Shiva Descending
| Author | : Gregory Benford |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 1992-03-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780812516906 |
Science fiction-roman.
Shiva Descending
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Shiva Sutras
| Author | : Swami Lakshman Joo |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Kashmir Śaivism |
| ISBN | : 1434314073 |
Solar Flares
| Author | : Andrew M. Butler |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1846318343 |
The politics of science fiction books, films and television in the 1970s.
Creators of Science Fiction
| Author | : Brian Stableford |
| Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2009-11-01 |
| Genre | : Science fiction |
| ISBN | : 1434457591 |
Well-known critic and novelist Brian Stableford here discusses the writers, editors, and publishers who helped create the modern genre of science fiction: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Camille Flammarion, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Hugo Gernsback, John W. Campbell Jr., Edward E. "Doc" Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, James Blish, Gregory Benford, and Ian Watson. Complete with bibliography and index.
The Berlin Project
| Author | : Gregory Benford |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2017-05-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1481487663 |
New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history about the creation of the atomic bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 6, 1944. Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is part of The Manhattan Project team, has discovered an alternate solution for creating the uranium isotope needed to cause a chain reaction: U-235. After convincing General Groves of his new method, Cohen and his team of scientists work at Oak Ridge preparing to have a nuclear bomb ready to drop by the summer of 1944 in an effort to stop the war on the western front. What ensues is an altered account of World War II in this taut thriller. Combining fascinating science with intimate and true accounts of several members of The Manhattan Project, The Berlin Project is an astounding novel that reimagines history and what could have happened if the atom bomb was ready in time to stop Hitler from killing millions of people.
A World After an Asteroid Strike
| Author | : Alex Woolf |
| Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
| Total Pages | : 58 |
| Release | : 2013-07 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1432976184 |
Imagines what the world would be like if an asteroid struck Earth, speculating on the types of immediate and long-term damage that would result and how people would adapt to their new environment.
Shipstar
| Author | : Gregory Benford |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2014-04-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0765328704 |
A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated, with one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants and the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape.
Cosmic Impact
| Author | : Andrew May |
| Publisher | : Icon Books |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 2019-02-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1785784943 |
As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs had been wiped out by just such an impact. Now the science community is making up for lost time, with worldwide efforts to track the thousands of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, and plans for high-tech hardware that could deflect an incoming object from a collision course – a procedure depicted, with little regard for scientific accuracy, in several Hollywood movies. Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangles fact from fiction in this fast-moving and entertaining account, covering the nature and history of comets and asteroids, the reason why some orbits are more hazardous than others, the devastating local and global effects that an impact event would produce, and – more optimistically – the way future space missions could avert a catastrophe.
Imagining the End
| Author | : James Craig Holte |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2019-11-11 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
Imagining the End provides students and general readers with contextualized examples of how the apocalypse has been imagined across all mediums of American popular culture. Detailed entries analyze the development, influence, and enjoyment of end-times narratives. Imagining the End provides a contextual overview and individual description and analysis of the wide range of depictions of the end of the world that have appeared in American popular culture. American writers, filmmakers, television producers, and game developers inundated the culture with hundreds of imagined apocalyptic scenarios, influenced by the Biblical Book of Revelation, the advent of the end of the second millennium (2000 CE), or predictions of catastrophic events such as nuclear war, climate change, and the spread of AIDS. From being "raptured" to surviving the zombie apocalypse, readers and viewers have been left with an almost endless sequence of disasters to experience. Imagining the End examines this phenomenon and provides a context for understanding, and perhaps appreciating, the end of the world. This title is composed of alphabetized entries covering all topics related to the end times, covering popular culture mediums such as comic books, literature, films, and music.
Evaporating Genres
| Author | : Gary K. Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2012-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0819571040 |
A series of provocative essays on how the fantastic genres evolve and grow In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fantastic reasserted itself in popular genre literature, and how these genres themselves grew increasingly unstable in terms of both narrative form and the worlds they portray. More detailed discussions of how specific contemporary writers have promoted this evolution are followed by a final essay examining how the competing discourses have led toward an emerging synthesis of critical approaches and vocabularies. The essays cover a vast range of authors and texts, and include substantial discussions of very current fiction published within the last few years.
