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\"Operatives from an advanced alien culture struggle to survive in medieval Italy, in the SF sequel to the astonishing Quietus.\" -- Publisher's website.
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The Little Prince
Broken down in the Sahara Desert, a pilot meets an extraordinary Little Prince, travelling across time and space to bring peace to his warring planet. Inua Ellams' magical retelling of the much loved story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry turns the Little Prince into a descendant of an African race in a parallel galaxy. His journey as a galactic emigrant takes us through solar systems of odd planets with strange beings, addresses climate change and morality, and shows how even a little thing can make a big difference.
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Alien contact
Are we alone? From War of the worlds to Invasion of the body snatchers, ET to Close encounters, creators of science fiction have always eagerly speculated on just how the story of alien contact would play out. Editor Marty Halpern has gathered together some of the best stories of the last 30 years, weaving a tapestry that covers a broad range of scenarios from the insidious, to the violent, to the transcendent.
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Alien Chic
Alien Chic provides a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking ourselves why our attitudes to aliens have shifted from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others.
Neil Badmington explores our relationship with aliens, inscribed in films such as The War of the Worlds , Mars Attacks! , Mission to Mars and Independence Day ; and how thinkers such as Descartes, Barthes, Freud, Lyotard and Derrida have conceptualised what it means to be human (and post-human).
Alien Chic examines the the concept of posthumanism in an age when the lines between what is human and what is non-human are increasingly blurred by advances in science and technology, for example genetic cloning and engineering, and the development of AI and cyborgs.
Questioning whether our current embracing of all things 'alien' - in the form of extraterrestrial gadgets or abduction narratives, for instance - stems from a desire to reaffirm ourselves as 'human', this is an original and thought-provoking contribution to the study of posthumanism.
Neil Badmington is Lecturer in Cultural Criticism and English Literature at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University. He is the editor of Posthumanism (Palgrave, 2000)
Introduction: They All Laughed 1. Reading the Red Planet; or, Little Green Men at Work 2. It Lives!; or, the Persistence of Humanism 3. I Want to Be Leaving; or, Tracking Alien Abduction 4. Alien Objects, Human Subjects 5. A Crisis of Versus: Rereading the Alien Conclusion: From Difference to Differance (With an 'a')
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The war of the worlds
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.
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After 1989: The New Wave of Chinese Science Fiction
This paper examines the new wave of Chinese science fiction as both a subversion and variation of the genre's utopianism of the earlier age. Wang Jinkang's Ant Life (2007), Liu Cixin's China 2185 (1989), the Three-Body Trilogy (2006-2010), and the short story \"The Micro-Era\" (1999) are the main texts this paper studies. Their reflections on utopianism speak to the post-1989 changing intellectual culture and political economy. This paper argues that the new wave of Chinese science fiction contains a self-conscious effort to energise the utopian/dystopian variations rather than a simple denial of utopianism or a total embrace of dystopian disillusionment, and this is particularly represented in Liu Cixin's novels. The paper also provides some preliminary thoughts on the vision of a post-human future depicted in Liu Cixin's science fiction.
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The Cobra trilogy
Cobra warriors, a guerrilla force with surgically implanted weapons, must learn the uses and abuses of their special abilities, as they launch a last-ditch attack on the alien Troft forces that are threatening Earth.
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Invasión
The invasion of Panama by the U.S in Christmas and New Year of 1989 -- when American troops deposed dictator Manuel Noriega, killing an unknown number of civilians in the process -- serves as an excuse to explore how a people remember, transform, and often forget their past in order re-define their identity and become who they are today. Invasion documents the collective memory utilizing a combination of reenactments and interviews of the 1989 US Invasion. The people's lives were deeply shaken by the invasion: Defense forces who fought symbolic battles, politicians who justify their actions, friends of the church, from civilians to former General Noriega. Did the \"gringos\" bring democracy or destruction? Was Noriega a victim or a villain? Was he an anti-Imperialist or a CIA accomplice gone rogue? Was it about drug trafficking or arms dealing, or perhaps neither? Or does it really just boil down to the fact that the U.S. wasn’t ready to relinquish control of the Panama Canal? These questions, many of which go intentionally unanswered, constitute the first Panamanian attempt to reconcile with a national trauma that many Panamanians have been all too eager to forget.
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It came from outer space : trailer
This is a trailer for the 1953 American black-and-white science fiction horror 3d film directed by Jack Arnold and stars Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush.
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