Venusia
Title | Venusia PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Von Schlegell |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2005-08-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1584350261 |
A novel about life under enlightened totalitarianism in the twenty-third century and the efforts of a mild-mannered junk dealer to change the human condition. Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative access to the real. It's the end of the twenty-third century. Earth has violently self-destructed. Venusia, an experimental off-world colony, survives under the enlightened totalitarianism of the Princeps Crittendon regime. Using industrialized narcotics, holographic entertainment, and memory control, Crittendon has turned Venusia into a self-sustaining system of relative historical inertia. But when mild-mannered junk dealer Rogers Collectibles finds a book about early Venusian history, the colony—once fully immersed in the present—begins losing its grip on the real. With his Reality-V girlfriend Martha Dobbs, neuroscop operator Sylvia Yang, his midget friend Niftus Norrington, and a sentient plant, Rogers wages a war to alter the shape of spacetime, and in the process, revisions the whole human (and vegetable) condition.
The British Drama
Title | The British Drama PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1804 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
Larentinae I
Title | Larentinae I PDF eBook |
Author | Axel Hausmann |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 743 |
Release | 2013-01-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004260978 |
In this volume 268 species of the Larentinae are covered. Many of the genera have caused serious problems in identification, but based on the larger number of specimens illustrated on the 25 colour plates, the species can now be identified much more easily. In additional black and white photos for species which are difficult to identify, differential characters are pointed out with arrows. As in the previously published volumes 1,2 and 4, maps with the European distribution are given with dots for verified specimens. There are photographs of male and female genitalia of all species and this volume also contains a systematic catalogue of the European species including those of the neighbouring regions of North Africa, Macaronesia, Turkey and the Middle East. This is the first volume including genetic information from DNA barcoding which proved to be a useful, additional tool in identification, taxonomy and species delimitation.
Transactions
Title | Transactions PDF eBook |
Author | City of London Entomological and Natural History Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Entomology |
ISBN |
Geometrid Moths of the World
Title | Geometrid Moths of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm J Scoble |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 665 |
Release | 2023-12-14 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004542027 |
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9788788757293).
Time's a Tell-tale
Title | Time's a Tell-tale PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Siddons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1807 |
Genre | English drama (Comedy) |
ISBN |
Italo-Greek Coins of Southern Italy
Title | Italo-Greek Coins of Southern Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Watson Hands |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Coins, Ancient |
ISBN |