Sunvault

Sunvault
Title Sunvault PDF eBook
Author Phoebe Wagner
Publisher
Pages 253
Release 2017-06-15
Genre Ecology in literature
ISBN 9781937794750

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Sunvault is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short fiction, artwork, and poetry. A new genre for the 21st Century, solarpunk is a revolution against despair. Focusing on solutions to environmental disasters, Sunvault features 29 writers, including Kristine Ong Muslim, Daniel Jose Older, Nisi Shawl, Lavie Tidhar, and A.C. Wise.

Dactyl Hill Squad

Dactyl Hill Squad
Title Dactyl Hill Squad PDF eBook
Author Daniel José Older
Publisher Scholastic Inc.
Pages 242
Release 2018-09-11
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 133826883X

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“An unforgettable historical, high-octane adventure,” about a diverse group of kids flying on dinosaurs to rescue friends from Civil War slave traders (Dav Pilkey, author-illustrator of the Dog Man series). It’s 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a field trip when the Draft Riots break out, and a number of their fellow orphans are kidnapped by an evil magistrate, Richard Riker. Magdalys flees with her friends to Brooklyn, settling in the Dactyl Hill neighborhood, where black and brown New Yorkers have found a safe haven. Together with the Vigilance Committee, they train to fly on dactylback and plot to take down Riker. Can Magdalys and the squad rescue their friends before it’s too late? A New York Times Notable Book An NPR, School Library Journal, New York Public Library, Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year “Mind-bendingly original.” —The New York Times Book Review “Delightful historical fantasy.” —Publishers Weekly “Sends readers on a dino thrill ride.” —Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times–bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming “Full of heart and imagination.” —Tomi Adeyemi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Children of Blood and Bone “Grips, stomps, and soars from start to finish.” —Rita Williams-Garcia, three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of One Crazy Summer “ An engaging, lively adventure.” —Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award-winning author of Sing, Unburied, Sing “Brings history to life with power, honesty, and fun.” —Laurie Halse Anderson,New York Times–bestselling author of Chains

Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World

Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World
Title Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World PDF eBook
Author Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro
Publisher World Weaver Press
Pages 286
Release 2018-08-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780998702292

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Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors took the challenge to envision hopeful futures and alternate histories. The stories in this anthology explore terrorism against green corporations, large space ships propelled by the pressure of solar radiation, the advent of photosynthetic humans, and how different society might be if we had switched to renewable energies much earlier in history. Originally published in Brazil and translated for the first time from the Portuguese by Fábio Fernandes, this anthology of optimistic science fiction features nine authors from Brazil and Portugal including Carlos Orsi, Telmo Marçal, Romeu Martins, Antonio Luiz M. Costa, Gabriel Cantareira, Daniel I. Dutra, André S. Silva, Roberta Spindler, and Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro.

Computer Decisions

Computer Decisions
Title Computer Decisions PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 546
Release 1988
Genre Computers
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Family Tradition

Family Tradition
Title Family Tradition PDF eBook
Author Susan Masino
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 287
Release 2011-04-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1617131113

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Covering three generations of Hank Williams, Family Tradition is both unique and vast in scope. Beginning in the present day with Hank III – who gave the author unprecedented access – and time-traveling across the years, this examines just what kind of rebel mojo inspired this crazed family of country music, from Hank Sr. – often regarded as one of the most influential of American musicians – to Hank Jr., to this year's model, Hank III, who has somehow found a way to reconcile his legacy's deep-rooted twang and high-lonesome sound with particularly searing strains of punk and heavy metal, launching an all-out war with traditional Nashville in the process. Listen to Susan Masino live at Book Expo America on the BEA Podcast.

Glass and Gardens

Glass and Gardens
Title Glass and Gardens PDF eBook
Author Wendy Nikel
Publisher
Pages 326
Release 2020-01-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781732254688

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An anthology of optimistic climate change science fiction stories set in winter.

Imagining Solar Energy

Imagining Solar Energy
Title Imagining Solar Energy PDF eBook
Author Gregory Lynall
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 291
Release 2020-02-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1350010995

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Shortlisted for the 2022 ESSE Book Awards How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technologies, and how have these narratives shaped developments in science and culture? What can solar power's history tell us about its future, within a world adapting to climate crisis? Identifying the history of capturing solar radiance as a focal point between science and the imagination, Imagining Solar Energy argues that the literary, artistic and mythical resonances of solar power – from the Renaissance to the present day – have not only been inspired by, but have also cultivated and sustained its scientific and technological development. Ranging from Archimedes to Isaac Asimov, John Dee to Humphry Davy, Aphra Behn to J. G. Ballard, the book argues that solar energy translates into many different kinds of power (physical, political, intellectual and cultural), and establishes for the first time the importance of solar energy to many literary and scientific endeavours.