Weird Tales of the Future Five Issue Jumbo Comic

Weird Tales of the Future Five Issue Jumbo Comic
Author: Ed Smalle
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2016-02-25
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1329929993

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Weird Tales of the Future is a Classical Science Fiction Comic that ran for a total of Twenty Issues. Published by Argon Publications by Stanley Morse of Spiderman fame.

Tales of the Future

Tales of the Future
Author:
Publisher: Robert Ciolfi
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2016-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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A very short collection of the letters and notes of remote-viewing time-traveler Heinrich Hedd-Cayce.

Tales from a Robotic World

Tales from a Robotic World
Author: Dario Floreano
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0262371790

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Stories from the future of intelligent machines—from rescue drones to robot spouses—and accounts of cutting-edge research that could make it all possible. Tech prognosticators promised us robots—autonomous humanoids that could carry out any number of tasks. Instead, we have robot vacuum cleaners. But, as Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo report, advances in robotics could bring those rosy predictions closer to reality. A new generation of robots, directly inspired by the intelligence and bodies of living organisms, will be able not only to process data but to interact physically with humans and the environment. In this book, Floreano, a roboticist, and Nosengo, a science writer, bring us tales from the future of intelligent machines—from rescue drones to robot spouses—along with accounts of the cutting-edge research that could make it all possible. These stories from the not-so-distant future show us robots that can be used for mitigating effects of climate change, providing healthcare, working with humans on the factory floor, and more. Floreano and Nosengo tell us how an application of swarm robotics could protect Venice from flooding, how drones could reduce traffic on the congested streets of mega-cities like Hong Kong, and how a “long-term relationship model” robot could supply sex, love, and companionship. After each fictional scenario, they explain the technologies that underlie it, describing advances in such areas as soft robotics, swarm robotics, aerial and mobile robotics, humanoid robots, wearable robots, and even biohybrid robots based on living cells. Robotics technology is no silver bullet for all the world’s problems—but it can help us tackle some of the most pressing challenges we face.

Tales of the Future

Tales of the Future
Author: Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005
Genre: Science fiction, Indic
ISBN:

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Painting the Future

Painting the Future
Author: Louise Hay
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2012-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1401937829

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Jonathan Langley's life took a devastating turn when he lost his eyesight to a rare illness. Once a successful painter and printmaker, Jonathan now lives in complete darkness, rarely leaving his apartment and angry at the world. When he encounters his precocious 11-year-old neighbor, Lupe, the two form an unlikely friendship. Her cheerful presence shatters his hardened exterior, revealing a gentle man struck by tragedy. Lupe leads him to a fresh perspective by showing him the power of kindness, compassion, and love. Based on the celebrated teachings of Louise Hay, Painting the Future explores the power of positive thinking in healing past struggles and learning to live a joyful, heart-centered life.

Polar Tales

Polar Tales
Author: Fredrik Granath
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0847868842

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The Arctic is the ground zero of climate change, and the polar bear is on the front line. Filled with groundbreaking photography that reveals the breathtaking landscapes of the Arctic and the transformations of the environment through the changing lives of polar bears, it's a firsthand report from the top of our planet. Polar Tales tells the story of an ice world in transformation and a planet nearing its tipping point--the moment when Earth's climate begins to change irreversibly. This book is both a celebration of the wildlife that inhabits this most unforgiving and beautiful environment imaginable--mountains, fjords, enormous glaciers, and the seemingly endless pack ice of the Arctic Ocean--and a cautionary tale of global warming. Rising temperatures have put the Arctic at risk, and the habitats--and lives--of the animals there are increasingly threatened. Set against the dramatic landscape of ice floes and ragged mountains, readers see how polar bears, foxes, seals, walruses, and reindeer now struggle to live in this vulnerable climate. Images of a polar bear mother as she takes her newborns out for their first hunt, a seal pup only hours old, and the spectacle of the polar night are reminders of what is at risk. The authors work like no other photographers: spending months in the field on their expeditions, they live among the polar bears, establishing an uneasy balance and unprecedented access to the world of the kings of the Arctic. Readers are rewarded with unique and stirring images that capture the harsh beauty of a world that few will experience firsthand.

