Dark Horizons

Author: Tom Moylan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317793552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
First published in 2003. With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives of places more terrible than even the reality produced by the neo-conservative backlash of the 1980s and the neoliberal hegemony of the 1990s, utopian horizons stubbornly anticipate a different and more just world. The top-notch team of contributors explores this development in a variety of ways: by looking at questions of form, politics, the politics of form, and the form of politics. In a broader context, the essays connect their textual and theoretical analyses with historical developments such as September 11th, the rise and downturn of the global economy, and the growth of anti-capitalist movements.

Doctor Who: Dark Horizons

Author: J.T. Colgan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446417786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
"We need to reach out. We need to continue the line..." On a windswept northern shore, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. Then the burning comes. Water will not stop it. It consumes everything in its path - yet the burned still speak. The Doctor encounters a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand. They have no weapons, no strategy and no protection against a fire sent to engulf them all. The islanders must take on a ruthless alien force in a world without technology; but at least they have the Doctor on their side... Don't they? A thrilling adventure starring the Doctor, as played by Matt Smith.

Dark Horizons

Author: Glenn Allen Becker
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1948858576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
Since March 11, 2011, the ongoing Fukushima, Japan radiation disaster has been despoiling the planet, due to radiation leaking out of the hobbled nuclear plant’s reactors. In time, the cover-up silence by those in charge will plague the global population with complete jeopardy. In the science fiction thriller Dark Horizons, a young couple embark on a journey in California, encountering the ongoing and frightful Fukushima catastrophe. Heads up, because the next Extinction Level Event is heading our way.

Dark Horizons

Author: Dan Smith
Publisher: Orion Publishing
ISBN: 9781780220093
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A taut, atmospheric, and emotive thriller that transportsreaders to the lush landscapes of Sumatra, where deadly secrets lie in waitAfter caring for his mother in her last days, Alex has gone off around the world to travel andperhaps recapture some of his lost youth. Beginning in Indonesia, the idea of finding himself sounds appealing, but he soon finds himself in real trouble. It starts with a bus crash on a terrifying mountain road where, lucky to escape with his life, Alex loses everything else even his identity. But then he meets Domino, a beautiful girl who takeshim under her wing. At first it's an intoxicating adventure, but Alex starts to realize that danger follows her around. As they head to the remote community of free spirits that Domino calls home, it seems there's trouble in paradise. The ideals of the camp seem honorable a simple life, shared by friends in a beautiful place hidden from the world. But Domino has no answers for the questions that are forming in Alex's mind: Why do the local villagers hate them so much? Why are people leaving the camp in the dead of night? And what are the strange shapes lurking just beyond the clearing?"

Eve of Dark Horizons

Author: Marvin Proctor Jr.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480857351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
The world is in tremendous danger, threatened by dark forces acting in the shadows. One individual, Mr. Black and his partner Dr. Kline, yearns to open the worlds gateway in order to allow a dominion of evil in, intent on destroying all life as we know it and rebuilding it in its own dark image. In answer to this threat, there stands only a handful of teens who are only starting to learn about themselves and their unique gifts. Seventeen-year-old Kyra Mathews believes she is a normal, if gifted, high school student, but she soon finds herself drawn into a world she could never have imagined, one in which angels sneak about and dragons hide among us. With the help of a small group of friendssome of whom hide amazing secretsKyra must take her place in the fight against evil and help to fulfill an ancient prophecy. Although she doesnt know it, her journey began millennia ago and will continue for generations to come. In this fantasy novel, a group of teenagers, led by Kyra Mathews, discover that their world hides not only vast magic but also unimaginable evil that could destroy existence as they know it.

Dark Horizons

Author: Jay Caselberg
Publisher: Elder Signs Press (US)
ISBN: 9781934501610
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Stranded on an off-world base, a tech specialist seeks to outwit a confused AI before it kills him. In the depths of space, a mining ship finds a vein of ore that will make everyone aboard rich--if they figure out what happened to the crew of the ship that was here before them. Waiting for the unwary reader of this book are stories of madmen playing with science beyond their control, and alien creatures with malign intent. Welcome to Dark Horizons, where the future is lost. Featuring fiction by Jay Caselberg, Eric Del Carlo, Aaron J. French, and Christopher Fulbright.

Horizon Wars

Author: Robey Jenkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472813146
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
Beyond today's horizons lie uncountable wars still to be fought by mankind – on battlefields, against foes, and with weapons that can only be imagined. With Horizon Wars, wargamers can bring these future conflicts to the tabletop, no matter their exact vision of the future of warfare. Combining the feel of real-world combat and tactics with versatile and quick-to-learn rules, Horizon Wars is a 6mm company-level game that incorporates ground forces, aircraft and the titans of the battlefield – mechs. Whether you want to pit a handful of mechs against each other in quick clash of patrols, or line up combined-arms forces for a huge battle, the game remains fast-moving and enjoyable. Also included are full rules for building units from the ground up, allowing players to tailor their forces to suit the mission objectives or their figure collections.

Chasing New Horizons

Author: Alan Stern
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 125009898X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.

The House of Lost Horizons: A Sarah Jewell Mystery

Author: Mike Mignola
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506720064
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
"Collects The house of lost horizons: a Sarah Jewell mystery #1-#5, originally published by Dark Horse Comics"--Copyright page.

Light on Dark Horizons

Author: Carl Albert Seaward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description