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The Pioneer

Author : Bridget Tyler

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 307 pages

File Size : 30,51 MB

Release : 2019-03-05

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0062658085

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A 2020 LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Book! Packed with action and unexpected twists, this addictive page-turner is perfect for fans of Illuminae and Defy the Stars! When Jo steps onto planet Tau Ceti e for the first time, she’s ready to put the past behind her and begin again. After all, as a pioneer, she has the job of helping build a new home away from Earth. But underneath the idyllic surface of their new home, there’s something very wrong. And when Jo accidentally uncovers a devastating secret that could destroy everything they’ve worked for, suddenly the future doesn’t seem so bright. With the fate of the pioneers in her hands, Jo must decide how far she’s willing to go to expose the truth—before the truth destroys them all.



Black Pioneers of Science and Invention

Author : Louis Haber

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 37,54 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780152085667

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Traces the lives of fourteen black scientists and inventors who have made significant contributions in the various fields of science and industry.



The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall

Author : Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof

Page : 59 pages

File Size : 17,17 MB

Release : 2021-11-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 872664410X

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When Hans Pfaal’s creditors begin to circle, there is only one thing he can do. Construct a magnificent, science defying balloon and escape to the moon! Hans records the details of this voyage with vivid otherworldly description, and impressive scientific knowhow. This fascinating, hallucinatory adventure, is regarded as one of the first examples of the modern science fiction genre, inspiring works by later writers such as Jules Verne and H.G Wells. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is a titan of literature. Most famous for his poetry, short stories, and tales of the supernatural and macabre, his body of work continues to resonate to this day. Poe is widely regarded as the inventor of the detective genre and a contributor to the emergence of science fiction, dark romanticism, and weird fiction. His most famous works include "The Raven" (1945), "The Black Cat" (1943), and "The Gold-Bug" (1843).



Pioneers of Science Fiction

Author : John Hamilton

Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 15,17 MB

Release : 2006-08-15

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1617843598

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Introduces young readers to the world of science fiction.



Pioneers of Wonder

Author : Eric Leif Davin

Publisher :

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 27,86 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Long before Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Gene Roddenberry, and Chris Carter, the names of David Lasser, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Hugo Gernsback, and Sam Moskowitz were well known by the first fans of a new kind of fiction. These pioneers were among the visionary individuals who launched the science fiction genre, which today enjoys such wide appeal. Through exclusive interviews, Eric Leif Davin takes readers back to the late 1920s, when Gernsback, "the father of science fiction," founded the world's first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. Lasser, one of Gernsback's editors, recalls his own amazing book The Conquest of Space-the first work in English to seriously probe the possibility of space flight. Other highlights include a discussion with the widow of Stanley G. Weinbaum ("A Martian Odyssey"), the first author to write about an alien in sympathetic terms; talks with the giants of early sci-fi Frank K. Kelly and Raymond Z. Gallun; Wolf Man creator and science fiction script writer Curt Siodmak; pioneer book publisher and writer Lloyd Arthur Eshbach; plus commentary on popular sci-fi magazines. The lives, experiences, memories, and insights provided in Pioneers of Wonder are a treasure for all fans of this dynamic literary phenomenon.



The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories

Author : Miles John Breuer

Publisher : U of Nebraska Press

Page : 473 pages

File Size : 24,99 MB

Release : 2008-01-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0803219318

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Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuer s first publication, The Man with the Strange Head ; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first time); stories such as Gostak and the Doshes and Mechanocracy ; and Breuer s essay The Future of Scientifiction, one of the early critical statements of the genre. Also included are some of the author s letters from the Discussions column of Amazing Stories. Much of what we know as science fiction saw the light and found its themes, styles, and modes in the science fiction magazines of the early twentieth century. It was in these magazines of the 1920s and 1930s that Breuer often led the way. Breuer himself found his inspiration in the work of H. G. Wells and in turn influenced science fiction masters from Jack Williamson to Robert A. Heinlein. The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories collects the best work of this pioneer of the genre.



O Pioneer!

Author : Frederik Pohl

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 12,41 MB

Release : 1999-04-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780812545449

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Evesham Giyt and his new wife are immigrants to the colony world of Tupelo, a strange planet inhabited by colonists from five different species. Giyt soon becomes mayor--a dubious honor--and uncovers a plot by the most dangerous creatures on the planet that threatens to tear the colony apart.



The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pio neers to Ursula K. Le Guin

Author : Lisa Yaszek

Publisher : Library of America

Page : 462 pages

File Size : 38,91 MB

Release : 2018-10-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1598535854

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Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the biggest and best survey of the female tradition in American science fiction ever published, a thrilling collection of twenty-five classic tales. From Pulp Era pioneers to New Wave experimentalists, here are over two dozen brilliant writers ripe for discovery and rediscovery, including Leslie F. Stone, Judith Merril, Leigh Brackett, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., and Ursula K. Le Guin. Imagining strange worlds and unexpected futures, looking into and beyond new technologies and scientific discoveries, in utopian fantasies and tales of cosmic horror, these women created and shaped speculative fiction as surely as their male counterparts. Their provocative, mind-blowing stories combine to form a thrilling multidimensional voyage of literary-feminist exploration and recovery. CONTENTS Introduction by LISA YASZEK CLARE WINGER HARRIS The Miracle of the Lily (1928) LESLIE F. STONE The Conquest of Gola (1931) C. L. MOORE The Black God’s Kiss (1934) LESLIE PERRI Space Episode (1941) JUDITH MERRIL That Only a Mother (1948) WILMAR H. SHIRAS In Hiding (1948) KATHERINE MACLEAN Contagion (1950) MARGARET ST. CLAIR The Inhabited Men (1951) ZENNA HENDERSON Ararat (1952) ANDREW NORTH All Cats Are Gray (1953) ALICE ELEANOR JONES Created He Them (1955) MILDRED CLINGERMAN Mr. Sakrison’s Halt (1956) LEIGH BRACKETT All the Colors of the Rainbow (1957) CAROL EMSHWILLER Pelt (1958) ROSEL GEORGE BROWN Car Pool (1959) ELISABETH MANN BORGESE For Sale, Reasonable (1959) DORIS PITKIN BUCK Birth of a Gardner (1961) ALICE GLASER The Tunnel Ahead (1961) KIT REED The New You (1962) JOHN JAY WELLS & MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY Another Rib (1963) SONYA DORMAN When I Was Miss Dow (1966) KATE WILHELM Baby, You Were Great (1967) JOANNA RUSS The Barbarian (1968) JAMES TIPTREE JR. The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (1969) URSULA K. LE GUIN Nine Lives (1969)



The History of Science Fiction: A Graphic Novel Adventure

Author : Xavier Dollo

Publisher : Humanoids, Inc.

Page : 203 pages

File Size : 28,35 MB

Release : 2021-11-23

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 164337947X

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Journey through time and space with this graphic novel history of the science fiction genre.



Science Fiction: Vision of Tomorrow?

Author : Richard Hantula

Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 17,52 MB

Release : 2004-12-15

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780836839524

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Compares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.