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| Best Seller  | Science fiction has always challenged readers with depictions of the future. Can the genre actually provide glimpses of the world of tomorrow? This collection of fifteen international and interdisciplinary essays examines the genre s predictions and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Australia has been a frequent choice of location for narratives about the end of the world in science fiction and speculative works ranging from pre-colonial apocalyptic maps to key literary works from the last fifty years. This critical work explores... more | $40.06 $34.96 FREE shipping go to store |
| Best Seller  | This critical study analyzes Stephen R. Donaldson s role as a modern writer who uses the fantasy genre to discuss situations and predicaments germane to the modern world. Donaldson reclaims an epic vision in his Thomas Covenant novels that is lacking... more | $34.60 $27.31 go to store |
 | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Anatomy of Utopia (Paperback) Since the early rise of the novel utopian stories have held the public imagination. This critical text argues that though these books are commonly seen as social statements or ideological propaganda they should be treated as literary texts not as... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | This work is the first book-length scholarly treatment of Nnedi Okorafor s critically acclaimed fiction. Written for an audience that includes serious fans as well as scholars it is an introduction to Okorafor s work and major influences. The scope of... more | $53.90 $35.77 go to store |
 | Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror fantasy mystery and the novelization of films often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock s varied output by displaying his works against the... more | $38.14 $30.84 FREE shipping go to store |
 | As Andrzej Sapkowski was fleshing out his character Geralt of Rivia for a writing contest he did not set out to write a science textbook--or even a work of science fiction. However the world that Sapkowski created in his series The Witcher resulted in... more | $49.95 $42.89 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Examining how we interpret Welshness today this volume brings together fourteen essays covering a full range of representations of Welsh mythology folklore and ritual in popular culture. Topics covered include the twentieth-century fantasy fiction of... more | $40.66 $31.71 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Postnational Fantasy (Paperback) In twelve critical and interdisciplinary essays this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science... more | $53.34 $39.95 FREE shipping go to store |
 | CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more | $21.51 $19.90 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Tolkien and Shakespeare: one a prolific popular dramatist and poet of the Elizabethan era the other a twentieth-century scholar of Old English and author of a considerably smaller body of work. Though unquestionably very different writers the two have... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | This book is a critical introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien s The Hobbit but it also advances an argument about the novel in the context of Tolkien s larger literary and philosophical project. Notwithstanding its canonical place in the fantasy genre The... more | $29.99 $20.83 go to store |
 | This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon s iconoclastic debut novel Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel which includes an extended interview with Noon Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization... more | $35.99 $30.52 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Pre-Owned Science Fiction : A Collection of Critical Essays 9780137949663 Used CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Pre-Owned Anatomy of Wonder : A Critical Guide to Science Fiction 9780835214049 / CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more | $8.56 $7.48 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing Reading and Teaching the Genre (Paperback) Drawn from the Science Fiction Research Association conference held in Lawrence Kansas in 2008 the essays in this volume address intersections among the reading writing and teaching of science fiction. Part 1 studies the teaching of SF placing... more | $38.64 $27.05 FREE shipping go to store |
 | This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century. It goes through Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock considering how it engages with war on a personal and family level how it plays... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Early Classics of Science Fiction: The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction (Paperback) A fantastic voyage through the early science fiction of Latin America Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin... more | go to store |
 | New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature television and cinema. The volume argues that speculative fictions and explorations of the fantastic... more | $139.99 $116.15 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction (Paperback) Margaret Atwood is an internationally renowned highly versatile author whose work creatively explores what it means to be human through genres ranging from feminist fable to science fiction and Gothic romance. In this timely new study Gina Wisker... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Sylvia Plath s Fiction: A Critical Study (Hardcover) This is the first study devoted to Sylvia Plath s fiction. Plath wrote fiction throughout her life in a wide variety of genres including women s magazine romances New Yorker stories comedy social criticism autobiography teenage fiction and science... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | From Alien to the Matrix : Reading Science Fiction Film 9781850438069 Used / Pre-owned An exploration of the history of science fiction film and literature from one of the top experts on the genre. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included... more | $6.99 $6.01 FREE shipping go to store |
 | This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvin s critical meditations on science fiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years of the new millennium excluding only the landmark monographs Metamorphoses of Science Fiction... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | The Black Imagination Science Fiction And The Speculative - Jackson Sandra This Book Expands The Discourse As Well As The Nature Of Critical Commentary On Science Fiction Speculative Fiction And Futurism - Literary And Cinematic By Black Writers. The Range Of Topics Include The Following: Black Superheroes; Issues And Themes... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Animal Alterity : Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal (Hardcover) Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Pre-Owned Science Fiction from Wells to Heinlein (Hardcover) by Leon Stover 9780786412198. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 190. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 190 p. Contains: Illustrations. This is a critical examination of the literary trajectory of science fiction. Such luminaries as Isaac Asimov Kurt... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism (Paperback) By presenting a new political framework the book looks at the sci-fi film genre s important critical role in a post-political world deepening and elucidating our understanding of the post-political present and hence reopening the political imagination... more | go to store |
 | Through its engagement with different kinds of texts Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory and its uses both to question what it means to be human in... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction from the late 1940s to the present day this study traces its history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its... more | $110.00 $90.37 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Studies in Young Adult Literature: Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature (Edition 32) (Hardcover) This book is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race ethnicity religion and/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction. It opens up the discussion of young-adult... more | FREE shipping go to store |
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