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• Introduction to the American Edition

1. Science and Sensibility
   • 1.1 A Devil's Chaplain
   • 1.2 What is True?
   • 1.3 Gaps in the Mind
   • 1.4 Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair
   • 1.5 Trial By Jury
   • 1.6 Crystalline Truth and Crystal Balls
   • 1.7 Postmodernism Disrobed
   • 1.8 The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle
2. Light Will Be Thrown
   • 2.1 Light Will Be Thrown
   • 2.2 Darwin Triumphant
   • 2.3 The 'Information Challenge'
   • 2.4 Genes Aren't Us
   • 2.5 Son of Moore's Law
3. The Infected Mind
   • 3.1 Chinese Junk and Chinese Whispers
   • 3.2 Viruses of the Mind
   • 3.3 The Great Convergence
   • 3.4 Dolly and the Cloth Heads
   • 3.5 Time to Stand Up
4. They Told Me, Heraclitus
   • 4.1 Lament for Douglas
   • 4.2 Eulogy for Douglas Adams
   • 4.3 Eulogy for W. D. Hamilton
   • 4.4 Snake Oil
5. Even the Ranks of Tuscany
   • 5.1 Rejoicing in Multifarious Nature
   • 5.2 The Art of the Developable
   • 5.3 Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia and Friends
   • 5.4 Human Chauvinism and Evolutionary Progress
   • 5.5 Unfinished Correspondence with a Darwinian Heavyweight
6. There is All Africa and her Prodigies in Us
   • 6.1 Ecology of Genes
   • 6.2 Out of the Soul of Africa
   • 6.3 I Speak of Africa and Golden Joys
   • 6.4 Heroes and Ancestors
7. A Prayer for My Daughter
   • 7.1 Good and Bad Reasons for Believing

• Endnotes
• Index

• I Down the Rabbit-Hole
• II The Pool of Tears
• III A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
• IV The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
• V Advice from a Caterpillar
• VI Pig and Pepper
• VII A Mad Tea-Party
• VIII The Queen's Croquet-Ground
• IX The Mock Turtle's Story
• X The Lobster-Quadrille
• XI Who Stole the Tarts?
• XII Alice's Evidence

• Preface
• About the Author
• About the British private school system
• A map of southern England and Wales
• BOY
• Starting-point
• Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923-25 (age 7-9)
• St. Peter's, 1925-36 (age 13-20)
• Vocabulary and comprehension questions
• Group work
• Writing activities

• Preface

Part I: Opening Pandora's Box

• 1 Breaking Which Spell?
  • 1 What's going on?
  • 2 A Working definition of religion
  • 3 To break or not to break
  • 4 Peering in the abyss
  • 5 Religion as a natural phenomenon
• 2 Some Questions About Science
  • 1 Can science study religion?
  • 2 Should science study religion?
  • 3 Might music be bad for you?
  • 4 Would neglect be more benign?
• 3 Why Good Things Happen
  • 1 Bringing out the best
  • 2 Cui bono?
  • 3 Asking what pays for religion
  • 4 A Martian's list of theories

Part II: The Evolution of Religion

• 4 The Roots of Religion
  • 1 The births of religions
  • 2 The raw materials of religion
  • 3 How Nature deals with the problem of other minds
• 5 Religion, the Early Days
  • 1 Too many agents: competition for rehearsal space
  • 2 Gods as interested parties
  • 3 Getting the gods to speak to us
  • 4 Shamans as hypnotists
  • 5 Memory-engineering devices in oral cultures
• 6 The Evolution of Stewardship
  • 1 The music of religion
  • 2 Folk religion as practical know-how
  • 3 Creeping reflection and the birth of secrecy in religion
  • 4 The domestication of religions
• 7 The Invention of Team Spirit
  • 1 A path paved with good intentions
  • 2 The ant colony and the corporation
  • 3 The growth market in religion
  • 4 A God you can talk to
• 8 Belief in Belief
  • 1 You better believe it
  • 2 God as intentional object
  • 3 The division of doxastic labor
  • 4 The lowest common denominator?
  • 5 Beliefs designed to be professed
  • 6 Lessons from Lebanon: the strange cases of the Druze and Kim Philby
  • 7 Does God exist?

Part III: Religion Today

• 9 Toward a Buyer's Guide to Religions
  • 1 For the love of God
  • 2 The academic smoke screen
  • 3 Why does it matter what you believe?
  • 4 What can your religion do for you?
• 10 Morality and Religion
  • 1 Does religion make us moral?
  • 2 Is religion what gives meaning to your life?
  • 3 What can we say about sacred values?
  • 4 Bless my soul: spirituality and selfishness
• 11 Now What Do We Do?
  • 1 Just a theory
  • 2 Some avenues to explore: how can we home in on religious conviction?
  • 3 What shall we tell the children?
  • 4 Toxic memes
  • 5 Patience and politics

• Appendixes
• A The New Replicators
• B Some More Questions About Science
• C The Bellboy and the Lady Named Tuck
• D Kim Philby as a Real Case of Indeterminacy of Radical Interpretation

• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

• Acknowledgements
• Picture Acknowledgements
• 1 Facing Mount Rushmore
• 2 Silken Fetters
• 3 The Message from the Mountain
• 4 Getting off the Ground
• 5 The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment
• 6 The Museum of All Shells
• 7 Kaleidoscopic Embryos
• 8 Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets
• 9 The Robot Repeater
• 10 'A Garden Inclosed'
• Bibliography
• Index

• Introduction — The Seventh Sense
• The Tractable Apostrophe
• That'll Do, Comma
• Airs and Graces
• Cutting a Dash
• A Little Used Punctuation Mark
• Merely Conventional Signs
• Bibliography

• Second Dawn
• "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..."
• Breaking Strain
• History Lesson
• Superiority
• Exile of the Eons
• Hide and Seek
• Expedition to Earth
• Loophole
• Inheritance
• The Sentinel

• Preface

Chapter 1: Natural Freedom

• Learning What We Are
• I Am Who I Am
• The Air We Breathe
• Dumbo's Magic Feather and the Peril of Paulina

Chapter 2: A Tool for Thinking About Determinism

• Some Useful Oversimplifications
• From Physics to Design in conway's Life World
• Can We Get the Deus ex Machina?
• From Slow-motion Avoidance to Star Wars
• The Birth of Evitability

Chapter 3: Thinking About Determinism

• Possible Worlds
• Causation
• Austin's Putt
• A Computer Chess Marathon
• Events without Causes in a Deterministic Universe
• Will the Future Be Like the Past?

