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Beautiful Machines

Author	: Seth Chambers
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2017-07-26
ISBN	: 9781521945872
Pages	: 205 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Machines written by Seth Chambers and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what desperate lengths will an android go to fit in?How will we cope with boredom after the machines solve all our problems?Can a robot go insane? Is Artificial Intelligence an existential threat? Are thinking machines our friends? Our enemies? Or both? In these pages, you will encounter machines that laugh and cry and kill and make love and write bad poetry. You will meet robots that dwell in that uncanny valley wherein humans and machines share a common, existential crisis. About the Author: Seth Chambers spent much of his formative years happily engrossed in the works of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Heinlein, Alfred Bester, and numerous other science fiction masters. Seth is the author of What Rough Beasts, Little Bird, and Beautiful Machines. His novella, "In Her Eyes," was a nominee for the Sturgeon award and an honoree of the James Tiptree award. Seth lives in the Chicago area and can be contacted directly at [email protected]

Uncanny Tales

Author	: Robert Sheckley
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2014-10-30
ISBN	: 147320769X
Pages	: 122 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Uncanny Tales written by Robert Sheckley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on Sheckley's horror stories. The sixteen stories included are "A Trick Worth Two of That," "The Mind-Slaves of Manitori," "Pandora's Box-Open with Care," "The Dream of Misunderstanding," "Magic, Maples, and Maryanne," "The New Horla," "The City of the Dead," "The Quijote Robot," "Emissary from a Green and Yellow World," "The Universal Karmic Clearing House," "Deep Blue Sleep," "The Day the Aliens Came," "Dukakis and the Aliens," "Mirror Games," "Sightseeing, 2179," and "Agamemnon's Run."

49 Tales of The Thinking Machine (49 detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine")

Author	: Jacques Futrelle
Publisher	: e-artnow
Release Date	: 2013-09-20
ISBN	: 8074849406
Pages	: 370 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book 49 Tales of The Thinking Machine (49 detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine") written by Jacques Futrelle and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “49 Tales of The Thinking Machine (49 detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine")" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Professor Van Dusen . is a fictional character in a series of detective short stories and two novels by Jacques Futrelle. Some of the short stories were originally published in The Saturday Evening Post and the Boston American. In the stories Professor Van Dusen solves a variety of different mysteries together with his friend Hutchinson Hatch, reporter of a fictional newspaper called "The Daily New Yorker". The professor is known as the "Thinking Machine", solving problems by the remorseless application of logic. His catchphrases include, "Two and two always equal four," "Nothing is impossible", and "All things that start must go somewhere." Table of Contents : “The Thinking Machine” My first Experience with the great Logician A Piece of String The Problem of the Perfect Alibi The Problem of the Stolen Bank Notes The Problem of Convict no. 97 The first problem The Problem of the Crystal Gazer Five Millions by Wireless The Problem of the Green Eyed Monster The Problem of the Hidden Million Kidnapped Baby Blake, Millionaire The Problem of the Missing Necklace The Problem of the Motor Boat The Mystery of the Ralston Bank Burglary The Problem of the Opera Box The Problem of the Cross Mark The Problem of the Broken Bracelet The Problem of the Lost Radium The Problem of the Stolen Rubens The Problem of the Souvenir Cards The Problem of the Superfluous Finger The case of the Scientific Murderer The Problem of the Deserted House The Mystery of the Fatal Cipher The Mystery of the Flaming Phantom The Problem of the Ghost Woman The Mystery of the Golden Dagger The Great Auto Mystery The Grinning God The Mystery of the Grip of Death The Haunted Bell The Jackdaw The Problem of the Knotted Cord The Mystery of the Man Who Was Lost The Mystery of a Studio The Problem of the Organ Grinder The Phantom Motor The Problem of the Private Compartment The Problem of the Auto Cab The Problem of the Red Rose The Roswell Tiara The Mystery of the Scarlet Thread The Silver Box The three Overcoats The Tragedy of the Life Raft The Problem of Cell 13 The Problem of the Vanishing man The Problem of the Interrupted Wireless Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875 – 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Allegories of Communication

Author	: John Fullerton
Publisher	: Indiana University Press
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN	: 9780861966516
Pages	: 362 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book Allegories of Communication written by John Fullerton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegories of Communication provides insights into the shifting configurations of moving-image technologies. Contributors focus on technological change and the intermedial aspects of moving images from a variety of perspectives underscoring the need for cross-disciplinary dialogue. They discuss hardware concerns, questions of styles, reception patterns, and the cultural and social underpinnings of mediated vision. The distinction between the analog and the digital offers a focal point with implications for the charting of movements from the turn of one century to the next. Distributed for John Libbey Publishing

