1,111円 'Fascinating reading.' - Financial Times 'An exhilarating read.' - The Short Review Toby Litt's Bio-Punk story 'Call it ''The Bug'' Because I Have No Time to Think of a Better Title' short-listed for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Featuring: AUTHORS: Jane Feaver, Simon ...

1,326円 J. R. R. Tolkien’s literary masterpiece, The Hobbit, has been read and enjoyed by millions of people for nearly eight decades. Within the pages of this beautiful story, we find some of the finest virtues – and some of the darkest depths – of human nature. Therein lie the amazing opportunities tha...

9,285円 From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or ov...

6,621円 Since its inception, the story of the apocalypse has been used as a means by which to understand the world and one's place in it. The appeal of the apocalyptic myth is largely rooted in its ability to make sense of instances of crisis by incorporating those crises into a larger plan for history a...

13,890円 Posthumanism portrays technology as an "other" to be embraced, and consequently has lost sight of the basic realities of human/technological boundary. Technology becomes a superior model of information processing to which humans aspire. Posthuman Suffering contends that we do not embrace technolo...

9,082円 Partners in Wonder revolutionizes our knowledge of women and early science fiction. Contrary to accepted interpretations, women fans and writers were a welcome and influential part of pulp science fiction from the birth of the genre. Davin finds that at least 203 female authors, under their own f...

7,345円 Mary Manjikian’s Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End advances the thesis that only those who feel the most safe and whose lives are least precarious can engage in the sort of storytelling which envisions erasing civilization. Apocalypse-themed novels of contemporary America and h...

7,211円 Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of na...

7,211円 Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politic...

827円 Table of Contents Valperga The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck The Last Man Lodore Frankenstein Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. The storyline emerged from a dream. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to...

0円 Blue Buddha Press, the publishing company behind Tower of the Hand: A Flight of Sorrows and the It Is Known series, collects all of its ebook releases into one comprehensive catalogue, including an overview and extensive sample of each title. Even better, a number of future releases are included,...

2,786円 For all those who journey to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, here is the complete guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages, and people. The Complete Tolkien Companion explains, translates, and links every single reference - names, dates, places, facts, famous weapons, even food and drink ...