LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gilles messier

3 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gilles messier

gilles messier Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Our Own Devices
    Gilles Messier
    The second world war, nuclear power, space exploration.These three powerful forces engendered innovation and changed the course of history but also have a fraught relationship with ourselves both psychologically and ethically.In these nine new stories based on historical fact, Gilles Messier explores our intimate and often fickle relationship with science and technology in the ...
    Disponible

    16,43 €

  • Our Own Devices
    Gilles Messier
    Mid-century retro speculative fiction. Nine new stories and three essays on our obsession and entanglement with technology, based on historical fact, in the Zeitgeist of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. With 31 archival pictures. Gilles Messier was born in Winnipeg in 1989. As an aerospace engineer, his interests concern the use and misuse of technology in war, nuclear energy and sp...
    Disponible

    16,42 €

  • Calling All Stations
    Gilles Messier
    The Great War is over, but twelve-year-old Edward Hawkins’s war has just begun. Imprisoned on a remote Scottish lighthouse by his veteran father, his only windows to the world a wireless set and a tattered copy of Treasure Island, he dreams of escaping to a life of adventure on the high seas.But one day a mysterious radio signal launches Edward on a harrowing odyssey that takes...
    Disponible

    20,04 €