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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Features over a 150 years' worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty-two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also...
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of hard science fiction tales that examines both the benefits and detriments of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos, and includes tales from Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, and Jack McDevitt.
Author
Series
Dirk Gently volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1990, c1988
Language
English
Description
It's holistic Detective Dirk Gently against the forces of evil, Norse Gods, entropy, greed and the puzzling inexplicable. A comic English science fiction story.
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations....
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian societies, even dangerously independent machines, all inspiring the speculative fiction of the Victorian era. In Frankenstein Dreams, Michael Sims has gathered many of the very finest...
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 1
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
While frequent flyer Arthur Dent searches the universe for his lost love, Ford Prefect discovers a disturbing blast from the past at The Hitchhiker's Guide HQ...
Author
Series
Map of time volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue.
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