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| | THE WAR OF THE WORLDS - SCRIPT - Orson Welles & the Mercury Theratre on the Air |
 | | We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. | | | We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's, and yet as mortal as his own. | | | As I set down these notes on paper, I'm obsessed by the thought that I may be the last living man on Earth. |
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http://members.aol.com/jeff1070/script.html
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - God, Man and History - David Hazony - Paperback |
| | The re-publication of his philosophical magnum opus God, man and History is cause for celebration in the Jewish and academic worlds, giving new audiences access to the worlds of this great sage. | | | The re-publication of Eliezer Berkovits' God, Man and History is a most important contribution to contemporary Jewish theological discourse
God, Man and History can be seen as the heart of Berkovis' theology, and as an indispensable foundation for understanding his later works. | | | Of all of Berkovits work, God, Man and History may be regarded as the keystone. |
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=a11ygScA72&isbn=9657052157&itm=7
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| | The Templeton Gate - Authors - John Varley |
| | Shortly after the invasion all of the moon's inhabitants relocate to the farside away from Earth, both to be out from under the watchful gaze of the Invaders and also to symbolize that now man's destiny lay outwards to the other worlds, and eventually out to the stars. | | | Sometime in the near future, Earth is occupied by a mysterious alien race, and humanity must survive on the other worlds of the solar system already colonized; Mercury, Venus, the moon, Mars, Pluto, and various moons of Saturn and Neptune. | | | It may be true he hasn't quite lived up to that hype, but he was perhaps the most responsible for returning the genre to its more positive scientific roots after many years of the pessimistic New Wave, at the same time reinvigorating the traditional hard-SF scenarios with a more contemporary and irreverant perspective. |
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http://members.tripod.com/templetongate/varley.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Manichaeism |
| | When, mainly through the activity of the elect, all light particles have been gathered together, the messenger, or Legatus Tertius appears, the Spirit of Life comes from the west, the First Man with his hosts comes from north, south, and east, together with all light aeons, and all perfect Manichæans. | | | Their corpses are hurled on the realm of Darkness and eight worlds are made, their bones form the mountain ranges. | | | Jesus Christ was to Mani but an aeon or persistent personification of Light in the world.; as far as it had already been set free it was the luminous Jesus, or Jesus patibilis. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09591a.htm
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| | The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion and Public Life |
| | The well-being of the nonhuman world, including animals, is deeply dependent upon our continuing to accent the singularity of human dignity, a dignity that entails responsibility for all of God's creation. | | | The absurdity of 'mathematically equal sub-division of property or the imposition from above of universal one-man independence' held no charm. | | | But while the victims of these wrongs may live on forever as symbols, most have long ago died as flesh- and-blood human beings. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9504/public.html
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| | Nanowrimo 2004: Chapter Eight |
| | By now they have honed their ability so far that every world they visit is a technology world, but there still appear to be an endless number of that kind of worlds. | | | I donât think that ratty man who traded with us earlier will trade with us again, so letâs just find another world and try the trick again.â Arthur suggests with a mischievous gleam in his eyes. | | | In the next world they enter they only have time to find a person who can point them in the right direction when a dog very similar to the two previous ones comes running for them. |
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http://sahinano.blogspot.com/2003/11/chapter-eight.html
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| | The Crisis of the modern World, the New World Order and Kali Yuga |
| | The history of man, in comparison with that of the plant and animal worlds on this planet not to mention the lifetimes prevailing in the star world is brief indeed. | | | The hybris of Prometheus, who thrust his hand into the heavens in order to make the divine powers subject to man, carries with it his fall. | | | But impermanence, the birth and the passing, is the form of all that is actual from the stars, whose destiny is for us incalculable, right down to the ephemeral concourses on our planet. |
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http://www.geocities.com/integral_tradition/doom.html
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| | "DUNE: Hunting Harkonnens," by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson |
| | Out on the outskirts of League space, far from the Synchronized Worlds, the feral humans obviously hadn't expected to encounter enemy predators, and the captain of this vessel had been particularly inattentive. | | | The world reminded him of the blue irises his human eyes once had. | | | At intervals, the old man translated for Piers, relating tales of the downtrodden Zensunni who had fled the machine takeovers, as well as slavery in the League of Nobles. |
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http://www.tor.com/hunting.html
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| | MBR: Internet Bookwatch, November 2001 |
| | This biography of the explorer and seafarer Cook tells of a man who never even saw the sea in his early years. | | | Joseph Gonsalves gives modern readers a vivid perspective on what it was like to spend eleven months on the front lines fighting with the 17th Infantry Regiment, manning an outpost line of the 7th Division, and draws upon original research at the National Archives, extensive interviews with participants, in addition to his own personal recollections. | | | Out in the West a man's handshake's his bond./His word's still accepted as true./The cowboy, the horse and the old Longhorn cow/Are a part of the red, white an' blue. |
