Энциклопедии научной фантастики и фентези
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Write the Perfect Book Proposal 10 That Sold and WhyJeff Herman, Deborah Levine Herman “Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 That Sold and Why, 2nd Edition"
Wiley | 2001-05-04 | ISBN: 0471353124 | 208 pages | PDF | 1,3 Mb
Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman (Consciousness, Literature & the Arts)William, S. Haney, 2nd , «Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman»
Rodopi | ISBN 9042019484 | 2006-02-01 | 202 pages | PDF | 1.5 Mb
Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements. Posthumanism envisions a biology/machine symbiosis that will promote this extension, arguably at the expense of the natural tendency of the mind to move toward pure consciousness.
The Solaris Effect: Art and Artifice in Contemporary American FilmSteven Dillon, "The Solaris Effect: Art and Artifice in Contemporary American Film"
University of Texas Press | ISBN 0292713444 | November 1, 2006 | PDF | 280 Pages | 1.6MB
What do contemporary American movies and directors have to say about the relationship between nature and art? How do science fiction films like Steven Spielberg's A.I. and Darren Aronofsky's π represent the apparent oppositions between nature and culture, wild and tame?
Steven Dillon's intriguing new volume surveys American cinema from 1990 to 2002 with substantial descriptions of sixty films, emphasizing small-budget independent American film. Directors studied include Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, Todd Haynes, Harmony Korine, and Gus Van Sant, as well as more canonical figures like Martin Scorcese, Robert Altman, David Lynch, and Steven Spielberg. The book takes its title and inspiration from Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film Solaris, a science fiction ghost story that relentlessly explores the relationship between the powers of nature and art. The author argues that American film has the best chance of aesthetic success when it acknowledges that a film is actually a film. The best American movies tell an endless ghost story, as they perform the agonizing nearness and distance
Science Fact and Science Fiction: An EncyclopediaScience Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia
Routledge | 2006-09-06 | ISBN: 0415974607 | 760 pages | PDF | 3,9 MB
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings.
Hollywood Utopia: Ecology In Contemporary American CinemaHollywood Utopia: Ecology In Contemporary American Cinema
Intellect Books | 2005 | ISBN 1841509124 | English | 272 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
Utopianism, alongside its more prevalent dystopian opposite together with ecological study has become a magnet for interdisciplinary research and is used extensively to examine the most influential global medium of all time. The book applies a range of interdisciplinary strategies to trace the evolution of ecological representations in Hollywood film from 1950s to the present, which has not been done on this scale before. Many popular science fiction, westerns, nature and road movies, as listed in the filmography are extensively analysed while particularly privileging ecological moments of sublime expression often dramatized in the closing moments of these films.
Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American FictionGordon E. Slethaug, Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction
State University of New York Press | ISBN 0791447421 | 2000 | PDF | 0.9 MB | 240 Pages
Beautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also--and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction--through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory.
Geoffrey Ashe, "Encyclopedia of Prophecy"Geoffrey Ashe, "Encyclopedia of Prophecy"
ABC-Clio Inc. | ISBN 1576070794 | 2001 Year | CHM | 4,25 Mb | 400 Pages
Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer LimitsGary Westfahl, «Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits»
Yale University Press | ISBN: 0300108001 | 2005-10-10 | 488 pages | PDF | 1.5 Mb
In this unprecedented collection of science fiction and fantasy quotations, the reader revisits the stunning moment when Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein monster first comes to life; witnesses the transformation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde; is present when Bruce Wayne resolves to become Batman; and overhears the cosmic conclusions of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Drawing upon two centuries of the vast and provocative literature of science fiction and fantasy, this comprehensive book presents more than 2,900 quotations from wide-ranging sources, including science fiction and fantasy stories, novels, films, and television programs. The quotations are organized by topic—alien worlds; darkness and light; robots, androids, and cyborgs; machines and technology; weapons; and more than one hundred others. The reader will encounter the wit and wisdom of renowned authors (H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin) along with definitive versions of such important statements as Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics and Star Trek’s Prime Directive.
Fantastic TelevisionGary Gerani "Fantastic Television"
Titan Books | 1987 | ISBN: 0907610986 | 194 pages | CBR | 96.9 MB
Published by Titan Books in 1987, Fantastic Television is a must-own guide to "telefantasy" shows. Within it's 194 pages, cult classic shows covered include Star Trek, The Prisoner, Lost In Space, The Outer Limits, Batman, Superman and The Twilight Zone, besides others. Also contains episode guides and a review of British and American telefantasy.
Encyclopedia of Literature and CriticismMartin Coyle, "Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism"
Routledge | 1993 | ISBN: 0415020654 | PDF | 1289 pages | 3,4 Mb
Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in PhysicsAmir D. Aczel, «Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics»
Four Walls Eight Windows | ISBN 1568582323 | Oct 15, 2002 | 320 pages| PDF | 1.5 Mb
Since cyberspace -- a word coined by a science fiction writer -- became reality, the lines between "science" and "science fiction" have become increasingly blurred. Now, the young field of quantum mechanics holds out the promise that some of humanity's wildest dreams may be realized. Serious scientists, working off of theories first developed by Einstein and his colleagues seventy years ago, have been investigating the phenomenon known as "entanglement," one of the strangest aspects of the strange universe of quantum mechanics.
Creative Writing: How to unlock your imagination, develop your writing skills - and get publishedAdele Ramet “Creative Writing: How to unlock your imagination, develop your writing skills - and get published"
Encyclopedia Of Science FictionDon D'Ammassa “Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction"
Facts on File | 2005-05-01 | ISBN: 0816059241 | 538 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
(1978) A non fiction book by John Clute and Peter NichollsA revised and expanded guide to science fiction, which contains over 4300 entries. This book takes into account all the changes which have happened in the genre since the first edition in 1979, and includes the advent of game worlds, graphic novels, technothrillers and survivalist fiction.
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