Chapter 4: A Hearing for Libertarianism

• The Appeal of Libertarianism
• Where Should We Put the Much-needed Gap?
• Kane's Mode of Indeterministic Decision-making
• "If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything"
• Beware of Prime Mammals
• How Can It Be "Up to Me"?

Chapter 5: Where Does all the Design Come From?

• Early Days
• The Prisoner's Dilemma
• E Pluribus Unum?
• Digression: The Threat of Genetic Determinism
• Degrees of Freedom and the Search for Truth

Chapter 6: The Evolution of Open Minds

• How Cultural Symbionts Turn Primates into Persons
• The Diversity of Darwinian Explanations
• Nice Tools, but You Still Have to Use Them

Chapter 7: The Evolution of Moral Agency

• Benselfishness
• Being Good in Order to Seem Good
• Learning to Deal with Yourself
• Our Costly Merit Badges

Chapter 8: Are You Out of the Loop?

• Drawing the Wrong Moral
• Whenever the Spirit Moves You
• A Mind-writer's View
• A Self of One's Own

Chapter 9: Bootstrapping Ourselves Free

• How We Captured Reasons and Made Them Our Own
• Psychic Engineering and the Arms Race of Rationality
• With a Little Help from My Friends
• Autonomy, Brainwashing, and Education

Chapter 10: The Future of Human Freedom

• Holding the Line against Creeping Exculpation
• "Thanks, I Needed That!"
• Are We Freer Than We Want to Be?
• Human Freedom Is Fragile

• Bibliography
• Index

• One: Putting It Mildly
• Two: Religion Kills
• Three: A Short Digression on the Pig: or, Why Heaven Hates Ham
• Four: A Note on Health, to Which Religion Can Be Hazardous
• Five: The Metaphysical Claims of Religion Are False
• Six: Arguments from Design
• Seven: Revelation: The Nightmare of the "Old" Testament
• Eight: The "New" Testament Exceeds the Evil of the "Old" One
• Nine: The Koran Is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths
• Ten: The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell
• Eleven: "The Lowly Stamp of Their Origin": Religion's Corrupt Beginnings
• Twelve: A Coda: How Religions End
• Thirteen: Does Religion Make people Behave Better?
• Fourteen: There Is No "Eastern" Solution
• Fifteen: Religion as an Original Sin
• Sixteen: Is Religion Child Abuse?
• Seventeen: An Objection Anticipated: The Last-Ditch "Case" Against Secularism
• Eighteen: A Finer Tradition: The Resistance of the Rational
• Nineteen: In Conclusion: The Need for a New Enlightenment
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Index

1. Against Stupidity...
2. ... The Gods Themselves...
3. ... Contend in Vain?

• Preface
• [9 unnamed chapters]
• The Text of The Great Gatsby
• Publisher's Afterword
• Explanatory Notes
• Further Reading
• Publisher's Note About the Author
• A Brief Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Plates
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Further Reading
• A Note on the Text

Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver

• Advertisement
• A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousing Sympson
• The Publisher to the Reader
• The Contents
• Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput
• Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
• Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan
• Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

• Notes
• Textual Notes

• Foreword
• Prologue with Premonitions
• Yvonne
• The Commander
• Fragments from an Education
• Cambridge
• The Sixties: Revolution in the Revolution
• Chris or Christopher?
• Havana versus Prague
• The Fenton Factor
• Martin
• Portugal to Poland
• A Second Identity: On Becoming an (Anglo) American
• Changing Places
• Salman
• Mesopotamia from Both Sides
• Something of Myself
• Thinking thrice about the Jewish Question...
• Edward Said in Light and Shade (and Saul)
• Decline, Mutation, or Metamorphosis?
• Acknowledgments
• Index

• Foreword by Gregory Benford
• Preface
• Introduction by One of the Last Men

Chapter I: Balkan Europe

1. The European War and AFter
2. The Anglo-French War
3. Europe after the Anglo-French War
4. The Russo-German War

Chapter II: Europe's Downfall

1. Europe and America
2. The Origins of a Mystery
3. Europe Murdered

Chapter III: America and China

1. The Rivals
2. The Conflict
3. On an Island in the Pacific

Chapter IV: An Americanized Planet

1. The Foundation of the First World State
2. The Dominance of Science
3. Material Achievement
4. The Culture of the First World State
5. Downfall

Chapter V: The Fall of the First Men

1. The First Dark Age
2. The Rise of Patagonia
3. The Cult of Youth
4. The Catastrophe

Chapter VI: Transition

1. The First Men at Bay
2. The Second Dark Age

Chapter VII: The Rise of the Second Men

1. The Appearance of a New Species
2. The Intercourse of Three Species
3. The Zenith of the Second Men

Chapter VIII: The Martians

1. The First Martian Invasion
2. Life on Mars
3. The Martian Mind
4. Delusions of the Martians

Chapter IX: Earth and Mars

1. The Second Men at Bay
2. The Ruin of Two Worlds
3. The Third Dark Age

Chapter X: The Third Men in the Wilderness

1. The Third Human Species
2. Digressions of the Third Men
3. The Vital Art
4. Conflicting Policies

Chapter XI: Man Remakes Himself

1. The First of the Great Brains
2. The Tragedy of the Fourth Men
3. The Fifth Men
4. The Culture of the Fifth Men

Chapter XII: The Last Terrestrials

1. The Cult of Evanescence
2. Exploration of Time
3. Voyaging in Space
4. Preparing a New World

Chapter XIII: Humanity on Venus

1. Taking Root Again
2. The Flying Men
3. A Minor Astronomical Event

Chapter XIV: Neptune

1. Bird's-Eye View
2. Da Capo
3. Slow Conquest

Chapter XV: The Last Men

1. Introduction to the Last Human Species
2. Childhood and Maturity
3. A Racial Awakening
4. Cosmology

Chapter XVI: The Last of Man

1. Sentence of Death
2. Behaviour of the Condemned
3. Epilogue

• Afterword by Doris Lessing
• Time Scales

• Chapter 1: Caroline at Play
• Chapter 2: Lawrence Builds a Computer
• Chapter 3: Caroline and Anne-Marie
• Chapter 4: After the Night of Miracles
• Chapter 5: Caroline Approaches
• Chapter 6: After the Change
• Chapter 7: Caroline and Lawrence
• Chapter 8: After the Fall

