the hunted heroesscience fiction

... lived their entire lives on the starships, raised their families there, and never set foot outside their own Enclave during their landings on Earth. They grew to despise Earthers, and the Earthers ... When they returned, their friends and relatives had aged enormously in com- parison, old customs had changed, even the language was different. So they did the only thing they could do. They formed ... strand snapped. Then another. At last I had enough use of my hand to reach out and grasp the blaster. Then I pulled myself across the floor to Ledman, removed the tanglegun, and melted the remaining tangle-cord...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 16:20

... that the emotions are the province of folly. Indeed, this is the way we distinguish the wise man from the fool, that the one is governed by his reason, the other by his emotions . . . Yet these ... certain aspects of other people ’ s behavior. They saw that Fiction as Dream 17 (The literal teaches what happened; The allegorical what to believe; The moral what to do; The anagogical where ... mathematics. Straight lines and circles do not exist in the physical world, but now they have been invented we cannot do without them. They are abstract. They exist in model worlds. But in the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... clenched themselves into fists, and he forced them to relax, open out. Slowly, carefully, he lay his open hands palm down on the table. The voices fell silent around the table as the others waited ... the heat of the station would have melted the complex straight through the surface. If this station held together long enough to sink, Larry reminded himself, staring at the sad wreckage on the ... of the dome. The design psychologists had protested vehemently against building again in view of the first two disastrous attempts, but there had been no real choice in the matter. Both of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... political theme. The most obvious of these is the dynamic of the thriller, which leaves Grace’s fate unclear until the 18 The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 focus is the ... rebound on the perpetrator. The Sidney family, who have suffered the The State and the Novel 15 who feels the British, lacking ‘literature, culture, language and manners’, flatter themselves as the liberators ... verdict on the possibilities of ‘ordinary’ life. The setting is the key to this. The tribulations of the four main protago- nists in love and career are set against the backdrop of the threat...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... Status Chain The (planet) they the (surface) the (planet) the (spaceship) the (clouds) the (middle) the (astronauts) their the (door) the (ladder) the (planet) the (woman) her ... 36 The spaceship The planet They There The spaceship The two astronauts The woman It She We It Both of them They All plants and Animals They They Everything The man ... (planet) the (woman) her (arm) It she the (man) we the (air) It them their they the (plants) they they their the (man) the (controls) he I the (engines) he 1. planet 3. planet...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 20:20

... all the aspects of the structure and the operation of the firm. The strategic investor puts at the disposal of the firm proprietary software developed by it and specifically tailored to the ... and control systems to monitor the performance of the firm, its flow of funds, the adherence to the budget, the expenditures, the income, the cost of sales and other budgetary items. 3. To timely, ... integrate into the systems of other members of the group of companies. 10. Otherwise, to initiate and engage in all manner of activities, whether financial or of other nature, conducive to the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 02:20

... enables them to exert their wills over against the wills of others who oppose them. Social power - another phrase for the attainment of happiness - is predicated on the internalization of the juridical ... forces. So too the novelists seek to bring order into the conflicting urges of the self by plotting their characters on the matrix of the law. The discipline of the law, then, seems ... 21 with the fiction that the wisdom of the ages still shapes contemporary events even as it preserves ancient rights and liberties. In the words of Sir Matthew Hale, writing in the second half of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20