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Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - 12 issues
Asimov's Science Fiction magazine is filled with the most celebrated authors in the field of science fiction sharing their visions with stories that will launch you into the fantastic worlds of tomorrow. Subscription includes 2 double issues per year....
MPN: 7ac7b93226b096b3af23338a9bc29081
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Shell Education Leveled Texts for Classic Fiction: Fantasy and... Book, Grade 3rd - 8th
Ages and grade: Grades 3rd - 8th Language: English Leveled Texts for Classic Fiction: Fantasy and Science Fiction
MPN: 5af3f7c23c546a9875b894d9cfcae008
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Teaching Science Fiction
The importance of science fiction to undergraduate literary studies cannot be underestimated. Its capacity to challenge students' social, political and cultural perspectives makes it invaluable in highlighting the contingent nature of contemporary society and the potential for change. "Teaching Science Fiction" is the first book in thirty years to address how science fiction might be taught to this effect. It presents comprehensive treatments of the major phases in the development of the genre including the...
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Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction
Some of the world's most talented SF writers collected to throw light on a brighter future. Shine: a collection of gems that throw light on a brighter future. Some of the world's most talented SF writers (including Alastair Reynolds, Kay Keyon and Jason Stoddard) show how things can change for the better. From gritty polyannas to workable futures, from hard-fought progress to a better tomorrow; heart-warming and mind-expanding stories that will (re-) awaken the optimist in you...
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The Year's Best Science Fiction
In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection "the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together short stories from award winning authors and masters of the field such...
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Race in American Science Fiction
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 Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus attention on often-overlooked racial implications. These focused readings of science fiction contextualize race with...
MPN: 1d827a99966e3a680b3d8df317381032
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James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture: The Einstein of English Fiction
This book makes an important intervention in the ongoing debates about modernism, science, and the divisions of early Twentieth-Century print culture. In order to establish Joyce's place in the nexus of modernism and scientific thought, Drouin uses the methods of periodical studies and textual criticism to examine the impact of Einstein's relativity theories on the development of Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) . Looking at experiments with space, time, motion, and perspective, it rigorously survey...
MPN: be690ba514c6972d5c31076199c0ea3e
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Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century
In the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical maps, for example, saved lives by helping surgeons locate brain tumors and haemorrhages without first opening up the skull. These experiments both incited controversy and stimulated creative thought, because they challenged the possibility of an extra-corpo...
MPN: 9a49f2ff7251cdddf7d0d14511d98a33
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Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
An overview of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card. Featuring stories from the genre's greatest authors: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Harlan Ellison, George Alec Effinger, Brian W. Aldiss, William Gibson & Michael Swanwick, Theodore Sturgeon, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, James Blish, George R.R. Martin, James Patrick ...
MPN: 7e349468055652457a73b77a8532d15c
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Axiomatic: Short Stories of Science Fiction
A collection of science fiction stories that looks at the possible future includes stories of genetically altered dolphins that speak in limericks and a software program that allows users to design their own child.
MPN: 28da5b71eed2eea682d46cd201d04e40
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Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television
As humans, it is our trust in something larger than ourselves that invests our lives with meaning and value. We hope that outside the boundaries of everyday living there lies something greater. As Doug Cowan argues, science fiction is the genre of possibility and hope, a principal canvas on which writers, artists, and filmmakers have sketched their visions of this transcendent potential for generations. In Sacred Space, he leads readers in a compelling exploration of how this transcendence is manifested in ...
MPN: 8cf4025ffa5849a17e079135cc4e4c14
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Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties: The 21st Century Edition
Long recognized as the definitive reference work on the hundreds of science fiction movies that from 1950 through 1962 terrified and fascinated a generation with zombified teenagers, robots, invading aliens and monsters of every kind, Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies is greatly expanded in this 21st Century Edition. With new entries on several films, it also revisits, revises and expands the commentary on every film in the 1982 and 1986 two-volume edition. In addition to a detailed plot synopsis, cast ...
MPN: 4d9a98629f5d5bf1b50c74c7fb2516e7
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