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Beyond Human Ken by Judith Merril (Ed)
pdf | 21.05 MB | English | Judith Merril (Ed) | 1954 | Pennant; First Ed edition | Page: 355
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Pennant Books #P56, 1954. First paperback printing in VG+ condition. Tanning and dust soiling to the wrappers. Small rubs to the outer corners. Tanning to the page margins. Stories by Heinlein, Boucher, Sturgeon and others. Cover by Barye Phillips.
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EverydayChaos
epub | 1.29 MB | English | David Weinberger | 2019 | Harvard Business Review Press | Page: 239
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Make. More. Future.
Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see.
Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all the chaos it's revealing, our understanding of how things happen is changing--and with it our deepest strategies for predicting, preparing for, and managing our world. This affects everything, from how we approach our everyday lives to how we make moral decisions and how we run our businesses.
Take machine learning, which makes better predictions about weather, medical diagnoses, and product performance than we do--but often does so at the expense of our understanding of how it arrived at those predictions. While this can be dangerous, accepting it is also liberating, for it enables us to harness the complexity of an immense amount of data around us. We are also turning to strategies that avoid anticipating the future altogether, such as A/B testing, Minimum Viable Products, open platforms, and user-modifiable video games. We even take for granted that a simple hashtag can organize unplanned, leaderless movements such as #MeToo.
Through stories from history, business, and technology, philosopher and technologist David Weinberger finds the unifying truths lying below the surface of the tools we take for granted--and a future in which our best strategy often requires holding back from anticipating and instead creating as many possibilities as we can. The book's imperative for business and beyond is simple: Make. More. Future.
The result is a world no longer focused on limitations but optimized for possibilities.
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Cambridge History of Science Fiction (2019)
pdf | 5.86 MB | English | Gerry Canavan | 2019 | Page: 767
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The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
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Cold Chills by Robert Bloch
pdf | 11.15 MB | English | Robert Bloch | 2013 | Page: 226
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A massive snotorm has come to Shallow Springs, and it's brought something with it. Something that haunts the falling snow and leaves no footprints, only a mounting number of frozen victims.
Paranormal handler Finn McCoy returns once again to the sleepy town of his birth as he seeks to unravel the mystery behind the icy deaths of several of the town's residents. With the help of his girlfriend Amanda and Sheriff John Talbot, McCoy races against time to discover the identity of this chilling new threat.
Will McCoy be able to put an end to the murderous spree? Or will the menace prove to be as unstoppable as the storm which spawned it?
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Horror Hunters by Roger Elwood & Vic Ghidalia (Ed)
pdf | 11.1 MB | English |978-3532954065 | Roger Elwood & Vic Ghidalia (Ed) | 1975 | Manor Books; 1st edition | Page: 196
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7 Westerns of the 40's by Damon Knight (Ed)
pdf | 4.58 MB | English | Damon Knight (Ed) | 2013 | Maverick Books, Inc. | Page: 178
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On the first day of quail season Plato, the Bird Dog, is missing. At first, Hank is willing to let him stay lost. But when Beulah pleads for help, Hank caves in and takes off in search of Plato. Before he can catch a scent of the spotted bird dog, he finds himself face-to-face with an angry mother hog and her litter. Can Hank's quick wits help him out of this fix? Or will he become hog meat?
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Dark Terrors 2 The Gollancz Book of Horror by Stephen Jones & David Sutton
pdf | 18.9 MB | English |978-0575602359 | Stephen Jones & David Sutton | 1997 | Victor Gollancz | Page: 386
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A showcase anthology of the very best in horror and dark fantasy writing by modern masters of the macabre. Here is a hair-raising collection comprising some of the very finest in horror and dark fantasy. Drawing from both sides of the Atlantic, each volume features the work of some of the genres' biggest-selling names as well as their rising stars. Dark Terrors II features stories from, among others, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Thomas Tessier, Nicholas Royle, Dennis Etchison, and James Miller. These two anthologies will take you to the furthest reaches of your imagination...and beyond!
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Henry James & HG Wells (gnv64)
pdf | 11.77 MB | English |978-1883011093 | Henry James | 1996 | Library of America; First Edition edition | Page: 270
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This Library of America volume is one of five that make available for the first time in new, complete, and authoritative editions the astonishing abundance of invention and unwavering intensity of the aesthetic vision of Henry James as displayed in more than one hundred world-famous stories ranging from brief anecdotes to richly developed novellas.
Equally adept at ironic comedy, muted tragedy, and supernatural fantasy, at lively social satire and nuanced portraiture, James in his shorter works explores a staggering variety of situations and emotions. Here are courtships and legacies; the worlds of literature, theater, and the popular press; the paradoxes of temperament and the constraints of custom; the clash of conscience and desire. Stylistically, the stories allowed James to experiment with tones and devices quite different from his novels-dramatic plot twists and surprise endings, swift pacing and ebullient humor. The brilliance of his technical command allowed him to transform the tiniest of suggestions-a fleetingly observed gesture, an anecdote dropped at a dinner party-into fiction remarkable for its lambent surfaces and intricate psychological counterpoint.
