[PDF] The World Beyond The Hill eBook

Author : Ray Cummings
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473216591

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Out of nowhere came the grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them to a weird and terrible world where a man could be a giant at will.

Author : James E. Gunn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780810849020

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Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future directions of the field through articles contributed by well-respected science fiction writers, teachers, and critics. This book can be used as a textbook for courses in theory as well as courses in science fiction literature and science fiction writing.

Author : Reginald Hill
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504059689

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A stolen skeleton leads to a web of mystery: “Those who treasure quirky characters, lively dialogue, and ingenious plots will be delighted” (Booklist). In England, a skeleton from Roman times goes missing from the site of an archaeological dig—as does the man overseeing the project. In Baghdad, a diplomat dies suddenly. And in California, a scientist commits suicide. These three events are in fact linked—and one tough, determined woman may be about to unravel a shocking conspiracy that lies behind them all, in this lively mystery by “one of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists” (The Times, London). “The captivating cast includes an obnoxious student of archaeology, a fraudulent town official, a vaguely clairvoyant eccentric, a couple of mysterious brothers, and various other folks who aren’t quite what they seem to be.” —Booklist “Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers.” —Orlando Sentinel

Author : Joshua Blu Buhs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 0226831485

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"This book is about Charles Fort, his followers, and the surprising influence they have had on science fiction, the avant-garde, UFOlogy, and more broadly on the role of spirituality and conspiracy in the modern world. Fort was an author and maverick philosopher who wrote four non-fiction books about anomalies-rains of frogs, mysterious disappearances, unexplained lights in the sky-for which he offered hypotheses that even he did not (always) accept as true. His books developed into a monistic philosophy that denounced science as a machine for generating truth. In his view, science was a small part of a larger system in which truth and falsity were constantly transforming one into the other. This was not a rejection of the modern world but, instead, its fulfillment: Fort prophesied the next stage in intellectual evolution after the scientific era. He inspired four overlapping groups: members of the Fortean Society; science fiction fans and writers; avant-garde artists; and flying saucer enthusiasts. First We Must Think to New Worlds takes up each of these groups in turn to ask: How can the human imagination be expanded? What is the fundamental structure of the universe? And, how does power move? As they developed their responses, Fort's followers mixed Forteanism with Fundamentalism, New Agery, and conspiracy, as well as a host of other forms of modern enchantments, such as the ironic imagination, scientific wonder, and Theosophical syncretism. Each chapter is interrupted by and concludes with shorter sections that focus on particular Forteans or Fortean events as a way to deepen themes"--

Author : Yusra Khan
Publisher : Orangebooks Publication
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2023-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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“When I am the Creator then I am the Destroyer too” This book is a compilation of three fictional stories ranging from imaginative adventures to even possible ones. Bubbling with riddles, bizarre creatures and unexplained mysteries, these stories will introduce you to relatable characters and open your mind to a world you never knew could exist. A trip of two friends to an island so deadly that it is deemed impossible, a girl’s sudden ability to predict the future contributes to life and death situations and lastly the unexpected spawning of an adventure from nothing but a single book.

Author : Charles Dockham
Publisher : Charles Dockham
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN :

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News reports say there’s nothing to fear. They’re lying to you. A routine experiment goes horribly wrong, and one team of scientists breeches the dimensional barrier. The tear spreads, swallowing up the area around the facility and unleashing horrors on those that live closest. A thick layer of fog separates those inside from the world, leaving them helpless to the coming threats. One scientist who escaped the facility makes a hard decision... he returns. With one goal – to fix what they’d done – he risks everything to right the wrong they caused. But his good intentions might be too little, too late.

Author : Susan M. Wyler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594632367

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"Susan Wyler's contemporary take on a classic love story is utterly beguiling. Solsbury Hill is a gorgeously well-written tale of a fraught love affair that takes you from New York to the wild gothic setting of the Yorkshire moors."—Fiona Neill, author of Slummy Mummy and What the Nanny Saw The windswept moors of England, a grand rustic estate, and a love story of one woman caught between two men who love her powerfully—all inspired by Emily Bronte’s beloved classic, Wuthering Heights. Solsbury Hill brings the legend of Catherine and Heathcliff, and that of their mysterious creator herself, into a contemporary love story that unlocks the past. When a surprise call from a dying aunt brings twenty-something New Yorker Eleanor Abbott to the Yorkshire moors, and the family estate she is about to inherit, she finds a world beyond anything she might have expected. Having left behind an American fiance, here Eleanor meets Meadowscarp MacLeod—a young man who challenges and changes her. Here too she encounters the presence of Bronte herself and discovers a family legacy they may share. With winds powerful enough to carve stone and bend trees, the moors are another world where time and space work differently. Remanants of the past are just around a craggy, windswept corner. For Eleanor, this means ancestors and a devastating romantic history that bears on her own life, on the history of the novel Wuthering Heights, and on the destinies of all who live in its shadow.

Author : Kenn Hirth
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2020
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780884024675

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Teotihuacan was a city of major importance in the Americas between 1 and 550 CE. As one of only two cities in the New World with a population over one hundred thousand, it developed a network of influence that stretched across Mesoamerica. The size of its urban core, the scale of its monumental architecture, and its singular apartment compounds made Teotihuacan unique among Mesoamerica's urban state societies. Teotihuacan: The World Beyond the City brings together specialists in art and archaeology to develop a synthetic overview of the urban, political, economic, and religious organization of a key power in Classic-period Mesoamerica. The book provides the first comparative discussion Teotihuacan's foreign policy with respect to the Central Mexican Highlands, Oaxaca, Veracruz, and the Maya Lowlands and Highlands. Contributors debate whether Teotihuacan's interactions were hegemonic, diplomatic, stylistic, or a combination of these or other social processes. The authors draw on recent investigations and discoveries to update models of Teotihuacan's history, in the process covering various questions about the nature of Teotihuacan's commercial relations, its political structure, its military relationships with outlying areas, the prestige of the city, and the worldview it espoused through both monumental architecture and portable media.