PART I: INTRODUCING MICROSOFT VISUAL C# AND MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2013

• Chapter 1: Welcome to C#
• Chapter 2: Working with variables, operators, and expressions
• Chapter 3: Writing methods and applying scope
• Chapter 4: Using decision statements
• Chapter 5: Using compound assignment and iteration statements
• Chapter 6: Managing errors and exceptions

PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE C# OBJECT MODEL

• Chapter 7: Creating and managing classes and objects
• Chapter 8: Understanding values and references
• Chapter 9: Creating value types with enumerations and structures
• Chapter 10: Using arrays
• Chapter 11: Understanding parameter arrays
• Chapter 12: Working with inheritance
• Chapter 13: Creating interfaces and defining abstract classes
• Chapter 14: Using garbage collection and resource management

PART III: DEFINING EXTENSIBLE TYPES WITH C#

• Chapter 15: Implementing properties to access fields
• Chapter 16: Using indexers
• Chapter 17: Introducing generics
• Chapter 18: Using collections
• Chapter 19: Enumerating collections
• Chapter 20: Decoupling application logic and handling events
• Chapter 21: Querying in-memory data by using query expressions
• Chapter 22: Operator overloading

PART IV: BUILDING PROFESSIONAL WINDOWS 8.1 APPLICATIONS WITH C#

• Chapter 23: Improving throughput by using tasks
• Chapter 24: Improving response time by performing asynchronous operations
• Chapter 25: Implementing the user interface for a Windows Store app
• Chapter 26: Displaying and searching for data in a Windows Store app
• Chapter 27: Accessing a remote database from a Windows Store app

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction

1. The Beginnings of Christian Scripture
2. The Copyists of the Early Christian Writings
3. Texts of the New Testament: Editions, Manuscripts, and Differences
4. The Quest for Origins: Methods and Discoveries
5. Originals That Matter
6. Theologically Motivated Alterations of the Text
7. The Social Worlds of the Text

• Conclusion: Changing Scripture: Scribes, Authors, and Readers
• Notes
• Index

• Introduction: The Moral Landscape
• Chapter 1: Moral Truth
• Chapter 2: Good and Evil
• Chapter 3: Belief
• Chapter 4: Religion
• Chapter 5: The Future of Happiness
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index

• Foreword by Leonard Mautner
• Preface by Ralph Leighton
• Acknowledgment

1. Introduction
2. Photons: Particles of Light
3. Electrons and Their Interactions
4. Loose Ends

• Index

• Introduction
• Little Lost Robot
• Robot Dreams
• "Breeds There a Man...?"
• Hostess
• Sally
• Strikebreaker
• The Machine That Won the War
• Eyes Do More Than See
• The Martian Way
• Franchise
• Jokester
• The Last Question
• Does a Bee Care?
• Light Verse
• The Feeling of Power
• Spell My Name With an S
• The Ugly Little Boy
• The Billiard Ball
• True Love
• The Last Answer
• Lest We Remember

• INTRODUCTION
• PREFACE
• PROLOGUE
• THE NINE SATANIC STATEMENTS

(FIRE)
—BOOK OF LUCIFER—
The Enlightenment

• I Wanted!: God—Dead or Alive
• II The God You SAVE May be Yourself
• III Some Evidence of a New Satanic Age
• IV Hell, the Devil, and How to Sell Your Soul
• V Love and Hate
• VI Satanic Sex
• VII Not all Vampires Suck Blood
• VIII Indulgence... NOT Compulsion
• IX On the Choice of a Human Sacrifice
• X Life After Death Through Fulfillment of the Ego
• XI Religious Holidays
• XII The Black Mass

(EARTH)
—BOOK OF BELIAL—
The Master of the Earth

• I Theory and Practice of Satanic Magic: (Definition and Purpose of Lesser and Greater Magic)
• II The Three Types of Satanic Ritual
• III The Ritual, or "Intellectual Decompression," Chamber
• IV The Ingredients Used in the Performance of Satanic Magic:
  • A. Desire
  • B. Timing
  • C. Imagery
  • D. Direction
  • E. The Balance Factor
• V The Satanic Ritual:
  • A. Some Notes Which are to be Observed Before Beginning Ritual
  • B. The Thirteen Steps
  • C. Devices Used in Satanic Ritual

(WATER)
—BOOK OF LEVIATHAN—
The Raging Sea

• I Invocation to Satan
• II The Infernal Names
• III Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Lust
• IV Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Destruction
• V Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Compassion
• VI The Enochian Keys (The nineteen Keys will be listed here in chronological order)

• INTRODUCTION
• CONCERNING THE RITUALS
• THE ORIGINAL PSYCHODRAMA—Le Messe Noir
• L'AIR EPAIS—The Ceremony of the Stifling Air
• THE SEVENTH SATANIC STATEMENT—Das Tierdrama
• THE LAW OF THE TRAPEZOID—Die elektrischen Vorspiele
• NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN—Homage to Tehort
• PILGRIMS OF THE AGE OF FIRE—The Statement of Shaitan
• THE METAPHYSICS OF LOVECRAFT—The Ceremony of the Nine Angles and The Call to Cthulhu
• THE SATANIC BAPTISMS—Adult Rite and Children's Ceremony
• THE UNKNOWN KNOWN

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction

I: Lost in the Cosmos

• 1 How to Build a Universe
• 2 Welcome to the Solar System
• 3 The Reverend Evans's Universe

