epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Attebery, Brian

{ 6 } Angels, Fantasy, and Belief A few decades ago, my wife and I were driving in the mountains in a car that did not like to climb mountains. ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:Idema, Tom

Reviving Lamarck’s discredited theory of the heritability of newly acquired traits, Koestler’s work is a very early challenge to the Modern Synthesis comprised in the 1950s after Watson and Crick’s ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Saler, Michael

CHAPTER 5 The Middle Positions of Middle-earth J. R. R. Tolkien and Fictionalism The salient feature of Western societies is not so much a decline of religious faith and practice, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Milner, Andrew;

Thomas Pynchon makes much the same point in his ‘Foreword’ to the Centennial Edition of the novel (Pynchon, 2003, xxiv). They are surely right: the ‘Appendix’ is internal to the ...

epub |eng | 2018-05-10 | Author:Damien Broderick

Still in his twenties when he wrote this only slightly better than routine short adventure novel, Brunner tries for something involving and thoughtful but fails to reach anything much beyond ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Adam Roberts

The later ‘No Woman Born’ (1944) concerns a beautiful actress who dies and is brought back to life in a robotic body. It achieves miracles of real pathos, as the ...

azw |eng | 2017-02-10 | Author:James LaFond [LaFond, James]

Civilization Civilization A Mythic Dimension in Fiction “…Cairn’s license [civilization’s toleratio n of his masculine expressions as a prize-fighter] was revoked…Bewildered, unsatisfied, he wandered over the world, a restless Hercules…” ...

epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Tom Shippey [Shippey, Tom]

In this passage the key words are perhaps ‘as if’. Within the world of romance everything that happens here is literally ‘coincidence’. The cock means nothing by crowing, that he ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-07 | Author:McIntosh, Jonathan S. [McIntosh, Jonathan S.]

And so it was that as this vision of the World was played before them, the Ainur saw that it contained things which they had not thought. And they saw ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Abbott, Carl;

THE EVERTED METROPOLIS In the nearly six decades since Gladiator-at-Law hit the shelves, Americans have continued to vote with their Chevrolets and Volkswagens (they could scarcely vote with their feet ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Brett Josef Grubisic & Gisèle M. Baxter, & Tara Lee

Notes 1 “Las mujeres como tú van a cambiar este país” (89). Translations are mine unless otherwise noted. 2 Carlos Fuentes refers in this quotation to “America” the continent. Latin ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:David Day [Day, David]

Reliable historical accounts tell us that Attila died of a throat haemorrhage after drinking and feasting on the first night of his marriage to a German princess called Hildico. Immediately ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-04 | Author:Carl Abbott

THE EVERTED METROPOLIS In the nearly six decades since Gladiator-at-Law hit the shelves, Americans have continued to vote with their Chevrolets and Volkswagens (they could scarcely vote with their feet ...

epub |eng | | Author:Eva Horn

A CHAIN OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: THE IMPROBABLE ACCIDENT There are, however, different types of accidents, inspiring entirely different images, narratives, and forms of knowledge. Whereas the crash is an individualized ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Desirina Boskovich

In 2014, Rick Baker revealed an amazing series of behind-the-scenes images from his work on the “Night Skies” alien crew. “I was so excited to be working on this project, ...