Thanks to last week 8767 s guests, April is off to a great start! It 8767 s time to announce the guests for this week, but first, here are last week 8767 s articles in case you missed any of them:
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8775 The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. 8776
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I, Robot Movie : The recent film adaption (in name only) of I, Robot, starring Will Smith, really has absolutely nothing to do with the book it stole it 8767 s name from. The movie uses the basic premise of man 8767 s growing wariness and suspicion of robots and turns it into a dull, formulaic action flick with the robots as the bad guys and Smith as the hero. Any subtlety or analysis of the robot psyche is discarded in favor of silly car chases as simple, moralistic sermonizing. It 8767 s so bad I won 8767 t even link to it below.
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Jason is interviewed by Scott K. Andrews , who is the author of The Timebomb books published by Hodder & Stoughton and The Afterblight Chronicles: School 8767 s Out books for Abaddon books.
I'm not interested in getting into an argument over where each book falls on the list or how the rankings were compiled. Passionate fans could argue for millennia about the ranking of specific books and each reader is going to have their own opinion on their favorite novels. However, I 8767 ve found that this list in particular has been a great resource for discovering new novels and authors that I would have never come across on my own.
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Few books deserve the title of 8775 Cult Classic 8776 more than Robert Heinlein 8767 s 6966 novel about a Martian-raised human who returns to earth and ends up transforming human culture in profound ways. Although it started out as a minor hit in the science fiction world, Stranger in a Strange Land would eventually became a crossover success attracting a devoted following among the counterculture movement of the 6965 8797 s due to its emphasis on free love, liberty and the shared human experience. And while it may not seem as controversial and groundbreaking today as it did back then, it still has a lot to say about our current culture of consumerism and our reliance on organized religion to dictate our social and spiritual interactions.
As the Author in Residence for Virtual Futures, an organisation once described as "the Glastonbury of cyberculture", I 8767 ve been creating specially written five-minute stories for the past twelve months for their Salon events. These Salons bring together artists, philosophers, cultural theorists, technologists and fiction writers to consider the future of humanity and technology. They have introduced me to the new and exciting worlds of neurostimulation, prosthetic envy and bio-art - to name a few.
Retells the legend of King Arthur as perceived by the women central to the tale, from the zealous Morgaine, sworn to uphold her goddess at any cost, to the devout Gwenhwyfar, pledged to the king but drawn to another.
These creation myths of Tolkien's Middle-earth, for those who found The Lord of the Rings too breezy and slight: In the author's characteristic Beowulfian prose, he recounts the legends of the world's beginnings, the downfall of its gods and men, and the events that changed the face of Middle-earth forever.
Five years after the fall of the Empire, a dying part of the Empire all the more dangerous near death has just discovered something that could bring it back, the last of the Emperor's warlords, Admiral Thrawn.
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