II: The Size of the Earth

• 4 The Measure of Things
• 5 The Stone-Breakers
• 6 Science Red in Tooth and Claw
• 7 Elemental Matters

III: A New Age Dawns

• 8 Einstein's Universe
• 9 The Mighty Atom
• 10 Getting the Lead Out
• 11 Muster Mark's Quarks
• 12 The Earth Moves

IV: Dangerous Planet

• 13 Bang!
• 14 The Fire Below
• 15 Dangerous Beauty

V: Life Itself

• 16 Lonely Planet
• 17 Into the Troposphere
• 18 The Bounding Main
• 19 The Rise of Life
• 20 Small World
• 21 Life Goes On
• 22 Goodbye to All That
• 23 The Richness of Being
• 24 Cells
• 25 Darwin's Singular Notion
• 26 The Stuff of Life

VI: The Road to Us

• 27 Ice Time
• 28 The Mysterious Biped
• 29 The Restless Ape
• 30 Goodbye

• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
• Chapter 2: Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot
• Chapter 3: Of Their Magistrates
• Chapter 4: Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life
• Chapter 5: Of Their Traffic
• Chapter 6: Of the Travelling of the Utopians
• Chapter 7: Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages
• Chapter 8: Of Their Military Discipline
• Chapter 9: Of the Religions of the Utopians

• Introduction: Watching and Writing

• Massinello Pietro
• The Visit
• The Twilight Greens
• The Murder
• When the Bough Breaks
• We'll Always Have Paris
• Ma Perkins Comes to Stay
• Doubles
• Pater Caninus
• Arrival and Departure
• Last Laughs
• Pietà Summer
• Fly Away Home
• Un-pillow Talk
• Come Away with Me
• Apple-core Baltimore
• The Reincarnate
• Remembrance, Ohio
• If Paths Must Cross Again
• Miss Appletree and I
• A Literary Encounter
• America

• Foreword: The Positive Power of Skepticism by Stephen Jay Gould
• Introduction to the Paperback Edition: Magical Mystery Tour: The Whys and Wherefores of Weird Things
• Prologue: Next on Oprah

Part 1: Science and Skepticism

• 1. I Am Therefore I Think: A Skeptic's Manifesto
• 2. The Most Precious Thing We Have: The Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience
• 3. How Thinking Goes Wrong: Twenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us to Believe Weird Things

Part 2: Pseudoscience and Superstition

• 4. Deviations: The Normal, the Paranormal, and Edgar Cayce
• 5. Through the Invisible: Near-Death Experiences and the Quest for Immortality
• 6. Abducted!: Encounters with Aliens
• 7. Epidemics of Accusations: Medieval and Modern Witch Crazes
• 8. The Unlikeliest Cult: Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and the Cult of Personality

Part 3: Evolution and Creationism

• 9. In the Beginning: An Evening with Duane T. Gush
• 10. Confronting Creationists: Twenty-five Creationist Arguments, Twenty-five Evolutionist Answers
• 11. Science Defended, Science Defined: Evolution and Creationism at the Supreme Court

Part 4: History and Pseudohistory

• 12. Doing Donahue: History, Censorship, and Free Speech
• 13. Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened, and Why Do They Say It?: An Overview of a Movement
• 14. How We Know the Holocaust Happened: Debunking the Deniers
• 15. Pigeonholes and Continuums: An African-Greek-German-American Looks at Race

Part 5: Hope Springs Eternal

• 16. Dr. Tipler Meets Dr. Pangloss: Can Science Find the Best of All Possible Worlds?
• 17. Why Do People Believe Weird Things?

• Bibliography
• Index

• Introduction (George Mann)
• iCity (Paul Di Filippo)
• The Space Crawl Blues (Kay Kenyon)
• The Line of Dichotomy (Chris Roberson)
• Fifty Dinosaurs (Robert Reed)
• Mason's Rats: Black Rat (Neal Asher)
• Blood Bonds (Brenda Cooper)
• The Eyes of God (Peter Watts)
• Sunworld (Eric Brown)
• Evil Robot Monkey (Mary Robinette Kowal)
• Shining Armor (Dominic Green)
• Book, Theatre, and Wheel (Karl Schroeder)
• Mathralon (David Louis Edelman)
• Mason's Rats: Autotractor (Neal Asher)
• Modem Times (Michael Moorcock)
• Point of Contact (Dan Abnett)

• Artemis Fowl: A Psychological Assessment
• Prologue
• Chapter 1: Family Ties
• Chapter 2: Cruisin' for Chix
• Chapter 3: Going Underground
• Chapter 4: Fowl Is Fair
• Chapter 5: Daddy's Girl
• Chapter 6: Photo Opportunity
• Chapter 7: Joining the Dots
• Chapter 8: To Russia with Gloves
• Chapter 9: No Safe Haven
• Chapter 10: Trouble and Strife
• Chapter 11: Mulch Ado About Nothing
• Chapter 12: The Boys Are Back
• Chapter 13: Into the Breach
• Chapter 14: Father's Day
• An Epilogue or Two

• Prologue
• PART ONE: ATTACK
• Chapter 1: The Cube
• Chapter 2: Lockdown
• Chapter 3: On Ice
• Chapter 4: Running in the Family
• Chapter 5: The Metal Man and the Monkey
• Chapter 6: Assault on Fowl Manor
• Chapter 7: Best-laid Plans
• PART TWO: COUNTERATTACK
• Chapter 8: Hooks, Lines, and Sinkers
• Chapter 9: Ghosts in the Machine
• Chapter 10: Fingers and Thumbs
• Chapter 11: The Invisible Man
• Chapter 12: Mind Wipe
• Epilogue

• Prologue
• Chapter 1: Totally Obsessed
• Chapter 2: The Fairy Thief
• Chapter 3: Nearly Departed
• Chapter 4: Narrow Escapes
• Chapter 5: Meet the Neighbours
• Chapter 6: Troll Nasty
• Chapter 7: The Temple of Artemis
• Chapter 8: Some Intelligent Conversation
• Chapter 9: Daddy's Girl
• Chapter 10: Horse Sense
• Chapter 11: A Last Goodbye
• Epilogue

