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  • Reimagining Science Fiction
    Gary Westfahl
    In the first decades of the twenty-first century, science fiction literature has been transformed in many ways, as the genre has reacted to the dominating influence of films, television, and video games, the growing popularity of fantasy, the rise of young adult science fiction and graphic novels, the impact of the internet and social media, and the increasing diversity of the ...
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    79,03 €

  • Global Science Fiction
    Gary Westfahl
    Science fiction represents a diverse community of writers and readers that spans the entire world. This collection provides a global tour of the genre, with essays about Latin American, European, African, Arabic, Indian, Japanese, and Chinese science fiction providing insights about how writers around the world have explored and reinvigorated the genre. Essays by prominent c...
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    95,27 €

  • Jules Verne Lives!
    Gary Westfahl
    This volume is a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne, the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer. Essays study Verne’s various novels--including Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island and The Adventures of Captain Hatteras. Included essays offer analyses of literary responses to Verne’s work, assessments of film adaptations of his ...
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    71,67 €

  • The Stuff of Science Fiction
    Gary Westfahl
    While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeate...
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    73,40 €

  • The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s
    Gary Westfahl
     By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the art that has accompanied science fiction, the subgenres of space opera and hard science fiction, the rise of SF anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on author...
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    64,49 €

  • An Alien Abroad
    Gary Westfahl
    This book, for the first time, makes available a body of my work that has long remained inaccessible and largely unknown to American readers: the thirty-seven bimonthly columns that I contributed to the British science fiction magazine 'Interzone' from 1998 to 2004. For while it has long been respected as the best (and at times, the only) British science fiction magazine, Inter...
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    22,02 €

  • A Sense-of-Wonderful Century
    Gary Westfahl
    This book gathers together many of the illuminating essays on science fiction and fantasy film penned by a major critic in the SF field. The pieces are roughly organized in the chronological order of when the movies and television programs being discussed first appeared, with essays providing more general overviews clustered near the beginning and end of the volume, to provide ...
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    20,53 €

  • Spacesuit Film
    Gary Westfahl
    Filmmakers employ various images to suggest the strangeness of outer space, but protective spacesuits most powerfully communicate its dangers and the frailty of humans beyond the cradle of Earth. (Many films set in space, however, forgo spacesuits altogether, reluctant to hide famous faces behind bulky helmets and ill-fitting jumpsuits.) This critical history comprehensively ex...
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    59,04 €

  • 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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    24,54 €

  • 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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    18,54 €

  • Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction
    Gary Westfahl
    An examination of science fiction editor and author Hugo Gernsback’s career, this critical study explores the many ways in which his work influenced the genre. It summarizes the science fiction theories of Gernsback and his successors, considers his efforts to define science fiction both verbally and visually, and for the first time offers detailed studies of his rarest peri...
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    42,63 €