Noel Carroll: 17 books

NEW STORY ADDED FEBRUARY, 2012. - A chronicle of science fiction short stories with a bonus humor/satire at the end to leave the reader with a smile. Although fiction, the science depicted in these stories never strays from the plausible and never fails to grip the reader with a sense of staring into the future.

In a recent poll of practicing art critics, 75 percent reported that rendering judgments on artworks was the least significant aspect of their job. This is a troubling statistic for philosopher and critic Noel Carroll, who argues that that the proper task of the critic is not simply to describe, or...

Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings...

Noël Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen of his most recent essays on cinema and television-what Carroll calls “moving images.” The essays discuss topics in philosophy, film theory, and film criticism.Drawing on concepts from cognitive psychology...

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder - Arnold Toynbee, (1889 - 1975)We are about to awake from the American Dream.This book is about the loss of a good thing, our country. It addresses the poor care we give to maintaining it, how we fail to appreciate the economic, social and even...

Harold is a simple man long troubled by doubts about what he should or should not believe. He fears the loss of his soul if he does not soon discover which of the world's "indisputable truths" are truly indisputable. One night, alone and distraught, he falls asleep to the most realistic dream...

An extraterrestrial mistake, a controlled space warp left open a fraction too long, a Wyoming hiker unknowingly walks into another world. His surprised and reluctant hosts not only have him to contend with, but they must also head off a potential disaster on earth as his lover pushes local authorities into a desperate search.

An unlikely combination of events combine to provide the backdrop for an attack upon the Queen of England: a wayward satellite ending its life in a spectacular way, a young couple sailing too close to an active volcano, terrorists hiding out within the volcano’s Exclusion Zone awaiting the right moment to strike.

A rebellious young alien (Terrin) transmits herself to newly- discovered Earth to prove she is capable of interplanetary exploration. Able to assume any form for which she has DNA, she gathers two samples, one a canine and the other a beautiful young woman. She begins with the canine form, thinking...

A young engineer takes his company's top secret listening device out for a little fun, a lark that plummets him into the midst of a deadly conspiracy. In short order, he is embroiled in a circle of suspicion that has his company, the FBI, and a murderous Black Moslem group aimed against him.

For Therese Elliott nightmare has gone beyond dream to gruesome reality. She is desperate in her need to know, not only what triggered the dream but why she finds it so impossible to let it go. And why she knows with a fatal certainty that, if it is not quickly sorted out, the Atlantis with her astronaut husband aboard will be sent crashing into the International Space Station.

About to be killed by drug runners intent on stealing her boat, a young woman spots a naked man floating in an empty ocean.An ancient astronaut awakening from a 40-thousand-year sleep has no idea who he is or why he is floating naked in a world of water. Chance brings him to combine forces...

All angles of man's first-ever voyage to Mars are being examined with as much attention to detail as our most brilliant minds can conceive. That is, all angles except one. Humanity's first voyage to Mars is interrupted a fraction of the way there as the ship unexpectedly accelerates to the...

Carl McCormic longs to see Cuba, the land of his mother’s birth. Opportunity arrives in a beautiful young woman who only recently fled the island. Anger smoldering within her, she wants him to smuggle her back in – to destroy the powerful father she left behind!