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Das Erbe der Uraniden (Science-Fiction Klassiker)
Liebesroman, Abenteuergeschichte und Science-Fiction in einem Roman
Language: German
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Das Erbe der Uraniden (Science-Fiction Klassiker)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Hans Dominik (1872-1945) war ein deutscher Science-Fiction- und Sachbuchautor, Wissenschaftsjournalist und Ingenieur...
Partners in Wonder
Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2005
Partners in Wonder revolutionizes our knowledge of women and early science fiction. Contrary to accepted interpretations, women fans and writers were a welcome and influential part of pulp science fiction from the birth of the genre. Davin finds that at least 203 female authors, under their own female...
by Locus Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields, with reviews, interviews, news, and listings.
Locus Issue #604, May 2011, contains a Roundtable Discussion of Theodore Sturgeon; an interview with David D. Levine; a new column by Cory Doctorow titled “Techno-Optimism”;...
Science for Sale
How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: “You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?” “I know,” Dr. Lewis replied, “I just hope to stay out of prison.” Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis’s...
The Second Science Fiction Megapack
25 Classic Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories:
WHAT’S HE DOING IN THERE? by Fritz Leiber
THE MARCHING MORONS, by C.M. Kornbluth
GHOST, by Darrell Schweitzer
DEATH WISH, by Robert Sheckley
THE...
Everything All at Once
How to Think Like a Science Guy, Solve Any Problem, and Make a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
In the New York Times bestseller Everything All at Once, Bill Nye shows you how thinking like a nerd is the key to changing yourself and the world around you.
Everyone has an inner nerd just waiting to be awakened by the right passion. In Everything All at Once, Bill Nye will help you find...
Merchants of Immortality
Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2003
A Discover Best Science Book of the Year: “A fascinating, accurate and accessible account of some of [the] contemporary efforts to combat aging” (The New York Times).
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, and Library...
The Jack London Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
The Complete Science Fiction and Fantasy of Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Most people think of The Call of the Wild or White Fang when Jack London's name comes up -- and rightfully so, for these are his two most famous works, and both are classics. It's an interesting but far less well known fact that London also wrote a substantial body of science fiction and fantasy (before...
Science Museums in Transition
Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Winner, Outstanding Academic Title 2017, Choice Magazine
The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored...
by John Boston, Damien Broderick
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Science Fantasy blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative, most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss,...
by Amy Stewart, Tim Folger
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. “But at the end of the day, we’re all writers . . . We’re here to play...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant online essays from 2011, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 will change the way we think about science— from fluids to fungi, poisons to pirates. Featuring noted authors and journalists as well as the brightest up-and-comers...
Superstition
Belief in the Age of Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions...
The Why Files
The Science Behind the News
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Science magazine meets The Onion, Mental Floss, and Mad magazine in this ingenious guide to the science behind the news
For more than a decade , the intrepid folks at whyfiles.org-the #1 science destination on the web-have been exploring the science behind newsworthy events. Now condensed into...