Nove coisas surpreendentes sobre Edgar Rice Burroughs



His name probably sounds vaguely familiar, but his influence is all around you. Burroughs, a prolific writer of the early twentieth century, is probably best known for creating Tarzan — but one of his most lasting creations, epic hero John Carter, is coming to life on the big screen in March 2012. Here are 9 things about Burroughs’ life that you’ll be surprised you didn’t already know.

Esse nome deve soar vagamente familiar para o leitor desatento, mas suas influências estão por toda parte. Edgar Rice Burroughs foi um escritor prolífico do começo do século 20, que ficou mais conhecido por ser o criador do personagem Tarzan. No entanto, isso está para mudar! Uma de suas mais famosas criações, o herói épico John Carter, ganhou vida nas telonas em março de 2012. Para acabar com essa injustiça, fizemos uma lista das 9 coisas sobre a vida de Burroughs que todo mundo deveria saber.

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/johncarter/9-surprising-things-you-didnt-know-about-edgar-ri

https://editoraaleph.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/nove-coisas-surpreendentes-sobre-edgar-rice-burroughs/

Um dos gêneros mais cultuados e apreciados da história, abrangendo desde séries televisivas, até o cinema, literatura, desenhos, games… e etc, hoje listamos as 10 maiores obras de ficção científica da cultura pop (Com algumas menções honrosas não menos importantes).

Que a lista sirva não apenas de entretenimento mas como uma série de indicações de obras indispensáveis para serem apreciadas! Espero que gostem.

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http://ovicio.com.br/top-10-melhores-obras-de-ficcao-cientifica-na-cultura-pop/

Science Fiction is a pretty broad genre. And one of the more popular sub-genres is Steampunk. And for a sub-genre, steampunk is pretty cool. Not to mention it has a devoted fan base and its own conventions (likeConTemporal). So it's no surprise that there are a number of amateur steampunk films - and many of them have some impressive graphics. This list is dedicated to these amateur works of art, which deserve more attention among the broader Sci-Fi base. If you're interested in Steampunk, or if you just want to find out more about it, then check out these short films.
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http://epicstream.com/features/11-Steampunk-Short-Films-That-Will-Rock-Your-World

Need some inspiration for an alternate history scenario? Need a point in time for your alternate timeline to diverge? Here’s a list of 50 questions to excite your imagination, invalidate your history textbooks, and infuriate your stuffy childhood history teacher.

What if…

What if Charles Darwin had sought political office?
What if the Ottoman Empire had succeeded in capturing Vienna in 1529?
What if Queen Elizabeth I had never been born?
What if King Henry VIII had been impotent?
What if the Russian “October Revolution” had failed?
What if there were no such thing as horses?
What if the US had received advanced intelligence about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
What if Boudica (Boadicea) had won the Battle of Watling Street?
What if the Vikings never went viking and just stayed at home instead?
What if Neanderthals had not become extinct?

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http://www.scifiideas.com/sfi/x-ifs-alternate-history-scenarios/

SCIENCY WORDS: OPPOSITION AND CONJUNCTION

by James PaillyJames Pailly  Jul 16, 2015 

Today’s post is part of a special series that first appeared on Planet Pailly. Every Thursday, we take a look at a new and interesting scientific term to help us all expand our scientific vocabularies together. Today’s sciency words are: (...)

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Autor: Fred Hoyle
Título original: The Black Cloud
1ª Edição: 1959
Publicado na Colecção Argonauta em 1964
Capa: Lima de Freitas
Tradução: Artur Portela Filho

Súmula - foi apresentada no livro nº83 da Colecção, com a indicação de "Ler nas páginas seguintes a súmula do próximo volume da Colecção Argonauta:

Com a publicação de A Nuvem Negra, romance já traduzido em dez línguas, a editorial "Livros do Brasil" tem a honra de apresentar em Portugal um dos mais célebres - e mais - belos romances de ficção-científica.
Fred Hoyle, que além de romancista, é um dos mais notáveis astrónomos do nosso tempo, alia a uma excepcional competência científica uma imaginação verdadeiramente fértil, factores que o colocam ao nível de um Orwell, de um Wells ou de um Huxley. Mas, o que mais surpreenderá o leitor há-de ser, por certo, o alto poder satírico de Fred Hoyle e as consequências a que esse poder satírico o conduz.
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This week we were contacted by  Christopher Ibbitt, who has recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce a printed collectors guide for Hasbro’s 1987 Visionaries Knights of the Magical Light toy line and are looking to spread the word about the project.   They have comic veteran Bob Hall working on some snazzy cover art and Hasbro has, after some coaxing, provided them with permission of use in regards to producing a publication based upon the license, so it is semiofficial!

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http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/visionaries-knights-of-the-magical-light-collectors-guide-on-kickstarter/

As was typical with many children’s properties of its time the toylines launch was accompanied by a comic and cartoon series of the same name, produced by Star Comics (an imprint of Marvel Comics) and Sunbow Productions respectively. Both of which were ultimately cancelled with the discontinuation of the toy line as a result of rising production costs.

See more about the publication: http://www.scifinow.co.uk/blog/do-you-remember-visionaries-knights-of-the-magical-light/

Parallel Man: Invasion America

Take a thrilling ride across the Multiverse with Agent Nick Morgan, a super-soldier gone rogue, as he fights to prevent the evil Ascendancy from enslaving alternate Earths! For 40 years, the Ascendancy has pillaged other worlds -- now its sights are set on us!

Along the way, Nick meets his doppelgänger from our Earth, Nicholas -- a lazy gamer/geek. Together they must fight amid parallel realities, including industrial dystopias, foreboding ice worlds, and a continent where dinosaurs evolved into humanoid warriors.

https://www.comixology.com/Parallel-Man-Invasion-America/comics-series/29257

Star Trek fans have been curious for years about the Battle of Axanar, the decisive turning point in the war against the Klingon Empire. And now, a new unofficial movie will show what really happened at Axanar, and how Captain Garth triumphed. Here’s your first image fromStar Trek: Axanar, exclusively at io9!
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http://io9.com/first-look-at-axanar-the-star-trek-war-movie-weve-wait-1716037166?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=823&v=1W1_8IV8uhA

Bioshock te coloca na pele de Jack, sobrevivente de uma queda de avião (que é a intro do jogo). Após, alcançar uma ilha, um lance de escadas o leva para uma espécie de submarino, que o leva para a cidade subaquática de Rapture. Nesta cidade, descobrimos que a descoberta de um plasmídeo chamado ADAM levou a população à loucura, inclusive deformando-os.

O maior detalhe do jogo é a ambientação. Se passando em 1960, o clima Steampunk domina a maior parte de todos os cenários, desde máquinas de música e gramofones até as próprias armas de Jack. O figurino, as propagandas espalhadas pela cidade… Tudo remete ao que seria o “futuro” idealizado pelos anos 60.

A trilha sonora  também não deixa o clima escapar. Misturando músicas da época com trilhas que realçam ainda mais o clima de suspense do jogo,

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