Science Fiction & Cyberpunk

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Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

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Philip K. Dick’s classic story. Android animals help expiate human guilt over the extermination of real ones. Rick Deckard hunts and ‘retires’ illegal android humans, and thereby comes to learn that the new messiah, a messenger of hope in a depleted world, may also be a fake, and begins to question just who is human and what human is. (210 pages)
Level: B
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Children of Men

“The Children of Men” is the story of a world with no children and no future. The year is 2021. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult — no child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Civilization itself is crumbling — the old are despairing and the young are cruel. Strange faiths and mass suicides are common. Theo Faren, an Oxford Historian lives a life of solitary apathy in this ominous atmosphere. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the all-powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live ... and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race. Suddenly, his life is changed irrevocably as he faces choices which could affect the future of mankind. Author: P.D .James (278 pages)
Level: B/Good interdisciplinary possibilities with Biology etc.

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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury’s classic vision of a future Western society in which people are enslaved by the media and drugs — and which burns books. Same pagination as previous UK edition. (174 pages)
Level: B/A.
9780486272634

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Edwin Abbott)

How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin Abbott's science fiction/mathematical romance and satire from 1884 explores this question in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension on the eve of the new millennium. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this classic work exposed Abbott's Victorian readers to the then-radical idea of a fourth dimension - preparing them for Einstein's theories of relativity and raised timeless questions about the limits of our perception and knowledge. Editor: Philip Smith. (96 pages)
Level: 2nd/3rd Year of Gymnasium / samarbejde med matematik

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Handmaid’s Tale

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    Margaret Atwood’s engrossing novel: In a new society that is being built up at the beginning of the next century after a catastrophe, there are few women left who can bear children. Those who do have “viable ovaries” are a national asset and have carefully-defined roles as child-bearing machines — “handmaids”.. But “Offred”, as she is called, although a handmaid cannot help remembering subversive details of the fun and freedom of her previous life. Many themes to discuss, such as misogyny and fundamentalist religion.(313 standard pages)
    Level: clever HF tilvalg og 2.g. classes, Level A.
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    Handmaid's Tale DVD

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    Based on the novel by Margaret Attwood:
    The end of the 20th Century finds a repressed society run by puritans and the majority of women barren. Under this new regime fertile women are handmaids and are placed among important childless couples to become pregnant. Kate is one such woman ... co-operating means survival.
  • Directed by: Volker Schlondorff
  • Screenplay: Harold Pinter
  • Starring: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall
  • Running time: 104 minutes
  • Subtitle options: none
  • Widescreen
    • 0330258648

    Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    One Thursday lunchtime Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has just had his house demolished that morning, this is more than he can cope with! Douglas Adam's cult classic. (180 pages)
    Level: B/C
    9781407109084

    Hunger Games

    A current craze among young people!
    Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, the deadliest reality TV show ever — a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before and survival, for her, is second nature. The Hunger Games is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. Author: Suzanne Collins. (464 pages)
    Level: 2nd and 3rd Years of the Gymnasium
    9781845294243

    Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF

    Gardner Dozois' annual anthology (The Mammoth Book of the Best New SF) is the standard by which other SF collections are judged. After two decades' of collecting great science fiction, Dozois now presents a compilation of the best from the last 20 years. Here is some of the finest work by the genre's leading authors, featuring among others: Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, William Gibson, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Ursula Le Guin, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, Bruce Sterling, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, and Gene Wolfe. As usual it embraces every aspect of the genre — soft, hard, cyberpunk, cyber noir, anthropological, military and adventure. A number of the selections are now considered classics:
    Blood Music (Greg Bear's exploration of nanotechnology); Bears Discover Fire (Terry Bisson's tongue-in-cheek consideration of future ursine evolution); The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin's coming-of-age SF tale); The Winter Market (In which William Gibson returns to the subject that made him a cultural icon, cyberpunk).
    Level: Gymnasiet

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    Minority Report

    This anthology of Philip K. Dick's stories includes the title story about a future where the Department of Precrime can see into the future and arrest potential criminals before they actually commit the crime. Also a representative selection of other stories including We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (“Total Recall”). (384 pages)
    Level: B/C
    0006480411

