Search results for ""Author Gregory Benford""
Titan Books Ltd Bowl of Heaven
Book SynopsisA human expedition into deep space encounters a gigantic bowl-shaped object with a star at the center. A landing party is sent to investigate, and they find a variety of strange creatures populating the Bowl. The landing party is separated into two groups - one is captured by the alien inhabitants, the other is pursued across the deadly terrain.
£7.59
Orion Publishing Co Timescape
Book SynopsisThe year is 1998, the world is a growing nightmare of desperation, of uncontrollable pollution and increasing social unrest. In Cambridge, two scientists experiment with tachyons - subatomic particles that travel faster than the speed of light and, therefore, according to the Theory of Relativity, may move backwards in time. Their plan is to signal a warning to the previous generation.In 1962, a young Californian scientist, Gordon Bernstein, finds his experiments are being spoiled by unknown interference. As he begins to suspect something near the truth it becomes a race against time - the world is collapsing and will only be saved if Gordon can decipher the message in time.Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel, 1980Winner of the John W. Campbell Award for best novel, 1981Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1980
£10.44
St Martin's Press Beyond Human Living with Robots and Cyborgs
Book SynopsisWould your body work better with some artificial parts? Will you live longer, perhaps a lot longer, than you now expect. This book treats the landscape of human self-change and robotic development as poles of the same phenomenon. It tells about the accumulation of small scientific advances that add up to something large and challenging.
£9.99
Phoenix Pick The Mars Girl & As Big as the Ritz (ARC Doubles)
£16.59
Galaxy's Edge Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 13, March 2015
£14.61
MO - University of Illinois Press Gregory Benford
Book SynopsisGregory Benford is perhaps best known as the author of Benford's law of controversy: "Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available." This book explores the inexhaustible display of creative energy in Gregory Benford's life and work.Trade Review"As the first comprehensive study of Gregory Benford--and an excellent one--Slusser's book fills what has been a large gap in scholarship. This work is an elegant, fascinating, and much needed addition to scholarship on science fiction as a major branch of American Literature."--Paul K. Alkon, author of Science Fiction Before 1900: Imagination Discovers Technology"Filling a scandalous scholarly gap for both professional researchers and casual readers of contemporary science fiction, George Slusser's superb single-author study examines Benford's resuscitation of a distinctively American brand of hard sf and its approach to representing the thrill and terror of scientific discovery and technological innovation."--Science Fiction Studies"An intriguing look at working astrophysicist and prolific author Gregory Benford. . . . careful examinations of Benford's Eaton Conference papers, Galactic Center sagas, and science thrillers, along with an entertaining interview with the author, help shore up Slusser's assertions regarding Benford, one of the more successful science fiction authors to straddle the world of the academy in the sciences and the day-to-day life of a working writer. Recommended."--Choice"Slusser offers rich critical analysis that will interest SF scholars."--Year's Work in English Studies
£25.23
Simon & Schuster The Berlin Project
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£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Foundations Fear
Book Synopsis Isaac Asimov''s Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing -- of the Asimov estate, the epic saga continues.Fate -- and a cruel Emperor''s arbitrary power -- have thrust Hari Seldon into the First Ministership of the Empire against his will. As the story opens, Hari is about to leave his quiet professorship and take on the all but impossible task of administering 25 million inhabited worlds from the all-steel planet of Trantor. With the help of his beautiful bio-engineered wife Dors and his alien companion Yugo, Seldon is still developing the science that will transform history, never dreaming that it will ultimately pit him against future history''s most awesome threat.
£8.54
McFarland & Co Inc Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy
Book Synopsis The J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature--long held at the University of California, Riverside--have been a major influence in the study of science fiction and fantasy for thirty years. The conferences have attracted leading scholars whose papers are published in Eaton volumes found in university libraries throughout the world. This collection brings together 22 of the best papers--most with new afterwords by the authors--presented in chronological order to show how science fiction and fantasy criticism has evolved since 1979.
£27.54
Simon & Schuster Shadows of Eternity
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£17.09
S&s/Saga Press Shadows of Eternity
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£22.39
McFarland & Co Inc Science Fiction and the Dismal Science
Book Synopsis Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these conspicuous gaps in the critical literature by focusing on various connections between science fiction and economics, with some attention to related fields such as politics and government. Its seventeen contributors include five award-winning scholars, five science fiction writers, and a widely published economist. Three topics are covered: what noted science fiction writers like Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, and Kim Stanley Robinson have had to say about our economic and political future; how the competitive and ever-changing publishing marketplace has affected the growth and development of science fiction from the nineteenth century to today; and how the scholars who examine science fiction have themselves been influenced by the economics of academia. Although the essays f
£35.99
Skyboat Media The Sunborn
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£22.46
Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Meeting Infinity
Book SynopsisThe Future Is OurselvesThe world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come?Whether it’s climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling through space to the outer reaches of our Solar System; or the rush of being uploaded into cyberspace, our minds and bodies are going to have to drastically alter.Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us another incredible volume in his much praised science-fiction anthology series, featuring stories by Madeline Ashby, John Barnes, James S.A. Corey, Gregory Benford, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Simon Ings, Kameron Hurley, Nancy Kress, Gwyneth Jones, Yoon Ha Lee, Bruce Sterling, Sean Williams, Aliette de Bodard, Ramez Naam, An Owomoyela and Ian McDonald.Table of Contents Introduction, Jonathan Strahan Rates of Change, James S. A. Corey Desert Lexicon, Benjanun Sriduangkaew Drones, Simon Ings Body Politic, Kameron Hurley Cocoons, Nancy Kress Emergence, Gwyneth Jones The Cold Inequalities, Yoon Ha Lee Pictures from the Resurrection, Bruce Sterling Aspects, Gregory Benford Memento Mori, Madeline Ashby All the Wrong Places, Sean Williams In Blue Lily’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard Exile from Extinction, Ramez Naam My Last Bringback, John Barnes Outsider, An Owomoyela The Falls: A Luna Story, Ian McDonald About the Authors
£13.49
MO - University of Illinois Press Gregory Benford
Book SynopsisGregory Benford is perhaps best known as the author of Benford's law of controversy: "Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available." This book explores the extraordinary, seemingly inexhaustible display of creative energy in Gregory Benford's life and work.Trade Review"As the first comprehensive study of Gregory Benford--and an excellent one--Slusser's book fills what has been a large gap in scholarship. This work is an elegant, fascinating, and much needed addition to scholarship on science fiction as a major branch of American Literature."--Paul K. Alkon, author of Science Fiction Before 1900: Imagination Discovers Technology"Filling a scandalous scholarly gap for both professional researchers and casual readers of contemporary science fiction, George Slusser's superb single-author study examines Benford's resuscitation of a distinctively American brand of hard sf and its approach to representing the thrill and terror of scientific discovery and technological innovation."--Science Fiction Studies"An intriguing look at working astrophysicist and prolific author Gregory Benford. . . . careful examinations of Benford's Eaton Conference papers, Galactic Center sagas, and science thrillers, along with an entertaining interview with the author, help shore up Slusser's assertions regarding Benford, one of the more successful science fiction authors to straddle the world of the academy in the sciences and the day-to-day life of a working writer. Recommended."--Choice"Slusser offers rich critical analysis that will interest SF scholars."--Year's Work in English Studies
£91.00
