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Twayne''s United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author''s work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer''s work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author''s works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length

Two experimental essays engaging with the science fiction concepts of ''Alien'' and ''Star''.

Includes bibliographical references.

Numa linguagem acessível e abrangendo uma grande variedade de obras, o crítico e escritor Adam Roberts traça o desenvolvimento da ficção científica desde suas origens até sua atual disseminação na cultura popular, com seus desdobramentos no cinema, música e TV. Apresentando argumentos de que a ficção científica tem suas raízes nas viagens fantásticas da literatura grega, Roberts passa pelas suas inúmeras fases e subgêneros, da Era de Ouro a New Space Opera, para mostrar que essa é uma das grandes culturas literárias do nosso tempo. Além de uma excelente fonte de pesquisa histórica, esta é certamente uma das mais significativas obras da atualidade no campo da ficção científica e a mais completa do gênero em língua portuguesa.

Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend their lives plugged in, and the country is decaying. Alma''s partner is ill, and has to be treated without fail every 4 hours, a task that only Alma can do. If she misses the 5 minute window her lover will die. She is one of the few not to access the Shine. So when Alma is called to an automated car factory to be shown an impossible death and finds herself caught up in a political coup, she knows that getting too deep may leave her unable to get home. What follows is a fast-paced Hitchcockian thriller as Alma evades arrest, digs into the conspiracy, and tries to work out how on earth a dead body appeared in the boot of a freshly-made car in a fully-automated factory.

La naissance d''un tout nouveau type d''IA avec son premier specimen, SoieVerte...

L''histoire d''une Terre parallèle où les humains auraient réellement découvert des îles peuplées de Lilliputiens et de géants, et se livreraient en se servant d''eux une guerre acharnée entre pays européens.

Nichts ist, wie es scheint Stellen Sie sich ein Universum vor, das nach ganz anderen physikalischen Regeln funktioniert. In dem die Planeten so eng aneinander liegen, dass man mit Flugzeugen und Zeppelinen zwischen ihnen hin- und herfliegen kann. In dem sich die menschliche Zivilisation wie Nomaden von einer Welt zur nächsten bewegt. Und in dem es ein wohlgehütetes Geheimnis gibt. Denn dieses Universum ist eine perfide Illusion ...

Nichts zu verlieren Ae wird für ein Verbrechen bestraft, das in der zukünftigen Gesellschaft, in der er lebt, nur noch selten vorkommt: Mord. Nanotechnologie macht es beinahe unmöglich, einen Menschen zu töten, und dementsprechend fällt Aes Strafe aus: In dem High-Tech-Gefängnis wird ihm nach und nach seine eigene Nanotechnik entfernt, sodass er eines natürlichen Todes sterben wird. Er hat also nichts mehr zu verlieren, und als eine geheimnisvolle Agentur an ihn herantritt und ihm einen Deal vorschlägt, der Millionen Menschen das Leben kosten könnte, willigt er ein ...

Hector travels across America to visit his father on a ranch. He discovers that he has constructed a cult who await the impact of an asteroid. However, Hector is amazed when the section of Earth that the ranch is on suddenly breaks free from the rest of the planet during the collision. He struggles with his skepticism and acceptance of the fact that he is part of the remnants of the human race, on a splinter from the Earth.

Bingo Pacquet est un posstit menant une existence paisible. À part ses pieds,atrophiés, arthritiques et éléphantiasiques -, rien ne semble pouvoir troubler la quiétude de ses jours. Mais son bonheur prend fin lorsque le magicien Glandalf et une compagnie de nains gallois l''embarquent pour l''aventure. Ils projettent de faire main basse sur un trésor gardé par Snob, un dragon d''un ennui mortel. Ah oui : Bingo découvre aussi une espèce d''anneau,mais est-ce vraiment important...

En la última década se ha intensificado el número de acciones humanitarias de diverso tipo. Para ello se han usado tanto medios no violentos como acciones militares. Desde Somalia hasta Kosovo, pasando por Haití, Ruanda, Bosnia o Sudán. Estados, organizaciones multilaterales y ONG practican el humanitarismo en Estados frágiles con resultados altamente desiguales. La acción humanitaria se percibe popularmente como dar de un lado y recibir de otro. Sin embargo, se trata de una relación mucho más compleja en la que intervienen factores como los intereses políticos y económicosde todos los actores de la cadena de la solidaridad, las posicionesmorales, las dificultades técnicasy operativas, y las percepciones que se tienen, especialmente a través de los medios periodísticos. Este libro analiza los problemas centrales de la acción humanitaria en el fin de siglo: la cuestión jurídica y el derecho a la asistencia humanitaria; el marco ético; la constelación de actores y su coordinación; los receptores en la cadena de la ayuda; la relación circular entre cooperación al desarrollo e intervención de emergencia humanitaria; el papel de los medios periodísticosen las crisis humanitarias; y una evaluación práctica de la Operación Lifeline Sudán. Los desafíos de la acción humanitaria es producto de una investigación del Instituto de Derechos Humanos Pedro Arrupe (Universidad de Deusto), el Centro de Investigación para la Paz (Fundación Hogar del Empleado), y Médicos sin Fronteras que crearon la Unidad de Estudios Humanitarios. Los autores son Adam Roberts, Joana Abrisketa, Xabier Etxeberría, Francisco Rey, David Sogge, Joanne Raisin, Alexander Rambostham, Mariano Aguirre y un equipo de Médicos sin Fronteras.

