Attending Daedalus
Attending Daedalus

Author: Peter Wright

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780853238287

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This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New Sun. After exposing the concealed story at the heart of Wolfe’s magnum opus, Wright adopts a variety of approaches to establish that Wolfe is the designer of an intricate textual labyrinth intended to extend his thematic preoccupations with subjectivity, the unreliability of memory, the manipulation of individuals by social and political systems, and the psychological potency of myth, faith and symbolism into the reading experience.

Attending Daedalus
Attending Daedalus

Author: Peter Wright

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0853238189

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This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New Sun. After exposing the concealed story at the heart of Wolfe’s magnum opus, Wright adopts a variety of approaches to establish that Wolfe is the designer of an intricate textual labyrinth intended to extend his thematic preoccupations with subjectivity, the unreliability of memory, the manipulation of individuals by social and political systems, and the psychological potency of myth, faith and symbolism into the reading experience.

Military Academy
Military Academy

Author: Fouad Sabry

Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable

Published: 2024-06-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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What is Military Academy A military academy or service academy is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps. It normally provides education in a military environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Military academy Chapter 2: Second lieutenant Chapter 3: Officer candidate school Chapter 4: Military band Chapter 5: Combined Cadet Force Chapter 6: Cadet Chapter 7: Norwegian Armed Forces Chapter 8: Officer cadet Chapter 9: Commandant Chapter 10: Staff college (II) Answering the public top questions about military academy. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Military Academy.

The Fifth Head of Cerberus
The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Author: Gene Wolfe

Publisher: Orb Books

Published: 1994-03-15

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1466801131

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Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. Far from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an eternal dance. It is said a race of shapeshifters once lived here, only to perish when men came. But one man believes they can still be found, somewhere in back of the beyond. In The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe skillfully interweaves three bizarre tales to create a mesmerizing pattern: the harrowing account of the son of a mad genius who discovers his hideous heritage; a young man's mythic dreamquest for his darker half; and the bizarre chronicle of a scientist's nightmarish imprisonment. Like an intricate, braided knot, the pattern at last unfolds to reveal astonishing truths about this strange and savage alien landscape. With a new introduction by O. Henry Award winning author Brian Evenson At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Peace
Peace

Author: Gene Wolfe

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1995-06-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0312890338

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Mesmerizing sci-fi from the author the Denver Post calls "one of the literary giants of science fiction." The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living in a small midwestern town, reveals a miraculous dimension. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself.

Solar Labyrinth
Solar Labyrinth

Author: Robert Borski

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2004-05-20

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0595765378

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Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN has been hailed by both critics and readers as quite possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. And yet at the same time, like another masterpiece of fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, it's been deemed endlessly complex and filled with impenetrable mysteries. Now, however, in the first book-length investigation of Wolfe's literary puzzlebox, Robert Borski takes you inside the twisting corridors of the tetralogy and along the way reveals his solutions to many of the novel's conundrums and riddles, such as who really is Severian's lost twin sister (almost certainly not who you think) and why he believes the novel's main character may not even be the torturer Severian. Furthermore, and in essay after essay, Borski demonstrates how a single master key will unlock many of the book's secret relationships-all in the attempt to guide you through the labyrinth that is Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN.

Of Flies, Mice, and Men
Of Flies, Mice, and Men

Author: François Jacob

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780674631113

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"Tells the story of how the marvelous discoveries of molecular and developmental biology are transforming our understanding of who we are and where we came from. Jacob scrutinizes the place of the scientist in society". -- Jacket.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Author: James Joyce

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1775417891

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is semi-autobiographical, following Joyce's fictional alter-ego through his artistic awakening. The young artist Steven Dedelus begins to rebel against the Irish Catholic dogma of his childhood and discover the great philosophers and artists. He follows his artistic calling to the continent.