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- 271: The Year 2000 Bug
- ... wondering if you need to do something to help your PC make the transition into the year 2000. This site is constructed to help you answer that question, and to help you sort fact from fiction. The way that your computer system will be affected by the year 2000 will depend not only on the equipment and software that you have, but on the way you use your PC and rely ... problem for your specific computer system, there is no reason for alarm. Many issues will be more annoying than serious. The more you become informed, the more prepared you will be to sort fact from fiction. Information and preparation are two wonderful antidotes to alarm and fear. John Glenn, two-time American space traveler, offered this advice about worry and the future advice that can be meaningfully applied to the year ...
- 272: The Stars Are My Destination
- ... novel, the generation back then was not ready for his graphic content during his day writing for television. To write was his own version of psychotherapy. So, out of frustration, I went back to science fiction in order to keep my cool. 2 And so he wrote and wrote and wrote. He figured that writing sci-fi would comfort him the most because his creativity had no limits in that realm ... could ..do anything we damn well please. 3 Bibliography 1. Bester, Alfred, Alfred Bester, Interview by Charles Platt in Dream Makers (New York: Berkeley Books, 1980), p.96 2. Bester, Alfred, My Affair with Science Fiction, Hell s Cartographers (New York: Harper & Row, 1995), p.57 3. Rawdon, Michael, Bookreviews . Online posting. Reviewed Dec. 1996 Available: www.spies.com/~Rawdon/books/sf/bester.html
- 273: Grunge Literature
- ... is it which prompts it to be labelled as "grunge literature"? And why do so many authors of books which fall into this genre object so strenuously to the label? Grunge is the literature and fiction of young people living in inner cities around the world, it is not a new genre as publishers would have us believe, but traces its roots back through the history of the novel. There is ... to America. It's not hard, she knows she'll meet him. She trusts Fate, but she gets distracted. The book, inspired by Ettler's own voyage of discovery in New York merges fact and fiction through recollection and cyclic re-interpretations, the air hostess slyly reads Marilyn's journals and so begins to re-enact Marilyn's life in preference to her own, The fictitious re-telling begins. Marilyn uses ...
- 274: Bright Shining Lie
- ... me with a basic background knowledge that better equips me to deal with analyzing this war. So much of what we base our opinions on in discussion are based on movies and other works of fiction. What this novel does is show that theses movies and books of fiction all get one thing right, the war was an illusion and it was hell. The war was an illusion in the sense that no one could get a straight answer about how it was going ...
- 275: How The Canadian Economy Is De
- ... one of the many industries that rely on the U.S market to make profit. Other industries that also rely on the U.S market is exporting of chemicals, machinery, natural resources, which include wood pulp, timber, crude petroleum, natural gas, aluminum, and telecommunications equipment. With the largest being automobiles, pulp and paper, meat processing, oil refining, sawmill and planing mill products. All of these industries do most of their business across the border to the United States. Canada also relies on the U.S for ...
- 276: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... attending Modesto Junior College, Lucas studied film at the University of Southern California, where a film he made won first prize in the Third National Student Film Festival (1965). Lucas reworked that film, a science-fiction fantasy that portrayed a grim, dehumanized world, as his first feature, THX-1138 (1971). Lucas enjoyed his first major success with American Graffiti (1973), a nostalgic look at American adolescence in the early 1960s, which ... Sugarland Express (1974). The movie was a limited success, but the following year Spielberg made Jaws (1975), which set box-office records. It was followed by Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), a science-fiction fantasy, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), an outlandish adventure tale, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), a sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. In 1985 he directed the film version ...
- 277: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
- ... and returned home to find that his mother had committed suicide the previous evening. Edith Vonnegut had grown increasingly depressed over her family's lost fortune and her inability to remake that fortune by selling fiction to popular magazines of the day. "She studied magazines," her son recalled, "the way gamblers study racing forms." Although Edith was a good writer, Vonnegut noted that she "had no talent for the vulgarity the ... Saab dealerships in the United States. With his short stories, and novels like Player Piano, published in 1952, and The Sirens of Titan, released in 1959, Vonnegut was often typecast by critics as a science fiction writer. "The feeling persists," Vonnegut has said, "that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city." It was ...
- 278: Hemmingway
- ... it'. The Star was the first to introduce Ernest to news writing which demands brief, to the point sentences, that contain a smooth easy following of ideas. He would later adapt this style to his fiction. In May of 1918, Hemingway became an honorary second lieutenant in the Red Cross. He could not join the army due to a defective left eye (resentfully inherited from his mother). On his first day ... willing to embark in a relationship. Ernest, who had not yet turned twenty, who was a war hero, a journalist and a wounded soldier, was too young for beautiful Agnes . With the will to write fiction, he moved to Chicago where most of his work was refused. He lived by writing for the Toronto Star and working as a sparing partner for boxers. It was in Chicago that Hemingway met Elizabeth ...
- 279: Jurassic Park
- Jurassic Park Michael Crichton, in his outstandingly exciting science fiction novel, Jurassic Park, has put together a suspenseful, compelling, riveting, frightening, realistic, thrilling, and scientifically informative world, combining sophisticated biotechnology with prehistoric legend, blending the past, present, and the future, and a terrifying nightmares of ... with humans and genetically engineered dinosaurs, including mesmerizing, fast paced action. It is a world where the reader where the reader decides what is happening in the book. If the reader enjoys fast-paced science fiction, the reader will certainly enjoy the fascinating world of Jurassic Park. All of the different characters in this world, share different feelings of action, reactions, thrill, nervousness, and their beliefs. Ian Malcolm, a very knowledgeable ...
- 280: Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books
- Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was an interesting Science fiction thriller that provided an odd view on the censorship of books. Not just some books, but all books. An entire distorted culture and civilization where all books are prohibited. And the penalty for being caught ... enjoy to read through Montag's confusion with figuring out right and wrong, and avoiding a government filled with ignorance. This book proves to be packed with action, adventure and emotion. It is a science fiction tale that will surly continue to intrigue minds, young and old for generations to come.
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