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The Country You Have Never Seen
Essays and Reviews
Av Joanna Russ
Häftad, 2007
670 kr
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In 1959, at the age of 22, Joanna Russ published her first science fiction story, “Nor Custom Stale,” in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the forty-five years since, Russ has continued to write some of the most popular, creative, and important novels and stories in science fiction. …
Shadows of the Future
H G Wells, Science, Fiction and Prophecy
Häftad, 1995
531 kr
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H. G. Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase ‘the Shape of Things to Come’ described his life’s work as one of ‘critical anticipation’. Shadows of the Future identifies this attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells’s diverse and …
The Mechanics of Wonder
The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction
Häftad, 1998
670 kr
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The Mechanics of Wonder will arouse debate and force the questioning of presuppositions. No other book so closely examines the origins and development of the idea of science fiction, and it will stand among a small number of crucial texts with which every science fiction scholar or prospective …
Demand My Writing
Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction
Häftad, 1999
531 kr
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In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, especially in its concern with the function of …
Philip K Dick
Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern
Häftad, 2003
635 kr
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Once the sole possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the films Blade Runner and Minority Report shows. The kind of world he predicted in his funny and frightening novels and stories is coming closer to most of us: shifting …
The Great War with Germany, 1890-1940
Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-Come
Av I. F. Clarke
Häftad, 1997
757 kr
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In the second of a series of anthologies on future war stories, the leading specialist in the field presents a selection of prophetic tales about the conflict-to-come between the British and the Germans, tales which had immense influence in the quarter-century before the First World War. An …
Transformations
The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970
Av Mike Ashley
Häftad, 2005
531 kr
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This is the second of three volumes which chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. The first volume Time Machines traced the development of the sf magazine from its earliest days and the creation of the first specialist magazine, Amazing Stories. …
Attending Daedalus
Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
Av Peter Wright
Häftad, 2003
531 kr
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This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New Sun. After exposing the concealed story at the heart of …
The Angle Between Two Walls
The Fiction of J G Ballard
Häftad, 1998
583 kr
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This is the first theoretically informed book on Ballard, reading his work not only within the science fiction genre, but also connecting it to issues of popular culture and legitimisation, postmodernism and the legacy of the avant-garde. Aiming where necessary to contextualise Ballard’s fiction …
The Time Machines
The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950
Av Mike Ashley
Inbunden, 2000
2389 kr
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Originally conceived as a trilogy, this is the first of five volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the exuberant years of the pulp magazines. It traces the growth and development of the science fiction …
The Time Machines
The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950
Av Mike Ashley
Häftad, 2000
670 kr
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Originally conceived as a trilogy, this is the first of five volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the exuberant years of the pulp magazines. It traces the growth and development of the science fiction …
Gothic Science Fiction
1980–2010
Häftad, 2014
582 kr
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This timely book explores what might be termed ‘Gothic science fiction’ from 1980 to 2010. This designation may at first appear contradictory, as the Gothic’s connotations of the irrational and supernatural seem to conflict with the rational foundations of science fiction. However, this collection …
Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel
Inbunden, 2014
2204 kr
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Stanislaw Lem died on 26 March, 2006 but in this book his voice can be heard afresh for the benefit of all those who believe that, with his passing, a quintessential element of twentieth-century artistic and intellectual heritage has come to an end.Peter Swirski’s edited and annotated translation …
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film
Inbunden, 2014
2204 kr
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The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers critical insights into SF far beyond the more common Anglo-American narratives. Contributors take either a national or transnational approach, and stretch the geographic and conceptual boundaries of science fiction cinema. Recurrent …
Locating Science Fiction
Häftad, 2014
582 kr
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Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF.Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to …
Solar Flares
Science Fiction in the 1970s
Häftad, 2014
669 kr
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Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as “confused, self-involved, and stale.” The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf – on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as …
Irish Science Fiction
Av Jack Fennell
Inbunden, 2014
962 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 …
Lemography
Stanislaw Lem in the Eyes of the World
Av Peter Swirski, Waclaw M. Osadnik
Inbunden, 2014
2388 kr
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Lemography is a unique collection of critical essays on Stanislaw Lem, writer and philosopher. Its aim is to introduce aspects of his work hitherto unknown or neglected by scholarship and evaluate his influence on twentieth-century literature and culture—and beyond. The book’s uniqueness is …
Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics
Inbunden, 2015
2388 kr
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Although the self-definition of Surrealism and the initial defining of science fiction as a genre both took place in the 1920s and the links between the two are manifest, no full study has appeared till now on Surrealism and SF. Across ten original essays, Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics …
Science Fiction Double Feature
The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text
Av J. P. Telotte, Gerald Duchovnay
Inbunden, 2015
2076 kr
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Critical discussion of cult cinema has often noted its tendency to straddle or ignore boundaries, to pull together different sets of conventions, narrative formulas, or character types for the almost surreal pleasure to be found in their sudden juxtapositions or narrative combination. With its own …
Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future
Inbunden, 2015
2388 kr
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Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem’s life, career, and literary legacy to light. Part One traces the context of his cultural influence, telling the story of one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the century. It includes a comprehensive critical …
Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990
The History of the Science-Fiction Magazine Volume IV
Av Mike Ashley
Inbunden, 2016
2388 kr
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Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of which was driven by the alternative press, and …
Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction
Av Tom Shippey
Inbunden, 2016
1073 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use …
Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction
Av Chris Pak
Inbunden, 2016
902 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.This book explores the emergence and development of terraforming in science fiction from H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar (2009). …
Biopunk Dystopias
Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction
Inbunden, 2016
902 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Biopunk Dystopias contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention …
Excavating the Future
Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television
Av Shawn Malley
Inbunden, 2018
692 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Well-known in science fiction for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist has been a rich source for imagining ‘strange new worlds’ from ‘strange old worlds.’ But …
Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction
Inbunden, 2019
649 kr
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Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction examines fantastic representations of sport in science fiction, both cataloguing this almost entirely unexamined literary tradition and arguing that the reason for its neglect reflects a more widespread social suspicion of the athletic body as monstrous. …
Final Frontiers
Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India
Inbunden, 2020
2388 kr
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Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award 2021. This is the first book-length study of the relationship between science fiction, the techno-scientific policies of independent India, and the global non-aligned movement that emerged as a response to the Cold War and …
Lemography
Stanislaw Lem in the Eyes of the World
Av Peter Swirski, Waclaw M. Osadnik
Häftad, 2019
626 kr
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Lemography is a unique collection of critical essays on Stanislaw Lem, writer and philosopher. Its aim is to introduce aspects of his work hitherto unknown or neglected by scholarship and evaluate his influence on twentieth-century literature and culture—and beyond. The book’s uniqueness is …
Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future
Häftad, 2019
582 kr
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Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem’s life, career, and literary legacy to light. Part One traces the context of his cultural influence, telling the story of one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the century. It includes a comprehensive critical …
