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  • The Other Side of the Sky
    Gary Westfahl
    A companion volume to the author’s Island in the Sky, this new book covers 975 science fiction novels, stories, films, and television programs dealing with space stations. Each entry includes complete bibliographical data, and is usually followed by a detailed summary and commentary. A massive guide that will prove to be an invaluable resource for scholars, readers, and librari...
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    21,47 €

  • Dealings With The Fairies (1867)
    George Mac Donald
    Dealings With The Fairies is a collection of fairy tales written by the Scottish author George MacDonald and first published in 1867. The book contains nine stories, each with its own unique fairy tale characters and settings. The tales explore themes of love, loyalty, and the consequences of greed and selfishness. MacDonald’s writing style is whimsical and imaginative, transpo...
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    37,54 €

  • From The Earth To The Moon
    Jules Verne
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,62 €

  • Fantasy And Passion (1878)
    Edgar Fawcett
    Fantasy and Passion is a novel written by Edgar Fawcett in 1878. The story revolves around the life of a young woman named Elinor Dale, who is a gifted artist and lives with her wealthy family in New York City. Elinor is engaged to a wealthy man named Reginald, but she is not in love with him. She meets a mysterious and handsome stranger named Claude, who awakens her passion an...
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    30,15 €

  • Hypolympia Or The Gods In The Island
    Edmund Gosse
    Hypolympia Or The Gods In The Island: An Ironic Fantasy is a novel written by Edmund Gosse and first published in 1901. The book is a satirical take on the Greek gods and their interactions with mortals. The story is set on the fictional island of Hypolympia, where the gods have retreated to escape the boredom of immortality. The island is ruled by Zeus, who is portrayed as a v...
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    31,20 €

  • Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
    Brian Stableford
    Eight highly-readable essays on science fiction and fantasy writers, including David Brin, Jonathan Carroll, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Robert Irwin, Graham Joyce, Michael Shea, plus a major piece, 'Against the New Gods,' on British SF and crime writer Sydney Fowler Wright. Complete with Bibliography and Index. 3 ...
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    16,57 €

  • World Wrecker
    Richard W. Gombert
    Known as the 'World Wrecker' for his galaxy-smashing space operas, Edmond Hamilton wrote intelligent, exciting, and readable science fiction for over 40 years. This first major bibliography of his work covers his enormous output and numerous reprint editions. All students of Hamilton--and all major libraries--will want a copy of this bibliographical labor of love. 3 ...
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    21,56 €

  • Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction
    Bradley Mengel
    Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton’s The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton’s novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take ...
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    58,58 €

  • Strange Cases
    Jill Vassilakos / Paul Vassilakos-Long
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    106,41 €

  • The Wizard Knight Companion
    Michael Andre-Driussi
    THE WIZARD KNIGHT COMPANION is a brief alphabetical dictionary for Gene Wolfe's two-volume THE WIZARD KNIGHT series, by the author of LEXICON URTHUS. Its entries identify the characters in the novel, dive into the mysteries in the text, and explore the Norse, Celtic, and Arthurian sources for names and words in the novels. It includes a map of the region, a cosmology, and a syn...
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    16,86 €

  • The Wizard Knight Companion
    Michael Andre-Driussi
    THE WIZARD KNIGHT COMPANION (paperback edition) is a brief alphabetical dictionary for Gene Wolfe's two-volume THE WIZARD KNIGHT series. Its entries identify the characters in the novel, dive into the mysteries in the text, and explore the Norse, Celtic, and Arthurian sources for names and words in the novels. It includes a map of the region, a cosmology, and a synopsis of the ...
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    7,26 €

  • Unleashing the Strange
    Damien Broderick
    Novelist and scholar Damien Broderick offers an exhilarating report on the state of science fiction at the start of the millennium. In the 21st century, we see a new wave rising in SF: it’s complex, transreal, slipstreamy, post-postmodern. It unleashes the strange! 3 ...
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    22,12 €

  • Strange View from a Skewed Orbit
    Ardath Mayhar
    A delightful memoir of the fantasy, science fiction, mystery, western, and young adult writer, Ardath Mayhar, whose seventy books and hundreds of short stories have charmed readers throughout the world. 3 ...
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    16,65 €

  • Tolkien’s View
    J. S. Ryan / JSRyan
    Tolkien’s View: Windows into his World contains a number of selected essays by Professor J.S. Ryan, for their most part originally published over three decades from the 1960s to the 1990s, on the theme of J.R.R. Tolkien and his works. Having himself studied under Professor Tolkien at the time of the publication of his masterwork The Lord of the Rings, Professor J.S. Ryan is uni...
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    30,33 €

  • Red Planets
    Science fiction and socialism have always had a close relationship. Many sf novelists and filmmakers are leftists. Others examine explicit or implicit Marxist concerns.As a genre, sf is ideally suited to critiquing the present through its explorations of the social and political possibilities of the future. This is the first collection to combine analyses of sf literature and f...
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    41,93 €

