Isaac Asimov's Caliban
Title | Isaac Asimov's Caliban PDF eBook |
Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
Publisher | Gollancz |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Cybernetics |
ISBN | 9781857981681 |
In a universe protected by the Three Laws of Robotics, humans are safe. The First Law states, A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. When an experiment with a new type of robot brain goes awry, the unthinkable happens. Caliban is created... A robot without guilt or conscience. A robot with no knowledge of or compassion for humanity. A robot without the Three Laws. Caliban is a searing examination of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, a challenge welcomed and sanctioned by Isaac Asimov, the late beloved genius of science fiction, and written with his cooperation by one of today's hottest talents, Roger MacBride Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Ambush at Corella, The Modular Man, and The Ring of Charon.
Isaac Asimov's Utopia
Title | Isaac Asimov's Utopia PDF eBook |
Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
Publisher | Ace Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999-03 |
Genre | Robots |
ISBN | 9780441004713 |
The world of Inferno will soon be uninhabitable unless a daring plan is enacted--drop a comet to create new rivers that would save the planet but could also destroy Inferno.
Isaac Asimov's Inferno
Title | Isaac Asimov's Inferno PDF eBook |
Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
Publisher | Millennium Orion Publishing Group |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781857984033 |
A key politician is murdered and hysteria breaks out about the free-roaming robots.Caliban, a robot, is called upon to intercede between robots & huma
A Planet for Rent
Title | A Planet for Rent PDF eBook |
Author | Yoss |
Publisher | Restless Books |
Pages | 641 |
Release | 2014-09-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1632060086 |
The most successful and controversial Cuban Science Fiction writer of all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism. In his bestselling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the nineties, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice. Praise for Yoss “One of the most prestigious science fiction authors of the island.” —On Cuba Magazine "A gifted and daring writer." —David Iaconangelo "José Miguel Sánchez [Yoss] is Cuba’s most decorated science fiction author, who has cultivated the most prestige for this genre in the mainstream, and the only person of all the Island’s residents who lives by his pen.” —Cuenta Regresiva Born José Miguel Sánchez Gómez, Yoss assumed his pen name in 1988, when he won the Premio David Award in the science fiction category for Timshel. Together with his peculiar pseudonym, the author's aesthetic of an impentinent rocker has allowed him to stand out amongst his fellow Cuban writers. Earning a degree in Biology in 1991, he went on to graduate from the first ever course on Narrative Techniques at the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Center of Literary Training, in the year 1999. Today, Yoss writes both realistic and science fiction works. Alongside these novels, the author produces essays, Praise for, and compilations, and actively promotes the Cuban science fiction literary workshops, Espiral and Espacio Abierto. When he isn’t translating, David Frye teaches Latin American culture and society at the University of Michigan. Translations include First New Chronicle and Good Government by Guaman Poma de Ayala (Peru, 1615); The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi (Mexico, 1816), for which he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Writing across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America by Ángel Rama (Uruguay, 1982), and several Cuban and Spanish novels and poems.
Welcome to Utopia
Title | Welcome to Utopia PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Atkinson |
Publisher | Utopian Dreams |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 2020-01-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780648729624 |
Utopia City.Rebuilt from the ashes of America's most horrific terror attack and transformed into a paragon of technological advancement, this city stands as a beacon of possibility where almost anything can happen.Jericho Hansen certainly hopes so; as a gay superhero in the deep South, his ambition is to achieve lifelong recognition by joining Force Majeure, America's best-known superhero team. But to do that, he must first travel to Utopia and learn the hard way if he's got what it takes. The events that transpire when he gets there will turn his entire world upside down. He will experience love and loss, triumph and tragedy. Mysteries will be solved and fresh inquiries opened.Welcome to Utopia, where the most important lesson is that nothing is truly as it seems.
Foundation
Title | Foundation PDF eBook |
Author | D. G. Leahy |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 716 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780791420225 |
This book presents the ontological and logical foundation of a new form of thinking, the beginning of an absolute phenomenology. It does so in the context of the history of thought in Europe and America. It explores the ramifications of a categorically new logic. Thinkers dealt with include Plato, Galileo, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Peirce, James, Dewey, Derrida, McDermott, and Altizer.
Asimov on Science Fiction
Title | Asimov on Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Isaac Asimov |
Publisher | Doubleday Books |
Pages | 770 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Contains 55 essays on science fiction.