Author : J. Stewart Barney
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "L.P.M. : The End of the Great War" by J. Stewart Barney. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : J. Stewart Barney
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473367352
This early work by J. Stewart Barney was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'L.P.M. : The End of The Great War' is a classic work of wartime fiction about a statesman and the diplomatic necessities of the day. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.
Author : J.Stewart Barney
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 1915
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Howard Bruce Franklin
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558496514
In this new and expanded edition of an already classic work, H. Bruce Franklin brings the epic story of the superweapon and the American imagination into the ominous twenty-first century, demonstrating its continuing importance both to comprehending our current predicament and to finding ways to escape from it. Sweeping through two centuries of American culture and military history, Franklin traces the evolution of superweapons from Robert Fulton's eighteenth-century submarine through the strategic bomber, atomic bomb, and Star Wars to a twenty-first century dominated by "weapons of mass destruction," real and imagined. Interweaving culture, science, technology, and history, he shows how and why the American pursuit of the ultimate defensive weapon -- guaranteed to end all war and bring universal triumph to American ideals -- has led our nation and the world into an epoch of terror and endless war.
Author : Michael Gardiner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2024-11-30
Category :
ISBN : 1474475752
In this book, Michael Gardiner suggests that the conception of the ‘war-ending’ weapon was tied up with a longer commitment to unified space and singular progress. The mission for total weapons can be seen rising with the highly-technical defensive war of the later nineteenth century, and passing through twentieth century atomic research, then the targeting of the outsides of commercial empire, and the post-war consensus with deterrence as its foundation. The end of the Cold War brought an opportunity to fully naturalise deterrence, but also brought a tacit acceptance of nuclear violence while forms of violence against the individual were rigorously sought out. If the world-unifying role of deterrence has always been undermined by the rise of rival empires, it has also been questioned by critical communities including the consensus-sceptics of the 1950s–60s, 1980s–90s Nuclear Criticism and readers of ‘nuclear ism’, millennial campaigns for Scottish independence, and twenty-first century descriptions of nuclear colonialism. Recently it has become more obvious that an Anglosphere concept of ‘worldly’ deterrence was bound to a singular and ultimately nihilistic idea of progress.[bio]Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick.
Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137569573
This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material in every chapter: a wealth of new readings and original research. The author’s groundbreaking thesis that science fiction is born out of the 17th-century Reformation is here bolstered with a wide range of new supporting material and many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentieth-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan-culture and other modes.
Author : A. Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2005-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230554652
The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.
Author : Roslynn D. Haynes
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421423049
From Madman to Crime Fighter is the most comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film.
Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476686599
While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeatedly addressed in science fiction of recent centuries. Based on a packet of original essays that the author assembled for his classes, the book could serve as a supplemental textbook in science fiction classes, but also contains material of interest to science fiction scholars and others devoted to the genre. In some cases, chapters offer thorough surveys of numerous works involving certain subjects, such as imagined vehicles, journeys beneath the Earth and undersea adventures, discovering intriguing patterns in the ways that various writers developed their ideas. When comprehensive coverage of ubiquitous topics such as robots, aliens and the planet Mars is impossible, chapters focus on major themes referencing selected texts. A conclusion discusses other science fiction subjects that were omitted for various reasons, and a bibliography lists additional resources for the study of science fiction in general and the topics of each chapter.
Author : Everett Franklin Bleiler
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780873384162
In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.
