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Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art
Take an inside look into the creative world of masters of the science fiction and fantasy art genre.
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The forever war
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.
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Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art
This book is an inside look into the creative world of masters of the genre--for the enthusiast, aspiring illustrators, and collectors. Includes strategies, techniques and inspiration of today's established and up-and-coming artists.
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Iran
The sudden increase of oil prices in 1973 meant that the foreign revenues of Iran quadrupled in just over two months. As the first OPEC member to begin disbursing this extra revenue on a significant scale, Iran offers the first complete example of the social, economic and political problems this caused. This book examines the cycle of the boom and the years that led up to it - from the rural and essentially backward nature of the country to the euphoria of 1973 when the Shah seriously talked of Iran reaching the Great Civilisation, where by the 1990s Iran would be the world's fifth power. And then finally through to the loss of control over expenditure, the cancellation of ambitious projects and eventual disillusionment with all the attendant problems of expectations and increased social and political tension. A comprehensive analysis of the system of government in Iran is provided in Part Three of the book, demonstrating that this has created a repressed stability, incapable of promoting social and economic progress.
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Vernor Vinge: An Introduction
Vernor Vinge used to be a part-time science fiction writer, turning out an Analog story every now and then - important stories like \"Run, Bookworm, Run!\" and \"True Names,\" later to be expanded into books. \"True Names\" appeared in 1981, and arguably prefigured the cyberpunk movement, three years before Neuromancer, In 2000, he retired from his day job as a professor at San Diego State University, to write full time. Reading about the Singularity, and thinking about its effect on science fiction, makes me nostalgic for the Fredric Brown 1945 story \"The Waveries,\" where an invasion of dumb brute creatures who eat electricity forces humanity back into nineteenth century technology.
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