Through stranger eyes : reviews, introductions, tributes & iconoclastic essays /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor, MI :
Nimble Books,
2008.
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Edition: | U.S. and Western Hemisphere ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Dreading tomorrow: exploring our nightmares through literature. George Orwell and the self-preventing prophecy
- The dream of Scipio, by Iain Pears
- The lord of the rings: J.R.R. Tolkien vs the modern age
- The sheep look up, by John Brunner
- Alas Babylon, by Pat Frank
- Tomorrow gets worse: cinematic "sci-fi" and the betrayal of confidence. The dark side: Star wars, mythology and ingratitude
- The matrix: tomorrow may be different
- The dour choice: authors who complain. The separation, by Christopher Priest
- The penal colony, by Richard Herley
- Daring to look higher: authors who strive. Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner
- Lord of light, by Roger Zelazny
- Journey to the centre of the earth, by Jules Verne
- The real world: notions of progress, science, and danger in nonfiction. The progress paradox, by Gregg Easterbrook
- Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed, by Jared Diamond
- River of shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the technological wild west, by Rebecca Solnit
- The pleasure of finding things out, by Richard P. Feynman
- Time travel in Einstein's universe, by J. Richard Gott
- The fifth essence, by Lawrence Krauss
- Fortune or failure: missed opportunities and chance discoveries, by Alexander Kohn
- The art of fiction, by Ayn Rand
- Reviews of memorable tales. Beyond thirty, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Guilty pleasures can be proud: or why Buffy goes
- Godspeed (or "Goodbye warp drive", by Charles Sheffield
- Rocket boys, by Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
- Ground zero, by Fred Gambino
- Paradise, purgatory & inferno, by Mike Resnick
- When heaven fell, by William Barton
- Biographical tributes. Jack Williamson, Poul Anderson, Harry Harrison, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford
- Micro tributes: Isaac Asimov, Jim Burns, Fred Gambino, Arthur C. Clarke
- Through stranger eyes: the odd profession of storytelling. How I do it-- and advice to new writers
- The uplift universe
- David Brin literary bibliography (distilled).