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|  Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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| Pursued by Apaches in the wilds of Arizona, former confederate officer John Carter finds himself mysteriously transported to Barsoom, a planet carpeted with yellow moss that he recognizes as Mars. Although the lower Martian gravity gives Carter stupendous agility relative to his size, he is nevertheless snared by a giant, four-armed, green-skinned alien known as a Thark. Despite entering a near-deserted Martian citadel as a captive, Carter gradually wins the respect of the brutal yet honorable humanoids, developing telepathic powers and proving his mettle as a warrior in the arena. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Brave New World by Aldous Huxley |
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| It is the year of Our Ford 632 (or the 26th century in our own Gregorian calendar) and, in the world state run on the industrial principles first established by Henry Ford, the evils of war, poverty and unhappiness have apparently been abolished. Biological engineering creates a hierarchy of different citizens - Alphas, Betas, Gammas and so on - who are tailor-made for the tasks that society will demand of them. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore |
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| Hodge Backmaker is born in the 1920s and grows up in a rural community in the Hudson River Valley, fascinated by the stories he hears of the War of Southron Independence seventy years earlier. In the war the Confederate South won its independence from the North and went on to become one of the world's superpowers. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Sometime in the not too distant future, man is about to begin his own voyages into space when giant spaceships suddenly appear in the skies over the world's major cities. The Overlords have arrived. Unlike so many aliens in SF, these mighty beings, despite their appearance (unveiled in a brilliant revelatory moment about a third of the way through the book), are not out to destroy humanity but to redeem it. Under their tutelage mankind heads towards utopia. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh |
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| China Mountain Zhang is an ABC: American Born Chinese. In near future Manhattan, such status is of reasonable benefit to an academically under-achieving engineering worker of potential, for China's socialist revolution has swept America, dominating it. The great Eastern republic is now the leading country on Earth. After being maneuvered into a blind date with his boss's daughter, Zhang loses his job and seeks his destiny. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card |
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| Two wars have been fought by humans against ant-like invaders from space. Neither war finished in conclusive victory and the world anxiously awaits an inevitable third invasion. In preparation for this, an elite corps of genius children is being trained to become Earth's secret weapon in the coming struggle. Isolated in a Battle School in space, the children endlessly play war games, devising strategies and techniques that will help them in the role they have been assigned. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes |
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| Flowers For Algernon takes the form of a series of entries from the journal of Charlie Gordon, the subject of an experiment in artificially increasing intelligence. In the beginning, Charlie is a gentle but intellectually retarded young man who works in a menial job. Chosen to participate in the experiment, Charlie slowly begins to develop. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Fury by Henry Kuttner |
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| It is the 27th century, six hundred years since Earth was vaporized by a nuclear chain reaction. Humanity survives in ornate undersea keeps beneath the oceans of Venus, unable to tame the brutal surface that teems with deadly life-forms. But the keeps have stagnated, evolving elaborate feudal structures ruled by the high-caste genetically modified Immortals, many of whom are nostalgic for the long-past local wars waged by the mercenary Free Companions. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on I, Robot by Isaac Asimov |
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| One of the most consistently recurring motifs in SF has been the idea of artificial intelligence and thinking machines, and it was particularly prevalent in the decade and a half immediately after the Second World War. The classic 1940s' vision of the robot (although the stories were not published in book form until 1950, they had mostly appeared in SF magazines in the previous decade) is that of Isaac Asimov. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Neuromancer by William Gibson |
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| It is the mid-21st century. Case is a former cyberspace cowboy, a hacker who interfaced his consciousness with the virtual realm of the net by connecting his nervous system to a PC, thieving data from corporations more powerful than nation states. Caught fencing information stolen from a vengeful client, Case is administered a psychedelic which burns away his matrix-manipulating expertise. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Nova by Samuel R. Delany |
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| Lorq von Ray is a maverick and very wealthy space captain driven by an all-consuming obsession. It is the 31st century and the most precious substance in the known universe is the astonishingly rare element Illyrion, fuel for faster-than-light travel. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Permutation City by Greg Egan |
