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True Stories : And Other Essays.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (355 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300231601
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: True StoriesDDC classification:
  • 824.92
LOC classification:
  • PN6142 .S684 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- contents -- INTRODUCTION: 'TRUE STORIES' -- Cold -- Winter Night -- Ice -- Worst Journey -- Shackleton -- Read my Toes -- Borealism -- Huntford's Nansen, Huntford's Scott -- The Uses of Antarctica -- Red -- Siberian Journal -- The Soviet Moment -- Plenty -- Responsible Fiction, Irresponsible Fact -- Idols of the Marketplace -- Unicorn Husbandry -- 1. Unicorn husbandry -- 2. Mirrorball -- 3. Pretending to be Russian, pretending (not) to be a novelist -- 4. Otherwise -- 5. History and comedy -- 6. Feasibility studies -- Sacred -- Dear Atheists -- Contra Dawkins -- Puritans -- Who is God? An Answer for Children -- C.S. Lewis as Apologist -- What can Science Fiction Tell us About God? -- Uneasy in Iran -- Wild Theism -- The Past as Zombie Hazard, and Consolation -- Three Ways of Writing Faith -- Unapologetically Yours (1) -- Unapologetically Yours (2) -- Technical -- Difference Engine -- Boffins -- Printed -- Half in Praise -- Kipling's Jungle -- Robinson's Mars -- The Amazing Terence -- You Could Read Forever -- This Grand Cause of Terror -- Bats of Some Kind -- In Memoriam, IAIN M. Banks -- The Dyer's Elbow -- Sources and Acknowledgements -- Notes -- INDEX.
Summary: An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability.
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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- contents -- INTRODUCTION: 'TRUE STORIES' -- Cold -- Winter Night -- Ice -- Worst Journey -- Shackleton -- Read my Toes -- Borealism -- Huntford's Nansen, Huntford's Scott -- The Uses of Antarctica -- Red -- Siberian Journal -- The Soviet Moment -- Plenty -- Responsible Fiction, Irresponsible Fact -- Idols of the Marketplace -- Unicorn Husbandry -- 1. Unicorn husbandry -- 2. Mirrorball -- 3. Pretending to be Russian, pretending (not) to be a novelist -- 4. Otherwise -- 5. History and comedy -- 6. Feasibility studies -- Sacred -- Dear Atheists -- Contra Dawkins -- Puritans -- Who is God? An Answer for Children -- C.S. Lewis as Apologist -- What can Science Fiction Tell us About God? -- Uneasy in Iran -- Wild Theism -- The Past as Zombie Hazard, and Consolation -- Three Ways of Writing Faith -- Unapologetically Yours (1) -- Unapologetically Yours (2) -- Technical -- Difference Engine -- Boffins -- Printed -- Half in Praise -- Kipling's Jungle -- Robinson's Mars -- The Amazing Terence -- You Could Read Forever -- This Grand Cause of Terror -- Bats of Some Kind -- In Memoriam, IAIN M. Banks -- The Dyer's Elbow -- Sources and Acknowledgements -- Notes -- INDEX.

An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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