The story centers on a pilot tasked with a dangerous mission involving a highly advanced fighter plane, the Hornet. Set in the future or an alternate world, the pilot's assignment is part of a larger conflict that is both militaristic and symbolic. The narrative delves into the mechanics of the mission while reflecting on the psychological and emotional toll it takes on the protagonist.As the story unfolds, the pilot grapples with the routine of warfare—where advanced technology can make d...

"Man Alone" tells the story of a solitary man navigating the rugged, untamed wilderness of the Oregon frontier during the 19th century. The novel explores the challenges of living in isolation, both physical and emotional, as the protagonist struggles with the harsh conditions of the wilderness and the existential questions that arise from being removed from society.The main character, a man seeking freedom and escape from the constraints of civilization, finds himself tested by nature’s u...

What is more frightening than the fear of the unknown? Johnny found out!

Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the third in our Worlds of If series with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. ‘The Yillian Way’ by Keith Laumer ‘Homo Inferior’ by Mari Wolf ‘The Talkative Tree’ by H.B. Fyfe ‘Show Business’ by Boyd Ellanby ‘The One and the Many’ by Milton Lesser ‘The Stowaway’ by Alvin Heiner ‘Sound of Te...

The Complete Works of Don BerryThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - Sound of Terror2 - Routine for a Hornet3 - The Raider4 - Man Alone

Anthology from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Knowledge and Information, , language: English, abstract: This is a book about embodiment -- the idea that intelligence requires a body -- and how having a body shapes the way we think. The idea that the body is required for intelligence has been around since nearly three decades ago, but an awful lot has changed since then. Research labs and leading technology companies around the world have produced a host of sometimes science ficti...

Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Philosophy - Theoretical (Realisation, Science, Logic, Language), , language: English, abstract: It is commonly thought that what is taking place in the present is all that exists: the past no longer exists, and the future is yet to exist - merely an abstract set of possibilities. This view is known as ‘tensed’ time. It turns out, however, that this view of time is deeply problematic, and so some philosophers and scientists have suggested ...

Four Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Don Berry. Featured here: "Sound of Terror", "Routine for A Hornet", "Man Alone", and "The Radar". This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.

What is more frightening than the fear of the unknown? Johnny found out!

No philosopher could be a better example of creative thinking in action than Friedrich Nietzsche: a German iconoclast who systematically attacked the traditionally accepted views of academic philosophers, seeking to tear down their rickety platform and replace it with a platform of his own. Creative thinkers are people who redefine issues and topics in novel ways to create novel connections, explanations and hypotheses – people, in short, who can turn a topic on its head and present it in ...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality is a sustained feat of incisive interpretation. Well known as one of Nietzsche’s greatest works, and as one of the most important books of nineteenth-century philosophy, On the Genealogy of Morality also provided the inspiration for the methodologies of several key philosophers of the modern age. Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, among others, cite Nietzsche as an influence specifically because of the interpretative techniques la...

Written in 1887, when Nietzsche was at the height of his powers as a philosopher and writer, On the Genealogy of Morality criticizes the idea that there is just one acceptable moral code. Nietzsche looks at the contemporary practice of morality from a historical viewpoint and adopts a naturalistic framework to understand our concepts of good and evil in the western world. He charts the origins of how we punish back to more primitive human relationships, then proposes alternative ways to sh...