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Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary
Author: Andy Weir
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593135210

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.


Saving the World Through Science Fiction

Saving the World Through Science Fiction
Author: Michael R. Page
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 147662822X

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One of the major figures in science fiction for more than sixty years, James Gunn has been instrumental in making the genre one of the most vibrant and engaging areas of literary scholarship. His genre history Alternate Worlds and his The Road to Science Fiction anthologies introduced countless readers to science fiction. He founded the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction in 1982. But Gunn has also been one of the genre's leading writers. His classic novels Star Bridge (with Jack Williamson), The Joy Makers, The Immortals and The Listeners helped shape the field. Now in his nineties, he remains a prominent voice. His forthcoming novel is Transformation. Drawing on materials from Gunn's archives and personal interviews with him, this study is the first to examine the life, career and writing of this science fiction grandmaster.


Saving the World Through Science Fiction

Saving the World Through Science Fiction
Author: Michael R. Page
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2017-02-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476663092

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One of the major figures in science fiction for more than sixty years, James Gunn has been instrumental in making the genre one of the most vibrant and engaging areas of literary scholarship. His genre history Alternate Worlds and his The Road to Science Fiction anthologies introduced countless readers to science fiction. He founded the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction in 1982. But Gunn has also been one of the genre's leading writers. His classic novels Star Bridge (with Jack Williamson), The Joy Makers, The Immortals and The Listeners helped shape the field. Now in his nineties, he remains a prominent voice. His forthcoming novel is Transformation. Drawing on materials from Gunn's archives and personal interviews with him, this study is the first to examine the life, career and writing of this science fiction grandmaster.


The Art of Saving the World

The Art of Saving the World
Author: Corinne Duyvis
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1683356446

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One girl and her doppelgangers try to stop the end of the world in this YA sci-fi adventure When Hazel Stanczak was born, an interdimensional rift tore open near her family’s home, which prompted immediate government attention. They soon learned that if Hazel strayed too far, the rift would become volatile and fling things from other dimensions onto their front lawn—or it could swallow up their whole town. As a result, Hazel has never left her small Pennsylvania town, and the government agents garrisoned on her lawn make sure it stays that way. On her sixteenth birthday, though, the rift spins completely out of control. Hazel comes face-to-face with a surprise: a second Hazel. Then another. And another. Three other Hazels from three different dimensions! Now, for the first time, Hazel has to step into the world to learn about her connection to the rift—and how to close it. But is Hazel—even more than one of her—really capable of saving the world?


Saving Us

Saving Us
Author: Katharine Hayhoe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1982143843

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United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times). Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it—and she wants to teach you how. In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire. It is a multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology, from an icon in her field—recently named chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in pushing forward for change.


Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis

Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis
Author: James Gunn
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-05-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476673195

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James Gunn--one of the founding figures of science fiction scholarship and teaching--wrote in 1951 what is likely the first master's thesis on modern science fiction. Portions were in the short-lived pulp magazine Dynamic but it has otherwise remained unavailable. Here in its first full publication, the thesis explores many of the classic Golden Age stories of the 1940s and the critical perspective that informed Gunn's essential genre history Alternate Worlds and his anthology series The Road to Science Fiction. The editor's introduction and commentary show the historical significance of Gunn's work and its relevance to today's science fiction studies.


Imagining the Future of Climate Change

Imagining the Future of Climate Change
Author: Shelley Streeby
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520294459

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#NoDAPL : native American and indigenous science, fiction, and futurisms -- Climate refugees in the greenhouse world : archiving global warming with Octavia E. Butler -- Climate change as a world problem : shaping change in the wake of disaster


To Seek Out New Worlds

To Seek Out New Worlds
Author: J. Weldes
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2003-05-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1403982082

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This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, Science Fiction and World Politics provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense.


Hannah Saves the World

Hannah Saves the World
Author: A. M. Luzzader
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2020-12-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781949078206

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Hannah Saves the World (Book 1: Middle Grade Mystery Fiction) is a children's mystery adventure for ages 8-12! Hannah's got a funny feeling that it's up to her to save the entire world, but before she can do so, she and her skeptical best friend Mia have to figure out what they're saving the world from! As the girls' detective work proceeds, they uncover a chain of clues that might unravel the children's mystery of the vandalized town playground, but what about the massive space cruiser parked high in the stratosphere, and the aliens inside who are laying plans to invade Earth? Can a pair of middle-school detectives really save the world? Find out in this funny book for tweens! A.M. Luzzader, author of middle grade fiction books, including the Mermaid in Middle Grade series, debuts a new middle school mystery novel, Hannah Saves the World (Book 1: Middle Grade Mystery Fiction), to add to her collection of middle school literature and fun books for tweens. This book is perfect for kids who love science fiction, kid detective books, tween books for girls or boys, and children's mystery adventure books. A.M. Luzzader describes Hannah Saves the World (Book 1: Middle Grade Mystery Fiction) as "a middle school mystery novel, a kid's detective book, and a kid's humor book. It's a great book for girls or boys, and I think even adults would enjoy it!" Educational topics: Friendship for kids, vocabulary, spelling, logic, deduction, honesty, self esteem, humor, personality, individuality, and writing devices such as palindromes, alliteration, consonance, and dissonance. For kids ages 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 and all who love mystery books for kids and funny books for children. Grades: 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th


The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2010-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 184901535X

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Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF - including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in the last decade, as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-science of 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandable scenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlled our world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction that considers the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientific domination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples of the new high-tech, far-future science fiction, pushing the limits way beyond normal boundaries. The stories include: "A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String", "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe", "A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs", "An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe", "Murder in Virtual Reality", "A Spaceship So Large That There is An Entire Planetary System Within It", and "An Analytical Engine At The End of Time", and "Encountering the Untouchable."