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The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy
This one volume anthology explores the last two hundred years of Science Fiction and Fantasy-featuring women and men authors of various ethnic backgrounds, and a range of both traditional canonical literature and popular culture. Designed to heighten interest in a fun and exciting topic, this book will lead readers to meaningful intellectual, social, and historic investigations. Contributing authors include Mary W. Shelly, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Bee...
MPN: 9ba2743951393a81cde8c5a6da12c294
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Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy
In the mid-1980s, Easton Press began publishing a series of leather-bound collector editions called Masterpieces of Science Fiction and Masterpieces of Fantasy, which featured some of the most important works in these genres. James Gunn was commissioned to write introductions to these works, which allowed him to pay tribute to many authors who inspired and influenced his own work. In Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, Gunn has collected the most significant essays produced for the East...
MPN: 114a2443cf3ee5e579889d9b998b3db6
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Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990
Hardcover, Liverpool Univ Pr, 2016, ISBN13 9781781382608, ISBN10 1781382603
MPN: 96252354f2b831b1d71436fee3b5b3af
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Images of Masculinity in Fantasy Fiction
Hardcover, Edwin Mellen Pr, 2003, ISBN13 9780773467545, ISBN10 0773467548
MPN: beb2bafe34ca1e8e1d785f40295eaabd
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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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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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Creating Life from Life: Biotechnology and Science Fiction
CREATING LIFE FROM LIFE
MPN: d4f3a52df38ef7bef5f2f501189c2541
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The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film
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 themes include genre discussions, engagement with Hollywood, and the international subgenre of science fiction parody. Chapters contain a variety of perspectives and styles: from gender and race studies, to the eco-cri...
MPN: 79b91751d22daaa7c19b3b0fc0dd519e
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Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Film Sequels, Series and Remakes : An Illustrated
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MPN: product_1444_52912387
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Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics : Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism (Hardcover) (Dan
Find Books at Target.com! Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics : Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism (Hardcover) (Dan
MPN: product_1444_51940779
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Fantasy Fiction Formula (Hardcover) (Deborah Chester)
Find Books at Target.com! Fantasy Fiction Formula (Hardcover) (Deborah Chester)
MPN: product_1444_50951730
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