  • The Inter-Galactic Playground
    Farah Mendlesohn
    Science fiction is often considered the genre of ideas and imagination, which would seem to make it ideal for juveniles and young adults; however, the ideas are often dispensed by adults. This book considers the development of science fiction for children and teens between 1950 and 2010, exploring why it differs from science fiction aimed at adults. In a broader sense, this ...
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    50,00 €

  • Write with Fire
    Charles Allen Gramlich
    This guide to writing publishable fiction includes sections dealing with the mechanics of writing, reflections on well-known writers and their work, and an account of the author’s own history as a writer. Both beginning and advanced wordsmiths will benefit from this clear, straightforward look at the art of creating marketable fiction. 3 ...
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    22,08 €

  • Islands in the Sky
    Gary Westfahl
    Pilgrim Award-winning critic Gary Westfahl here updates his classic study of the space station theme in science fiction, providing the most comprehensive examination of the topic ever written. From 'The Brick Moon' (1869) to Star Trek’s Deep Space 9, these literary and cinematic outposts have provided waystations for the imaginative exploration of new worlds and new civilizatio...
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    25,07 €

  • The A to Z of Utopianism
    Andrea L Kross / Andrea L. Kross / Andrea LKross / James M Morris / James M. Morris / James MMorris
    This reference contains more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on utopian thought and experimentation that span the centuries from ancient times to the present. ...
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    63,03 €

  • Queering the Gothic
    Andrew Smith
    A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from ’Frankenstein’ to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. ...
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    170,00 €

  • Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies
    Patrick D. Murphy / Patrick DMurphy
    This study provides a wide ranging discussion of contemporary literature and cultural phenomena through the lens of ecological literary criticism, giving attention to both theoretical issues and applied critiques. In particular, it looks at popular literary genres, such as mystery and science fiction, as well as actual disasters and disaster scenarios. Ecocritical Explorations ...
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    141,63 €

  • Popular Victorian women writers
    ’Popular Victorian women writers’ is a collection of essays on a variety of women writers working within the Victorian literary marketplace. Diverse and inclusive, the great strength of this book is that its emphasis on neglected writers and refreshing new angles on more widely known authors sends its readers back eagerly to the primary texts. ...
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    29,68 €

  • Science Fiction and the Two Cultures
    Essays in this volume demonstrate how science fiction can serve as a bridge between the sciences and the humanities. The essays show how early writers like Dante and Mary Shelley revealed a gradual shift toward a genuine understanding of science; how H.G. Wells first showed the possibilities of combining scientific and humanistic perspectives; how writers influenced by Gerns...
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    57,19 €

  • Science Fiction from Quebec
    Amy J. Ransom
    This first book-length study of French-language science fiction from Canada provides an introduction to the subgenre known as 'SFQ' (science fiction from Quebec). In addition, it offers in-depth analyses of SFQ sagas by Jacques Brossard, Esther Rochon, and Elisabeth Vonarburg. It demonstrates how these multivolume narratives of colonization and postcolonial societies exploit...
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    57,26 €

  • Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable
    While Kim Stanley Robinson is perhaps best known for his hard science fiction works Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars, the epic trilogy exploring ecological and sociological themes involved in human settlement of the Red Planet, his contributions to utopian science fiction are diverse and numerous. Along with aspects of sociology and ecology in the Mars trilogy and other to...
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    44,22 €

  • Vampires Today
    Joseph Laycock
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    95,66 €

  • Romantic Professions
    William Powell James
    ''Romantic Professions: And Other Papers'' is a collection of essays and lectures by William Powell James, a 19th-century American philosopher and psychologist. The book explores various topics related to human nature, including the nature of love, the role of emotion in decision-making, and the importance of personal relationships. James draws on his extensive knowledge of phi...
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    31,15 €

  • Star Trek
    Michael Hemmingson
    Well-known writer Michael Hemmingson offers a history and critique of the original Star Trek TV series, and the impact it has had on our culture, language, and science. Also included is the first coverage in book form of the 2009 Star Trek motion picture. 3 ...
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    21,61 €

  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula
    William Hughes
    Dracula (1897) is one of the most commonly studied gothic novels and has been hugely influential through adaptations in fiction, on stage and in cinema. Offering an authoritative, up-to-date guide for students, this book introduces its context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife, leading students to a more sophisticated understanding of the text. It is the ideal guide to...
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    161,25 €

  • Starcombing
    David Langford
    Starcombing contains eighty-five newly collected pieces of David Langford’s witty commentary on the SF/fantasy scene - columns, articles, reviews, essays, even a few short-short stories from the famous ’Futures’ page in Nature. Compulsive reading, crammed with insights and laughs. ...
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    37,32 €


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