Steven garnett (4 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 347 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction by Lucius Shepard; The Secret History of World War 3 by J. G. Ballard; On the Edge - a novelette by Sharon N. Farber; Prayer Ware by Jack Massa; A Short Course in Art Appreciation by Paul Di Filippo; Vivaldi - a novelette by Ian MacDonald; Probaility Pipeline - a novelette by Rudy Rucker and Marc Laidlaw; Peaches for Mad Molly - a novelette by Steven Gould; French Scenes - a novelette by Howard Waldrop; Distances - a novelette by Kathe Koja; Home Front by James Patrick Kelly; Deadboy Donner and the Filstone Cup by Roger Zelazny; The Flies of Memory - a novella by Ian Watson; Afterword: Thanks for Drowning the Ocelot - an essay by Brian Aldiss; Review: SF Novels of the Year by John Clute; and This Was the Future - an essay by David S. Garnett. Size: 8vo. Brian Waugh; (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Limited Edition. Hardcover volume bound in laminated pictorial boards is new.  Artist's book. Colour images of objects with handles attached. "A year ago, I started to make a piece of work as an exercise to overcome a creative block; I would attach handles to things - things I₂d made or found . In the end the process of doing this developed its own momentum - and its own logic. The process was a mixture of heuristics, and psychic automatism but in three dimensions, orbiting round the device of attaching a handle. Were they "assisted readymades?" A set of conceptual tools for reality testing? A search for a Freudian Lost Object? The illustration of a Design Algorithm at work? This book is a catalogue of the objects accompanied by texts which develop the idea without in any way "explaining" it. This will include an introduction by Dr. Wayne Clements, a short fiction by S.W. Garnett, inspired by the collection and a comprehensive, if not always comprehensible, "index" which will generate unexpected connections between the Things and the Words"--The artist's website. 118 pages. Signed by Author(s). …

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. 118 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm. "A year ago, I started to make a piece of work as an exercise to overcome a creative block; I would attach handles to things - things I₂d made or found. In the end the process of doing this developed its own momentum - and its own logic. The process was a mixture of heuristics, and psychic automatism but in three dimensions, orbiting round the device of attaching a handle. Were they "assisted readymades?" A set of conceptual tools for reality testing? A search for a Freudian Lost Object? The illustration of a Design Algorithm at work? This book is a catalogue of the objects accompanied by texts which develop the idea without in any way "explaining" it. This will include an introduction by Dr. Wayne Clements, a short fiction by S.W.Garnett, inspired by the collection and a comprehensive, if not always comprehensible, "index" which will generate unexpected connections between the Things and the Words" --from the artist's website.…