The Plot To Save Socrates

Download or read book The Plot to Save Socrates written by Paul Levinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Levinson's astonishing new SF novel is a surprise and a delight: In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max. The trail leads her to time machines in a gentlemen's club in London and in New York, and into the past--and to a time traveler from her future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades (of the honeyed thighs) to Thomas Appleton, the great nineteenth-century American publisher, to Socrates himself appear. With surprises in every chapter, Paul Levinson has outdone himself in The Plot to Save Socrates.

Download or read book Socrates in New York written by John Kotselas and published by Athena Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Caverns of Socrates written by Dennis L. McKiernan and published by ROC Trade. This book was released on 1995 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They called themselves the Black Foxes, a group of adventure gamers whose chosen transformations formed a group of superior powers: a pathfinder, a master healer, a magical bard, a Shadowmaster, and their leader, an extraordinary warrior. The Black Foxes are chosen to test Avery, an incredibly powerful artificial intelligence -powerful enough to create a virtual reality universe so convincing that the Black Foxes would forget the outside world. But a delicate balance is easily destroyed, and control over Avery is lost. Now the Black Foxes must carry out a dangerous quest and defeat a Demonqueen -their only hope for survival is to beat Avery at its own deadly game.

Download or read book How Socrates Bravo Got His Name written by Lesley Klenk and published by Eld Inlet Press. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I grew up on a cotton farm in north-eastern Alabama where three generations of Jeffersons and Ashbys considered the land their own. I was young enough to believe that, although there was a wrinkled, paper deed to the farm in an old drawer somewhere, the fact that the Jeffersons were Negro and the Ashbys were white did not impact the entwining of our families or the yield of rows of cotton planted to the horizon. A day came, however, when the story of how I came to inherit the name of a Greek philosopher-who lived his life questioning others-pulled us out of the shadows of ignorance and into the harsh light of truth." Socrates Bravo Jefferson, a young Negro scholar in 1928 Alabama, dreads leaving his family to attend college preparatory school. Through a particularly arduous cotton season in which ownership of their farm hangs in the balance, Socrates's family struggles to keep their land, while a Farm Bureau agent, a depraved Northern outsider, and a drove of wild hogs threaten to destroy them, the farm's pickers, and the way they have lived for the last hundred years.Socrates despairs that all is lost. But, when a painful story from the farm's past brings the families together, the magic of baseball played under the lights, a plot of vibrant dahlias protected by parasols, and a loved one's calculated sacrifice all lead to new beginnings for the individuals in How Socrates Bravo Got His Name.

Download or read book The Silk Code written by Paul Levinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levinson, acclaimed short fiction writer and president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, has penned his first novel--about a forensic detective who is caught in a struggle that dates all the way back to the dawn of humanity on Earth. Unless he can unravel the genetic puzzle of the Silk Code, he'll die.

Download or read book The Trial of Socrates written by I. F. Stone and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today. The New York Times called this national best-seller an "intellectual thriller."

Download or read book Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Michael Trapp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to the medieval, renaissance and modern worlds in a provocative variety of roles: as paradigmatic philosopher and representative (for good or ill) of ancient philosophical culture in general; as practitioner of a distinctive philosophical method, and a distinctive philosophical lifestyle; as the ostensible originator of startling doctrines about politics and sex; as martyr (the victim of the most extreme of all miscarriages of justice); as possessor of an extraordinary, and extraordinarily significant physical appearance; and as the archetype of the hen-pecked intellectual. To this day, he continues to be the most readily recognized of ancient philosophers, as much in popular as in academic culture. This volume, along with its companion, Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, aims to do full justice to the source material (philosophical, literary, artistic, political), and to the range of interpretative issues it raises. It opens with an Introduction summarizing the reception of Socrates up to 1800, and describing scholarly study since then. This is followed by sections on the hugely influential Socrateses of Hegel, Kirkegaard and Nietzsche; representations of Socrates (particularly his erotic teaching) principally inspired by Plato's Symposium; and political manipulations of Socratic material, especially in the 20th century. A distinctive feature is the inclusion of Cold War Socrateses, both capitalist and communist.