David Seed

• Jul-2023
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A political administer lives in the realm of power. He lives in the here and now working to satisfy his need to dominate or prey upon those beneath him. He interprets or fabricates the past and the future to suit his purposes in the present. He kn...

• Jun-2017
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How do you explain to your girlfriend why you stood her up for a movie date? Especially when you had stood her up previously. Your solution, hinted at is unusual. Of course, if you and two fellow college freshmen from Dunsmuir hike into the w...

• Feb-2017
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• Jan-2015
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World War II ended with a big bang that made America King of the World, and the economy boomed. Those involved in civil defense and who profit by fear promoted the idea that Communism was the threat now, and in a scant five years, we were at war a...

• Jan-2014
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• Nov-2013
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Time is a human idea. We think that it's a constant thing and that we live in the present. In our imagination, the present is all there is of time. We are held in the present. We look to the future and see the past. We look to the past and s...

• Jun-2013
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The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends on a subculture of alcoholics, hustlers, shill...

• May-2013
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The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends on a subculture of alcoholics, hustlers, shill...

• Feb-2013
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In the odd little world of the Sportsmen’s Club, a world of greed deception, and predation, Alexander Kyness, known to his friends as “Kindness”, keeps a low profile. “Little Doll” manages the bar and keeps order over th...

• Feb-2013
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The Sportsmen's Club is a two-story, skid-row structure of connected buildings housing a bar, a poker room, and a Chinese restaurant. The Sportsmen's Hotel reaches across the upper floor.Business depends on a subculture of alcoholics, hustlers, shill...

• Jan-2013
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In the odd little world of the Sportsmen’s Club, a world of greed deception, and predation, Alexander Kyness, known to his friends as “Kindness”, keeps a low profile. “Little Doll” manages the bar and keeps order ov...

• Aug-2011
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Frankenstein, The Time Machine, Star Trek, Dune, 1984, Blade Runner--science fiction has been explained as a combination of romance, science, and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fant...

• Jun-2008
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A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers.

• This Companion conveys the scale and v...

• Dec-2007
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Charlie's Sportsmen's Club is a long, two-story building on skid-row, housing a long bar, a poker room, a Chinese cafe, and a hotel across the top floor. Business depends on a subculture of alcoholics, gamblers, hustlers, shills, and those in need...

• Sep-2002
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American science fiction has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. Working through a series of important texts, David Seed investigates the political inflections put on American narratives in the post-war decade...

In the odd little world of the Sportsmen’s Club, a world of greed deception, and predation, Alexander Kyness, known to his friends as “Kindness”, keeps a low profile. “Little Doll” manages the bar and keeps order ov...

Poor, uneducated, working class whites live in fear of destitution; and they're angry. They are manipulated and preyed upon by the greedy, super rich, who blame the blacks, minorities, and Federal Agencies for the massive white poverty. First, the...

During Jack London's last years in grammar school, he lived in West Oakland, the working-class district, which bordered the bay and the estuary. He frequented the water front, did odd jobs, delivered newspapers, and sold stuff to the rags-bottles...

John the Dreamer, college freshman in 1949, is having a nightmare. He knows it will change. He wakes as King John in the year 4732 in a city-state under siege. He learns this is not his first prophetic dream to the future and that he must save the fu...

Many thousands of years ago, our ancestors walked north out of Africa, looking for a place to live. Some went west, some went east, and some went farther north and west and east and south again. They went exploring as individuals, as family groups...

Melanie displays a diaphanous negligee, in peach, to an elderly, nattily-dressed gentleman who purchases it for his future daughter-in-law. But on this rainy day that event may or may not have been real because it follows on the heels of Melanie's...

In the odd little world of the Sportsmen’s Club, a world of greed deception, and predation, Alexander Kyness, known to his friends as “Kindness”, keeps a low profile. “Little Doll” manages the bar and keeps order over th...

One would believe the young man was so suffocated with loneliness that he was hallucinating but he would have to wait until the next day to discover how a tree could talk.And lizard’s blood? How could a girlfriend’s fear of lizards end up like th...

The California Gold Rush of 1849 attracted hordes eager to seek their fortune. They came with all the money they could raise to pursue their dreams of striking it rich. Right behind them, came the merchants, the outfitters, and the suppliers of eq...

This is the story of a wise, old trout, a railroad brakeman, and a famous maestro who share a magical world one evening as they listen to the sound and feel the power of the music of life."The 'Historic Railroad Town' of Dunsmuir is located...