Here, collected together for the first time in eBook (because quite frankly, who would want to carry all of these around as actual books? Imagine the scorn on the bus!) are seven of Adam Roberts'' superb parodies of popular culture. From the Soddit and his not-a-shameless-cash-in journey to the cavern of Smug the dragon - during which he finds a ring, which may well feature in later books and/or films - to the dragon with a girl tattoo (look, it was very popular at the time, OK?), here you will find lovingly crafted, affectionate (well, sometimes) takes on some of the most loved - or at least financially successful - "works of art" of our time. Contains THE SODDIT, DOCTOR WHOM, THE DRAGON WITH THE GIRL TATTOO, THE McATRIX DERIDED, STAR WARPED, THE SELLAMILLION and THE VA DINCI COD.

"the Revolution of Modern Life" is a 2019 poetry and prose collection book from Scars Publications (http: //scars.tv) of the January through June 2019 issues of cc&d magazine (http: //scars.tv/ccd), plus bonus chapbook releases. Writers and artists in this issue collection book include Aaron Wilder, Adam Roberts, Allen F. McNair, ayaz daryl nielsen, Bill DeArmond, CEE, Charles Hayes, Christina M. Jackson, Clarence Chapin, Dan Fitzgerald, David J. Thompson, David M Jackson, David Russell, DC Diamondopolous, Don Stoll, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Edward Michael O''Durr Supranowicz, Eric Bonholtzer, Erren Kelly, Fiona Wagner, Greg G. Zaino, Griffin Silver, Helen Bird, Hope Ruiz, I.B. Ra, Ian Sims, J.T. Siemens, James McGregor, James Mulhern, Janet Kuypers, John F. McMullen, John Kojak, John Maurer, John Yotko, Keith Manos, Ken Elliott, Kevin Wehle, Kyle Hemmings, Lawrence Pratt, Lewis Horwitz, Lily Fields, Linda M. Crate, Lori Alward, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Marc Livanos, Michael Ceraolo, Michael Gullickson, Michelle, Nora McDonald, Oz Hardwick, Roger N. Taber, Rose Hollander, Scott Thomas Outlar, Seward Ward, Sonia Stiles, Steve Kedrowski, Thom Woodruff, Thomas Dexter Kerr, Tom Sheehan, Tris Matthews, Uzeyir Cayci, Westley Heine, William L Kuechler, and Xanadu.Writers and artists included in this book are also listed with their writing at the Scars Publications book link (search for the book title in the books section at http: //scars.tv).

X Marks the Spot is a slender anthology produced to celebrate the first ten years of NewCon Press. It includes original fiction and poetry from Adam Roberts, Rosanne Rabinowitz, Donna Scott and Paul Melhuish, a collaborative short story written by Ian Whates, Ian Watson, Hal Duncan, Chaz Brenchley, Sarah Singleton, Andrew Hook and others which has been out of print for eight years, and a section detailing every writer and artist who has contributed to NewCon''s first decade.

The historical novel meets science fiction and horror in this gripping tale set in the Lake District.

This Cookbook by multiple-international-award-winning Australian Pitmaster Adam Roberts brings together recipes cooked over fire from many different styles, flavours and cook methods using smokers and grills.

Frankenstein is the name of the maker, but we always think of the monster... And what a monster he is. Frankenstein is a splendid creature, in almost every respect superior to humanity: smarter, stronger, and able to endure extremes of heat and cold that would kill a normal person. He is also effectively immortal. Such a being, released into our world, would sooner or later come to rule it. Welcome to FRANKENSTEIN REX. The monster''s ugliness is a positive advantage: his towering height and ghastly face scream power; and people, who understand that power is never pretty, that it is brute and unpleasant and that our best chance is to have it on our side rather than set against us, flock to follow him. In a few years the monster conquers Europe, and in a matter of decades he rules the whole world. But although generations come and go believing their world-dictator to be immortal, the creature himself now understands that he is dying. The creature re-opens Frankenstein''s original research, to re-discover those lost skills and techniques and so to create for himself an heir. Frankenstein Rex is a meditation on the nature of power. It is a conventional position to consider the tyrant as a monster - to think of Hitler, or Mao, or Stalin as monstrous aberrations from the human norm. By making the monster the tyrant, Roberts invites us to think about how ordinary and how conventional such figures actually are.

Mai 2005 verra la sortie du sixième (en fait, le troisième) et dernier film de la série (à part le premier, qui vient ensuite, bien qu''il soit sorti en 1977, et après il y a les deux suivants). Vous pigez rien ? Normal. Pourtant, malgré cet ordre bizarroïde, c''est l''oeuvre cinématographique qui domine la culture populaire depuis 30 ans. Tout simplement le plus gros truc de SF au cinoche qui ait jamais existé. Et la plus puissante franchise de merchandising. C''est pourquoi il était grand temps de parodier ce qui semble avoir été fait pour. " Bien rigoler, tu vas ! " Yodla (maître Jedognon).