Chronocules

by D G Compton
Chronocules
Author: D G Compton
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575118016
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The Penheniot Experimental Research Village was a top-secret community with an elaborate defence system to keep away prying eyes. Inside the walls men rushed ahead with practical experiments to develop a means of time travel, while outside the everyday world fell victim to more and more plagues, strikes and rioting. The world was on the brink of chaos. Could the small band of scientists and chrononauts at Penheniot Village find a safe method of escape into the future before the violence and death outside destroyed them too?

Benchmarks

by Algis Budrys
Benchmarks
Author: Algis Budrys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1985
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Over the years since 1965, Algis Budrys has emerged as the leading critic of mod­ern speculative fiction: insightful, ec­lectic, and notoriously uninhibited. Benchmarks collects the material that started it—all 54 Galaxy Bookshelf book-review columns Budrys created for the now-vanished Galaxy Magazine. Writ­ten for what was then the world’s leading SF periodical, these legendary summa­tions and summary judgments coincided with the period when newsstand-borne science fiction and fantasy were evolving from pulp toward literature. Budrys’ Galaxy reviews trace an incisive, some­times wickedly acerb path through that sparsely charted literary territory. Budrys defines his standards and his function in his own words: “A book should he good. A bird should fly. “Writers of imperfect, tousled books should be made aware that standards of breeding and grooming exist. I strive to fulfill that function.”

Time Machines

by Paul J. Nahin
Time Machines
Author: Paul J. Nahin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2001-04-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780387985718
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This book explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including: the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more.

Chronocules

by D G Compton
Chronocules
Author: D G Compton
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575118016
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The Penheniot Experimental Research Village was a top-secret community with an elaborate defence system to keep away prying eyes. Inside the walls men rushed ahead with practical experiments to develop a means of time travel, while outside the everyday world fell victim to more and more plagues, strikes and rioting. The world was on the brink of chaos. Could the small band of scientists and chrononauts at Penheniot Village find a safe method of escape into the future before the violence and death outside destroyed them too?

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991

by R. Reginald
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991
Author: R. Reginald
Publisher: Detroit : Gale Research
Total Pages: 1536
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:
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Science fiction constitutes one of the largest and most widely read genres in literature, and this reference provides bibliographical data on some 20,000 science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction books, as well as nonfiction monographs about the literature. A companion to Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1700-1974 (Gale, 1979), the present volume is alphabetically arranged by approximately 10,000 author names. The entry for each individual work includes title, publisher, date and place published, number of pages, hardbound or paperback format, and type of book (novel, anthology, etc.). Where appropriate, entries also provide translation notes, series information, pseudonyms, and remarks on special features (such as celebrity introductions). Includes indexes of titles, series, awards, and "doubles" (for locating volumes containing two novels). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Sex Column and Other Misprints

by David Langford
The Sex Column and Other Misprints
Author: David Langford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1930997787
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A collection of columns by the author, some previously published in SFX magazine.