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Люси и Джейк — образцовые супруги. У них двое детей, уютный домик и налаженный семейный быт. Он строит карьеру. Она посвятила всю себя семье. Но тихую идиллию нарушает шок...
Вся жизнь Шоу — неуклюжая попытка понять, кто он. Съемная комната, мать с деменцией и редкие встречи с женщиной по имени Виктория – это подобие жизни, или было бы ею, если...
Сестры Несс сбежали из родного мира, мечтая о бурной, полной приключений жизни космоплавателей, охотников за сокровищами. Мечты сбылись, но за приключения пришлось заплати...
A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
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<p>How did organized science fiction fandom begin? Who were the pioneering fans that created the foundation of today’s massive science fiction and fantasy industry? What w...
The team that brought you "The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom" celebrates the centennial of Ray Bradbury’s birth with the publication of a unique volume of his e...
Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet c...
Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism amongst Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near-consensus amongst climate sc...
As with the previous volumes in the series, 'Writer Vol. 4' brings together the separate writings of veteran critic, science fiction and mystery writer Richard A. Lupoff. ...
In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practice that communicates the ...
Originally cast as Ensign Pavel Chekov, Star Trek's answer to the Monkees' Davy Jones, Walter is also well-known as the evil Alfred Bester on Babylon 5.Beaming Up and Gett...
Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre
Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Ребекка Лаш, Sara L. Spurgeon
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(0)Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre—an increasingly popular and visible form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, and conventions wit...
Celebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, friend of astronauts, prophet of the Space Age—by the end of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had attained a level of fame and success...
From the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-man/half-machine hybrid Darth Vader. In 199...
In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise: from Atlantis to alien...
H. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary innovator, he coined such c...
Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century
Maria Sachiko Cecire
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(0)From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world
Why are so many people dr...
Перед вами уникальная и полная биография сэра Терри Пратчетта. Сэр Терри был самым успешным из ныне живущих писателей Великобритании — по всему миру продано более 100 000 ...
Beyond the Outposts: Essays on SF and Fantasy 1955-1996 brings together a great many of Algis Budrys’s standalone essays, reviews, appreciations, state-of-the-art reports,...
Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation
David Higgins, Katherine E. Bishop, Jerry Määttä
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(0)Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels, and film. John Wyndham’s triffids, Algernon Blackwood’s willows, and Han Kang’s sprouting woman are...