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The Dragon Masters
In 'The Dragon Masters', the first of ibooks' definitive reissues of Jack Vance's work, Vance develops several races of people and follows the life of a boy born into and growing up in a static, stratified society, in which he comes into conflict and is eventually driven into rebellion. A Rebel Without a Cause for an Alien world.
Digital Libraries and Archives
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries held in Pisa, Italy, in January 2011. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and cover topics of interest such as system interoperability and data integration; formal and methodological foundations of digital libraries; semantic web and linked data for digital libraries; multilingual information access; digital library infrastructures; metadata creation and management; search engines for digital library systems; evaluation and log data; handling audio/visual and non-traditional objects; user interfaces and visualization; digital library quality.
Protocol One
Fantascienza - short story (11 pagine) - The ship moves away, but a strange asteroid enters the system and the crew decides to intercept it. Takeri Ira crew, in search of new lands to colonize, reaches a planet that reflects the “Protocol One” directives. Ground exploration gives discordant results: the supervisor of the implementation of the directives does not recommend the activation of the development program, whereas the chief doctor of planetary exploration believes to have found, finally, the place that their race had been looking for since millennia. While on the background the various persons in charge politically struggle, spaceship commander decides to resolve, once and for al...
De Bello Alieno
Fantascienza - novel (260 pagine) - What would Rome have been if Julius Caesar had put his genius into the service of technology instead of war? WINNER OF MAJOR ITALIAN AWARDS OF THE SF FIELD 44 B.C.. Rome is the capital of the civilized world, its hegemony stretching from the Ocean to Asia, from Gaul to Egypt. No army can stand against the might of the Roman legions and their guns... Motor chariots speed through the streets, steam trains connect the remotest provinces to the Eternal City. The architect of these conquests has a name: Gaius Julius Caesar, the brilliant scientist and entrepreneur who, forced by Sulla to abandon his political and military career, devoted all his ingenuity to sc...
Electronic Signatures in Law
Using case law from multiple jurisdictions, Stephen Mason examines the nature and legal bearing of electronic signatures.
Beyond the Planet of the Wind
Fantascienza - novel (186 pagine) - An incredible journey through the interstellar space mysteries. Winner of Urania Award 2004 From Mars to the stars: this is the mission of the starship Leonardo da Vinci. Planet after planet, wonders and mysteries came along to reveal a superior design: from a bare world, where powerful winds modeled the rocks into spooky spears and pinnacles, to a planet where hidden artefacts point to other worlds; and to Ambra, the planet with a huge, gigantic marble stairway half a mile wide, ten miles long, six miles high. An invitation to climb it, but with a rule: you can do it only on foot. “I enjoyed Beyond the planet of the wind a lot – it’s a very interest...
Heavenly Switchboard
Fantascienza - short story (18 pagine) - In a remote planet an artifact unveils a mystery of the human history. A story from the Urania Award Winner Alessandro Forlani XXVII century: the mining ship Curiex, exploring the borders of the galaxy, runs into a celestial odd body of artificial origin: the object is going to be incredibly valuable and the largest relic of human history. The crew is in two minds about whether to take advantage of it or chase its mystery in the darkness of the cosmos: the journey will test the resources of Curiex on reaching the destination and the loyalty of the ship's officers to their commander Christopher Piccolomini. In an impossible place, deep inthe Milky Way,...
The Remarkable Disappearance of James Phillimore
Giallo - novelette (18 pagine) - Something as ordinary as a forgotten umbrella soon becomes something quite remarkable. Something as ordinary as a forgotten umbrella soon becomes something quite remarkable. Its owner disappears without trace, from the interior of his own house! Only Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson can solve the mystery... Paul D Gilbert was born in London in 1954. He now lives in Harrow with his wife 'and editor' Jackie. They have two sons, Stephen and Philip and a four year old Grandson, Dylan. Besides his beloved writing, Paul also enjoys all aspects of ancient history, movies, science fiction and a vast array of different kinds of music and sport. He is currently employed as a full time undertaker and is close to completing his eighth Sherlock Holmes pastiche.
Nuove eterotopie
Fantascienza - racconti (356 pagine) - 16 racconti scelti tra il meglio della produzione della corrente letteraria che ha rivoluzionato la fantascienza italiana, più un romanzo breve inedito di Bruce Sterling Le eterotopie sono luoghi dischiusi su altri luoghi, spazi “connessi a tutti gli altri spazi, ma in modo tale da sospendere, neutralizzare o invertire l’insieme dei rapporti che essi designano, riflettono o rispecchiano” (Michel Foucault). Le utopie sono consolatorie, le eterotopie inquietanti: “minano segretamente il linguaggio”, “spezzano e aggrovigliano i luoghi comuni”. Come i racconti qui racchiusi, che dissolvono i confini tra i generi in una miscela esplosiva di sp...
Lady Sarara
Fantascienza - novelette (36 pagine) - In Ludosphere, Cephea meets a “Stone Angel”. Her fate has come to a turning point. In Ludosphere, Cephea meets a “Stone Angel”. Her fate has come to a turning point. The warrior must protect Sarara and the life she is carrying from ruthless, crazy, cunning creatures. The story runs along the border between sci-fi and fantasy, mixing together weird and space-opera, telling us our future as it was a legend belonging to our past. Claudio Cordella was born in Milan on 13 July 1974. He moved to Padua, where he graduated first in Philosophy and then in History in 2009, then graduated from the Master in Conservation, Management and Valorization of the ...