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• Chapter 0: Black Lagoon
• Chapter 1: Ring-Ding Ship Chase
• Chapter 2: Rasta Blasta - Part I
• Chapter 3: Rasta Blasta - Part II
• Chapter 4: Rasta Blasta - Part III
• Black Lagoon: The High School Episode

• Chapter 05: Die Rückkehr des Adlers - Part I
• Chapter 06: Die Rückkehr des Adlers - Part II
• Chapter 07: Die Rückkehr des Adlers - Part III
• Chapter 08: Die Rückkehr des Adlers - Part IV
• Chapter 09: Calm Down Two Men - Part I
• Chapter 10: Calm Down Two Men - Part II
• Chapter 11: Bloodsport Fairy Tale - Part I
• Chapter 12: Bloodsport Fairy Tale - Part II
• Black Lagoon: The Magical Girl Episode

• Chapter 13: Bloodsport Fairy Tale - Pt. III
• Chapter 14: Bloodsport Fairy Tale - Pt. IV
• Chapter 15: Bloodsport Fairy Tale - Pt. V
• Chapter 16: Goat, Jihad, Rock'n'Roll Pt. I
• Chapter 17: Goat, Jihad, Rock'n'Roll Pt. II
• Chapter 18: Goat, Jihad, Rock'n'Roll Pt. III
• Chapter 19: Goat, Jihad, Rock'n'Roll Pt. IV
• Chapter 20: Goat, Jihad, Rock'n'Roll Pt. V
• Black Lagoon: The Melancholy of Balalaika

• 1. Road of Skulls
• 2. A Gift from the Culture
• 3. Odd Attachment
• 4. Descendant
• 5. Cleaning Up
• 6. Piece
• 7. The State of the Art
• 8. Scratch

• Acknowledgments
• Pronunciation
• 1. A Parting
• 2. A Meeting
• 3. Clean Hands
• 4. Jane
• 5. The Lusitania Fleet
• 6. Varelse
• 7. Secret Maid
• 8. Miracles
• 9. Pinehead
• 10. Martyr
• 11. The Jade of Master Ho
• 12. Grego's War
• 13. Free Will
• 14. Virus Makers
• 15. Life and Death
• 16. Voyage
• 17. Ender's Children
• 18. The God of Path

• Acknowledgments
• 1. "I'm Not Myself"
• 2. "You Don't Believe in God"
• 3. "There Are Too Many of Us"
• 4. "I Am a Man of Perfect Simplicity!"
• 5. "Nobody Is Rational"
• 6. "Life Is a Suicide Mission"
• 7. "I Offer Her This Poor Old Vessel"
• 8. "What Matters Is Which Fiction You Believe"
• 9. "It Smells Like Life to Me"
• 10. "This Has Always Been Your Body"
• 11. "You Called ME Back from Darkness"
• 12. "Am I Betraying Ender?"
• 13. "Till Death Ends All Surprises"
• 14. "How They Communicate with Animals"
• 15. "We're Giving You a Second Chance"
• 16. "How Do You Know They Aren't Quivering in Terror?"
• 17. "The Road Goes On without Him Now"
• Afterword

• I. VOLUNTEERS
  • 1. Petra
  • 2. Bean
  • 3. Message in a Bottle
  • 4. Custody
  • 5. Ambition
• II. ALLIANCES
  • 6. Code
  • 7. Going Public
  • 8. Bread Van
  • 9. Communing with the Dead
  • 10. Brothers in Arms
• III. MANEUVERS
  • 11. Bangkok
  • 12. Islamabad
  • 13. Warnings
  • 14. Hyderabad
  • 15. Murder
• IV. DECISIONS
  • 16. Treachery
  • 17. On a Bridge
  • 18. Sayagraha
  • 19. Rescue
  • 20. Hegemon
• Afterword

• PROLOGUE

PART I SEARCH BY THE MULE

• 1 TWO MEN AND THE MULE
  First Interlude
• 2 TWO MEN WITHOUT THE MULE
  Second Interlude
• 3 TWO MEN AND A PEASANT
  Third Interlude
• 4 TWO MEN AND THE ELDERS
  Fourth Interlude
• 5 ONE MAN AND THE MULE
• 6 ONE MAN, THE MULE—AND ANOTHER
  Last Interlude

PART II SEARCH BY THE FOUNDATION

• 7 ARCADIA
• 8 SELDON'S PLAN
• 9 THE CONSPIRATORS
• 10 APPROACHING CRISIS
• 11 STOWAWAY
• 12 LORD
• 13 LADY
• 14 ANXIETY
• 15 THROUGH THE GRID
• 16 BEGINNING OF WAR
• 17 WAR
• 18 GHOST OF A WORLD
• 19 END OF WAR
• 20 "I KNOW..."
• 21 THE ANSWER THAT SATISFIED
• 22 THE ANSWER THAT WAS TRUE

• Prologue
• 1. Councilman
• 2. Mayor
• 3. Historian
• 4. Space
• 5. Speaker
• 6. Earth
• 7. Farmer
• 8. Farmwoman
• 9. Hyperspace
• 10. Table
• 11. Sayshell
• 12. Agent
• 13. University
• 14. Forward!
• 15. Gaia-s
• 16. Convergence
• 17. Gaia
• 18. Collision
• 19. Decision
• 20. Conclusion
• Afterword by the Author

• PART I GAIA
  • 1. The Search Begins
  • 2. Toward Comporellon
• PART II COMPORELLON
  • 3. At the Entry Station
  • 4. On Comporellon
  • 5. Struggle for the Ship
  • 6. The Nature of Earth
  • 7. Leaving Comporellon
• PART III AURORA
  • 8. Forbidden World
  • 9. Facing the Pack
• PART IV SOLARIA
  • 10. Robots
  • 11. Underground
  • 12. To the Surface
• PART V MELPOMENIA
  • 13. Away from Solaria
  • 14. Dead Planet
  • 15. Moss
• PART VI ALPHA
  • 16. The Center of the Worlds
  • 17. New Earth
  • 18. The Music Festival
• PART VII EARTH
  • 19. Radioactive?
  • 20. The Nearby World
  • 21. The Search Ends

