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As the war draws closer and secrets are revealed, Orelia, Arran, Vesper, and Cormak, along with others at the Quatra Fleet Academy, face significant changes and new challenges.
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F Troop and Other Citadel Stories
From its founding in 1842 the Citadel has been steeped in tradition. There have been changes through the years, but the basics of the military code and the plebe system have remained constant. Citadel graduate Tom Worley has crafted this collection of short stories about life at the South Carolina military academy during the 1960s. While the stories are fictional, they are inspired in part by his days as a student on the college campus. With humor and dramatic clarity, Worley reveals the harshness of the plebe system, how success is achieved through perseverance, and the character-building benefits of a Citadel education. The seventeen stories included in the volume are told from the perspective of two main characters—cadets Pete Creger and Sammy Graham—who are members of F Company. By turns surprising and entertaining, the collected stories range from the emotional and physical trials of being a knob in the plebe system, the brutality of hazing, and the fear and fun of company pranks, to the friendship and camaraderie the system fosters and the tremendous pride shared by those who wear the coveted Citadel ring. Best known for its Corps of Cadets, the Citadel attracts students who desire a college education in a classical military system in which leadership and character training are essential parts of the overall experience. Any romanticized notion of military bravado is quickly shattered the moment students set foot on campus and their parents drive away. Many cadets are left wondering, “What have I signed up for?\" Worley’s stories shed light on the pain and the pride, explaining why, he says, “most cadets at the Citadel hated the place while they were there and loved everything about it once they’d graduated. They were bonded together for life. Perhaps that’s the greatest thing the Citadel did for them.\"
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The poppy war
A war orphan rises from her humble beginnings to become a powerful military commander, and perhaps her country's only hope for survival.
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Shaky Foundations
Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications.Shaky Foundationsprovides the first extensive examination of a new patronage system for the social sciences that emerged in the early Cold War years and took more definite shape during the 1950s and early 1960s, a period of enormous expansion in American social science.
By focusing on the military, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, Mark Solovey shows how this patronage system presented social scientists and other interested parties, including natural scientists and politicians, with new opportunities to work out the scientific identity, social implications, and public policy uses of academic social research. Solovey also examines significant criticisms of the new patronage system, which contributed to widespread efforts to rethink and reshape the politics-patronage-social science nexus starting in the mid-1960s.
Based on extensive archival research,Shaky Foundationsaddresses fundamental questions about the intellectual foundations of the social sciences, their relationships with the natural sciences and the humanities, and the political and ideological import of academic social inquiry.
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Light years
After centuries of exclusivity, the Quatra Fleet Academy finally accepts students from the settler planets, forcing four teenagers from different backgrounds, with different ambitions, motives, and missions, to work together to outmaneuver a mysterious alien enemy.
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Machine Gun Evolution
The following text is a fictional short story told from the perspective of an automated weapon system. With the help of artificial intelligence, the machine observes and learns its use in war. It reflects on its function of killing and the consequences. It is one of many, linked together by a kind of “swarm consciousness”. The short story addresses ethical issues relating to artificial intelligence and military robots.
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The shadow cadets of Pennyroyal Academy
\"Becoming famous as a result of her defeat of the witches, Princess Cadet Evie returns to Pennyroyal Academy where she is threatened by a secret society that is hatching an evil plan against the school that involves someone close to her. But things are not quite as they should be. On the road to her second year of training, Evie witnesses the attack of an innocent woman by a trio of princesses. Pennyroyal's Headmistress General doubts Evie's claim--princesses are defenders of the realm, not villains. But Evie isn't so sure. Then she receives an ominous threat: a secret society has come forward with a wicked plan, putting the Academy in peril. Can Evie and her friends unravel the devious plot in time to save them all?\"--Back cover.
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STARSHIP TROOPERS: MAKING FASCISM SEXY AGAIN
Perhaps one of the first writers to break science fiction out of niche confines, Robert Heinlein brought intellectual caliber to a genre that was struggling to be taken seriously. His big ideas helped push fledgling sci fi toward the mainstream, while contributing fundamental offerings to modern understandings of everything from libertarianism to sexuality. Heinlein also offered a fresh perspective of the concepts and values behind militarism--a word nearly always used pejoratively, but conceptually revered by Heinlein, whose works remain the only science fiction books on the US military' official reading list, and whose writings are recommended at most military academies. Staunchly opposed to denuclearization and what he saw as the coddling of Americans into a generation of pacifist weaklings, Heinlein was loudly booed during his speech at the 34th World Science Fiction Convention when he declared that people could have peace or freedom but not both.
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The Academy
After messing up one too many times, Frankie Brooks, a future fashion editor, finds herself at military school where she must learn how to cope with the impossible military drills and specialized classes.
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‘Art Happens not in Isolation, But in Community’: The Collective Literacies of Media Fandom
When the Archive of Our Own (AO3) received a prestigious Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin the summer of 2019, this moment represented a recognition by the literary science fiction community of an alternative model of authorship – one which operates outside the publishing world or academia, one where authorship is collective rather than individual, and one where artworks are appropriative and transformative rather than “original.” Using this occasion as my starting point, I will discuss here the ways that the literacies associated with fandom may be understood as illustrative of the new forms of expression that have taken shape in a networked era.
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