Science Fiction 39

This sweeping study of fantasy literature offers “new and often surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine critical work” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts). Transcending arg……続きを見る

Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Legendarium explores how Tolkien’s works speak to many modern people’s utopian desires despite the overwhelming dominance of dystopian literature in the twentieth an……続きを見る

Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Revisions of Dystopian Motherhood deconstructs the ways in which women novelists have reconceived the post-apocalyptic genre in recent decades through na……続きを見る

In the early twentieth century, the Dadaists protested against art, nationalism, the individual subject, and technologized war. With their automatic anti-art and cultural disruptiveness, Dadaists so……続きを見る

Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolaño's Narrative and Virtual Reality presents interpretations of several novels and one short story by Roberto Bolaño. As befits the global setting of most of these narra……続きを見る

Did you know that . . . John Wayne once won the dog Lassie from its owner in a poker game? Hijinks is the only word in the English language with three dotted letters in a row? The shortest war in hi……続きを見る

Of course you have! (Or if you haven't, perhaps you should.) Now Mitchell Symons, the reigning King of All Pointless Trivia, carries his inquisitiveness unabashedly into the bedroom and emerges with……続きを見る

Quello della distopia è un topos letterario-filosofico particolarmente caro alla contemporaneità. Grazie alle sue diverse e variegate manifestazioni, ha messo radici negli ambiti culturali più dispa……続きを見る

In "Awakening of the Dragons," a tapestry of myth and reality is masterfully woven, transporting readers to a world where the impossible becomes tangible. This enthralling novel, set in a realm wher……続きを見る

Fantascienza - rivista (55 pagine) - La nostra rivista di approfondimento si occupa di 3 Body Problem, la serie tratta dal bestseller di Liu Cixin, di Arthur C. Clarke, di Godzilla e Kong - Il nuovo……続きを見る

J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that he based the land of Middle Earth on a real place. The Real Middle Earth brings alive, for the first time, the very real civilization in which those who lived had a visio……続きを見る

An award-winning author’s literary biography “captures . . . [Dick’s] sense of humor, his intellectual curiosity, his very human vulnerability . . . Compelling” (Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronic……続きを見る

For the first time, the real story of the life of Robert A. Heinlein in the authorized biography Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th ce……続きを見る

This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King’s now-familiar American imaginary; an imaginary that increases the representational limits of both anticipat……続きを見る

Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kin……続きを見る

"Harry Potter - Les nuances de l’univers magique" explore les différences entre les livres et les films de la saga Harry Potter. Il commence par une introduction sur la magie dans les deux médias, p……続きを見る

Dive into the Shadows with 'Chaos Magic Chronicles' Embark on a shadowy journey with "Chaos Magic Chronicles: A Dark Fantasy Series," where dark magic and forbidden rituals reign supreme. In this gr……続きを見る

This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy in Central Europe. The chapters move between and across theories of c……続きを見る

This monograph contends that attending to Pratchett’s work could help to save our world. It draws attention to the astonishing capacity of Pratchett’s novels to inspire and argues that Pratchett’s f……続きを見る

This book proposes that Ballard’s novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centred around an affirmative understanding of what a human body can do. This new subjectivity ……続きを見る

Hugo and Locus Award Finalist An Economist Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018 “An amazing and engrossing history...Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readab……続きを見る

In "The Philosophy & Sci-Fi Works of Olaf Stapledon," readers are invited into a profound exploration of speculative fiction entwined with rich philosophical inquiry. Stapledon's literary style is c……続きを見る

Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary ……続きを見る

Fantascienza - rivista (53 pagine) - Alla serie TV tratta dall'omonimo videogioco è dedicato lo speciale del numero 255 della nostra rivista di approfondimento. Non è ormai inusuale che un videogioc……続きを見る

“Themes of a colorful assortment of stories range from life on other planets to alternative history . . . a perfect introduction to his perennial genius.” ーBooklist Poul Anderson himself has put to……続きを見る

“A remarkable guided tour through the fieldーa kind of nonfiction companion to Among Others. It’s very good. It’s great.” ーCory Doctorow, Boing Boing As any reader of Jo Walton’s Among Others might……続きを見る

An award-winning and pioneering science fiction editor explores the origins, history, and culture of the literary genre through a series of essays. “Hartwell has taken his cosmic mind on a marvelous……続きを見る

How a writer who investigated scientific anomalies inspired a factious movement and made a lasting impact on American culture. Flying saucers. Bigfoot. Frogs raining from the sky. Such phenomena fas……続きを見る

**This ebook bundle includes: The Wheel of Time Companion, The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, and Origins of The Wheel of Time. “Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to r……続きを見る

Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insu……続きを見る