The Day of Creation: A Novel
The Day of Creation: A Novel

Author: J. G. Ballard

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-05-21

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0871404044

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"As Dr. Mallory watches his clinic fail on the parched terrain of central Africa, he dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation. Joined by Noon, a silent adolscent girl who as a child ran with the local guerrillas; Professor Sanger, a documentary filmmaker with a fading reputation; and Nora Warrer, the widow of a Rhodesian veterinary surgeon, the remains of whose menagerie flourish exotically amid the land's new fertility, Mallory sets out for the river's source."--Dust jacket.

Ninth Day of Creation
Ninth Day of Creation

Author: Leonard Crane

Publisher: Connections Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 9780967571294

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A biochemist must decode hexadecimal e-mail fragments, chase assassins and confront the president of the U.S. about his secret biological warfare program.

The Day of Creation: A Novel
The Day of Creation: A Novel

Author: J. G. Ballard

Publisher: Liveright

Published: 2012-05-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780871404046

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"Compulsively absorbing: the white heat of its images seems to burn off the page, and the surreal landscapes linger on in the mind." —Independent On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transforming the Sahara into a land of abundance. But Dr. Mallory’s obsession quickly spirals dangerously out of control. First published in 1987, this classic Ballard thriller continues to resonate “with dark implications for the future of humanity” (Publishers Weekly).

J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard

Author: D. Harlan Wilson

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0252050037

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Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within SF itself.

Inlets of the Soul
Inlets of the Soul

Author: Pierre François

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-01

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 9004484949

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The relationship of myth to literature has largely been overshadowed in contemporary theory by perspectives of a linguistic or sociological orientation and by relativist, sometimes negatory, stances on all searches for meaning. This book attempts to show that myth criticism and critical theories of more recent provenance are not irreconcilable. While taking into consideration some of the more influential tenets of structuralist, post-structuralist, Marxist and feminist theory, it applies a post-Jungian ('archetypal') approach to illustrating the perennial nature of a particular myth (the Fall of Man) in two main traditions (Mesopotamian and Christian) and in the contemporary novel in English. The discussions of five major novels by William Golding, Patrick White, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Wilson Harris not only serve to expand the mythological insights achieved in the first part of the book; they also suggest the incommensurability of imaginal, novelistic life with mythology's age-old intuitions about the human condition. Myth criticism emerges from this book as an irreplaceable vantage-point from which man's lapsarian predicament can be scrutinized synchronically as archaic wisdom, contemporary anxiety, and post-colonial commitment to the building of a new human city.

The Unbiblical Bible
The Unbiblical Bible

Author: Peter K. Yonan

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2024-07-30

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1977277241

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The Word of God—or Just Words of Man? The Bible is the central book of two religions—Judaism and Christianity. The Old Testament is the purported history of the Israelites, written and compiled mostly around 500 BCE during the Babylonian Captivity of the Jews. The New Testament, which was put together around 397 CE, lays out the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, and relates the history of the early Church. With historical and scientific research, this insightful book makes a strong case that the Bible is not what it claims to be. The story of the Creation, the Great Flood, and many other cornerstone stories of the Bible are just myths . . . including Exodus. There is no evidence that the Jews were ever slaves in Egypt; they did not cross the Red Sea or roam in Sinai. There is good evidence that Jesus lived and was crucified, but many accounts of his life are not recorded anywhere else in history. The stories, commandments, and statements that Jews and Christians use to govern their lives are based in fiction. With careful skill, The Unbiblical Bible debunks the idea that the Bible is a God-given religious resource. Whether you’ve already begun to doubt the Bible or you’re new to the idea that a healthy skepticism is appropriate, this book will give you food for thought, and ideas to assist you on your path to a greater truth.