    Neuromancer

    “Case was burnt-out, crippled, useless, suicidal — his nervous system grievously maimed by a wartime Russian mycotoxin. His days as a software cowboy seemed over. Then Case met a man who could cure him. In return, Case had to do a job. Had to. Because bonded to his artery walls were tiny sacs of mycotoxin. Tiny sacs, slowly melting ... ”the cyberpunk classic! (309 pages)
    9780141036144

    Nineteen Eighty-Four/1984

    George Orwell’s famous dystopia:
    Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101. Penguin Edition. (326 pages)
    Level: A/B
    9780192803818

    Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

    A definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre — from H.G. Wells's prophetic vision of technological warfare to contemporary cyberspace and myths of genetic engineering. (586 pages + introduction)
    LeveL: Gymnasium etc.

    Contents: Introduction; The Land Ironclads (H.G.Wells); Finis (Frank Pollack); As Easy as ABC (Rudyard Kipling); The Metal Man (Jack Williamson); A Martian Odyssey (Stanley Weinbaum); Night (John W. Campbell); Desertion (Clifford Simak); The Piper's Son (Lewis Padgett); The Monster (A.E. van Vogt); The Second Night of Summer (James Schmitz); Second Dawn (Arthur C. Clarke); Crucifixus Etiam (Walter Miller); The Tunnel Under the World (Frederik Pohl); Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss); Billennium (J.G.Ballard); The Ballard of Lost C'mell (Cordwainer Smith); Semley's Necklace (Ursula Le Guin)); How Beautiful with Banners (James Blish); A Criminal Act (Harry Harrison)); Problems of Creativeness (Thomas Disch); How the Whip Came Back (Gene Wolfe); Cloak of Anarchy (Larry Niven); A Thing of Beauty (Norman Spinrad); The Screwfly Solution (Raccoona); The Way of Cross and Dragon (George Martin); Swarm (Bruce Sterling); Burning Chrome (William Gibson); Silicon Muse (Hilbert Schenck); Karl and the Ogre (Paul McAuley); Piecework (David Brin); Select Bibliography.

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    Science Fiction

     20% rabat i 2011 
    A history and analysis of SF in literature and on film — with special sections on the role of gender, race and technology. The book as a whole is too difficult for most students writing papers, but sections can be used. Good case studies: Star Wars, Dune, Neuromancer etc. (202 pages)
    9780199557455

    Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction

    It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern technological environment. This Very Short Introduction ties examples of science fiction to different historical moments, in order to demonstrate how science fiction has evolved over time. It looks not only at literature, but also at drama and poetry, as well as film. Examining recurrent themes in science fiction it looks at voyages into space, the concept of the alien and alternative social identities, the role of technology in science fiction, and its relation to time — in the past, present, and future. Author: David Seed. (160 pages)
    Level: Library/Depot/Interdisciplinary projects etc.

    Contents: Introduction; 1: Voyages into space; 2: Alien encounters; 3: Science fiction and technology; 4: Utopias and dystopias; 5: Fictions of time; 6: The field of science fiction

    9781844167098

    Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume III

    The latest volume in this series of collections of new science fiction stories. There are short stories from some of the foremost luminaries in the genre. They feature tales of alternative realities, future crime noir, hi-tech industrial espionage and genetic engineering and much more. (413 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet

    Authors: Jack Skillingstead; Alastair Reynolds; Stephen Baxter; John Meaney; Paul Di Filippo; Warren Hammond; Ian Whates; Scott Edelman; Paul Cornell; Adam Roberts; Jennifer Pelland; Daniel Abraham; Ian Watson; Tim Akers; Ken MacLeod.

    9780957886865

    Time Machine and War of the Worlds

    Two classic H.G.Wells novellas.
    Levels: A-B
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    Time Machine DVD

    Based on the H.G.Wells novella.
    • Directed by: Simon Wells
    • Starring: Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons
    • Running Time: 92 mins
    • Subtitle options: English
    • Extras: Widescreen, documentary material
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    War of the Worlds DVD

    Based on the novella by H.G.Wells:

    • Directed by: Steven Spielberg
    • Starring: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin
    • Running time: 111 minutes
    • Widescreen
    • Extras: "The H.G. Wells Legacy" ... and many more
    • Subtitle options: English, Danish, Norwegian
    0194226948

    Window on the Universe

    9 SF stories by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. There is a short introduction to each story and it is followed by exercises in discussion, language and creative writing.