Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Gold Eagle
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373643240
A flesh-eating bacterium has been test-run in Canada, proving to be a biological weapon of genocidal proportions. Mack Bolan's mission sends him to dangerous Mafia-controlled networks in the hunt for leads on the germ's location and use. Original.
Author : D. Harlan Wilson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252050037
Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within SF itself.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780985762513
Examining a seven year period in Ballard's career, from 1966 to 1973, this volume includes various original essays, two interviews with Ballard from the early 1970s and a selection of Ballard's works.
Author : Stephen Barber
Publisher : Creation Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Atrocities
ISBN :
Documenting many shocking examples of Far Eastern atrocity, Barber takes a historical look at the reigns of such dictators as Pol Pot, who less than 25 years ago founded a state based on sexual torture, mass butchery and genocide, violating and decaptiating millions of Cambodians. Also looking at Japanese cruelty over the last 60 years, as well as many other examples, this is a graphic, relevatory document demonstrating the imperatives of homicide and xenophobia that have been passed on within the Far Eastern world. Illustrated with many rare and harrowing photos.
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780441013654
Charles Stross takes a departure from his epic science fiction to craft this cross between Len Deighton—style espionage and H.P. Lovecraftian horror. Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But somehow, he is...
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Re/Search Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
When the Atrocity Exhibition was originally printed (1970), Nelson Doubleday saw a copy and was so horrified he ordered the entire press run shredded. Two years later Grove Press brought out a small hardback printing re-titled Love and Napalm: Export USA. Now Re/Search brings out an illustrated, large-format edition of this notorious work, augmented with four recently written stories, plus extensive annotations-written by the author, never before published-which clarify and illuminate this exhilarating, prophetic masterpiece. Book jacket.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007322194
First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’.
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0748124136
'Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time' Ben Aaronovitch on the Laundry Files 'Tremendously good, geeky fun' Telegraph on the Laundry Files NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY . . . Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . . This is the first novel in the Laundry Files. Praise for this series: 'Charles Stross owns this field, and his vast, cool intellect has launched yet another mad, sly entertainment that will strangle the hell out of anything else on offer right now' Warren Ellis 'Stross at the top of his game - which is to say, few do it better' KIRKUS 'Alternately chilling and hilarious' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'Ferociously enjoyable - SFX
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004313869
An innovative volume of interdisciplinary essays on the significant British writer J. G. Ballard (1930-2009), exploring the physical, cultural and intertextual landscapes in several key novels with a central focus on The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), one of the most challenging texts in contemporary literature. Contributors include established critics of Ballard alongside newcomers. Different spatial concepts underpin the essays, from the landscapes of Ballard’s youth in Shanghai and his life in suburban London, to nuclear testing spaces and outer space exploration. Figurative locations typical of Ballard’s work are explored, including the beach, the motorway, the high-rise and the shopping mall. Textual spaces are explored through Ballard’s affiliation with modernist literary forms, including surrealist prose writing and collage, and poetic romanticism.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nigeria
ISBN :
