The Wonderful Future that Never was
Author: Gregory Benford
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781588168221
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past"--Jacket.
Author: Gregory Benford
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781588168221
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past"--Jacket.
Author: Gregory Benford
Publisher: Hearst Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781588169754
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reveals predictions made in "Popular Mechanics" magazine between 1903 and 1969 about what the future would hold!
Author: Siri Hustvedt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1982102853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World. A young woman, S.H., moves to New York City in 1978 to look for adventure and write her first novel, but finds herself distracted by her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite. As S.H. listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, she carefully transcribes the woman’s bizarre monologues about her daughter’s violent death and her need to punish the killer. Forty years later, S.H. stumbles upon the journal she kept that year and writes a memoir, Memories of the Future, in which she juxtaposes the notebook’s texts, drafts from her unfinished comic novel, and her commentaries on them to create a dialogue among selves over the decades. She remembers. She misremembers. She forgets. Events of the past take on new meanings. She works to reframe her traumatic memory of a sexual assault. She celebrates the legacy of the wild and rebellious Dada artist-poet, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. As the book unfolds, you witness S.H. write her way through vengeance and into freedom. Smart, funny, angry, and poignant, Hustvedt’s seventh novel brings together the themes that have made her one of the most celebrated novelists working today: the strangeness of time, the brutality of patriarchy, and the power of the imagination to remake the past.
Author: Tim Onosko
Publisher: Plume
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780525475514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Predictions of future technology and visions of such wonders as television, space travel, prop-less planes, diving spheres, and transatlantic luxury liners are viewed in articles from Popular Science and Modern Mechanix during the 1930s
Author: Tommy Wallach
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-03-24
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1481418777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet. Simultaneous eBook.
Author: Roger A. Roth
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2023-06-08
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1977265286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As global tension rises humankind finds itself at the precipice of extinction. With the carriers of a corrupted generic strain no longer in control the survivors of worldwide devastation join to build a genuinely civilized society. Journey into the distant future where A.I. not only helps humankind, but brings them to heights of existence never before thought possible. Ultimately A.I. and humankind combine to search for the Father of all creation. Humankind finds A Wonderful Future.
Author: J. Storrs Hall
Publisher: Stripe Press
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1953953271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: we’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we’re still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question. What starts as an examination of the technical limitations of building flying cars evolves into an investigation of the scientific, technological, and social roots of the economic stagnation that started in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of cold fusion technology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth creation and distribution. Hall then outlines a framework for a future powered by exponential progress—one in which we build as much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich in abundance and wonder. Drawing on years of original research and personal engineering experience, Where Is My Flying Car?, originally published in 2018, is an urgent, timely analysis of technological progress over the last 50 years and a bold vision for a better future.
Author: David Mitchell
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2010-07-16
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 0307373576
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity. Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.
Author: Jennifer Bromann-Bender
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2013-12-20
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0810888092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies. A booktalk is a summary of a book presented in a way that would interest someone in reading the book described. Why non-fiction? Because the Common Core Standards Initiative, which most states have adopted, requires that 70% of the materials students read be from the category of informational texts it is especially important to focus on nonfiction when sharing books with students. Here’s everything you need to do just that. Chapters cover selecting, writing, preparing, and presenting booktalks, special tips for high-interest, low-level books, and using non-fiction in the library and the classroom. Two hundred ready-to-present booktalks arranged by genre are also included. Genres include animals, famous people, sports, crime and serial killers, movies and television, religion, war, history, and the supernatural.
Author: T. H. White
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-16
Total Pages: 649
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.