Peter Watts
Author
Publisher
The Estate of Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Jr
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, the world's largest private collection of material documenting altered states of mind, is on long-term deposit with Harvard University. It includes rare books, manuscripts, posters, photographs, audio material, and popular and underground cultural ephemera of all kinds. Contains 50,000+ items.
5) Echopraxia
Author
Publisher
Tor, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the twenty-second century in a world transformed by scientific evangelicals, supernatural beings, and ghosts, defunct biologist Daniel Bruks becomes trapped on a spaceship destined to make an evolutionary discovery.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"She believed in the mission with all her heart. But that was sixty million years ago. How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Sunday Ahzmundin is about to find out"--
10) Maelstrom
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed millions. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world, who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With over fifty unpredictable, scathing, hilarious, and more-than-occasionally moving essays about science, politics, family, pop culture, religion and more, Peter Watts--Hugo Award-winning author, former marine biologist, and "angry sentient tumor" (via Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous)--shows why he is the savage dystopian optimist whom you can't look away from... even when you probably should."-Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Penguin classics volume L146
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
The three plays in this volume demonstrate different sides of Henrik Ibsen's genius, but all deal with themes of alienation from society and the breaking down of convention. A Doll's House (1879) portrays a woman questioning her duty to her husband and seeking to escape the stifling confines of her marriage-a theme that shocked contemporary audiences and established Ibsen's name outside Scandinavia. In The League of Youth (1869), his first prose drama,...
14) Infinite storm
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a climber encounters a stranded stranger on Mt. Washington, she must get them both down the mountain before nightfall when an oncoming blizzard is due to hit.