• MISSION: 01 The transfer student is a dangerous soldier!?
• MISSION: 02 Categorical imperative! Protect Kaname's secret!
• MISSION: 03 My first assignment...vs. a bunch of assassins!?
• MISSION: 04 Bread and Bullets
• MISSION: 05 Sinister Stirrings
• MISSION: 06 Kaname's Cross—Jindai High hanging by a thread!
• MISSION: 07 An afternoon Misunderstanding

• MISSION: 08 The Gloomy School Trip
• MISSION: 09 Cries from the Abyss
• MISSION: 10 Commence Operation
• MISSION: 11 The Long, Dark Night
• MISSION: 12 Eyes in the Heavens
• MISSION: 13 When Feelings Are Conveyed
• MISSION: 14 The Great Escape

• MISSION: 15 Suspicion, confusion and aggravation at the basketball tournament?!
• MISSION: 16 A mystery? Just who is this exchange student?!
• MISSION: 17 Together under on roof?!
• MISSION: 18 The miracle animal mission!!
• MISSION: 19 Holidays are for romance?!
• MISSION: 20 I ain't afraid of no ghost! Deserted island search team!!

• MISSION: 21 So many memories! Sosuke, completely defeated?! (Part 1)
• MISSION: 22 So many memories! Sosuke, completely defeated?! (Part 2)
• MISSION: 23 Surprise! Who are you?!
• MISSION: 24 Nothing to counter the captain's tears?!
• MISSION: 25 Sosuke's decision
• MISSION: 26 Sosuke, please be safe!

• MISSION: 27 Rescue the two pretty girls!
• MISSION: 28 A place for Takuma
• MISSION: 29 Last wish
• MISSION: 30 At the end of the battle
• MISSION: 31 Sweet memories
• MISSION: 32 The long road to the vacation house
• Special Project: Taiwan Manga Exclusive Report

• MISSION: 33 The "Art" of War
• MISSION: 34 Food is Heavenly, but Making it is Hell
• MISSION: 35 Battlefield Christmas?!
• MISSION: 36 Sosuke, New Years and New Views
• MISSION: 37 The Classics Notes Caper
• MISSION: 38 A Mysterious Message, a Mercenary in a Mess
• MISSION: 39 Special Ordinary Days

• MISSION: 40 Beware of Mouse Burglars!
• MISSION: 41 Sergeant Sosuke's Secret Pleasure?!
• MISSION: 42 We Are Water Guys!
• MISSION: 43 This Is How You Negotiate?!
• MISSION: 44 Freaked Out In Fantasy Fetish?!
• MISSION: 45 Her Grandpa Is A First Lieutenant?!
• EXTRA MISSION What Comes From Acting Brave

• MISSION: 46 An Invitation to Summer—Kaname's Fateful Feeling?!
• MISSION: 47 Party de Danaan!
• MISSION: 48 Pressures and Promises
• MISSION: 49 The Demon that Lurks on the Battlefield
• MISSION: 50 The Arbalest in Error
• MISSION: 51 A World in Which I Don't Belong

• BOMB1 HE ENTERS WITH A BANG
• BOMB2 CRAZY FIRST PERIOD
• BOMB3 HOW TO SPEND STUDY HALL
• BOMB4 TOGETHER WITH SOSUKE
• BOMB5 THE LURE OF THE POOL
• BOMB6 WARNUT AND FESTIVAL NUT?

• BOMB7 THE GIGOLO SOLDIER ATTACKS
• BOMB8 REQUIEM FOR THE SICK
• BOMB9 NEW YEAR'S CRISIS
• BOMB10 VALENTINE'S DAY AND THE RINGING OF THE BELLS
• BOMB11 FULL MUTTLE PANIC!
• BOMB12 FLOWERS AND BOMBS

• //Phase 1// A Stardust Sky
• //Phase 2// A Girl from Beyond the Earth
• //Phase 3// A Cigarette Under Starlight
• //Phase 4// Scenery for a Rocket
• //Phase 5// Ignition

• //Phase 6// Running Man
• //Phase 7// Tanabe
• //Phase 8// A Black Flower Named Sakinohaka (Part 1)
• //Phase 9// A Black Flower Named Sakinohaka (Part 2)
• //Phase 10// Lost Souls
• //Phase 11// СПАСИБО

• //Phase 12// A Cat in the Evening
• //Phase 13// Windmillville
• //Phase 14// Boy and Girl
• //Phase 15// A Day of Kyakurai
• //Phase 16// Hachimaki
• //Extra Phase// Red Star/While Ball

• //Phase 17// How to Make a Hundred Friends
• //Phase 18// Just Like Guskou Sudori
• //Phase 19// Dog Days
• //Phase 20// Man's Best Friend
• //Phase 21// Little Girls and Underdogs

• //Phase 22// A Crying Dog
• //Phase 23// A Running Dog
• //Phase 24// A Barking Dog
• //Phase 25// 45 Minutes at the Speed of Light
• //Phase 26// What a Wonderful World

• Acknowledgments
• Nicole's Journal
• At the Node
• Rendezvous at Mars
• Epithalamion
• The Trial

• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Escape
• The Rainbow Connection
• The Emerald City
• War in Rama
• Return to the Node

• Introduction
• 1. Conversation with a Commissioner
• 2. Round Trip on an Expressway
• 3. Incident at a Shoe Counter
• 4. Introduction to a Family
• 5. Analysis of a Murder
• 6. Whispers in a Bedroom
• 7. Excursion into Spacetown
• 8. Debate over a Robot
• 9. Elucidation by a Spacer
• 10. Afternoon of a Plain-clothes Man
• 11. Escape along the Strips
• 12. Words from an Expert
• 13. Shift to the Machine
• 14. Power of a Name
• 15. Arrest of a Conspirator
• 16. Questions Concerning a Motive
• 17. Conclusion of a Project
• 18. End of an Investigation

