Asimov Laughs Again
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here are more than 700 of Isaac Asimov's favorite jokes, cleverest limericks and funniest stories.
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How to Enjoy Writing
Author: Janet Asimov
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780802773036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A guide to writing includes discussions of style, humor, genre fiction, editing, promotion, and children's books
Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780395572269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →640 jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them, from America's leading renaissance man.
Limericks
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Gramercy
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780517208823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A witty collection of more than 550 limericks from two world-famous writers, and all of them just 'naughty' enough to make this 'literary form' hilarious fun!
The Naked Sun
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 2011-04-13
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0307792404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots--unthinkable under the laws of Robotics--or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!
How to Tell a Joke
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0691206163
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Everyone knows that Marcus Tullius Cicero was one of the great statesmen, lawyers, and effective orators in the history of Rome. But did you also know he was regarded as one of the funniest people in Roman society as well? Five hundred years after his death, in the twilight of antiquity, the writer Macrobius ranks him alongside the comic playwright Plautus as the one of the two greatest wits ever. In this book, classicist Michael Fontaine, proposes to translate selections from Cicero's great rhetorical treatise, On the Ideal Orator (De Oratore). That larger work covered the whole of rhetoric and effective public speaking and debate. However, contained within it, is a long section focused on the effective use of humor in public speaking. In it, Cicero is concerned not just with various kinds of individual jokes, but with jokes that are advantageous in social situations. He advises readers on how to make the most effective use of wit to win friends, audiences, and achieve their overall ambitions. Cicero wants to teach his readers how to tell a joke without looking like a buffoon, and how to prevent or avoid jokes from backfiring. Hence, he does give scores of examples of jokes-some of which are timeless and translate easily, others that involve puns in Latin that challenged the translator's creativity. But overall, this work brings to the fore a little known, but important part of Cicero's classic work."--
Nemesis
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 2008-11-19
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 0307488632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A totally new and original work that stretches his talents to their fullest . . . welcome back, champ!”—The Detroit News In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth’s people—but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she will realize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as—drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star—they hurtle toward certain disaster.
Ready Player Two
Author: Ernest Cline
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2020-11-24
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1524761338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall Street Journal AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY? Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants. Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance. Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.
Pebble in the Sky
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-04-27
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1429968192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two. This is young Isaac Asimov's first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation series. This is Golden Age SF at its finest. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Absolution Gap
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 807
ISBN-13: 0316462659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the third book of the legendary Revelation Space trilogy, the last remnants of humanity realize that forging an alliance with a greater and even more mysterious alien force may be their only chance for survival. The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence -- and they've targeted Humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety -- or draw down its darkest enemy. And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse . . . "Absolution Gap is a good as it gets, and should solidify Alastair Reynolds' reputation as one of the best hard SF writers in the field." -- SF Site