The twenty-one stories in this volume represent James at the peak of his storytelling powers. Among them are "The Turn of the Screw," one of his most popular works, and a terrifying exercise in psychological horror centering on the corruption of childhood innocence; "The Real Thing," a playful consideration of the illusion of art and the paradoxes of authenticity; "The Figure in the Carpet," "The Death of the Lion," and "The Middle Years," three very different expositions of the mysteries of authorship, embodying some of James's most profound insights into the nature of his own art; "The Altar of the Dead," a somber, ultimately wrenching meditation on the relation of the living to the dead; and "In the Cage," an extended evocation of the inner life of a young woman trapped in a dehumanizing job at a postal-and-telegraph office.
LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Khaled by F Marion Crawford
pdf | 11.37 MB | English | F. Marion Crawford | 2018 | Riverhead Books | Page: 220
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[b]**Please note that this will work best on a color device and will appear in a horizontal format**
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed responds to the heartbreak of the current refugee crisis with this deeply moving, beautifully illustrated short work of fiction for people of all ages, all over the world.[/b]
"Intensely moving. . .Powerfully evocative of the plight in which displaced populations find themselves."- Kirkus, STARRED Review
"Hosseini's story, aimed at readers of all ages, does not dwell on nightmarish fates; instead, its emotional power flo from the love of a father for his son."- Publishers Weekly, STARRED BOX Review
A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015, Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Kurdi's, who have been splintered and forced from home by war and persecution, and he will donate author proceeds from this book to the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and The Khaled Hosseini Foundation to help fund lifesaving relief efforts to help refugees around the globe.
Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read writers in the world, with more than fifty-five million copies of his novels sold worldwide in more than seventy countries. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
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Mister Ed and Me by Alan Young with Bill Burt
pdf | 18.74 MB | English |978-0312118525 | Alan Young with Bill Burt | 1995 | St Martins Pr; 1st edition | Page: 198
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Mister Ed was a phenomenon. Alan Young's career was a horse of a different color. He galloped from life as a child radio performer to cowriter and star of one of the first live TV sho, the Emmy Award-winning "Alan Young Show." But once in the saddle on "Mister Ed," Alan was off to the races. Told with his characteristic wit, Alan's charming story chronicles the life and times of a certain talking horse and his buddy Wilbur.
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New Tales of Unease (1976) by John Burke (Ed)
pdf | 10.71 MB | English | John Burke (Ed) | 2013 | Comma Press | Page: 210
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** Winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology**
In 1919 Sigmund Freud published an essay that delved deep into the tradition of horror writing and claimed to understand one of its darkest tricks. Like a mad scientist, he performed literary vivisection on a still-breathing body of work, exploring its inner anatomy, and pulling out mysterious organs for classification. His aim: to present to the world a complete theory of 'das unheimliche', the uncanny.
In the spirit of this great experiment, 14 leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud's famous checklist of what gives us the creeps, and to give the hulking canon of uncanny fiction a shot in the arm, a shock to the neck-bolts...
'It's not too great a stretch to see Comma as the literary equivalent of Factory Records.'
- The Herald, 2 Dec.
'Delightful and disturbing'
- The Independent on Sunday, 14 Dec.
'A masterclass in understated creepiness... a deliciously macabre collection that the old Austrian might well have enjoyed.'
- Book of the Week, Time Out, 12 Jan.
'If we need the uncanny - and I suspect we do - then we also need it updating... laudable.'
- Book of the Week, The Independent, 2 Jan.
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Who Done It [1980] by Alice Laurance and Isaac Asimov (Ed)
pdf | 31.84 MB | English | Alice Laurance and Isaac Asimov (Ed) | 2015 | Chronicle Books LLC | Page: 254
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In this charming ebook, each page asks the reader a question about the lineup of characters featured on the spread. Sharp eyes and keen observation are necessary. There's only one right answer, and it's not always easy! Kids will love learning early concepts like expressions and positions as a natural consequence of their hunt for clues in the details of the lineup. Plus, this is a fixed-format version of the book, which looks nearly identical to the print version.
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Stories From The Twilight Zone
pdf | 23.21 MB | English | Rod Serling | 2013 | Rod Serling Books | Page: 430
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When it first aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone was nothing less than groundbreaking television. Freed from the censors' strict oversight due to the show's classification as science fiction, the 156 episodes explored classic, powerful, and moving human themes-love, hate, pride, jealousy, terror-in a unique style. The program sparked the imaginations of countless writers and filmmakers around the world.
With this collection of 6 of Rod Serling's favorite spine-tingling stories, prepare yourself, in the words of Serling himself, ".to enter that fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. And it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call.The Twilight Zone."
