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Author: Matthew Higgins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1134607369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis international collection explores how science fiction can enrich studies of organization. The papers assembled draw upon perspectives from across the arts and social sciences.
Author: Matthew Higgins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1134607350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience fiction can be seen as a diagnosis of the present, and a vision of possible futures. It therefore provides an excellent resource with which to interrogate both contemporary organizing processes and organizations as institutions. The marginal activity of science fiction has, however, been largely ignored in writing on organization theory. This international collection is the first book of its kind to explore how science fiction can enrich studies of organization by drawing on perspectives across the arts and social sciences.
Author: Michael A. Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-10
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1317266765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoli Sci Fi: An Introduction to Political Science through Science Fiction allows readers, students, and instructors to explore the multiple worlds of science fiction while gaining a firm grasp of core political science concepts. This carefully composed text is comprised of sixteen brief chapters, each of which takes a prominent science fiction film or television episode and uses it to explore fundamental components of political science. The book is designed to serve as a supplemental text for undergraduate political science courses, especially Introduction to Political Science. The structure and content of the volume is shaped around the organization and coverage of several leading texts in this area, and includes major parts devoted to theory and epistemology, political behavior, institutions, identity, states, and inter-state relations. Its emphasis on science fiction—and particularly on popular movies and television programs—speaks to the popularity of the genre as well as the growing understanding that popular culture can be an extraordinarily successful vehicle for communicating difficult yet foundational concepts, especially to introductory level college students.
Author: Gordon R. Dickson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-03-04
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780812521689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGordon R. Dickson’s “Childe Cycle” of novels depicting the future of the human race has been one of the grand epics of science fiction. At the time of his death in 2001, Dickson was writing Antagonist, the tale of Bleys Ahrens’ turn toward darkness. Now Dickson’s assistant David W. Wixon has brilliantly finished the long-awaited book, working from Dickson’s copious notes. Antagonist is a fitting capstone to one of the most ambitious series in SF history. The Childe Cycle is the story of a new human evolution: the development of a real, hardwired sense of “responsibility” shared by all human beings. Donal Graeme was a Dorsai, a mercenary soldier, and also a mutant gifted with insight into the path forward for the human race. Through his gifts Donal would come to bend time and live three lifetimes—and, in the process, run into problems he had not expected: first, his own flaws, and second, the existence of another mutant, Bleys Ahrens. Following Young Bleys and Other, Antagonist advances the story of the formidably powerful Bleys Ahrens. Bleys is a man with a clear vision of the struggle in which he’s involved -- but an increasingly deficient sense of human values. He and his organization, the Others, are tracking down an elusive interplanetary opposition. Meanwhile, Bleys' own intricate conspiracies and devisings, and his quest for power, which began with the best of motives, have become something darker and fiercer. He's committed to his plans. They may bring about the advent of Homo superior. And they may destroy the human race.
Author: Shawn Edrei
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-09-30
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1527540766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will countries, cities and homes be shaped by advanced technology? What forms might we ourselves assume? The genre of science fiction provides countless possibilities for imagining new types of spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien environments, and to purely mechanical or mutant cityscapes. This collection gathers together papers originally presented at the 2018 Science Fiction Symposium at Tel-Aviv University, a two-day conference discussing new concepts of space in science-fictional works. Featuring a transmedia approach by contributors from around the world, this volume discusses a wide and diverse array of issues in the ever-expanding field of science fiction studies, including capitalism, equality, revolution, feminist critique and the humanity of the Other.
Author: Tanner F. Boyle
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2020-12-09
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1476677409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Fort was an American researcher from the early twentieth century who cataloged reports of unexplained phenomena he found in newspapers and science journals. A minor bestseller with a cult appeal, Fort's work was posthumously republished in the pulp science fiction magazine Astounding Stories in 1934. His idiosyncratic books fascinated, scared, and entertained readers, many of them authors and editors of science fiction. Fort's work prophesied the paranormal mainstays of SF literature to come: UFOs, poltergeists, strange disappearances, cryptids, ancient mysteries, unexplained natural phenomena, and everything in between. Science fiction authors latched on to Fort's topics and hypotheses as perfect fodder for SF stories. Writers like Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, H.P. Lovecraft, and others are examined in this exploration of Fortean science fiction--a genre that borrows from the reports and ideas of Fort and others who saw the possible science-fictional nature of our reality.
Author: John Hamilton
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1617146552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title gives children the tools they need to turn their creativity into readable, cohesive stories. Written by award-winning author and screenwriter John Hamilton, You Write It! Lays out for kids the format, organization, and development of a science fiction book. Novice writers of all ages will find this book a detailed yet easy-to-follow guide for turning thoughts and ideas into readable written works. ABDO & Daughters is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Author: David Coe
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2018-01-17
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1480854700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Intelligence reports reveal that enemies of the United States have obtained a meteor with metals that might revolutionize the aerospace industry, General Montgomery Upton is tasked with building an elite special operations unit, codename: Banshee, to confront the mysterious organization and seize the meteor for the United States. However, as an elite military Special Ops team, who do you trust when everyone you thought you could depend on proves untrustworthy. Exposed to an alien Symbiote and fighting for their lives, Banshee team must battle not only their known enemies but their unknown as well, all the while contending with a strange, other worldly creature that now lives inside them. Who is the Scepter organization that seems to be somehow mixed up in all this? How did such a strange meteor become involved in such life changing events? Who is the formidable Red Devil that hunts them with a murderous passion all his own? Its continuous twists and turns as the team is plunged into a world of espionage and deceit that takes all their training and determination just to stay alive. Join the Banshee team members as they proceed ever deeper into the realm of the unknown and take us on an adventure the likes of which we have seldom read!
Author: John Cheng
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012-03-19
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0812206673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while people from around the world, including two World War I pilots, volunteered as pioneers in space exploration. Though premature (Goddard's rocket, alas, was only imagined), the episode demonstrated not only science's general popularity but also its intersection with interwar popular and commercial culture. In that intersection, the stories that inspired Goddard and others became a recognizable genre: science fiction. Astounding Wonder explores science fiction's emergence in the era's "pulps," colorful magazines that shouted from the newsstands, attracting an extraordinarily loyal and active audience. Pulps invited readers not only to read science fiction but also to participate in it, joining writers and editors in celebrating a collective wonder for and investment in the potential of science. But in conjuring fantastic machines, travel across time and space, unexplored worlds, and alien foes, science fiction offered more than rousing adventure and romance. It also assuaged contemporary concerns about nation, gender, race, authority, ability, and progress—about the place of ordinary individuals within modern science and society—in the process freeing readers to debate scientific theories and implications separate from such concerns. Readers similarly sought to establish their worth and place outside the pulps. Organizing clubs and conventions and producing their own magazines, some expanded science fiction's community and created a fan subculture separate from the professional pulp industry. Others formed societies to launch and experiment with rockets. From debating relativity and the use of slang in the future to printing purple fanzines and calculating the speed of spaceships, fans' enthusiastic industry revealed the tensions between popular science and modern science. Even as it inspired readers' imagination and activities, science fiction's participatory ethos sparked debates about amateurs and professionals that divided the worlds of science fiction in the 1930s and after.
