Why isn't science fiction criticism as bold or as startling as science fiction itself? Could it be that SF criticism usually addresses itself to only two questions: how to define SF, and how to police its boundaries? 'Star' and 'Alien', the two essays that make up this volume, seek to change all that, by ignoring the prescribed definitions and boundaries of SF altogether - breaking through our concepts of SF, and breaking up the orthodoxies of SF criticism. They are experiments: thought-provoking, witty, and sometimes exasperating, making use of philosophy, cultural and 'pop' history, personal memories and, indeed, anything else that comes to hand. Star James Holden wants to show how the protagonists in SF texts never really make it to the stars. Along the way, he finds himself distracted by Derrida, Descartes, Patrick Moore, modernism, and much else besides. Alien Simon King is on a hunt; he's hunting aliens. On the hunt he meets with Japanese cyborgs and medieval monsters, strange gods and the creatures of the deep - but will he find any aliens? Indeed, are there any to find? Afterword: Breaking Through by Adam Roberts (featuring two previously unpublished short stories)

Conceptual Breakthrough: Two Experiments in Sf Criticism

Literature & Fiction

ROBERTS, ADAM

King, Simon

Holden, James

History & Criticism

Inkermen Pr

It’s time to get off the bench! No matter where you came from, what you have done, or what you struggle with, God can use you! He can restore you. He can put you into the starting lineup and use you to change the world. Let’s stop believing the enemy’s lies. Join us as we review the game tapes of biblical examples to learn what plays they made, where they fumbled, and how we can gain the victory. It’s time to get in the game!

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Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

4One Ministries

With 1 Corinthians 13:11 as a foundation, Putting On Manhood shows how to put childish ways behind you and become the man God designed you to be. With the help of God's Word, the Holy Spirit, and a band of brothers, you can grow into true, godly manhood. Includes bonus workbook for use with small groups.

Putting On Manhood

Unbreakable Daily Bible Plan

Ministries, Mantour

Positioning himself as an autobiographer, a literary critic, and a pianist, author James Holden presents an homage to Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). "One night I came across the recording of a piano work that I had composed whilst still at school. The strange thing was, I had no recollection of it whatsoever. As I sat and listened to it, it revealed to me, or so it seemed, a self that I had no connection with and a past that I had not lived." In Search of Vinteuil gains access to all of the lost and impossible experiences the musical piece pointed towards. The book turns to the passages in Proust's long novel that deal with music, focusing in particular on the descriptions of fictional composer Vinteuil's Sonata for Piano and Violin and Septet. Analysis reveals the role of memory in musical appreciation and music's ability to lay before us different worlds. Armed with this engagement, literary tools emerge to understand this personal uncanny experience and how to respond to it. After an original critical response to both Proust's novel and those classical works where themes of memory, lost chances, music, and piano predominate, Holden moves from the role of literary critic to amateur pianist, as he describes his first proper return to the keyboard in almost a decade, and his hesitant steps towards the composition of a new work. This musical experience finally promises to bring out the psychological mechanisms inherent in the acts of listening to and playing music. In Search of Vinteuil is a highly original and compelling work, representing a significant contribution to literary scholarship.

In Search of Vinteuil: Music, Literature and a Self Regained (Critical Inventions)

Arts & Photography

Music

Liverpool University Press

Wiltshire is particularly lucky in the variety and quality of its chapels, which range from tiny country meeting houses of traditional gable-ended design to large town churches with Classical facades and space for 1000 or more worshippers in their galleried interiors. This book documents them. Introductory chapters describe the development of nonconformity in the county and the way chapel design has evolved in the three centuries since the first were built. These are followed by a gazetteer describing each of the almost 500 chapels still standing, with details of their appearance and history. With over 250 photographs in addition to the authoritative text, this book provides the definitive guide to the history and design of these fascinating buildings.

Wiltshire Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses: a Guide and Gazetteer

Hobnob Press

Putting on Manhood

Morning Joy Media

It’s time to get off the bench! No matter where you came from, what you have done, or what you struggle with, God can use you! He can restore you. He can put you into the starting lineup and use you to change the world. Let’s stop believing the enemy’s lies. Join us as we review the game tapes of biblical examples to learn what plays they made, where they fumbled, and how we can gain the victory. It’s time to get in the game!

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