History & Criticism
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:Stanislaw Lem

Metafantasia: The Possibilities of Science Fiction Let us demonstrate three possible types of science fiction by way of three fictional examples. Our first example is a work about a system ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-10 | Author:David Baggett; Shawn Klein

There is one last point we must note about Aristotle’s account of the virtues. Aristotle recognized that all of our important choices in life take place in emotional contexts. What ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-22 | Author:Terry Goodkind

Chapter 33 “You must cut off my arm.” Zedd drew the sleeve of the sky blue, satin robe down her arm, covering the wound that wouldn’t heal, and the faint ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2004-06-21 | Author:Pratchett, Terry [Pratchett, Terry]

CHAPTER 7A Post Haste The nature of Boris the horse • Foreboding tower • Mr. Lipwig cools off • The lady with buns on her ears • Invitation accepted • ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
epub | | 2010-05-08 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM A FAN THE other day, one who had bought a copy of Agent of Byzantium by Harry Turtledove, which appeared in a series entitled „Isaac ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 1990-07-02 | Author:Alexei Panshin & Cory Panshin [Panshin, Alexei & Panshin, Cory]

“The world we live in is composed of impressions received through the senses. But there is an infinity of possible worlds, and if the senses can be attuned to receive ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Terry Pratchett

Om crawled slowly along the length of a line. "Stop walking up and down like that," he said, "I can't concentrate." "How can people talk like that?" Brutha asked the ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]

There are seven shorter stories in The Birthday of the World, and one that might qualify as a novella. Six of the first seven are Ekumen stories—they’re part of the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Pratchett, Terry [Pratchett, Terry]

The Gnarly Ground Gnarly ground is hard to see, let alone describe. There’s a patch of it on the highest part of the moorlands, beyond the forest and among the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 24,2014 )