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Author : David Langford
Release : 2005-07-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 787/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sex Column and Other Misprints by : David Langford
Download or read book The Sex Column and Other Misprints written by David Langford. This book was released on 2005-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of columns by the author, some previously published in SFX magazine.
Author : David G. Hartwell
Release : 2009-10-20
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 37X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Year's Best SF 11 by : David G. Hartwell
Download or read book Year's Best SF 11 written by David G. Hartwell. This book was released on 2009-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the best short form science fiction of 2005, selected by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field. The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first nine volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of the year in mass market. Here, selected and compiled by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from an all-star team of science fiction authors, "Year's Best Sf 11" is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan.
Author : Beatriz Lopez
Release : 2024-07-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 155/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond by : Beatriz Lopez
Download or read book British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond written by Beatriz Lopez. This book was released on 2024-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of major cultural figures in domestic and international propaganda campaigns and throws new light on the global deployment of British propaganda and cultural diplomacy in colonial and post-colonial theatres such as Cyprus, India and Sierra Leone. Chapters re-evaluate the propaganda work of prominent writers including Arthur Koestler and Dylan Thomas in the light of new archival research, study how organisations including the BBC, British Council and Ministry of Information engaged with new media forms, analyse cultural representations of propaganda service and investigate how British literature and culture was deployed and projected as a form of soft power across the globe. Featuring contributions from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, visual culture, book history and radio history, this book brings together a constellation of established and emerging scholars to show the crucial role played in shaping and mediating the techniques and content of British information campaigns of the mid-twentieth century.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Release : 2006-07-11
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 456/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection by : Gardner Dozois
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois. This book was released on 2006-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and possibilities of cyberspace, genetics, the universe, and beyond, the world of science fiction has become a porthole into the realities of tomorrow. In The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-third Annual Collection, our very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world with such compelling stories as: "Beyond the Aquila Rift": Critically acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds takes readers to the edge of the universe, where no voyager has dared to travel before---or so we think. "Comber": Our world is an ever-changing one, and award-winning author Gene Wolfe explores the darker side of our planet's fluidity in his own beautiful and inimitable style. "Audubon in Atlantis": In a world not quite like our own, bestselling author Harry Turtledove shows us that there are reasons some species have become extinct. The twenty-nine stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Chris Beckett, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, James Patrick Kelley, Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, Ken MacLeod, Ian McDonald, Vonda N. McIntyre, David Moles, Derryl Murphy, Steven Popkes, Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Reed, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, William Sanders, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Harry Turtledove, Peter Watts, Liz Williams, and Gene Wolfe. Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.
Author : David Langford
Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 255/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Leaky Establishment by : David Langford
Download or read book The Leaky Establishment written by David Langford. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen when a "harmless" theft of office furniture lands him with his very own doomsday nuclear stockpile at home. Chain reactions of insanely comic escapades follow, with disaster piled on disaster, leading the increasingly desperate Tappen to the borders of science fiction as he seeks a way out of the mess.
