# Culture

Each month a selection of the speculative culture to expend imagination and offering mirrors to explore and define oneself in a multicultural and postmodern world.

* Three important books from the spectrum of the fantastic realm.
* A guide to the four next episodes of the best tv and animated series.
* And a great movie.

## **Books of the Month**

### **Science Fiction:**

![The Forever War](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5NKXJ8a5fKE25L%2Fbook1.jpg?generation=1550995928271272\&alt=media)

> **The Forever War** by *Joe Haldeman* - William Mandella is a conscript drafted into an elite military unit with the vocation to be trained in the perspective of beginning a war against the Taurans, an alien species than Human just entered in contact with. While using time dilatation portal to travel long distance between battlegrounds where months for him are centuries for humanity, he yearn to a pacifist life, but when he finally come back, his home changed so much than he find himself misfit to the world and trapped in this ongoing war.

### **Fantasy:**

![The Forgotten Beasts of Eld](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5PCu321QFFx_HG%2Fbook2.jpg?generation=1550995927803636\&alt=media)

> **The Forgotten Beasts of Eld** by *Patricia A McKillip* - Sybel lives alone on Eld mountain with her father's magical animals, she is a young wizard whose main occupation is to cultivate her skills without worries concerning the world affairs. The day someone bring to her a baby to take care she is drawn irrevocably into the human world with all its sorrows and delights.

### **Mystery:**

![Carrie](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5RwbC6YXcdSMAy%2Fbook3.jpg?generation=1550995930160055\&alt=media)

> **Carrie** by *Stephen King* - Carrie White is a misfit to the world sixteen-year-old girl. She is teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and abused by her fanatical mother. When even her begins to lose hope on herself, Carrie discover she possess telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move, a lighted candle fall, or a door lock. But she don't know yet if this abilities will bring to her the redemption she hope for or a final personal curse she fears.

## **Series of the Month**

### **Star Trek**

![Star Trek](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5TVjzyz5NVnpbs%2Ftitlestartrek.jpg?generation=1550995929390044\&alt=media)

* **Episode 1 : The Man Trap**

![Star Trek episode 1](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5VtK106HiGop8G%2Fstartrek1.jpg?generation=1550995928690123\&alt=media)

> While in visit to an outpost to conduct medical exams on the residents, Kirk and his crew are at deadly risk from a shapeshifting alien creature seeking to extract salt from their bodies.

* **Episode 2 : Charlie X**

![Star Trek episode 2](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5XOj0O_q7eFxHG%2Fstartrek2.jpg?generation=1550995931405125\&alt=media)

> The Enterprise's newest passenger is a young man who grew up alone on a planet without human contact, what they don't know is that he has the power to make anything he thinks of happen and could do anything to feel loved.

* **Episode 3 : Where No Man Has Gone Before**

![Star Trek episode 3](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5ZjeaqY9gvqfSH%2Fstartrek3.jpg?generation=1550995929706694\&alt=media)

> While exploring the edge of the galaxy, the Enterprise encounters an energy barrier that gives two crewmen godlike powers. Kirk face the difficult choice to the manner to deal with this powers that threaten the human life.

* **Episode 4 : The Naked Time**

![Star Trek episode 4](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5aRsUvRcZ2Fnl6%2Fstartrek4.jpg?generation=1550995930961689\&alt=media)

> While in mission to recover a scientific team on a planet, The Enterprise crew is intoxicated by an inhibition-stripping contagion that causes mayhem throughout the ship.

### **Space Battleship Yamato**

![Space Battleship Yamato](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5c2pIykcb9eIfW%2Ftitleyamato.jpg?generation=1550995932240812\&alt=media)

* **Episode 1: SOS Earth! Awaken Battleship Yamato!**

![Space Battleship Yamato episode 1](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5ecIRfuI7r6gzC%2Fyamato1.jpg?generation=1550995930652010\&alt=media)

> Earth suffers under a brutal attack by Gamilas forces, every hopes seem lost by a message of hope arrives from the planet Iscandar.

* **Episode 2: The Opening Gun! Space Battleship Yamato Starts!**

![Space Battleship Yamato episode 2](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5g-RsvDV-vVBuN%2Fyamato2.jpg?generation=1550995931843451\&alt=media)

> The battleship Yamato is ready to launch, Kodai and Shima join the crew on the mission to save the planet Earth.

* **Episode 3: Yamato, Take Off! The Challenge of 296,000 Light Years!**

![Space Battleship Yamato episode 3](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5iMZRRPGNcxZXa%2Fyamato3.jpg?generation=1550995929007824\&alt=media)

> The Yamato prepares for its travel to Iscandar, but the Gamilas base on Pluto attempts to destroy the ship before it launches.

* **Episode 4: World of Wonder! Yamato Leaps Past Light!**

![Space Battleship Yamato episode 4](https://306649876-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LZTYqd8k_AOlXhBZB3c%2F-LZTYsvZc8XysyNsLR8b%2F-LZTYu5kq_0rZXvYiyN0%2Fyamato4.jpg?generation=1550995932684914\&alt=media)

> The Yamato prepares for its first warp flight between the moon and mars, but in the same time a Gamilas carrier is deployed to stop them.

## **Film of the Month**

!\[Logan Run]\(loganrun.jpg "Logan's Run")

> The remnants of the human civilization live in an utopian city run by a computer. The process of human life is cut away from natural process and humans are allowed to live only until they reach the age of 30. Logan, an agent who kill the peoples who refuse to retire at 30 is drived to leave the city and discover the outside world where his own beliefs will be shaken forever.
