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Irish Science Fiction
Av Jack Fennell
Inbunden, 2014
961 kr
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Irish Science Fiction revisits a critical paradigm that has often been overlooked or dismissed by science fiction scholars – namely, that science fiction can be understood in terms of myth. Science fiction springs from pseudo-science rather than ‘proper’ science, because pseudo-science is more …
Sci-Fi
A Companion
Av Jack Fennell
Häftad, 2019
427 kr
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What is Sci-Fi?Science fiction is a non-realist genre that foregrounds a sense of material plausibility, insisting that despite seeming outlandish, it is consonant with history and the laws of nature. By turns subtle and bombastic, sci-fi revels in discovery and revelation, whether through human …
Rough Beasts
The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800–2000
Av Jack Fennell
Inbunden, 2019
2382 kr
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Monsters and other supernatural malefactors disrupt the human world in distinct ways: werewolves and cunning beasts challenge the philosophical distinction between human and animal; demons offer deceptive pacts to prey upon our delusions of mastery over the world; capricious fairies claim dominion …
Rough Beasts
The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800–2000
Av Jack Fennell
Häftad, 2022
634 kr
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Monsters and other supernatural malefactors disrupt the human world in distinct ways: werewolves and cunning beasts challenge the philosophical distinction between human and animal; demons offer deceptive pacts to prey upon our delusions of mastery over the world; capricious fairies claim dominion …
Your Own Dark Shadow
A Selection of Lost Irish Horror Stories
Av Jack Fennell
Häftad, 2024
194 kr
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'My hand holding the revolver dropped limply to my side when, in the full glare of the lamp, I saw the Creature that squatted in the doorway ...'An old house turns out to not be as empty as its new owners supposed. A nobleman barters his soul in exchange for arcane knowledge. A stranger with a …
It Rose Up
A Selection of Lost Irish Fantasy Stories
Häftad, 2021
157 kr
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A mystical battle between foreign gods and local saints is unleashed as idols are mistaken for garden ornaments; an ambiguous wizard spies on his neighbours from an invisible tower; a cursed duelling pistol influences its owners to commit suicide. With strange combinations of occultism, …
Brilliant Void
A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction
Av Jack Fennell
Häftad, 2018
157 kr
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An astronomer challenges an emperor. A hunter pursuesthe last dinosaur through a remote rainforest. A young Kerrymanemigrates to the Moon to seek his fortune.The fifteen darkly funny stories in this book illuminatea side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked.In the 19th and 20th …