• 1 Baley
• 2 Daneel
• 3 Giskard
• 4 Fastolfe
• 5 Daneel and Giskard
• 6 Gladia
• 7 Again Fastolfe
• 8 Fastolfe and Vasilia
• 9 Vasilia
• 10 Again Vasilia
• 11 Gremionis
• 12 Again Gremionis
• 13 Amadiro
• 14 Again Amadiro
• 15 Again Daneel and Giskard
• 16 Again Gladia
• 17 The Chairman
• 18 Again the Chairman
• 19 Again Baley

• Introduction

1. First Meeting
2. The Making of Sirius
3. Infancy
4. Youth
5. Sheep-Dog Apprentice
6. Birth-Pangs of A Personality
7. Wolf Sirius
8. Sirius At Cambridge
9. Sirius And Religion
10. Experiences in London
11. Man As Tyrant
12. Farmer Sirius
13. The Effects of War
14. Tan-Y-Voel
15. Strange Triangle
16. Plaxy Constripted
17. Outlaw

• To Stanley: In Memoriam
• Foreword to the Millennial Edition
• Foreword
• Part One: Primeval Night
  • Chapter 1: The Road to Extinction
  • Chapter 2: The New Rock
  • Chapter 3: Academy
  • Chapter 4: The Leopard
  • Chapter 5: Encounter in the Dark
  • Chapter 6: Ascent of Man
• Part Two: TMA-1
  • Chapter 7: Special Flight
  • Chapter 8: Orbital Rendezvous
  • Chapter 9: Moon Shuttle
  • Chapter 10: Clavius Base
  • Chapter 11: Anomaly
  • Chapter 12: Journey by Earthlight
  • Chapter 13: The Slow Dawn
  • Chapter 14: The Listeners
• Part Three: Between Planets
  • Chapter 15: Discovery
  • Chapter 16: Hal
  • Chapter 17: Cruise Mode
  • Chapter 18: Through the Asteroids
  • Chapter 19: Transit of Jupiter
  • Chapter 20: The World of the Gods
• Part Four: Abyss
  • Chapter 21: Birthday Party
  • Chapter 22: Excursion
  • Chapter 23: Diagnosis
  • Chapter 24: Broken Circuit
  • Chapter 25: First Man to Saturn
  • Chapter 26: Dialogue with Hal
  • Chapter 27: "Need to Know"
  • Chapter 28: In Vacuum
  • Chapter 29: Alone
  • Chapter 30: The Secret
• Part Five: The Moons of Saturn
  • Chapter 31: Survival
  • Chapter 32: Concerning E.T.'s
  • Chapter 33: Ambassador
  • Chapter 34: The Orbiting Ice
  • Chapter 35: The Eye of Japetus
  • Chapter 36: Big Brother
  • Chapter 37: Experiment
  • Chapter 38: The Sentinel
  • Chapter 39: Into the Eye
  • Chapter 40: Exit
• Part Six: Through the Star Gate
  • Chapter 41: Grand Central
  • Chapter 42: The Alien Sky
  • Chapter 43: Inferno
  • Chapter 44: Reception
  • Chapter 45: Recapitulation
  • Chapter 46: Transformation
  • Chapter 47: Star-Child

• Author's Note
• I * Leonov
  • 1. Meeting at the Focus
  • 2. The House of the Dolphins
  • 3. SAL 9000
  • 4. Mission Profile
  • 5. Leonov
• II * Tsien
  • 6. Awakening
  • 7. Tsien
  • 8. Transit of Jupiter
  • 9. The Ice of the Grand Canal
  • 10. A Cry from Europa
  • 11. Ice and Vacuum
• III * Discovery
  • 12. Downhill Run
  • 13. The Worlds of Galileo
  • 14. Double Encounter
  • 15. Escape From the Giant
  • 16. Private Line
  • 17. Boarding Party
  • 18. Salvage
  • 19. Operation WINDMILL
  • 20. Guillotine
  • 21. Resurrection
• IV * Lagrange
  • 22. Big Brother
  • 23. Rendezvous
  • 24. Reconnaissance
  • 25. The View From Lagrange
  • 26. Probation
  • 27. Interlude: True Confessions
  • 28. Frustration
  • 29. Emergence
• V * A Child of the Stars
  • 30. Homecoming
  • 31. Disneyville
  • 32. Crystal Spring
  • 33. Betty
  • 34. Valediction
  • 35. Rehabilitation
  • 36. Fire in the Deep
  • 37. Estrangement
  • 38. Foamscape
  • 39. In the Pod Bay
  • 40. "Daisy, Daisy..."
  • 41. Graveyard Shift
• VI * Devourer of Worlds
  • 42. The Ghost in the Machine
  • 43. Thought Experiment
  • 44. Vanishing Trick
  • 45. Escape Maneuver
  • 46. Countdown
  • 47. Final Flyby
  • 48. Over the Nightside
  • 49. Devourer of Worlds
• VII * Lucifer Rising
  • 50. Farewell to Jupiter
  • 51. The Great Game
  • 52. Ignition
  • 53. A Gift of Worlds
  • 54. Between Suns
  • 55. Lucifer Rising
• Epilog: 20,001
• Acknowledgments