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http://www.midwestbookreview.com/ibw/nov_01.htm
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| | Science Fiction on Radio |
| | Clearly aimed at adults the episode, The Man Who Was Tomorrow, is about a man, the Timekeeper, who is able to stop time to present to one of the characters his life and relationship with his wife both in the future and the past. | | | Arch Oboler wrote several stories which were science fiction in form for his Lights Out and Arch Oboler Plays series: Rocket From Manhattan, The Immortal Gentleman and others. | | | Bright ideas for science fiction tales don't come on order; they're usually the product of a moment's inspiration, by a writer who is steeped in the field." |
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http://www.otr.com/sf.html
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| | Steel Beach by John Varley, a science fiction book |
| | Steel Beach is set in John Varley's Eight Worlds universe, like many of his short stories. | | | Steel Beach (1992), which was a Hugo award nominee, takes place in Varley's eight worlds universe, the setting of many of his stories. | | | But out of catastrophe will come the chance to rethink the meaning of paradise, and in particular the understanding that one man's paradise is another man's stifling prison... |
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http://members.aol.com/misuly/varley.htm
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| | The Man Who Invented Tomorrow |
| | More importantly for his career, The Island of Dr. Moreau was published in 1896, The Invisible Man in 1897, The War of the Worlds in 1898, When the Sleeper Wakes in 1899 ( Tales of Space and Time was published the same year), and The First Men in the Moon in 1901. | | | The War of the Worlds was followed by hundreds of alien-invasion stories in which humanity is challenged by superior science, more advanced technical development, greater intelligence, a more warlike society, or a more subtle danger, Sometimes humanity beats back the attack and sometimes it is conquered. | | | The speaker was a short, intense, thirty-six-year-old man who had attained considerable success already as an author of articles, stories, and novels. |
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http://www.ku.edu/~sfcenter/tomorrow.htm
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| | Tales of Ten Worlds by Arthur C Clarke |
| | From the Earth to the Universe - Fifteen Tales of Man and the Stars - Moons, comets, planets, the stars - all these are the realm of "the acknowledged king of science fiction," Arthur C. Clarke. | | | Ponder how man can escape from the heart of a comet. | | | Tales of Ten Worlds by Arthur C Clarke |
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http://www.pywrit.com/ebooks/sfc_e/ArthurCClarke/bi/talesoftenworlds.htm
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| | The Discourses |
| | Unless the emperor or empress knows which worlds are suitable, he or she will be unable to efficiently forge an empire. | | | At the peak of its power, the Imperium of Earth, foundation of order, law, and morality was like a mud and straw colossus awaiting the first of the summer rains. | | | First comes the empire's name, then the tech level of the capital, the total number of planets that are under the empire's jurisdiction, the total population of the empire (in billions), the shipyard index for the empire, and the total number of each of the seven types of ships that the empire has. |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~cdemwell/anacreon/docs/manual.html
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| | Heinlein FAQ |
| | Collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950); The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966); The Past through Tomorrow (1967), Expanded Universe (1980). | | | Collected in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950), The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966), The Past through Tomorrow (1967), Expanded Universe (1980). | | | Kiko, who is one of the typical "Heinlein individuals." In fact, he is in his way a far better character than the Heinlein individuals that are more well known, such as Jubal Harshaw and Lazarus Long. |
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http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/20th/txts/heinlein/heinlein.lore.html
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| | When Worlds Collide DVD |
| | WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE is often imitated, but never duplicated. | | | For all its weaknesses, WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE offers a serious and thought provoking examination of the end of Earth. | | | The dramatic elements and pacing suffer (like most 1950s features), but George Pal provides a sense of awe in chronicling the last days of Earth. |
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http://www.dvdcult.com/rev_WhenWC.htm
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| | Worlds Collide |
| | And your other grandpa happens to be the world’s strongest man? Bullshit!" | | | Satan and the other is the strongest man to ever live, Son Goku!" Sora gave her a skeptical look. |
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http://www.anycities.com/kuko/Worlds_Collide3.htm
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| | Books by and about Philip K Dick |
| | Malmgren, Carl D. "Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle and the Nature of Science-Fictional Worlds." Bridges to Science Fiction. | | | "A Review of The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike." Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine (December, 84). | | | Beyond the Barriers Of Space and Time, Judith Merril(ed): (1954) contains "Golden Man" |
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http://www.thephildickian.com/philipkdick.html
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| | Chronological List |
| | The Forgotten Man of Space (ss) Wonder Stories Apr 1933; also as “Forgotten”. | | | The Triflin’ Man (ss) Fantastic Universe Jan 1955; also as “You Triflin’ Skunk!”. | | | The Ablest Man in the World (ss) The Sun May 1879 |
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http://users.ev1.net/~homeville/isfac/d89.htm
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| | The Illustrated Man |
| | A fantastic collection of short stories, from African jungles to the far reaches of outer space, Ray Bradbury takes you to a dozen different worlds. | | | Tattooed on a man's entire body are images that seem to move on their own. | | | My personal favorites are "Kaleidoscope", "The Man," and "The City." I never cease to be amazed with Bradbury's work. |
