Science Fiction and the Dismal Science: Essays on Economics in and of the Genre, Westfahl Gary, Benford Gregory
Автор: Gary Westfahl Название: William Gibson ISBN: 0252037804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252037801 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 88440.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The leading figure in the development of cyberpunk, William Gibson (born in 1948) crafted works in which isolated humans explored near-future worlds of ubiquitous and intrusive computer technology and cybernetics. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of the award-winning author of the seminal novel Neuromancer (and the other books in the Sprawl trilogy, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive), as well as other acclaimed novels including recent bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. Renowned scholar Gary Westfahl draws upon extensive research to provide a compelling account of Gibson's writing career and his lasting influence in the science fiction world. Delving into numerous science fiction fanzines that the young Gibson contributed to and edited, Westfahl delivers new information about his childhood and adolescence. He describes for the first time more than eighty virtually unknown Gibson publications from his early years, including articles, reviews, poems, cartoons, letters, and a collaborative story. The book also documents the poems, articles, and introductions that Gibson has written for various books, and its discussions are enriched by illuminating comments from various print and online interviews. The works that made Gibson famous are also featured, as Westfahl performs extended analyses of Gibson's ten novels and nineteen short stories. Lastly, the book presents a new interview with Gibson in which the author discusses his correspondence with author Fritz Leiber, his relationship with the late scholar Susan Wood, his attitudes toward critics, his overall impact on the field of science fiction, and his recently completed screenplay and forthcoming novel.
Автор: Gary Westfahl Название: William Gibson ISBN: 025207937X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252079375 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 22870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
The leading figure in the development of cyberpunk, William Gibson (born in 1948) crafted works in which isolated humans explored near-future worlds of ubiquitous and intrusive computer technology and cybernetics. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of the award-winning author of the seminal novel Neuromancer (and the other books in the Sprawl trilogy, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive), as well as other acclaimed novels including recent bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. Renowned scholar Gary Westfahl draws upon extensive research to provide a compelling account of Gibson's writing career and his lasting influence in the science fiction world.
Delving into numerous science fiction fanzines that the young Gibson contributed to and edited, Westfahl delivers new information about his childhood and adolescence. He describes for the first time more than eighty virtually unknown Gibson publications from his early years, including articles, reviews, poems, cartoons, letters, and a collaborative story. The book also documents the poems, articles, and introductions that Gibson has written for various books, and its discussions are enriched by illuminating comments from various print and online interviews. The works that made Gibson famous are also featured, as Westfahl performs extended analyses of Gibson's ten novels and nineteen short stories. Lastly, the book presents a new interview with Gibson in which the author discusses his correspondence with author Fritz Leiber, his relationship with the late scholar Susan Wood, his attitudes toward critics, his overall impact on the field of science fiction, and his recently completed screenplay and forthcoming novel.
Автор: Gary Westfahl Название: Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0252041933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252041938 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Already renowned for his science fiction and scientific nonfiction, Arthur C. Clarke became the world's most famous science fiction writer after the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He then produced novels like Rendezvous with Rama and The Fountains of Paradise that many regard as his finest works.
Gary Westfahl closely examines Clarke's remarkable career, ranging from his forgotten juvenilia to the passages he completed for a final novel, The Last Theorem. As Westfahl explains, Clarke's science fiction offered original perspectives on subjects like new inventions, space travel, humanity's destiny, alien encounters, the undersea world, and religion. While not inclined to mysticism, Clarke necessarily employed mystical language to describe the fantastic achievements of advanced aliens and future humans. Westfahl also contradicts the common perception that Clarke's characters were bland and underdeveloped, arguing that these reticent, solitary individuals, who avoid conventional relationships, represent his most significant prediction of the future, as they embody the increasingly common lifestyle of people in the twenty-first century.
Автор: Westfahl Gary Название: An Alien Abroad: Science Fiction Columns from Interzone ISBN: 1479408034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479408030 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 24510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Benford Gregory Название: Sailing Bright Eternity ISBN: 0446611522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780446611527 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Цена: 17410.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Benford Gregory Название: Across the sea of suns ISBN: 0446611565 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780446611565 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Цена: 16010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From the Nebula Award-winning author comes a newly revised edition of this story in his classic Galactic Center series.
Автор: Benford Gregory Название: Timescape ISBN: 0553297090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553297096 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 5510.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: 1998: the world is a growing nightmare of desperation, uncontrollable pollution and terrifying social unrest. In Cambridge two scientists experimenting with subatomic particles realize that they could send a message - a warning to the past, to the previous generation.
Автор: Benford Gregory Название: Bowl of Heaven ISBN: 1250297095 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250297099 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 17160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths...and it's on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship.
A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated--one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape--the mystery of the Bowl's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe.
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