Tales of Futures Past

Tales of Futures Past
Author: Paola Iovene
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-07-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0804791600

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Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed, by a center of power. By contrast, Tales of Futures Past introduces "anticipation"—the expectations that permeate life as it unfolds—as a lens through which to reexamine the textual, institutional, and experiential aspects of Chinese literary culture from the 1950s to 2011. In doing so, Paola Iovene connects the emergence of new literary genres with changing visions of the future in contemporary China. This book provides a nuanced and dynamic account of the relationship between state discourses, market pressures, and individual writers and texts. It stresses authors' and editors' efforts to redefine what constitutes literature under changing political and economic circumstances. Engaging with questions of translation, temporality, formation of genres, and stylistic change, Iovene mines Chinese science fiction and popular science, puts forward a new interpretation of familiar Chinese avant-garde fiction, and offers close readings of texts that have not yet received any attention in English-language scholarship. Far-ranging in its chronological scope and impressive in its interdisciplinary approach, this book rethinks the legacies of socialism in postsocialist Chinese literary modernity.

The Future Is Closer Than You Think

The Future Is Closer Than You Think
Author: Zaslow Crane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781694593528

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Cherry-picked from the "Day After Tomorrow" these stories heavily influenced by The Twilight Zone run from the very serious to the absurd; from A.I. on trial for manslaughter, to fortune hunters raiding an abandoned temple on a far off planet. But just because that ancient temple is abandoned doesn't mean that it's not guarded.* Or, what if God is not omnipotent, but instead is really, really adept? That means that He has limits? Have we reached those limits? * We follow a bunch of soldiers in a civil war taking new equipment out in the field for the first time. What could go wrong? As it turns out, nearly everything.* What if the Beatles could do one last tour? Yes, ALL FOUR of them.* You're a crew member on a ship halfway to Mars, on a "milk run", a simple delivery, when the ship begins to deteriorate quickly. There's no help coming in time. Will teamwork save the crews' lives?* Aliens arrive- "First Contact", but they only came for dinner.* An old miner alone in outback of Mars' Tharsis Montes region has a deadly secret...but it's not the one you think.Plus, lots more, and they all ask the question: What will tomorrow be like?- And is there a place for me there?PlusPreviews of upcoming books and a new short story - part of a book project detailing Humanity's first attempt at colonization on an exo-planet. -It's not usually monsters that will kill you. Often you've got to watch out for the stuff that seems mundane. Zaslow Crane's "Tomorrow Is Closer Than You Think -Stories From The Day After Tomorrow". - Book One

Tales from an Uncertain World

Tales from an Uncertain World
Author: L. S. Gardiner
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1609385535

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So far, humanity hasn’t done very well in addressing the ongoing climate catastrophe. Veteran science educator L. S. Gardiner believes we can learn to do better by understanding how we’ve dealt with other types of environmental risks in the past and why we are dragging our feet in addressing this most urgent emergency. Weaving scientific facts and research together with humor and emotion, Gardiner explores human responses to erosion, earthquakes, fires, invasive species, marine degradation, volcanic eruptions, and floods in order to illuminate why we find it so challenging to deal with climate change. Insight emerges from unexpected places—a mermaid exhibit, a Magic 8 Ball, and midcentury cartoons about a future that never came to be. Instead of focusing on the economics and geopolitics of the debate over climate change, this book brings large-scale disaster to a human scale, emphasizing the role of the individual. We humans do have the capacity to deal with disasters. When we face threatening changes, we don’t just stand there pretending it isn’t so, we do something. But because we’re human, our responses aren’t always the right ones the first time—yet we can learn to do better. This book is essential reading for all who want to know how we can draw on our strengths to survive the climate catastrophe and forge a new relationship with nature.

Brain Bats of Venus

Brain Bats of Venus
Author: Greg Sadowski
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2019-10-23
Genre: Cartoonists
ISBN: 1683962141

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This volume continues Sadowski’s biography of the famed Mad cartoonist. It includes scores of letters between Wolverton and his editors and publishers and excerpts from his personal diaries, providing documentary insight not only into Wolverton’s day-to-day life and career, but also the inner workings of the early comic book industry. It is also chock full of Wolverton’s comics stories from this period, including 17 science-fiction and horror tales fully restored and never before collected in a single volume.