Models of Doom
Author: H. S. D. Cole
Publisher: Universe Pub
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780876639054
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scrutinizes the technical aspects and ideological background of the MIT world models on the future of mankind
Author: H. S. D. Cole
Publisher: Universe Pub
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780876639054
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scrutinizes the technical aspects and ideological background of the MIT world models on the future of mankind
Author: David Kushner
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2003-04-24
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1588362892
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams
Author: Adam J. Bock
Publisher: Pearson UK
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1292135719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: D. H. Meadows
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780330241694
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sam Stuart
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1483279359
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Publisher: Marvel
Published: 2007-01-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780785117049
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the adventures of the Fantastic Four's battles with their enemy Von Doom.
Author: Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-19
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1317281438
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the Vietnam War to illustrate the problematic consequences of simple mythic idealism. Simultaneously, Americans were playing with expanded and revised versions of familiar Frontier Myths, though in a contemporary context, through NASA’s lunar missions, Star Trek, and Gerard K. O’Neill’s High Frontier. This book examines the reasons behind the exclusion of Frontier Myths to the periphery of scholarly discourse, and endeavors to build a new model for understanding their enduring significance. This model connects NASA’s failed attempts to recycle earlier myths, wholesale, to Star Trek’s revision of those myths and rejection of the idea of a frontier paradise, to O’Neill’s desire to realize such a paradise in Earth’s orbit. This new synthesis defies the negative connotations of Frontier Myths during the 1960s and 70s and attempts to resuscitate them for relevance in the modern academic context.