Welcome to the Dreamhouse

Author	: Lynn Spigel
Publisher	: Duke University Press
Release Date	: 2001-06
ISBN	: 9780822326960
Pages	: 444 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to the Dreamhouse written by Lynn Spigel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVHistorical and theoretical essays on television and media culture by a leading feminist studies scholar./div

Technological Visions

Author	: Marita Sturken
Publisher	: Temple University Press
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN	: 9781592132270
Pages	: 388 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Technological Visions written by Marita Sturken and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape, and potential for their use. In this exciting collection, a range of contributors, including Sherry Turkle, Lynn Spigel, John Perry Barlow, Langdon Winner, David Nye, and Lord Asa Briggs, discuss the visions that have shaped "new" technologies and the cultural implications of technological adaptation. Focusing on issues such as the nature of prediction, community, citizenship, consumption, and the nation, as well as the metaphors that have shaped public debates about technology, the authors examine innovations past and present, from the telegraph and the portable television to the Internet, to better understand how our visions and imagination have shaped the meaning and use of technology. Author note: Marita Sturken is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering and Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright). Douglas Thomas is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is author of three books, most recently Hacker Culture. Sandra Ball-Rokeach is a Professor and Director of the Communication Technology and Community Program in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She is author of several books, including Theories of Mass Communication (with M. L. De Fleur).

Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural

Author	: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1962
ISBN	:
Pages	: 446 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural written by Algernon Blackwood and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shadows of the Night

Author	: Greg Herren
Publisher	: Harrington Park Press
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN	:
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shadows of the Night written by Greg Herren and published by Harrington Park Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking anthology of gay and lesbian psychodrama, this book brings readers face to face with the best from the dark side of queer writing. An acclaimed collection of authors gathers between these covers to swap stories of murder and mayhem, savouring every lurid detail. Shadows of the Night presents tales of the doomed and the damned, including a gay travel writer with a one-way ticket to horror, a murdered lesbian who plots bloody revenge from the grave, a young man terrified of Jewish vampires, and much, much more!

Actors and the Art of Performance

Author	: Susanne Granzer
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2016-05-12
ISBN	: 1137596341
Pages	: 120 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Actors and the Art of Performance written by Susanne Granzer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional commitment to the fields of both theatre and philosophy. The art of acting on stage is analysed here not only from the theoretical perspective of a spectator, but also from the perspective of the actor. The author draws on her experience as both a theatre actor and a university professor whose teachings in the art of acting rely heavily on her own experience and also on her philosophical knowledge. The book is unique not only in terms of its content but also in terms of its style. Written in a multiplicity of voices, the text oscillates between philosophical reasoning and narrative forms of writing, including micro-narratives, fables, parables, and inter alia by Carroll, Hoffmann and Kleist. Hence the book claims that a trans-disciplinary dialogue between the art of acting and the art of philosophical thinking calls for an aesthetical research that questions and begins to seek alternatives to traditionally established and ingrained formats of philosophy.

Tales of a Slightly Off Supermom

Author	: Disandro, Deborah
Publisher	: Pelican Publishing
Release Date	: 2003-01-31
ISBN	: 9781455612741
Pages	: 180 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Tales of a Slightly Off Supermom written by Disandro, Deborah and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disguised as an average soccer mom, she�s faster than a speeding toddler, more powerful than a teenage temper tantrum, and able to leap loads of laundry in a single bound! Deb DiSandro is here to save the day. Her hilarious, heartfelt essays on the ages and stages of motherhood are sure to help families everywhere see the humor in their own foibles. From bringing home the new baby to dog training and the thermostat wars, Supermom has seen it all. She has negotiated peace over paint finishes, she has overthrown the powerful regime of the kitchen gadgets, and she has even pinned down the elusive wild teenager in the farthest reaches of suburban malls. But this mom is slightly off: she finds humor in her teenager�s unintelligible mumbling, in the dog�s flagrant disobedience, and in her husband�s merciless drive for the perfect dimmer switch.

Uncanny Magazine Issue 40

Author	: Fran Wilde
Publisher	: Uncanny Magazine
Release Date	: 2021-05-04
ISBN	:
Pages	: 173 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncanny Magazine Issue 40 written by Fran Wilde and published by Uncanny Magazine. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The May/June 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Fran Wilde, José Pablo Iriarte, Rachel Swirsky, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Emma Törzs, and Shveta Thakrar. Reprint fiction by Sheree Renée Thomas. Essays by E. Lily Yu, Andrew Liptak, Ada Palmer and Jo Walton, and C.J. Linton, poetry by Nnadi Samuel, Tiffany Morris, Abu Bakr Sadiq, and Vivian Li, interviews with José Pablo Iriarte and Shveta Thakrar by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Galen Dara, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Elsa Sjunneson. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Chimedum Ohaegbu and Elsa Sjunneson, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 11