• Author's Note
• I * The Magic Mountain
  • 1. The Frozen Years
  • 2. First Sight
  • 3. Reentry
  • 4. Tycoon
  • 5. Out of the Ice
  • 6. The Greening of Ganymede
  • 7. Transit
  • 8. Starfleet
  • 9. Mount Zeus
  • 10. Ship of Fools
  • 11. The Lie
  • 12. Oom Paul
  • 13. "No One Told Us to Bring Swimsuits..."
  • 14. Search
• II * The Valley of Black Snow
  • 15. Rendezvous
  • 16. Touchdown
  • 17. The Valley of Black Snow
  • 18. Old Faithful
  • 19. At the End of the Tunnel
  • 20. Recall
• III * Europan Roulette
  • 21. The Politics of Exile
  • 22. Hazardous Cargo
  • 23. Inferno
  • 24. Shaka the Great
  • 25. The Shrouded World
  • 26. Night Watch
  • 27. Rosie
  • 28. Dialog
  • 29. Descent
  • 30. Galaxy Down
  • 31. The Sea of Galilee
• IV * At The Water Hole
  • 32. Diversion
  • 33. Pit Stop
  • 34. Car Wash
  • 35. Adrift
  • 36.The Alien Shore
• V * Through the Asteroids
  • 37. Star
  • 38. Icebergs of Space
  • 39. The Captain's Table
  • 40. Monsters from Earth
  • 41. Memoirs of a Centenarian
  • 42. Minilith
• VI * Haven
  • 43. Salvage
  • 44. Endurance
  • 45. Mission
  • 46. Shuttle
  • 47. Shards
  • 48. Lucy
• VII * The Great Wall
  • 49. Shrine
  • 50. Open City
  • 51. Phantom
  • 52. On the couch
  • 53. Pressure Cooker
  • 54. Reunion
  • 55. Magma
  • 56. Perturbation Theory
  • 57. Interlude on Ganymede
• VIII * The Kingdom of Sulfur
  • 58. Fire and Ice
  • 59. Trinity
• IX * 3001
  • 60. Midnight in the Plaza
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Addendum

• Prologue: The Firstborn
• I. Star City
  • 1. Comet Cowboy
  • 2. Awakening
  • 3. Rehabilitation
  • 4. A Room with a View
  • 5. Education
  • 6. Braincap
  • 7. Debriefing
  • 8. Return to Olduvai
  • 9. Skyland
  • 10. Homage to Icarus
  • 11. Here Be Dragons
  • 12. Frustration
  • 13. Stranger in a Strange Time
• II. Goliath
  • 14. A Farewell to Earth
  • 15. Transit of Venus
  • 16. The Captain's Table
• III. The Worlds of Galileo
  • 17. Ganymede
  • 18. Grand Hotel
  • 19. The Madness of Mankind
  • 20. Apostate
  • 21. Quarantine
  • 22. Venture
• IV. The Kingdom of Sulfur
  • 23. Falcon
  • 24. Escape
  • 25. Fire in the Deep
  • 26. Tsienville
  • 27. Ice and Vacuum
  • 28. The Little Dawn
  • 29. The Ghosts in the Machine
  • 30. Foamscape
  • 31. Nursery
• V. Termination
  • 32. A Gentleman of Leisure
  • 33. Contact
  • 34. Judgement
  • 35. Council of War
  • 36. Chamber of Horrors
  • 37. Operation DAMOCLES
  • 38. Preemptive Strike
  • 39. Deicide
  • 40. Midnight: Pico
  • Epilogue
• Sources and Acknowledgments
• Valediction

• Introduction

Part One: Prefatory Matters

• Chapter One: Job Interview
• Chapter Two: Boulder
• Chapter Three: Watson
• Chapter Four: Shadowland
• Chapter Five: Phonebooth
• Chapter Six: Night Thoughts
• Chapter Seven: In Another Bedroom

Part Two: Closing Day

• Chapter Eight: A View of the Overlook
• Chapter Nine: Checking It Out
• Chapter Ten: Hallorann
• Chapter Eleven: The Shining
• Chapter Twelve: The Grand Tour
• Chapter Thirteen: The Front Porch

Part Three: The Wasps' Nest

• Chapter Fourteen: Up On the Roof
• Chapter Fifteen: Down in the Front Yard
• Chapter Sixteen: Danny
• Chapter Seventeen: The Doctor's Office
• Chapter Eighteen: The Scrapbook
• Chapter Nineteen: Outside 217
• Chapter Twenty: Talking to Mr. Ullman
• Chapter Twenty-One: Night Thoughts
• Chapter Twenty-Two: In the Truck
• Chapter Twenty-Three: In the Playground
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Snow
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Inside 217

Part Four: Snowbound

• Chapter Twenty-Six: Dreamland
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: Catatonic
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: 'It Was Her!'
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: Kitchen Talk
• Chapter Thirty: 217 Revisited
• Chapter Thirty-One: The Verdict
• Chapter Thirty-Two: The Bedroom
• Chapter Thirty-Three: The Snowmobile
• Chapter Thirty-Four: The Hedges
• Chapter Thirty-Five: The Lobby
• Chapter Thirty-Six: The Elevator
• Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Ballroom

Part Five: Matters of Life and Death

• Chapter Thirty-Eight: Florida
• Chapter Thirty-Nine: On the Stairs
• Chapter Forty: In the Basement
• Chapter Forty-One: Daylight
• Chapter Forty-Two: Mid-Air
• Chapter Forty-Three: Drinks on the House
• Chapter Forty-Four: Conversations at the Party
• Chapter Forty-Five: Stapleton Airport, Denver
• Chapter Forty-Six: Wendy
• Chapter Forty-Seven: Danny
• Chapter Forty-Eight: Jack
• Chapter Forty-Nine: Hallorann, Going Up the Country
• Chapter Fifty: Redrum
• Chapter Fifty-One: Hallorann Arrives
• Chapter Fifty-Two: Wendy and Jack
• Chapter Fifty-Three: Hallorann Laid Low
• Chapter Fifty-Four: Tony
• Chapter Fifty-Five: That Which Was Forgotten
• Chapter Fifty-Six: The Explosion
• Chapter Fifty-Seven: Exit
• Chapter Fifty-Eight: Epilogue/Summer

• Chapter 1: The Spiral Obsession Part 1
• Chapter 2: The Spiral Obsession Part 2
• Chapter 3: The Scar
• Chapter 4: The Firing Effect
• Chapter 5: Twisted Souls
• Chapter 6: Medusa

• Afterword

• Chapter 7: Jack-in-the-Box
• Chapter 8: Snail People
• Chapter 9: The Black Lighthouse
• Chapter 10: Mosquitoes
• Chapter 11: The Umbilical Cord
• Chapter 12: The Storm

• Afterword

• Chapter 13.The House
• Chapter 14.Butterfly
• Chapter 15.Chaos
• Chapter 16.Erosion
• Chapter 17.Escape
• Chapter 18.Labyrinth
• Chapter 19.Completion
• Lost chapter: Galaxies

• Afterword