Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions advocates a systems view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines. This edited collection sheds new light on things as mundane yet still profoundly consequential (and seemingly “low-tech”) as push buttons, pagers, and telemarketing systems. Contributors also investigate aspects of “remote control” related to education, organizational design, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, drones, and even binge-...

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his 1922 novel The Enormous Room. The following year he published his first collection of poetry. Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems and is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of th...

XAIPE (Greek for "rejoice"), which first appeared in 1950, contains some of E. E. Cummings's finest work.Among many poems can be found "dying is fine)but Death," "so many selves(so many friends and gods," "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," "no time ago," "I thank You God for most this amazing," and "now all the fingers of this tree(darling)have."

According to Wikipedia: "The Enormous Room is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. In late August 1917 his friend and colleague, William Slater Brown (known in the book only as B.), was arrested by French authorities as a result of anti-war sentiments B. had expressed in some letters. When questioned, Cummings stood by his friend and was als...

The lauded poet E.E. Cummings writes with humor and mischief of his imprisonment in a WWI military detention camp in this autobiographical precursor to Catch-22 and MASH.In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I, E. E. Cummings, a recent graduate of Harvard College, volunteered to serve on an ambulance corps in France. He arrived in Paris with a new friend, William Slater Brown, and they set about living it up in the big city before hea...

Brigands of the Moon is a vigorous early space-opera adventure, first published in the pulp era, that carries its readers aboard the interplanetary liner Planetara and into a struggle over a fabulously valuable lunar radium cache. Combining romance, piracy, hidden identities, and scientific extrapolation, the novel displays the breathless momentum and melodramatic clarity characteristic of 1930s magazine fiction. Its lunar landscapes, ray weapons, and spacefaring commerce place it firmly w...

Tarrano the Conqueror is a vigorous early work of American scientific romance, unfolding a future Solar System of political intrigue, strange technologies, and imperial ambition. Centered on the charismatic and ruthless Tarrano, whose genius threatens Earth, Venus, and Mars alike, the novel combines adventure melodrama with speculative machinery, exotic planetary settings, and the moral anxieties of the interwar pulp imagination. Its style is rapid, theatrical, and inventive, reflecting th...

One of the most important and popular American poets of the twentieth century, E. E. Cummings is best known for his brilliant and innovative verse and its distinctive lack of uppercase letters and conventional grammar. He was also a Cubist painter and a World War I veteran. At the age of twenty-three, he abandoned his artistic pursuits for voluntary service as an ambulance driver in France. His military career culminated in a comedy of errors leading to his arrest and imprisonment for trea...

An autobiographical novel of captivity in World War I France from a prize-winning literary icon.Working as an ambulance driver in the First World War, a young man is suddenly taken in by the authorities, along with his friend who has been targeted for his antiwar sentiments. This novel recounts E. E. Cummings's experience spending four months in an "enormous room" with other prisoners, enlivened by the people he meets and the events he witnesses in the midst of his...

“Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives—The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings.”—F. Scott FitzgeraldThe most notable work of fiction from our most beloved modernist poet, The Enormous Room was one of the greatest—yet still not fully recognized— American literary works to emerge out of World War I. Drawing on E. E. Cummings’s experiences in France as a volunteer ambulance driver, this novel takes us through a seri...

The White Invaders is a compact exemplar of early pulp science fiction, staging a crisis in which uncanny, pale intruders equipped with superior science rupture the everyday world. Cummings blends invasion narrative, romance, scientific speculation, and cliff-hanger adventure in the idiom of the 1930s magazines, where cosmic wonder and melodramatic urgency were inseparable. Its prose is brisk, visual, and kinetic, less concerned with psychological realism than with escalating marvels and t...

Wandl the Invader is a vigorous specimen of early-1930s American pulp science fiction, in which a mysterious wandering world enters the solar system and brings with it both astronomical catastrophe and military menace. Ray Cummings combines interplanetary adventure, melodramatic peril, and speculative cosmology in a prose style typical of the magazine era: swift, emphatic, visually bold, and unabashedly theatrical. Its fascination lies less in scientific precision than in the imaginative d...