The Revolution from Rosinante
The Revolution from Rosinante

Author: Alexis A. Gilliland

Publisher:

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781615083817

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THE CAMPBELL AWARD WINNING NOVEL. The reluctant revolutionary! Charles Cantrell thought he had enough headaches as project manager of a crew building a habitat on the asteroid, Rosinante. Then some dunderheaded politician back on Earth shipped several thousand perfectly innocent political prisoners to Rosinante to escape embarrassment. Suddenly, Charles found the habitat transformed from an engineering project to a colony - and he was in charge! Every one of the new arrivals had an axe to grind, and Charles seemed to be the whetstone they liked to grind their blades on. Then Earth decided it wanted several of the prisoners back, and Charles refused to surrender them. Now Earth's space navy is on its way to seize control of the asteroid. To preserve his own freedom, and that of everyone now on Rosinante, Charles is forced to turn revolutionary. But how can one small group stranded on a tiny worldlet billions of miles from anywhere possibly resist the military might of Terra? "Big engineering, and the right people in the right place, trump political turmoil, economic collapse, and sinister political agendas. Add Independence, big science [and] tons of ill-gotten booty ... will make you believe that normal people with a dream can win out in the end! A feel-good story for our times." -Bear Peters. "Gilliland's quirky mix of eccentric characters, cynical power politics, and old-style engineering-in-space-hard-sf works ... fun to read. " -Dani Zweig's Reviews. First book in The Rosinante Trilogy. Alexis A. Gilliland is a science fiction and fantasy writer, as well as a fan cartoonist highly regarded for an acerbic wit. Gilliland won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for The Revolution from Rosinante in 1982, and has won four Hugo Awards for Best Fan Artist. His other books include The End of the Empire and the Wizenbeak Trilogy.

To Be Continued
To Be Continued

Author: Hope Apple

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2000-10-10

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0313095981

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Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continueddebuted in 1995. Noew, readers will be happy that the soon-to-be-released second edition has added 1,600 new books and 400 new series. To Be Continued, Second Edition, maintians the first volume's successful formula that featured concise A-to-Z entries packed with useful information, including titles, publishers, publication dates, genre categories, annotations, and subject terms. Among the genre categories that can be found in To Be Continued are romance, science fiction, crime novel, horror, adventure, fantasy, humor, western, war, Christian fiction, and others.

Rosinante to the Road Again
Rosinante to the Road Again

Author: John Dos Passos

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13:

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"Spain," he said, "is the most civilized country in Europe. The growth of our civilization has never been interrupted by outside influence. The Phoenicians, the Romans—Spain's influence on Rome was, I imagine, fully as great as Rome's on Spain; think of the five Spanish emperors;—the Goths, the Moors;—all incidents, absorbed by the changeless Iberian spirit.... Even Spanish Christianity," he continued, smiling, "is far more Spanish than it is Christian..." "Rosinante to the Road Again" is a novel set in Madrid, Spain. It follows the quest of Telemachus, a man who is looking for his father as he rides on his horse named Rosinante.

Up from Communism
Up from Communism

Author: John P. Diggins

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780231084895

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This study explains how the radical experience of a generation of writers influenced the cultural and political climate of post-World War II USA and provided much of the conservative rationale for the early years of the Cold War.

The Stuff of Science Fiction
The Stuff of Science Fiction

Author: Gary Westfahl

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-09-23

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1476686599

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While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeatedly addressed in science fiction of recent centuries. Based on a packet of original essays that the author assembled for his classes, the book could serve as a supplemental textbook in science fiction classes, but also contains material of interest to science fiction scholars and others devoted to the genre. In some cases, chapters offer thorough surveys of numerous works involving certain subjects, such as imagined vehicles, journeys beneath the Earth and undersea adventures, discovering intriguing patterns in the ways that various writers developed their ideas. When comprehensive coverage of ubiquitous topics such as robots, aliens and the planet Mars is impossible, chapters focus on major themes referencing selected texts. A conclusion discusses other science fiction subjects that were omitted for various reasons, and a bibliography lists additional resources for the study of science fiction in general and the topics of each chapter.

Don Quixote
Don Quixote

Author: Slav N. Gratchev

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1611488583

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This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point of re-accentuation, i.e. having in mind one of the key Bakhtinian concepts that will serve as a theoretical framework. A primary objective was therefore to articulate, relying on the concept of re-accentuation, that the history of the novel has benefited enormously from the re-accentuation of Don Quixote helping us to shape countless iconic novels from the eighteenth century, and to see how Cervantes’s title character has been reinterpreted to suit the needs of a variety of cultures across time and space.

To be Continued
To be Continued

Author: Merle Jacob

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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This guide identifies both in-print and out-of-print works of fiction featuring continuing themes, plots or characters in which there is a sense of development and passage of time. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author and are accompanied by bibliographic information.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991

Author: R. Reginald

Publisher: Detroit : Gale Research

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 1536

ISBN-13:

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Science fiction constitutes one of the largest and most widely read genres in literature, and this reference provides bibliographical data on some 20,000 science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction books, as well as nonfiction monographs about the literature. A companion to Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1700-1974 (Gale, 1979), the present volume is alphabetically arranged by approximately 10,000 author names. The entry for each individual work includes title, publisher, date and place published, number of pages, hardbound or paperback format, and type of book (novel, anthology, etc.). Where appropriate, entries also provide translation notes, series information, pseudonyms, and remarks on special features (such as celebrity introductions). Includes indexes of titles, series, awards, and "doubles" (for locating volumes containing two novels). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.