John Carnell Bücher

Includes a short story by Michael Moorcock, titled 'Flux'. This eight top-line SF stories in this selection have been chosen by John Carnell from the best of year's contributions to New World's Science Fiction. They include Colin Knapp's Lambda 1, which reaches spine-chilling dimensions when a spacecraft, packed with a thousand passengers, loses it capacity to re-enter a normal environment. In Quest, by Lee Harding, an ordinary man look for 'something real' in a world dominated by robots and megapolitan madness. The atomic submarine Taurus, in Philip E. High's Routine Exercise, returns to base with two dead men, minus its nuclear warheads, and fantastic report of attack by an unknown craft. "This is", the editor wrote, "a cross-section of recently popular British science-fiction which has been well-liked by many thousands of readers in different countries of the world".

This book focuses on utilizing Java within the Oracle database, emphasizing real-world applications for developers. It explores when to use Java from a performance standpoint, including benchmarks, and highlights scenarios where Java offers functionality that PL/SQL cannot. The text demonstrates Java's ability to access external system resources, such as operating system commands and network sockets, and leverages Java Utilities for messaging and graphics generation. For instance, it details an application that creates a pie chart image from a query and distributes it via JavaMail. Java complements PL/SQL's programming capabilities, allowing for the handling of complex data types and task scheduling alongside Java's file transfer and compression features. The book is structured into four sections: the first provides a rapid Java tutorial for PL/SQL programmers; the second focuses on database access using JDBC and SQLJ, detailing the conversion between Java and SQL data types; the third section applies learned concepts to practical problem-solving with Java and PL/SQL; and the fourth examines performance issues, including Java application tuning and SQL tuning, guiding readers on when to choose between Java and PL/SQL for database operations.

New Writings in SF is a successful departure in the science fiction field, bringing to lovers of the genre brand new stories never before published—stories written especially for the series by a wide variety of authors.It is the next step forward in the exciting expansion of SF from the limitations it has suffered for the last thirty years and international authors have written for a far wider audience than ever before.New Writings in SF (of which this is the 11th volume) lives up to its name. The stories are NEW. The Editor encourages fresh methods and techniques of writing and the whole series is a stimulating and energetic approach to modern SF.Contents:Vincent King. The Wall to End the World. 1967John Rackham. Catharsis. 1967Lee Harding. Shock Treatment. 1967Dennis Etchison. Bright Are the Stars That Shine, Dark Is the Sky. 1967Douglas R. Mason. There Was This Fella.... 1967W.T. Webb. For What Purpose?. 1967Douglas R. Mason. Flight of a Plastic Bee. 1967H.A. Hargreaves. Dead to the World. 1967Jack Wodhams. The Helmet of Hades. 1967

Contents • David Stringer. High Eight. 1965• Colin Kapp. Hunger Over Sweet Waters. 1965• Dennis Etchison. The Country of the Strong. 1962• Dan Morgan. Parking Problem. 1965• Keith Roberts. Sub-Lim. 1965• William Tenn. Bernie the Faust. 1963• Isaac Asimov. Star Light. 1962

Contents • Douglas R. Mason. All Done By Mirrors. 1969• Colin Kapp. Getaway From Getawehi. 1969• Sydney J. Bounds. Throwback. 1969• Christopher Priest. The Perihelion Man. 1969• Michael G. Coney. R26/5/PSY and I. 1969• James White. Meatball. 1969