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Tales of Unease by John Burke (Ed)
pdf | 13.11 MB | English |978-0330104821 | John Burke | 1966 | Pan; First Edition edition | Page: 224
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The Hell of Mirrors by Peter Haining
pdf | 11.73 MB | English | Peter Haining | 2019 | Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc. | Page: 194
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Hell's Mirror
By: DeAnna Davidson Lipps
A pack of seven teenagers were a savage group of bullies. One night, they murdered the beautiful thirteen-year-old Madeline Singer. They were never arrested. Instead, the town blamed the murder on a drifter. However, there were people watching that night-people who know the true killers of Madeline.
Now, twenty-five-years later, a "Reaper" has come to seek revenge for this horrible crime. The pack has no idea how far he is willing to go to make them pay for what they did. The Reaper is ready, his game is ready, and he is ready to win, and indeed he will, because no one will see him coming until it is too late! God may have mercy on their souls - but the Reaper has none!
About the Author
DeAnna Lipps is married to her wonderful husband, Tony. They have two dogs, named Roxy and CoCo Cabanna. DeAnna taught elementary education for nineteen years. She has also written, produced, and directed many plays for her classes. She is currently writing Hell's Mirror II and two children's books
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The Gruesome Book by Ramsey Campbell (Ed)
pdf | 3.87 MB | English |978-0995506503 | Ramsey Campbell (Ed) | 2016 | Gizzy Books LTD; 1 edition | Page: 114
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[b]★ GAG GIFT IDEA! ★[/b]
[b]Surprise someone you know with laughter and fun. You know they need it![/b]
Jam-packed with unique images to color. The Infectious Disease Coloring Book makes a funny gift - or keep just it for yourself! With 35 images of syphilis, parasitic worms and infectious diseases, you have never seen an adult coloring book like it - until now!
Let's be honest, we're all a little curious about infectious diseases, especially those of us interested in biology or medicine! We all want to know what they look like and how they affect the body, not to mention what colors they might possess.
Great for med students, people who love science, or even just adults looking to disconnect from the stress of the world and unleash their creativity, this quirky coloring book is an eye-opening experience for anyone who loves to color, draw, and paint. Both a novelty gift and as a way to refocus your mind, choose the Infectious Disease Coloring Book for yourself or surprise someone with the best joke present that's sure to pique their interest!
[b]A great gift![/b]
These fun, easy-to-color, and somewhat gross adult coloring books offer: - High-Detailed, Unique, and Creative Graphics
- Multiple Diseases (Leprosy, Flesh-Eating Bacteria, Syphilis, and More!
- Crisp, Clean, Easy-to-Color Images
- More than 35 Individual Coloring Pages
- Single-Sided Page Printing (Avoid Bleed Through)
Have a little fun learning about infectious diseases or even just relieve a little stress and anxiety while practicing mindfulness with this original infectious disease coloring books from Nicholas Wright.
Created by author and publisher Nicholas Wright, this one-of-a-kind adult coloring gives you a unique look at major medical diseases-and then lets you color them in your own original and creative style!
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The Metal Monster [1946] by A Merritt
pdf | 10.77 MB | English | A. Merritt | 2014 | Start Classics | Page: 204
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"Dr. Goodwin is on a botanical expedition in the Himalayas. There he meets Dick Drake, the son of one of his old science acquaintances. They are witnesses of a strange aurora-like effect, but seemingly a deliberate one. As they go out to investigate, they meet Goodwin's old friends Martin and Ruth Ventnor, brother and sister scientists. The two are besieged by Persians as Darius III led when Alexander of Macedon conquered them more than two thousand years ago.The group is saved by a magnificent woman they get to know as Norhala. She commands the power of lightning and controls strange metal animate Things, living, metallic, geometric forms; an entire city of sentient cubes, globes and tetrahedrons, capable of joining together and forming colossal shapes, and wielding death rays and other armaments of destruction."
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The Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch
pdf | 9.87 MB | Robert Bloch | 1976 | Panther | Page: 178
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Sci-Fi Movie Freak by Robert C Ring
pdf | 40.6 MB | English | Robert C. Ring | 2011 | Krause Publications; Pap/DVD edition | Page: 258
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"I'll be back."
-- The Terminator, The Terminator (1984)
To the movies, that is. And so will you with the help of Sci-Fi Movie Freak, a celebration of some of the greatest science-fiction movies of all time. Your inner geek will freak finding everything from classics like Metropolis, Forbidden Planet, and 2001: A Space Odyssey to modern movies including Avatar, Moon, and Inception, and even the entertaining "failures" like Robot Monster, Gammera the Invincible, and Battlefield Earth.
Movies are divided into various chapters including Best of the Best, Further Essentials, and Lesser-Known Gems.
• Features more than 100 movies
• 250+ photos of movie stills and posters
• Top 10 lists of the best directors, female characters, villains and more
Free DVD included of the magnificently bad cult classic Plan 9 From Outer Space.
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The Mummy Walks Among Us by Vic Ghidalia (Ed)
pdf | 7.7 MB | Vic Ghidalia (Ed) | 1971 | AMERICAN EDUCATION PUBLISHING; First Edition edition | Page: 154
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