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Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific
speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the
vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore
the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science
Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has
propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science
fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss
the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the
present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present,
when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science
and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works
speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter
expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and
adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not
to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary
fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of
influences, including how fictional representations of science
affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main
focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including
film and video games, are explored and, because science is an
international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are
discussed as needed.
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific
speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the
vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore
the future effects of science on events and human beings. "Science
Fact and Science" "Fiction" examines in one volume how science has
propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science
fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss
the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the
present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present,
when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science
and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works
speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter
expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and
adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the "Encyclopedia "is
not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in
literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow
andcounterflow of influences, including how fictional
representations of science affect how we view its practice and
disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms
of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored
and, because science is an international matter, works from
non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.
Science Fiction literature, also known as sci fi and sf, is one of
the more recent genres, and also one of the more popular. It only
truly emerged during the 20th century, and has not stopped growing
in terms of authors, titles and readers. It has also evolved into a
variety of subgenres, ranging from hard sf to soft sf, from Utopias
to dystopias, with more than a smattering of horror, detective, war
and feminist titles. Stableford covers all these aspects and more,
taking a close look at what has become a booming industry, with its
specialized writers, publishers, and fan magazines. The compendium
includes not only sf from the United States and United Kingdom, but
also France, Russia, and many others. While the chronology charts
the genre's dazzling growth, and the dictionary section looks at
writers, books, themes, and other specifics, the introduction
provides exceptional insight into what Science Fiction Literature
is all about.
At an 1847 revival of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable, the ghost
of Blaise Thibodeaux, the author of La Resonance du temps, appears
in one of the boxes, just as Thibodeaux had predicted to Auguste
Dupin that it would, thirteen years before. Unfortunately, Dupin is
unable to attend the performance, leaving his uninformed friend and
narrator Reynolds to try to make sense of the apparition and all
the confusing circumstances surrounding it. Once Dupin has returned
to the intellectual fray, however, and pulled the multitudinous
threads of possibility together, seven individuals must set forth
for the forest of Fontainebleau in the dead of night in order to
bring the "temporal resonance" that Thibodeaux had earlier
attempted to produce to its full fruition, hoping at least to
understand why he wanted to do so--although the Comte de
Saint-Germain, apparently in control for once, has much greater
ambitions than that... Another riveting entry in this ongoing
historical fantasy series.
Marguerite Sadoulas continues her efforts to wrest the fabulous
fortune of the de Clares by ensnaring its rightful heirs, one-armed
Clment and circus girl Lirette, in a murderous conspiracy.
Meanwhile, the deadly sociopath Cadet-l'Amour has stepped into the
vacuum created by the destruction of the High Council and seeks the
Treasure of the Black Coats. But he is thwarted by the specter of
Colonel Bozzo-Corona, the ruthless leader who ruled the evil empire
for over a century and seems to have mysteriously returned from the
grave... Written last in the series in 1875, before Fval was
"born-again," The Cadet Gang is the apotheosis in the criminal saga
of the Black Coats, a sequel to both Heart of Steel and The
Companions of the Treasure. Paul Fval, the father of the modern
detective novel, gave its lettres de noblesse to criminal
literature by creating all the modern archetypes of crime fiction.
It all begins innocently enough when the corpse of a London boxer
is discovered at sunrise on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. But
the man was reportedly seen in London only a couple of hours
earlier... A great English detective and France's leading
investigative reporter team up to solve a baffling mystery that
will ultimately take them to a network of vast caverns under Paris
inhabited by prehistoric monsters, waiting to be released... Jules
Lermina's Panic in Paris (1910) combines the tradition of utopian
fiction with both the scientific advances of the 19th century and
the pseudoscientific trappings of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming
Race (1871). It also features some intriguing anticipations of two
key works by Arthur Conan Doyle, prefiguring both The Lost World
(1912) and The Poison Belt (1913).
The new collection features 14 essays relevant to the Literary
Decadence movement, including pieces on: Joris-Karl Huysmans,
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Aloysius Bertrand, Theophile
Gautier, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Emile
Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, and Anatole France. Complete with
bibliography and index.
Ignis (1883) is about the industrial exploitation of Earth's
central fire by a multinational cartel. It also contains fanciful
digressions into biological engineering, Utopian city planning, the
possibility of brain control by means of electrical stimulation and
the potential exhaustion of fossil fuels. Proving again that
science fiction writers are harbingers of the future, it features
the first depiction of the revolt of machines-steam-powered
non-humanoid robots-that have become intelligent, all penned at a
time before the automobile was even invented Brian Stableford has
been a professional writer since 1965. He has published more than
60 science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as several
authoritative non-fiction books.
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is among the most famous
literary figures of all time. For more than a hundred years, his
adventures have stood as imperishable monuments to the ability of
human reason to penetrate every mystery, solve every puzzle, and
punish every crime.
For nearly as long, the macabre tales of H. P. Lovecraft have
haunted readers with their nightmarish glimpses into realms of
cosmic chaos and undying evil. But what would happen if Conan
Doyle's peerless detective and his allies were to find themselves
faced with mysteries whose solutions lay not only beyond the grasp
of logic, but of sanity itself.
In this collection of all-new, all-original tales, twenty of
today's most cutting edge writers provide their answers to that
burning question.
"A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman: A gruesome murder exposes a
plot against the Crown, a seditious conspiracy so cunningly wrought
that only one man in all London could have planned it-and only one
man can hope to stop it.
"A Case of Royal Blood" by Steven-Elliot Altman: Sherlock Holmes
and H. G. Wells join forces to protect a princess stalked by a
ghost-or perhaps something far worse than a ghost.
"Art in the Blood" by Brian Stableford: One man's horrific
affliction leads Sherlock Holmes to an ancient curse that threatens
to awaken the crawling chaos slumbering in the blood of all
humankind.
"The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone" by Poppy Z. Brite and David
Ferguson: A girl who has not eaten in more than three years teaches
Holmes and Watson that sometimes the impossible "cannot" be
eliminated.
"The Horror of the Many Faces" by Tim Lebbon: Dr. Watson witnesses
a maniacal murder in London-and recognizes the villain as none
other than his friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
"With these and fourteen other dark tales of madness, horror, and
deduction, a new and terrible game is afoot.
"
The terrifyingly surreal universe of horror master H. P. Lovecraft
bleeds into the logical world of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's champion of rational deduction-in these brand-new stories
by twenty of today's top horror, mystery, fantasy, and science
fiction writers, including:
- Steven-Elliot Altman
- Elizabeth Bear
- Poppy Z. Brite
- Simon Clark
- David Ferguson
- Paul Finch
- Neil Gaiman
- Barbara Hambly
- Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Tim Lebbon
- James Lowder
- Richard A. Lupoff
- F. Gwynplaine McIntyre
- John Pelan
- Steve Perry
- Michael Reaves
- Brian Stableford
- John P. Vourlis
- David Niall Wilson & Patricia Lee Macomber
"From the Hardcover edition."
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