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Damon Knight: anthologie réunie et présentée

Damon Knight: anthologie réunie et présentée

Damon Francis Knight

Selon la formule de cette collection aussi utile pour l'amateur (quatorze nouvelles) que pour le spécialiste (préface et appareil bibliographique), un ensemble varié sur un auteur important.
Les Univers de Damon Knight: recueil de vingt nouvelles

Les Univers de Damon Knight: recueil de vingt nouvelles

Damon Francis Knight

Ces 20 nouvelles publiées aux Etats-Unis entre 1951 et 1965, et présentées par ordre chronologique, sont l'oeuvre d'un auteur qui a largement contribué à faire éclater les cadres de la science-fiction classique américaine à une ...
Hell's cartographers: some personal histories of science ...

Hell's cartographers: some personal histories of science ...

Brian Wilson Aldiss

I was born in Baker, Oregon, at midnight on 19 September 1922, the only child of Frederick Stuart Knight and Leola Damon Knight. They seem to have decided that I would be a writer even before I was born - at any rate, my father once told me ...
Berks County Women in History: Profiles

Berks County Women in History: Profiles

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It was then that Damon's doctors discovered that his appendix was riddled with a can- cerous tumor. Damon valiantly fought his cancer. He went on to get married in November of 1999 and he and his wife had a son, Evan Damon, a year later.
Far Out

Far Out

Damon Knight

What would you do if little men in purple uniforms filled your living room with impossible machinery?
Off Centre

Off Centre

Damon Knight

It's just one of the unpredictably imaginative tales in this fascinating collection by a modern master of science fiction.
The Complete Concordance to Shakspere Being a Verbal Index ...

The Complete Concordance to Shakspere Being a Verbal Index ...

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King John, i. knight, knight, good mother..... - - i. heaven defend, a knight should .. .. Richard 11. i. ask yonder knight in arms....... - i. speak like a true knight, so defend.. - i. two-and-twenty knights, balked ... 1 Henry IV, i. he, that wandering knight ...
In Deep

In Deep

Damon Knight

Take a step forward and fall suddenly into a creeping blob of protoplasm, then discover that your three companions have fallen with you and your bodies have been digested by the 'thing'.
Mind Switch

Mind Switch

Damon Knight

Time Switch at the Zoo.
A for Anything

A for Anything

Damon Knight

That's right, a gismo. A bit difficult to describe. Like a cross, I suppose, without the top part. Sort of two arms on a stand. What happens is this. You hang something on one arm. Anything at all. A watch, a bracelet, money, anything.
Double Meaning

Double Meaning

Damon Knight

The fate of the Earth Empire hung in the balance - and Security Commissioner Spangler knew it was up to him to find the monster, the Rithian Terror, as some called it.
Osama Van Halen

Osama Van Halen

Michael Muhammad Knight

Amazing Ayyub, an Iranian Shi'ite skinhead, and Rabeya, a burqa-wearing punk, have kidnapped Matt Damon and are holding him hostage.
Hell's Pavement

Hell's Pavement

Damon Knight

A voice in your brain warning you away from that one drink too many, or the crime of violence, guiding your every move from birth to death - that's the Analogue Machine, a terrifying and ingenious psychological device for compelling ...
The Observers: CV

The Observers: CV

Damon Knight

Then it occurred tohim that Paul Newland was buried in Clearwater, only a few miles up the coast. With nothing elseto doon ahot afternoon, he drove there and found the cemetery. It was very flat and green as a golf course. After alittletrouble  ...
Rule Golden

Rule Golden

Damon Knight

Five startling and provocative voyages into the future, by one of the most respected authors in science fiction - Rule Golden, Natural State, The Dying Man, Double Meaning and The Earth Quarter.
Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction

Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction

Damon Knight

Culled from the most imaginative and provocative minds of the pas thirty years, these pieces demonstrate the vitality and diversity, the excitement and commitment of the writers who helped make science fiction what it is today.
Johnny Damon

Johnny Damon

Brian O'Connell

That year, Johnny Damon and his band of Idiots stunned the baseball world by staging a historic comeback against longtime rivals, the New York Yankees, in the American League Championship Series.
The World and Thorinn

The World and Thorinn

Damon Knight

Yet the world was shifting in those days, and Thorinn was to go deeper than his father had ever dreamed; destined to discover strange worlds within worlds, to meet beasts undreamed of, and to discover that which few of us are permitted to ...
The Knight Life: "Chivalry Ain't Dead"

The Knight Life: "Chivalry Ain't Dead"

Keith Knight

The Knight Life is a hilariously twisted view of life through the eyes and pen of its creator, community-oriented urban hipster and award-winning cartoonist Keith Knight.
The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government

The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government

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Cann, Damon M. 2007. “Justice for Sale? Campaign Contributions and Judicial Decisionmaking.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 7 (3):281–297. Cann, Damon M. and Jeff Yates. 2008. “Homegrown Institutional Legitimacy:
Adventures in the Arctic

Adventures in the Arctic

Richard Gill Montgomery

JOHN I. KNIGHT OF MC MINN- VILLE, OREGON, LORNE KNIGHT'S PARENTS, TO WHOM I'M SURE HE WOULD HAVE DEDICATED THIS BOOK HAD HE LIVED TO WRITE IT FOREWORD I well remember my first meeting with Lorne Knight.
The London Quarterly and Holborn Review

The London Quarterly and Holborn Review

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By MATTHEW RICHEY KNIGHT. Halifax,,N.S.: Macgregor & Knight. I88 7. Mr. Knight has a true poetic gift. His touching dedicatory verses to his lost wife seem to put a critic into a happy vein, and the singer does not let him get out of it. The “ St.
Charles R. Knight: Autobiography of an Artist

Charles R. Knight: Autobiography of an Artist

Charles Robert Knight

This book opens with a foreword by special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) and a biographical essay on Knight by William Stout (The New Dinosaurs).
A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake

A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake

S. Foster Damon

In this volume, first published in 1965, S. Foster Damon, father of modern Blake studies and a professor at Brown University until his death, has assembled all references to particular symbols or aspects of BlakeÕs work and life, so that ...
Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200–1600

Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200–1600

Christopher Gravett

This book contains material previously published in Warrior 48: English Medieval Knight 1200-1300, Warrior 58: English Medieval Knight 1300-1400, Warrior 35: English Medieval Knight 1400-1500 and Warrior 104: Tudor Knight.

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