Author: Alexander Bogdanov File Type: pdf [A] surprisingly moving story. The New Yorker Bogdanovs novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it. Slavic Review Bogdanovs imaginative predictions for his utopia are both technological and social... Even more farsighted are [his] anxious forebodings about the limits and costs of the utopian future. Science Fiction Studies The contemporary reader will marvel at [Bogdanovs] foresight nuclear fusion and propulsion, atomic weaponry and fallout, computers, blood transfusions, and (almost) unisexuality. Choice A communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets is the subject of this arresting science fiction novel by Alexander Bogdanov (18731928), one of the early organizers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik party. The red star is Mars, but it is also the dream set to paper of the society that could emerge on earth after the dual victory of the socialist and scientific-technical revolutions. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, Bogdanov sketches out the problems that will face industrialized nations, whether socialist or capitalist. **

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Author: Leonardo Da Vinci File Type: pdf An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international best-seller.Leonardo da Vinci?artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man?is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about the natural and man-made world. During his life he created numerous works of art and kept voluminous notebooks that detailed his artistic and intellectual pursuits.The collection of writings and art in this magnificent book are drawn from his notebooks. The book organizes his wide range of interests into subjects such as human figures, light and shade, perspective and visual perception, anatomy, botany and landscape, geography, the physical sciences and astronomy, architecture, sculpture, and inventions. Nearly every piece of writing throughout the book is keyed to the piece of artwork it describes.The writing and art is selected by art historian H. Anna Suh, who provides fascinating commentary and insight into the material, making Leonardos Notebooks an exquisite single-volume compendium celebrating his enduring genius.**

Author: Ray Bradbury File Type: pdf From Publishers WeeklyAs the title suggests, science fiction master Bradbury occasionally sounds like a Zen sage (You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you), but for the most part these nine lightweight, zestful essays dispense the sort of shoptalk generally associated with writers workshops. The title piece aims to help the aspiring writer navigate between the self-consciously literary and the calculatingly commercial. Other essays deal with discovering ones imaginative self feeding ones muse the germination of Bradburys novel Dandelion Wine in his Illinois boyhood a trip to Ireland science fiction as a search for new modes of survival and the authors stage adaptation of his classic novel Fahrenheit 451. Eight poems on creativity round out the volume noteworthy are Doing Is Being and We Have Our Arts So We Wont Die of Truth. 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalFamous science fiction author Bradbury here collects ten essays and eight poems from his past writings that illustrate his views on what a writer should do and be. Included are his reflections on the experience of writing, particularly the writing of such well-known works as Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine. Much autobiographical information is provided in this collection as well. As in his 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, Bradburys warmth and cordiality will charm readers.- Katherine Thorp, St. Louis Univ. 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.