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http://www.xmission.com/~tyranist/scifi/reviews/IllustratedMan.html
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| | Man of Destiny |
| | He would be remembered and buried with all the pomp and majesty of a man who had affected the lives of countless individuals on a myriad of worlds. | | | All she permitted herself was to cry her frustrated rage and to close her eyes to the sight of the man she had agreed to defend. | | | A furious banging roused the young man from his calm contemplation of one more failure of technology. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~rdmadden/webdocs/Man_of_Destiny.html
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| | tales Books and Magazines UK |
| | Tales of the Twelfth Man by Porter, Donald J. Tales from the Heart of the Country by Francis, Tony | | | Tales of the Old Countrywomen by Martin, Brian P. Tales of Ten Worlds by Clarke, Arthur C. Tales for Coaching by Parkin, Margaret | | | Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Grimm, Wilhelm |
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http://books1.dbsu.co.uk/z-tales.htm
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| | TPS: Exploring Mars: A Mars Timeline |
| | Johannes Kepler uses data on Mars' orbit to discover his third law of planetary motion -- the square of the orbital period is proportional to the cube of the body's mean distance from the Sun -- which he publishes in Harmonice mundi (The Harmony of the Worlds). | | | Flash and his crew are on Mars battling the evils of Ming the Merciless and a dastardly queen who are stripping Earth of its nitrogen and turning humans into clay. | | | On the initiative of the Lowell Observatory, an International Mars Committee is organized to continuously observe of Mars during the opposition of 1954. |
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http://www.planetary.org/mars/timeline-big.html
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| | Books by and about Philip K Dick |
| | Malmgren, Carl D. "Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle and the Nature of Science-Fictional Worlds." Bridges to Science Fiction. | | | The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (Ziesing, 1984) | | | The Golden Man [C] (1980) True 1st hardcover edition is BCE w/ K27 pg 325 |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books LRB essay The Bess of all possible worlds |
| | When Ben Jonson tried it in 1599, at the very end of Every Man out of His Humour at the Globe, many (as he had to admit) "seem'd not to relish it" - although it was a non-speaking part and highly complimentary to the Queen - and it had to be withdrawn. | | | Elizabeth, who reputedly once declared that princes were actors who stood on a stage in sight of all the world, not only took such impromptu performances in her stride but handled them brilliantly. | | | Philip Sidney in The Lady of May, the little entertainment he staged in 1578 at Leicester's park and gardens of Wanstead, went so far as to impose an unscripted speaking part on the Queen, presumably without warning, forcing her to adjudicate between two fictional rival suitors. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,994131,00.html
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| | Possible Worlds (2000) |
| | He also explores a relationship with the same woman, who is strikingly different in each of the parallel worlds. | | | Plot Outline: The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time. | | | Possible Worlds explores themes of the mind in a science-fiction setting. |
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http://us.imdb.com/Title?0222293
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| | Chase Science Fiction |
| | Rich tale of a man of destiny by the award-winning author. | | | Omnibus including The Wind From The Sun, Tales of Ten Worlds, The Other Side of the Sky, The Nine Billion Names of God. | | | Story of a madman charged with saving his world. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~cdectc/chasepg/sf2.html
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| | Time Cube |
| | The 4 corner quadrant Earth has 4-24 hour simultaneous Days within a single rotation of Earth, as if 4 different Worlds with 4 separate Days and 4 separate races with 4 stages each. | | | of 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth, | | | Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube Creation Principle within 1Earth Rotation. |
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http://www.timecube.com
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| | Re: facts of reality, context, possible worlds from pat hayes on 2002-12-07 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from December 2002) |
| | >============ >Dick McCullough >knowledge := man do identify od existent done >knowledge haspart proposition list > >----- Original Message ----- >From: pat hayes >To: Richard H. McCullough >Cc: RDF-Interest ; >Richard S. Latimer >Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:27 AM >Subject: re: facts of reality, context, possible worlds > >>1. | | | What it probably does is give a phrase which is sufficient to identify the corresponding concept in the mind of a competent human reader, but all such readers bring to bear an incredible amount of information which is not stated explicitly in the dictionary or even in an encyclopedia. | | | Re: facts of reality, context, possible worlds from pat hayes on 2002-12-07 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from December 2002) |
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2002Dec/0032.html
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| | Jarl Totland |
| | Although Colin Kapp has not enjoyed the success of his early New Worlds contemporaries Brian Aldiss and James White, he has developed quite a cult following, particularly for his Unorthodox Engineers stories and for Transfinite Man (The Dark Mind). | | | Cageworld 2: The Lost Worlds of Cronus - Dyson Sphere-ish universe, in a kinda Ptolemaic way. | | | Despite CK's otherwise unextraordinary plotting, the combination of invulnerability and rage in the tale generates a sense of nearly uncontrollable energy, imparting to this one book something of the exhilaration of Keith LAUMER and a touch of the complexity of Alfred BESTER, whose Gully Foyle - from Tiger! |
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http://jarl.errors.no/sf/kapp
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