worlds. Harnessing forms of speculation and the post-apocalyptic imagination, these series engage with matters of the present, from the legacies of colonialism to climate change and the increasing integration of humans and technologies. In doing so, these series question in novel ways the very idea of borders and reshape cultural binaries such as Self/Other, wilderness/civilization, city/nature, human/non-human and utopia/dystopia.

The Artificial Paradise
The Artificial Paradise

Author: Sharona Ben-Tov

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780472105809

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Why do Americans find it appealing to create and live in artificial worlds--whether in space, at Disneyland, in computer networks, or in our own minds?

Star Trek and the British Age of Sail
Star Trek and the British Age of Sail

Author: Stefan Rabitsch

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-12-06

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 147663419X

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Clear all moorings, one-half impulse power and set course for a mare incognitum... A popular culture artifact of the New Frontier/Space Race era, Star Trek is often mistakenly viewed as a Space Western. However, the Western format is not what governs the worldbuilding of Star Trek, which was, after all, also pitched as "Hornblower in space." Star Trek is modeled on the world of the "British Golden Age of Sail" as it is commonly found in the genre of sea fiction. This book re-historicizes and remaps the origins of the franchise and subsequently the entirety of its fictional world--the Star Trek continuum--on an as yet uncharted transatlantic bearing.