426円 So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of 1984 tells you what you need to knowーbefore or after you read George Orwell's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and ...

426円 So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Handmaid's Tale tells you what you need to knowーbefore or after you read Margaret Atwood's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This s...

1,760円 The true history behind the hit HBO fantasy show and George R. R. Martin's bestselling Fire and Ice series. A wall in the distant north cuts the world in two. Ruthless sea-born warriors raid the coasts from their war galleys. A young nobleman and his kin are slaughtered under a banner of truce wi...

1,440円 A detailed look at the British world of science fiction in the 1950s. John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been dubbed the "golden age of science fiction." It was a wonderful decade for the genre, but not so great for young fans. With early television broadcasts being advertise...

426円 So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Brave New World tells you what you need to knowーbefore or after you read Aldous Huxley's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short s...

1,921円 A unique exploration of the character, the author, and the many transformations of Alice in modern cultureーoften in edgy and menacing ways. The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first investigation of the vast range of darker, more threatening aspects of this famous story, and the way Alic...

2,479円 "Wonderful essays on everything steampunk, written by well-known names in the movement who are living steampunk every day" (Wired.com). Steampunkーa grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction cultureーis a phenomenon that has come to influence fil...

950円 In 2001, Michael Swanwick published the book-length interview Being Gardner Dozois. Now Swanwick himself becomes the subject of inquiry. During a year of conversations, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg) set about discussing with Swanwick his remarkable ...

1,760円 The definitive Tolkien companionーan indispensable guide to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and more, from the author of The Road to Middle-earth. This "highly erudite celebration and exploration of Tolkien's works [is] enormous fun," declared the Houston Chronicle, and Tom Shippey, a prominen...

1,760円 "An incisive critical work" that looks at Octavia Butler's writing, the movies of the Matrix and Alien seriesーand moreーthrough a feminist lens ( Femspec). Feminist thinkers and writers are increasingly recognizing science fiction's potential to shatter patriarchal and heterosexual norms, while ...

2,320円 This biography of the creator of Conan the Barbarian is " deep dive work," in which "this 'mysterious' Texas scribe gets his most complete story arc told" ( Houston Press). Robert E Howard's most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular culture. In hundreds of tales detailing t...

1,760円 A critical examination of Blackness and race in the predominantly White genre. Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American...