5 Steven J. Dick, Life on Other Worlds: The 20th Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 6. 6 John J. Macionis, Society: The Basics (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011), 52–53.
Many regard scientific ideas as disenchanting and secularizing, but Other Worlds shows that these ideas—creatively appropriated in such popular forms as C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, the art of Salvador Dalí, or the books of the ...
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The Fantasy Genre John H. Timmerman ... 6 Marshall B. Tymn , Kenneth J. Zahorski , and Robert H. Boyer , Fantasy Literature : A Core Collection and Reference Guide ( New York : R.R. Bowker Company , 1979 ) , p . 74 .
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Garrett Putnam Serviss (March 24, 1851 - May 25, 1929) was an American astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer
From the PrefaceThe point of view of this book is human interest in the other worlds around us. It presents the latest discoveries among the planets of the solar system, and shows their bearing upon the question of life in those planets.
The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most profound, displaying the acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance.
Teorías del cine. Una introducción. Buenos Aires: Paidós. Stam, Robert and Toby Miller. 2000. Film Theory (An Anthology). Oxford: Blackwell. Stam, Robert, Robert Burgoyne, and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis. 1999. Nuevos conceptos de la teoría ...
Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? Recent discoveries have made it more likely than ever that we will know the answer to this age-old question in our lifetimes --...
From a poem of one line to a sequence of twelve sections, from comic hijinks to despair, and from private revelation to public declaiming, this is a bravura performance by the only poet to have twice received the National Book Critics ...
By examining Lohorung concepts and their discourse on self and emotion, this book explores the way in which ancestral influence dominates the daily lives and rituals of the Lohorung.
Christopher White points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even existential meaning of the universe.
Other Worlds is an up-all-nighter guaranteed to still haunt in the morning, a tale as chilling by daylight as it is by darkness.
Text and images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager, Pathfinder, and other space missions celebrate the universe as humankind knows it.
What are other planets like? Do they have air and clouds? Water and rocks? Could we walk on the moons of Saturn? Are there planets orbiting around other stars?...
Spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager, Pathfinder, and other space missions are enhanced with the vivid writing of award-winning science writer James Trefil in this fetching celebration of humankind's universe.
Paul Davies explains the significance of the amazing quantum universe, where fact is stranger than any science fiction.
Examines the evidence which may support the possibilities of life elsewhere in the universe and discusses the efforts we have made to pick up signals from outer space.
Other Worlds, the fourth volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tween boys, features ten thrilling new tales of science fiction and fantasy from some of the biggest names in children's literature.