Author	: Chris Claremont
Publisher	: Marvel Entertainment
Release Date	: 2019-01-16
ISBN	: 1302508083
Pages	: 481 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 11 written by Chris Claremont and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Uncanny X-Men (1981) #189-193, X-Men Annual (1970) #8, X-Men And Alpha Flight (1985) #1-2 And Kitty Pryde And Wolverine #1-6. Chris Claremont made the X-Men a global sensation and the Marvel Masterworks are once again proud to present his tales of honor, prejudice, evolution and perseverance. It begins with Wolverine’s return to Japan, where the young Kitty Pryde has found herself in over her head with the yakuza. It’s an adventure that will change both characters forever! Meanwhile in America, the X-Men face the Hellfire Club and Kulan Gath turns all of Manhattan — and all Marvel’s heroes — into a barbarian horde. Then, in the All-New, All-Different X-Men 100th issue, a ghost from the team’s past confronts them on one of their most devastating moments. Finally, fan-favorite Paul Smith returns for a story with massive implications for the X-Men’s future.

Uncanny Cinema

Author	: Murray Pomerance
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2022-10-20
ISBN	: 1501398768
Pages	: 345 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Uncanny Cinema written by Murray Pomerance and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murray Pomerance's latest book explores an encyclopedic range of films and television shows to demonstrate the difficulty of conveying the experience of viewing cinema through words and the medium of text. From On the Waterfront to Marriage Story, Uncanny Cinema illuminates that words and writing are in perilous waters when applied to cinema, similar to ungestured talk. The book begins with this problem using Julian Jaynes's thoughts on vocality and imagination before delving into three exploratory 'movements' arranged to alternately challenge, inspire, and confound the reader to question if we know what we think we know or even see what we think we see. The viewer is faced with disturbances, ruptures, and surprises that occur during the viewing experience, which Pomerance analyzes to stretch the sense of what we do and do not (or, possibly, cannot) know, particularly as we think, talk, and write about cinema.

The Cinema's Third Machine

Author	: Sabine Hake
Publisher	: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date	: 1993-01-01
ISBN	: 9780803223653
Pages	: 380 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema's Third Machine written by Sabine Hake and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The improvements in the technology, artistry, and distribution of motion pictures coincided with the traumas of modern Germany. It is hardly to be wondered that filmmakers frequently turned their cameras on Germany's social and political problems that propagandists regularly sought to manipulate them, that entrepreneurs tried to exploit them, and that German thinkers brooded upon the relationship between German society, politics, and the films that represented them all. From these tangled motives a rich discourse on film emerged that paralleled or anticipated discourses in the other film centers of the world. The Cinema's Third Machine reproduces the diversity of perspectives and the intensity of controversies of early German film within the broad context of German social and political history, from the aesthetic rapture of the first years to the institutionalization of film by the national socialist state. Many texts have been rediscovered and are now presented to modern scholars for the first time. Hake treats all aspects of the medium: production, promotion, education, journalism, aesthetics, and political activism, following throughout the various forms criticism assumed.

HCA Heritage Comics Auction Catalog

Author	: Ivy Press
Publisher	: Heritage Capital Corporation
Release Date	: 2006-10
ISBN	: 9781599670935
Pages	: 440 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book HCA Heritage Comics Auction Catalog written by Ivy Press and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Hoffmann

Author	: E.T.A. Hoffmann
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2004-05-27
ISBN	: 0141914882
Pages	: 432 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Hoffmann written by E.T.A. Hoffmann and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of Hoffmann's finest short stories vividly demonstrates his intense imagination and preoccupation with the supernatural, placing him at the forefront of both surrealism and the modern horror genre. Suspense dominates tales such as Mademoiselle de Scudery, in which an apprentice goldsmith and a female novelist find themselves caught up in a series of jewel thefts and murders. In the sinister Sandman, a young man's sanity is tormented by fears about a mysterious chemist, while in The Choosing of a Bride a greedy father preys on the weaknesses of his daughter's suitors. Master of the bizarre, Hoffman creates a sinister and unsettling world combining love and madness, black humour and bewildering illusion.

Classic Vampire Tales

Author	: Bram Stoker
Publisher	: Jaico Publishing House
Release Date	: 2016-08-17
ISBN	: 8184959214
Pages	: 308 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Classic Vampire Tales written by Bram Stoker and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the Immortal Stories of Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu MR James, John William Polidori, Ernst Raupach and others Always thrilling and at times deeply moving, Classic Vampire Tales presents 10 stories from true masters of the genre. Dracula’s Guest Wake Not the Dead The Vampyre Carmilla An Episode of Cathedral History Good Lady Ducayne The Room in the Tower For the Blood is the Life The True Story of a Vampire Clarimonde