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| Some of the most startling and mind-bending ideas in contemporary philosophy derive from computer simulations and virtual reality. How can traditional beliefs in the nature of the self and human personality be sustained in a world where the boundaries between the 'real' and the computer-generated are less and less easily defined? This is the arena in which Greg Egan, an Australian computer scientist and SF novelist, has placed his most interesting fiction. Permutation City is an imaginative and engrossing exploration of the new worlds of subjective cosmology which virtual reality suggests may one day exist. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys |
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| An alien artifact has been discovered on the moon. The maze-like object can only be explored by the transmission of bodily duplicates of individuals to the moon. The duplicate beings die, usually within seconds of entering the object, but, before they die, each can maintain telepathic contact with his original on Earth. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Johnnie Rico is a trooper in a tough force of mobile infantry during a future war between the Terran Federation and the Arachnids, spider-like aliens from a planet called Klendathu. Through Rico's experiences, revealed mainly in flashback, Heinlein tells the story of the grueling training inflicted on recruits to the mobile infantry (fewer than one in ten survive the rigors of the boot camp), the previous history of the Terran Federation and the development of its political structure, and the record of his hero's progress through the ranks from naive recruit to battle-scarred veteran in charge of his own band of commandos. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Synners by Pat Cadigan |
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| The next San Francisco earthquake has come and gone. Gabe Ludovic works in marketing for Diversifications Inc., an IT multinational producing medical implants. Routinely spending his time in virtual reality simulations with people he has never actually met, Gabe's career is on the slide and his marriage is breaking down as his wife's own success edges toward the apex of its bell curve. Even the AI housekeeper wired into the walls of his condo berates him for a lack of ambition that has kept him from producing computer art in his free time. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison |
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| 'A Boy and His Dog' is the definitive American New Wave story in this collection, winning the Nebula novella category and upsetting everyone: liberals, feminists, the right wing and Golden Age SF writers. It is 2024 in the former United States. Shortly after the millennium The Third War destroyed civilization and the only remaining cities are located deep underground, away from the radiation pits and the savagery of the surface, where vicious gangs known as Roverpaks reign supreme, foraging, bartering and killing to survive. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard |
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| In the mid-21st century an ecological disaster has struck the world. Temperatures have risen, the polar ice caps have melted and much of the Earth has been flooded. Only around the poles is civilization now possible. London has sunk beneath the waters and is at the centre of a vast swamp where life is much as it was in the Triassic Age. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock |
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| Jerry Cornelius is tall, slender, dark and in his mid-twenties. A sharp-dressed, sexually ambivalent figure, he is at various times a Jesuit, a physicist, an acid rock star, anti-socialite and incestuous lover of his raven-tressed sister Catherine, a tendency that saw him ejected from the family home by his father, a mad scientist specializing in hallucinogenic devices. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks |
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| Nearly all of Banks's science fiction works are set in the seemingly utopian society of the far future he calls the Culture, a vast galaxy-wide civilization in which man and machine live in symbiotic harmony and individuals are allowed the time and the opportunity to develop their every talent and indulge their every desire. Nearly all of his plots begin at the point where apparent utopia either begins to break down or encounters less admirable societies. The central character of The Player of Games is Jernau Gurgeh, a man from the Culture whose entire life revolves around the playing of strategy games. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on This Island Earth by by Raymond F. Jones |
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| While going about his usual cutting-edge electronics research, Cal Meacham receives in the mail a highly advanced condenser that defies his knowledge of contemporary technology. Realizing that this strange piece of kit is not from his usual suppliers, Cal begins ordering other items from an unusual catalogue that came with the component. |
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| Essay, Research Paper: Free Essay on Ubik by Philip K. Dick |
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| In a world where telepaths and precogs - mutants who can predict the future - are for hire, Glen Runciter runs an agency staffed by individuals with even more bizarre psionic talents: inertials, who can negate the abilities of the psi-powered. |
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