Terminator Vault

Terminator Vault
Author: Ian Nathan
Publisher: Aurum Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 9781781311264

Born out of James Cameron's fever dream, the relentless Terminator has become a cinematic juggernaut. The original ground-breaking film, The Terminator, and its mighty sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, not only assured the blockbuster career of their director but also turned their star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, into an icon. Movies about the dark side of humanity's love affair with technology, they redefined the boundaries between science fiction, horror and action, and set astonishing new standards for special effects. Now, Terminator Vault brings to light the stories behind these two landmark films, drawing on new interviews with James Cameron, producer Gale Anne Hurd and many more cast and crew members - plus a foreword from Arnold Schwarzenegger himself.

Terminator 2

Terminator 2
Author: William Wisher
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1991
Genre: Motion picture plays
ISBN:

(Applause Books). A handbook of this blockbuster film. Over 700 photos, with a 16-page color section and stills from footage NOT seen in the film. Over 90 detailed annotations chronicling the production and storyboards mapping out the film's strategy.

Terminator and Philosophy

Terminator and Philosophy
Author: William Irwin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2009-05-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0470730102

Are cyborgs our friends or our enemies? Was it morally right for Skynet to nuke us? Is John Connor free to choose to defend humanity, or not? Is Judgment Day inevitable? The Terminator series is one of the most popular sci-fi franchises ever created, captivating millions with its edgy depiction of the struggle of humankind for survival against its own creations. This book draws on some of history’s philosophical heavy hitters: Descartes, Kant, Karl Marx, and many more. Nineteen leather-clad chapters target with extreme prejudice the mysteries surrounding intriguing philosophical issues raised by the series, including the morality of terminating other people for the sake of peace, whether we can really use time travel to protect our future resistance leaders in the past, and if Arnold’s famous T-101 is a real person or not. You’ll say “Hasta la vista, baby” to philosophical confusion as you develop a new appreciation for the complexities of John and Sarah Connor and the battles between Skynet and the human race.

T2: Rising Storm

T2: Rising Storm
Author: S.M. Stirling
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 749
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061803162

Following the critically praised T2: Infiltrator, T2: Rising Storm continues the bestselling Terminator adventures, reaching new heights of action, drama, and suspense. Hunted for years, Sarah and John Connor have waged a grave battle to save humanity from destruction. They and they alone can keep the apocalyptic Judgment Day—the day when sentient machines move to destroy their human creators—from occurring. Aided by Dieter von Rossbach, an ex-counterterrorism operative who will eventually be used as the physical model for the T-101 Terminator units, the Connors have sabotaged the Cyberdyne research facility and stopped a deadly I-950 Infiltrator unit from completing her mission. But the war is far from over, and now the heroes have been separated. Severely injured—both mentally and physically—and recuperating under military surveillance, Sarah Connor must face her deepest fears...alone. Meanwhile, von Rossbach, hunted by both the CIA and his former allies, begins a delicate mission to recruit supporters and arms support for the coming battle. Aided by a beautiful and brilliant MIT student, John Connor starts a desperate campaign across the United States and Central America to prepare an unsuspecting human race for the dark times ahead. For the original I-950 Infiltrator unit left a contingency plan—and, unbeknownst to our heroes, more Infiltrators have initiated their own clandestine operations, including the hunt to terminate the Connors. And this time, despite all their efforts, the brave heroes may not be able to stop the future war between human and machine. Cyberdyne Corporation is not the only one with plans for the computer network, and hidden far away in a top secret military base, a fledgling Skynet takes its first steps toward sentience...and toward the rise of the machines and the termination of all human life.

T2: The Future War

T2: The Future War
Author: S.M. Stirling
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061806609

The Machines are awake -- and aware ... There is no destiny but the one we have created ... There is no turning back -- the future war is now.

Alien Vault

Alien Vault
Author: Ian Nathan
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2019
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1781319421

Alien Vault is the ultimate tribute to a film that changed cinema forever.

James Cameron

James Cameron
Author: James Cameron
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1617031313

Interviews with the acclaimed director of such films as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Titanic, and Avatar

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Author: David Hagberg
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2003-07-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765347411

As John Connor struggles with fears about his destiny as the head of the human resistance against the robotic forces of Skynet, a new advanced-model Terminator from the future is sent to kill him.

Dangling Propositions

Dangling Propositions
Author: Billy Sledge
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2017-12-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781981614608

"...blest are those/Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled/That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger/To sound what stop she please." (Hamlet III, 2) I can imagine these Shakespearean lines occurring to my character Nebo Rhombus, confronted with obeying the mysterious will of the "plasmamorph" In "Instrument," one of three stories comprising Dangling Propositions. A force of life from Earth's atmosphere has revealed itself to Rhombus, an image consultant/promoter. It is determined to employ him to somehow lead humankind from a world-threatening course, before that course is cataclysmically corrected. A matter of course is also plotted in"The Superstoic," though on an individual scale. Whether ultra-reticent library worker Zharko Solovich is willing, he is held to account for his right to be silent in an alternate world where no such right exists. For compulsive mimic Bogustin Guisermann, who hides himself mirroring others, being unintentionally "gifted" with the ability to blind people to his presence, as a result of thought-projection experiments, may be the refuge from the"judging sight" of the world he's sought. In "Not to Behold," to be perceived, not to be perceived, seems the question.