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Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century
In the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical maps, for example, saved lives by helping surgeons locate brain tumors and haemorrhages without first opening up the skull. These experiments both incited controversy and stimulated creative thought, because they challenged the possibility of an extra-corpo...
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Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
An overview of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card. Featuring stories from the genre's greatest authors: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Harlan Ellison, George Alec Effinger, Brian W. Aldiss, William Gibson & Michael Swanwick, Theodore Sturgeon, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, James Blish, George R.R. Martin, James Patrick ...
MPN: 7e349468055652457a73b77a8532d15c
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Axiomatic: Short Stories of Science Fiction
A collection of science fiction stories that looks at the possible future includes stories of genetically altered dolphins that speak in limericks and a software program that allows users to design their own child.
MPN: 28da5b71eed2eea682d46cd201d04e40
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Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television
As humans, it is our trust in something larger than ourselves that invests our lives with meaning and value. We hope that outside the boundaries of everyday living there lies something greater. As Doug Cowan argues, science fiction is the genre of possibility and hope, a principal canvas on which writers, artists, and filmmakers have sketched their visions of this transcendent potential for generations. In Sacred Space, he leads readers in a compelling exploration of how this transcendence is manifested in ...
MPN: 8cf4025ffa5849a17e079135cc4e4c14
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Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties: The 21st Century Edition
Long recognized as the definitive reference work on the hundreds of science fiction movies that from 1950 through 1962 terrified and fascinated a generation with zombified teenagers, robots, invading aliens and monsters of every kind, Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies is greatly expanded in this 21st Century Edition. With new entries on several films, it also revisits, revises and expands the commentary on every film in the 1982 and 1986 two-volume edition. In addition to a detailed plot synopsis, cast ...
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Favorite Science Fiction Stories
The fifth set of Favorite Science Fiction stories contains the following titles: "The Skull" by Philip K. Dick, "Sam, This is You" by Murray Leinster, "Manners of the Age" by Horace Brown Fyfe, "Omnilingual" by H. Beam Piper, "Heist Job on Thizar" by Randall Garrett, "The Yillian Way" by Keith Laumer, "The Ultimate Vice" by A. Bertram Chandler, "Backlash" by Winston Marks, "Adolescents Only" by Irving Cox, Jr, "Project Mastodon" by Clifford Simak, "Sargasso of Lost Starships" by Poul Anderson, "The Dictator...
MPN: 03b42b4e851600c0438689de57f27648
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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived
Paperback, St Martins Pr, 2007, ISBN13 9781596911369, ISBN10 1596911360
MPN: 239f29942f2b063957f5ba11321bca93
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Creating Life from Life: Biotechnology and Science Fiction
CREATING LIFE FROM LIFE
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The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers critical insights into SF far beyond the more common Anglo-American narratives. Contributors take either a national or transnational approach, and stretch the geographic and conceptual boundaries of science fiction cinema. Recurrent themes include genre discussions, engagement with Hollywood, and the international subgenre of science fiction parody. Chapters contain a variety of perspectives and styles: from gender and race studies, to the eco-cri...
MPN: 79b91751d22daaa7c19b3b0fc0dd519e
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Religious Science Fiction in Battlestar Galactica and Caprica: Women As Mediators of the Sacred and Profane
Paperback, McFarland & Co Inc Pub, 2015, ISBN13 9781476662534, ISBN10 1476662533
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Self-Help That Works: Resources to Improve Emotional Health and Strengthen Relationships
Dimensions: 1.5 x 7 x 10 Weight:2.35.
MPN: 1c350c0e55dc83febc4b4f182e5bde77
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Self Help for Lazy People: Self Help for Those Who Don't Have Time to Read Self Help Books.
If you read this short book you will never have to read another self-help book again. Ever That is quite a claim but I have spent the best part of my adult life reading self-help books and they all pretty much say the same thing. So I decided to distil a...
MPN: de039a0266b74cfab6faac38dc4ebe05
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