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  • Fantastic Odysseys
    Mary Pharr
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    95,77 €

  • Technology in American Drama, 1920-1950
    Dennis G. Jerz / Dennis GJerz
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    69,72 €

  • The Road to Science Fiction
    James Gunn
    Volume 4 From Here to Forever covers the period from 1950-1992, illustrating how science fiction can be as concerned with language and character as much as traditional fiction and anything in the mainstream. Includes stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Matheson, C. M. Kornbluth, Jack Vance, and Pamela Zoline. ...
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    26,47 €

  • Tarlton’s Jests and News Out of Purgatory
    J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps / James Orchard Halliwell / JOHalliwell-Phillipps
    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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    19,66 €

  • Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980
    Moira Davison Reynolds
    Millions of Americans know and love Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Blondie and Dagwood, Doonesbury, Li’l Abner, Garfield, Cathy, Beetle Bailey and other such comic strip characters. Thanks to the cartoonists--the people who have brought and still bring these and other characters to life day after day in the newspapers--the characters have become an entertaining and important part...
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    42,95 €

  • Human Prehistory in Fiction
    Charles De Paolo
    What was the world like for people thousands of years ago? How can we know? Through fiction? This is a work of literary criticism, and more. It begins with a discussion of the problem of authenticity and then considers twelve pieces of fiction that depict human prehistory: H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, Pierre Boulle’s The Planet of the Apes, Jules Verne’s The Vi...
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    43,08 €

  • The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction
    Peter Brigg
    From the 1960s (when the advent of what many call the postmodern style made establishing genres more difficult) to the present day, writers have been incorporating science--not only the commonly thought of science and technology but also the 'soft' sciences such as psychology and sociology--into what was previously considered mainstream fiction. This book examines works by T...
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    57,48 €

  • The Complete Critical Assembly
    David Langford
    This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome’s greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers ...
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    18,26 €

  • Star Trek Reader’s Reference to the Novels
    Alva Underwood
    This Star Trek Reader’s Reference to the Novels: 1980-1983 continues the effort of the first book ( the novels 1970-1979) by offering information about Klingons, Hortas, Sigmunds, UFP , ships of the fleet, Rigellians bloodworms, Scotty’s kilt and more. Although enjoyable reading on it own, it enhances the reading of the novels. ...
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    21,89 €

  • Seldom Disappointed
    Tony Hillerman
    In this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented novelist and reporter, Hillerman draws brilliant portrait not just of his life, but of the world around him. ...
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    16,98 €

  • No Cure for the Future
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    95,77 €

  • The Road to Science Fiction
    James Gunn
    Now in Paper! The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology of science fiction that covers the development of science fiction from its earliest prototypes in the Sumerian Gilgamesh and the Greek epics to approximately 1990. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classes, these volumes have become mass-market sellers as well, since they are not only a sourc...
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    27,36 €

  • A Charmed Life
    Francis Bridger
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    14,32 €

  • European Gothic
    Avril Horner
    The only collection to concentrate on the European Gothic - writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. Charts the rich process of cross-fertilisation, especially regarding Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel. Emphasises the importance of the impact of translation on the development of the Gothic novel. Uses a variety of critical perspecti...
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    32,06 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
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    45,31 €

  • The Road to Science Fiction
    James Gunn
    Now in paperback! Cloth edition previously published in 1979. Volume 2: From Wells to Heinlein, samples the science fiction from a wide variety of authors that paved the way for the Golden Age. ...
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    26,57 €

  • Gothic Vision
    Dani Cavallaro
    The Gothic Vision examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late-eighteenth century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing. It argues that such narratives are objects for historical analysis, due to their implication in specific ideologies, while also focusing on the recurrence o...
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    396,02 €

  • Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide
    Alzina Stone Dale
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    28,77 €

  • Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide
    Alzina Stone Dale
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    29,90 €

  • Worlds Enough and Time
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    121,84 €

  • Iain Banks’s Complicity
    Cairns Craig
    This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ’The Remains of the Day’ to ’White Teeth’. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to pro...
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    29,30 €

  • Gothic writing 1750-1820
    Robert Miles
    An intriguing overview of Gothic literature ...
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    35,66 €

  • Andrew M. Greeley
    Allienne RBecker
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    19,55 €

  • They Died in Vain
    Jim Huang
    If characters die in a mystery novel, and no one reads their story, have they died in vain? Mystery experts -- booksellers, reviewers, genre devotees -- introduce you to personal favorites: obscure classics, up-and-coming new writers, great books that unaccountably disappeared and lesser-known titles by bestselling authors. A companion volume to our Agatha and Anthony Award-win...
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    10,09 €

  • The Fantastic Vampire
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    122,09 €

  • HARLAN ELLISON
    ELLEN WEIL
    Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever is the first book-length critical study of the short stories, novels, and TV and movie scripts of Harlan Ellison, a widely honored contemporary fantasist who has attained near legendary status in the science fiction and fantasy communities. Although Ellison has published over 1,100 short stories and several volumes of criticism and commentary...
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    44,47 €

  • The Road to Science Fiction
    James Gunn
    Now in paperback! Cloth edition previously published in 1979. Volume 3, From Heinlein to Here, covers the period from 1940 to 1975, beginning in the Golden Age of Science Fiction and ending at a time when SF book publication was just beginning to explode and SF films (2001: A Space Odyssey; Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars, E.T.) would soon dominate box offices. ...
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    26,26 €

  • Bilbo’s Birthday and Frodo’s Adventure of Faith
    Robert E. Morse
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    19,75 €

  • Aliens R Us
    Aliens  R Us  explores the global culture of science fiction cinema, and in particular its presentation of contemporary images of the Other. Taking as a starting point the popularity of international forms such as Japanese Manga and Hong Kong sci-fi, in addition to the success of films such as The Matrix and television series such as Deep Space Nine, the contributors examine th...
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    48,91 €

  • Unearthly Visions
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    95,85 €