The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come

Lauren J Lacey

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 43
• This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future. The first two chapters look at re... Lees meer

Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 35
• This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using theor... Lees meer

Magic Words, Magic Worlds

Matthew Oliver

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 80
• While all fiction uses words to construct models of the world for readers, nowhere is this more obvious than in fantasy fiction. Epic fantasy novels c... Lees meer

The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 26
• Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms.... Lees meer

British Science Fiction Film and Television

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 29
• Written by international experts from a range of disciplines, these essays examine the uniquely British contribution to science fiction film and telev... Lees meer

Women's Space

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 66
• From the Star Wars expanded universe to Westworld , the science fiction western has captivated audiences for more than fifty years. These twelve new e... Lees meer

"Hailing frequencies open"

Thomas D Parham

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 67
• Star Trek: The Next Generation blended speculative science fiction and space opera in its portrayal of communication. Multiple modes of communication ... Lees meer

Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-Building

Audrey Isabel Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 60
• From wondrous fairy-lands to nightmarish hellscapes, the elements that make fantasy worlds come alive also invite their exploration. This first book-l... Lees meer

Science Fiction from Quebec

Amy J Ransom

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 15
• This first book-length study of French-language science fiction from Canada provides an introduction to the subgenre known as "SFQ" (science fiction f... Lees meer

H. Beam Piper

John F Carr

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 8
• H. Beam Piper is one of science fiction's most enigmatic writers. In 1946 Piper appeared seemingly from out of nowhere, already at the top of his form... Lees meer

Science, Technology and Magic in The Witcher

Kristine Larsen

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 83
• As Andrzej Sapkowski was fleshing out his character Geralt of Rivia for a writing contest, he did not set out to write a science textbook--or even a w... Lees meer

Science Fiction and Futurism

Ace G Pilkington

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 58
• Science and science fiction have become inseparable--with common stories, interconnected thought experiments, and shared language. This reference book... Lees meer

Philip K. Dick

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 69
• Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer of science fiction. His works speak to contemporary fears of being continually watched by technology, and the pa... Lees meer

The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio

Laura Tosi, Peter Hunt

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 61
• Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) are ... Lees meer

The Archive Incarnate

Joseph Hurtgen

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 65
• We live in an information economy, a vast archive of data ever at our fingertips. In the pages of science fiction, powerful entities--governments and ... Lees meer

Worlds Apart?

Dunja M Mohr

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 1
• Literary critics and scholars have written extensively on the demise of the "utopian spirit" in the modern novel. What has often been overlooked is th... Lees meer

The Inter-Galactic Playground

Farah Mendlesohn

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 14
• 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... Lees meer

The Twilight Mystique

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 25
• The 13 essays in this volume explore Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular Twilight series in the contexts of literature, religion, fairy tales, film, and ... Lees meer

Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature

Chris Brawley

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 46
• This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism.... Lees meer

The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science

Frank McConnell

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 12
• A member of the Pulitzer Prize jury, the late Frank McConnell helped science fiction gain standing as serious literature. His 16 essays herein were fi... Lees meer

The Monomyth in American Science Fiction Films

Donald E Palumbo

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 48
• One of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century, Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces is an elaborate articulation of the m... Lees meer

Feminist Narrative and the Supernatural

Katherine J Weese

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 11
• Women authors have explored fantasy fiction in ways that connect with feminist narrative theories, as examined here by Katherine J. Weese in seven mod... Lees meer

Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film

Roslyn Weaver

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 28
• Australia has been a frequent choice of location for narratives about the end of the world in science fiction and speculative works, ranging from pre-... Lees meer

I See You

Ellen Grabiner

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy | nr. 34
• In the blockbuster film Avatar , science fiction and the technological prowess of director James Cameron meet in a heady concoction that, while visual... Lees meer