Death, Dying, and the Time Traveler is a collection of short stories. These stories are told by the Time Traveler, who is sent to Earth from another universe. The Time Traveler was genetically created to be Caucasian. As he grows up, his makeup has gradually changed and he has become a man of color. When Madonna, the commander-in-chief of the high council of Alexis, the planet that sent the Time Traveler to Earth, returns years later and transports the Time Traveler aboard his space vessel, he is baffled by these unbelievable stories. During his journey through life on Earth, the Time Traveler was always confronted with death and dying. He has experienced the depths of human sufferance, and there are no great stories of glory to be told. The Time Traveler questions man's existence on Earth and explores three temptations that have led to his failure here. Madonna and his council must decide the fate of the Time Traveler. Will he return to Earth and fulfill his destiny or return to Alexis with Madonna? These are the Time Traveler's thrilling stories of the past, chilling stories of the present, and shocking stories of the future.

Previously published in hardback by Simon & Schuster in 2010; originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2008.

This is a series of short stories written by the Writer/Storyteller/Time Traveler sharing his findings after visiting five different Worlds. Each World is a Chapter. Chapter One, will be covering a period of time from 1937, through World War Two and into the new age of the 1950's. An only child's perception of the world around him. Chapter Two, will be stories about the beginning of the 50's into the 60's. The Time Traveler will be growing into a different person than he was in the beginning. Chapter Three, The Time Traveler is a State Trooper. This will be a series of Police & Investigation Stories as the Time Traveler/Writer begins to change his beliefs. The world of the Time Traveler will change and he begins his travels into yet, another world, one most do not realize it exists. Chapter Four and Five, in these Chapters the Time Travelers enters the world of Greed, Deception, and selfness. It will be about truths about life, what it is, and how it relates to each person.

Some of the greatest works of literature have wrestled with the task of illuminating the human experience of death. This new title discusses the role of death and dying in works such as Beloved, A Farewell to Arms, Lord of the Flies, Paradise Lost, and many others. Featuring approximately 20 essays, Death and Dying provides valuable insights on this recurring theme in literature.

More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time travel--stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by centuries, journeys to the past or the (often dystopian) future. This book examines some of the roles time travel plays on screen in science fiction and fantasy. Plot synopses and credits are listed for films and TV series from England, Canada, the UK and Japan, as well as for TV and films from elsewhere in the world. Tropes and plot elements are highlighted. The author discusses philosophical questions about time travel, such as the logic of timelines, causality (what's to keep time-travelers from jumping back and correcting every mistake?) and morality (if you correct a mistake, are you still guilty of it?).

"Russell Taylor, a teacher, is drawn into the future after a "thought war" and finds the inhabitants are establishing a society based on cooperation and good will. Jason has rained terror and bloodshed but he may not be the real threat to the land. Against Jason is Marlene, Alex and Steven. Marlene is Taylor's initial guide. Alex hates Jason but is forced to cooperate because he can read and knows the valley's history. Steven, the hereditary leader, has lost the ability to control the functions of the land. Affecting the land is the interaction between the past, present, and future, the highly advanced computer system that seems to run the land and the ultimate purpose of the entity that set these forces into play. Russell must find a way to save the land by learning his connection to the land and by using the abilities that he seems to possess."

In der zweiten Ausgabe seines Buchs (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (2003) bemerkt Jalal Toufic: »Viele Jahre habe ich mich mit Schizophrenie und Schizophrenen beschäftigt, die in Credits Included: A Video in Red and Green, 1995, auftraten; jetzt interessiere ich mich für ›das kleine Mädchen‹, das voraussichtlich in meinem kommenden Vampir-Film eine Rolle spielen wird ... Auf einer Ebene kann die 13. Serie in Gilles Deleuze' Logik des Sinns, 1969, ›Der Schizophrene und das kleine Mädchen‹, so zurückblickend als Programm für zehn Jahre meiner Arbeit gesehen werden.« In seinem neuen Essay schreibt er über das Bildnis des pubertierenden Mädchens, wie es auch in Poes »Das ovale Porträt« erscheint. »Beim gelungenen Bildnis eines jungen Mädchens handelt es sich nicht um einen Übergangsritus, sondern um einen Nichtübergangsritus; nicht der Übergang, bei dem es sich (zumindest in historischen Gesellschaften) um den Naturzustand handelt, macht einen Ritus erforderlich, sondern der Nichtübergang, der radikale Unterschied zwischen dem Vorher, in diesem Fall einem jungen Mädchen, und dem Nachher, einer Frau.« Vom Porträt des pubertierenden Mädchens bewegt sich Toufic zum Porträt im Allgemeinen und dessen paradigmatischer Beziehung zum Engel; daher der Titel dieses Notizbuches: Poes »Das ovale Porträt«, mit den Augen eines Engel gelesen und umgeschrieben. Die meisten von Jalal Toufics Büchern stehen auf seiner Website www.jalaltoufic.com als frei herunterladbare PDF-Dateien zur Verfügung. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality—time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film.

Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well. For the hundreds of thousands who are newly come to Card, here is chance to experience the wonder of a writer so versatile that he can handle everything from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction with equal ease and grace. The brilliant story-telling of the Alvin Maker books is no accident; the breathless excitement evoked by the Ender books is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience. In this enormous volume are forty-six stories, plus ten long, intensely personal essays, unique to this volume. In them the author reveals some of his reasons and motivations for writing, with a good deal of autobiography into the bargain. "One of the genre's most convincing storytellers. An important volume."--Library Journal At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Do you know the power you have in a single thought? You are a creator, and everything in your life is created by your thoughts. Think about it. Everything in your life is created by one of your thoughts, If, you know how to finish the thought by activation of the right powers thoughts are connected too you will have your life. This Writing is about Thoughts, Beliefs, & Changing your life. Look at the thought as a Car. You want the car to take you somewhere, you want to go. But, the car needs Gas, Oil, and a Driver to direct the car to where the car goes. Take the wrong route, wrong turn, put in the wrong gas or oil, and the car will not take you where you want to go. This writing is designed like a road map to take your Thoughts where You want to go, avoid the wrong turn, put in the right fuel, and get to where you want go. This road map will direct to the places many have gone with their thoughts,