Clone Ladies
Clone Ladies

Author: Ming Shu

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2023-12-08

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 103582938X

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In Clone Ladies, dive into a near-future where medical advancements have made cloning not just possible, but commonplace. As technology evolves, it’s not just organs that are replicated – entire humans can now be duplicated, possessing the same abilities, thoughts, memories, and skills as their originals. While this brave new world promises enhanced happiness and longevity, it also introduces unprecedented challenges. What does it mean to be truly unique in a world of mirrors? This gripping exploration into the promises and pitfalls of cloning raises profound questions about identity, ethics, and the very essence of human existence.

My Fair Ladies
My Fair Ladies

Author: Julie Wosk

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0813575206

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The fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Yet as technology has advanced over the past century, the figure of the lifelike manmade woman has become nearly ubiquitous, popping up in everything from Bride of Frankenstein to Weird Science to The Stepford Wives. Now Julie Wosk takes us on a fascinating tour through this bevy of artificial women, revealing the array of cultural fantasies and fears they embody. My Fair Ladies considers how female automatons have been represented as objects of desire in fiction and how “living dolls” have been manufactured as real-world fetish objects. But it also examines the many works in which the “perfect” woman turns out to be artificial—a robot or doll—and thus becomes a source of uncanny horror. Finally, Wosk introduces us to a variety of female artists, writers, and filmmakers—from Cindy Sherman to Shelley Jackson to Zoe Kazan—who have cleverly crafted their own images of simulated women. Anything but dry, My Fair Ladies draws upon Wosk’s own experiences as a young female Playboy copywriter and as a child of the “feminine mystique” era to show how images of the artificial woman have loomed large over real women’s lives. Lavishly illustrated with film stills, artwork, and vintage advertisements, this book offers a fresh look at familiar myths about gender, technology, and artistic creation.

Call Me Iliad
Call Me Iliad

Author: Hector M. Santos Velez

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-05

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1430329114

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Iliad, my main character who suffers from amnesia after being shot by a pervert, is now pursued by another. Toerch is his name a man who will go to any extreme to get his way and his sights are on Iliad. So far she' managed to best him at every encounter they've had. But with every set-back, he's found new ways of retaliating. The last incident was especially hurtful for Iliad because the man shot two of her friends. One of them was Diana's brother, a policeman from California visiting her. The other was Trixie, a friend, who in the ensuing death struggle managed to put them both in the river. The raging waters separate the struggling duo and Toerch is picked up by Mahogany, an acquaintance of his. She takes him to the nearest hospital, but when he realizes she's done, getting out of there becomes a priority. He devices a clever plan and with her help, he's gone long before the law discover his whereabouts. Every officer in Athens wants to get their hands on Toerch, as does Iliad.

The Wizards of Terrastor
The Wizards of Terrastor

Author: Frank Vertin

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1682894592

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After a meeting with the stone troll, Lars a benevolent helper to this world, and the king, Edmir, the recently crowned leader of Terrastor, the long walk home lets the message of Lars teaching become painfully driven home. Terrastor isn’t a country, landmass, or even the name of a world, but rather it’s the name of the most unusual solar system you could ever imagine. Terrastor is a twin sun system that has worlds orbiting in every direction with two water worlds that travel on an independent orbit from the other planets. Due to the volatile orbits of the planetary bodies as you could imagine, collisions occur from time to time, which serves to homogenize the atmosphere allowing for travel throughout the system an easier task than would normally be experienced in other solar systems. Experience visitors from the world of giants, the hobgoblin world, and the prehistoric world and the benefits or dangers that they bring with them. Then go to the simian world, the halfling world, All the while searching for an elusive evil that takes them to the mysterious world that holds a great evil that reaches across the solar system of Terrastor to effect the royal family at its core.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds VI
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds VI

Author: Dean Wesley Smith

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003-06

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0743467531

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Written by fans especially for "Star Trek" fans, this is the sixth anthology featuring original stories based on characters from the TV shows, up to and including "Star Trek: Voyager(."

Strange New WorldsVI
Strange New WorldsVI

Author: Dean Wesley Smith

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-10-16

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1471107256

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The stories featured in Strange New Worlds VI rocket readers across the length and breadth of Federation space, from the earliest days of deep space exploration with Captain Jonathan Archer and the first USS Enterprise, to the epic journey of Captain Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the USS Voyager. All five television series are represented: Enterprise, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Several previous Strange New Worlds winners have gone on to be Star Trek novelists with official tie-ins published by Pocket Books. See what it takes to be a published Star Trek writer, and discover the novelists of the future in Strange New Worlds VI.

Mermaid Days
Mermaid Days

Author: K. Harder

Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.

Published: 2015-01-14

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1622878175

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The year is 2116 and Denmark stands in agony - or rather in the wet. Everything that can melt has already melted and all low-lying areas in the United States of Europe are under water. In addition, wars and environmental disasters have put an unmistakable stamp on the population. In this short story, we follow the brave inhabitants of New Copenhagen, which by all means try to maintain the illusion of a normal life - while they pay the price to come after us. Keywords: Global Warming, Overpopulation, Top, Genetic Modification, Regimentation, Brainwashing, Centralism, Escapism, Technology

A Clone of Your Own?
A Clone of Your Own?

Author: Arlene Judith Klotzko

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-01-16

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780521852944

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A Clone of Your Own? by Arlene Judith Klotzko takes a close look at the inevitability of cloning, and the ethical, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding it.

The Potato Crop
The Potato Crop

Author: Hugo Campos

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-12-03

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 3030286835

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of consumption. Being the only vegetatively propagated species among the world’s main five staple crops creates both issues and opportunities for the potato: on the one hand, this constrains the speed of its geographic expansion and its options for international commercialization and distribution when compared with commodity crops such as maize, wheat or rice. On the other, it provides an effective insulation against speculation and unforeseen spikes in commodity prices, since the potato does not represent a good traded on global markets. These two factors highlight the underappreciated and underrated role of the potato as a dependable nutrition security crop, one that can mitigate turmoil in world food supply and demand and political instability in some developing countries. Increasingly, the global role of the potato has expanded from a profitable crop in developing countries to a crop providing income and nutrition security in developing ones. This book will appeal to academics and students of crop sciences, but also policy makers and other stakeholders involved in the potato and its contribution to humankind’s food security.