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Lafferty was no stranger to receiving awards. He was nominated for numerous Hugo and Nebula awards. These awards are reserved for only the most prestigious science fiction writers. In 1971 he won the Phoenix Award. 1972 brought a Hugo award for "Eurema's Dam" and the Invisible Little Man Award. He received the Smith Award in 1973. It would be twenty-seven more years before another award. In 1990 he was given the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. "Iron Tears" got him nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1993. In 1995 he was honored with the Arell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award. .
Past Master is one of Lafferty's better-known books. In the year 2535, a utopian civilization has achieved the earthly paradise, Immanent Zed the Echelon, and is now in inexplicable crisis, facing extinction. Saint Thomas More is fetched out of the past to solve their problems only to be martyred again. He has been selected because of his ability to distinguish and choose correctly between alternatives when the labels have become confused, as, for example, between "Heaven" and "Hell", or between "Everything" and "Nothing".
More takes it all pretty calmly. It seems that time travelers often stop and chat with him. On Astrobe, the world of the future, he finds allies and enemies, Adam and Eve, the last Pope, a friendly alien called an "ansel" and a race of artificial beings who have no souls or even real consciousness, but who are supplanting human beings. These synthetic beings worship Ouden, the "Great Nothingness." They are More's real enemies, and plan to exterminate humanity and then themselves. At one point they admit to More that they are old-fashioned Demons. Past Master is a good example of how Lafferty likes to use history. In using time travel, he can define historical figures to the reader. The reader, in a sense, meets Thomas More and is introduced to the idea of Utopia. This allows the reader to learn and be entertained at the same time.
This was the first time the Archduke had an official visit to Bosnia.( Kann, R.A.) ... (Kann, R.A.) ... On his way to the hospital the second and final attempt for his life was ended. ... (Kann, R.A.) ... This massacre provided justification Austria needed to take action on Serbia.( Kann, R.A.) ...
Small-mindedness and petty thievery were rare among frontier people. ... As a place of wild lawlessness, the frontier's reputation was largely over-exaggerated. ... American folklore supports the image of tough, aggressive, and brave heros who tamed the wild frontier. ... When movies are made about the Frontier and the West, what are their plots based on? ... Racial violence is commonly seen in movies depicting the Frontier. ...
Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF): In economics, the production possibility frontier (also called "transformation curve") is a graph that depicts the opportunity cost between any two items produced. ... You can think of the production-possibilities frontier as the way economists visualize scarcity. 2. ...
The technological frontier is probably the most influenced by the frontier belief. ... For every frontier that appears to be complete, a new frontier has opened up and is unsolved. ... The frontier is far from ending, if there is an ending. ... The frontier myth influenced the expansion of communications into another frontier, telecommunications. ... If America weren't following the frontier belief,...
The western frontier was a newly acquired asset with unlimited potential for the United States. ... With all the land for which to cultivate in the west, farming was a sensible way to begin setting up the frontier. ... Ultimately, farming was the best way to begin to settle the western frontier. The western frontier had the potential to become something beneficial and prosperous to the United States. ... Farmers and their agricultural agenda should have had the precedence in setting up the western frontier ...
If not for the railroads, teh frontier would have probably lasted longer. ... Since all the transporting was going on, the frontier began to increase populations. Te lands in the west were becoming settled ad the frontier began to disappear. ... The railroads played an extreme part in the economic developement of the western frontier....
Architectural precedents shape the way we design and engineer buildings. As human beings any time we smell, hear, touch, or taste anything, we equate it to something we are already familiar with. Precedents work the same way; you cannot have design without first having precedents. Architectural design process as well as structural design process must be thoroughly understood before a design can begin. Research on various forms of architecture are also necessary. ...
Frontier life was overwhelmed with problems like prostitution, gambling, alcohol and drug abuse. ... In the frontier men would go so far as to challenge each other to gun fights for the slightest disrespect. ... For example the frontier as it grew slowly began to see more factors that contributed to their violence issues. ... Courtwright would view the prison system as an advanced frontier society that is overwhelmed with factors that contribute to violence. ...
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