Victor D Lopez
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This is a short story (2825 words) reprinted from Book of Dreams Second Edition: Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2012 by Victor D. López and Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 by Victor D. López.Human beings are not the only intelligent life forms on Earth and possibly not the most intelligent. Efforts at communicating with marine mammals such as whales and dolphins whose brains...
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Usamos la palabra "amor" como si supiéramos íntimamente su definición. Después de todo, todos amamos a muchas personal y algunas otras cosas que preciamos mediante nuestras vidas de muchas diferentes maneras. Amamos a nuestros padres, a nuestros familiares y amigos, y hasta nuestras mascotas, coches, y (los que tenemos esa dicha) a nuestro trabajo o profesión. ¿Pero quien entre nosotros puede definir claramente lo que es un amor perfecto o el...
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This is a general reference for authors, artists, musicians, librarians, entrepreneurs and others interested in learning about copyright law. The material is an edited and expanded version of the relevant chapters from my Intellectual Property Law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets. It is designed as a a brief but informative reference for lay persons who need practical and accurate information that is easy to...
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Modern Art and the Critics explores the reliability of "expert opinions" with regard to modern art which can often tell us a great deal more about the critics than the objects of their self-important reviews. Redemption involves the unexpected, life-altering experience of a self-absorbed, highly successful young executive in a brief encounter with the paranormal at a friend's birthday party.
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This work is a science fiction short story (7,777 words). It also appears in Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 by Victor D. López.In the year 2020, astronomers discover a previously unknown asteroid that will strike Earth in exactly 666 days. Because of its massive size, it is impossible to deflect or destroy it with the available technology, and it is clear that the impending impact will be an extinction...
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Hay un hilo común en muchos de mis cuentos e incluso en mi poesía sobre la naturaleza de la realidad y la relación entre el sueño, la vigilia y la mente consciente y subconsciente. Como es el caso en algunos de mis cuentos, este fue inspirado por un sueño. Profundiza en una posible explicación de lo que se esconde en los oscuros recesos de nuestros cerebros para los cuales la ciencia aún tiene que descubrir un uso claro.Este cuento (2.809 palabras)...
8) Intellectual Property Law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets
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This book is intended as both a primer on intellectual property law and as a general reference for authors, artists, musicians, librarians, entrepreneurs and others interested in learning about intellectual property law and the processes for obtaining copyrights, trademarks and patents in the U.S. and through international agreements.The main text provides a brief orientation on the relevant law and on the process and cost of applying for patents...
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Esta publicación es una recopilación de dos relatos cortos de ciencia ficción / ficción especulativa. Se reimprime basada en Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 de Victor D. López. La traducción al español es del autor.
En el segundo cuento, "Justicia", un hombre está siendo juzgado por la última ofensa capital restante en un mundo más amable, suave y verdaderamente unificado en un futuro no muy...
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This short story (9500 words) is one of the eight short stories from Book of Dreams Second Edition: Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories and also appears as one of the short stories in Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 by Victor D. López.Of the many crossroads we all face in life, some paths once taken have indelible effects that no amount of regret can ever undo. Words left unsaid, decisions...
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What price would you pay to revisit a crossroad in your life when you had made a terrible, life altering mistake? Would you give up an unfulfilled life for the chance of virtual happiness in a computer-generated alternate reality? Would you sacrifice everything if you could attain absolute knowledge? If so, could you live with the knowledge you attained? It is said that no person is an island, but what if even the least among us is a god in his/her...
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This publication is a compilation of two science fiction/speculative fiction short stories. It is reprinted from Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 by Victor D. López.In the first short story, "Justice", a man is being tried for the last remaining capital offense in a kinder, gentler, truly unified world in the not too distant future. In the second, "Riddle of the Sphinx: Solved" the secrets of the Sphinx...
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On its surface, this speculative fiction short story (7,800 words) deals with one man's obsessive quest for knowledge and the devastating price he must pay for the knowledge he ultimately acquires. Beneath the surface, this story is about deep friendships complicated by unrequited love, split loyalties, the interplay of id, ego and superego, and existentialist lessons learned too late in life.
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Este cuento (9500 palabras) es uno de los ocho cuentos de Book of Dreams Second Edition: Science fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2011,2012 Victor D. López y Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C ) 2014 Victor D. López. La traducción del inglés al español es del autor (C) 2019.De las muchas encrucijadas que todos enfrentamos en la vida, algunos caminos tomados una vez tienen efectos indelebles...
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This is one of the ten short stories in Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 by Victor D. López.This short story poses a novel theory as to the role of black holes in both the creation and destruction of an endless number of universes that coexist in an incomprehensibly complex multiverse. It is a cautionary tale about the arrogance of scientists who are the cosmic equivalent of amoebas attempting to discern...
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This book is a compilation of 10 science fiction and speculative fiction short stories by the author from his two previous short story collections, Book of Dreams and Book of Dreams 2nd Edition, as well as two new stories written in 2013. Its scope extends from the innermost dimensions of the mind to the outer reaches of the universe, focusing from diverse perspectives on some common themes as to the meaning of life, the superlative strength and wrenching...