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Häftad, Engelska, 2007
581 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
So,you're looking for some great new fantasy reads? Or perhaps you're looking for fresh reading lists for handouts and to post on your library's Web site? If so, this guide is just the ticket. Created to offer a different perspective on the fantasy genre and reach a broader reading audience (including fans), the book offers new reading paths for fantasy lovers. It organizes more than 800 titles into over 100 lists, in such categories as The Magic of Threes: Fantasy's Best Trilogies, The Fellowship is the Thing: Companions on a Quest, Fan-to-Sea-Nautical Fantasy, and When Groan Men Scry: Puns as a Fantasy Tradition. The organization and approach are based on various appeal factors of the genre. A great tool for advising readers, creating reading lists for library Web sites, flyers, and newsletters, and making checklists or reading plans for adults and teens who enjoy fantasy fiction.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
539 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This comprehensive, spirited, and often laugh-out-loud funny handbook will help you start, maintain, or enhance a science fiction and fantasy book group.Bring fantasy and science fiction readers together for scintillating discussions with Fellowship in a Ring: A Guide for Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Groups. Providing everything you need to get started, the book offers detailed guidelines for some 50 fantasy and science fiction titles, plus guides for some 40 popular speculative fiction themes. For each of the featured titles, the book provides bibliographic information, author background, a plot summary, notes on appeal points, discussion questions, other resources to consult, and suggested read-alikes. You'll find instructions on how to get a group started, tips for helping fantasy and sci-fi readers get along, hints for understanding the genres and subgenres, and more. The book also offers materials useful to collection development, display building, and programming. Featuring books that run the gamut from literary genre novels to classic pulp stories, Fellowship in a Ring can help you avoid common pitfalls and build a flourishing community of satisfied book group adherents.Provides discussion questions for 50 specific fantasy and science fiction titles and materials and booklists for 40 different themes of fantasy and science fictionOffers 100 additional recommended books for discussion Includes a chronology of science fiction and fantasy historyPresents a glossary of science fiction and fantasy discussion termsProvides a bibliography of print and online resources for further studies of book groups and the science fiction and fantasy genres