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  • Why Write? Why Read?
    Michael Rosen
    This booklet gathers together some recent talks and blogs on writing and reading, for use by teachers, librarians, parents, or anyone interested in engaging children and students in reading, writing, analysing why and how we do both. ...
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    5,67 €

  • Spedestä Säätiöön
    Panu Petteri Höglund
    SPEDESTÄ SÄÄTIÖÖN – kolme esseetä populaari­kulttuu­rista. Spede Pasanen oli vuosikymmenten ajan Suomen tuotteliain viihdemies. Olisiko nyt aika pohtia myös Speden ansioita suomalaisen komedian uudistajana? John Carter oli Tarzanista kuuluisan Edgar Rice Burroughsin toiseksi tunnetuin seikkailijahahmo, joka sai uutta kuuluisuutta taannoisen suurelokuvan ansiosta. Miten apinamie...
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    27,20 €

  • ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
    WILLIAM H. PATTERSON / WILLIAM HPATTERSON
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    34,12 €

  • SUPER BOYS
    Brad Ricca
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    20,28 €

  • Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction
    A J Dalton / Hazel Butler
    WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 2018 - NON-FICTION.2 of the papers have been nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017: Kim Lakin-Smith and Juliet McKenna.JULIET MCKENNA'S PAPER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NON-FICTION 2018!“Gender identity and sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction” is the first Call for Papers of Ac...
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    22,39 €

  • Windows of the Imagination
    Darrell Schweitzer
    These 29 essays on fantasy, skepticism, writing, and related topics-spanning nearly two decades-are filled with the insightful observations of a literary master. ...
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    17,62 €

  • Novel Takes
    Greg Johnson
    There’s a lot of truth in fiction.In Novel Takes, Greg Johnson explores racial, ethnic, and political themes in such works as Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints, Frank Herbert’s Dune series, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, H. P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, Michel Houellebecq’s Submission and Anni...
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    27,96 €

  • Horror Comics and Religion
    Brandon R. Grafius
    While many genres offer the potential for theological reflection and exploration of religious issues, the nature of horror provides unique ways to wrestle with these questions. Since EC Comics of the 1950s, horror comics have performed theological work in ways that are sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle, but frequently surprising and provocative. This collection brings to...
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    71,83 €

  • Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo
    Charlotte Beyer
    Informed by fourth-wave feminism, Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely reading of crime fiction in the age of #MeToo. ...
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    158,54 €

  • Analyzing the Marvel Universe
    Douglas Brode
    Marvel, like other media 'universes,' is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity. Within media studies, elements of popular culture once dismissed as low-brow entertainment are now studied with the seriousness that has always been ...
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    71,96 €

  • When the Fires Burn High and The Wind is From the North
    Robert J. Ewald / Robert JEwald
    Born in 1904, Clifford D. Simak sold his first science fiction story in 1930, and was soon publishing widely in the pulp magazines. He also pursued a separate career as a journalist and writer on science and other popular topics. He gained widespread fame in the SF world with the first of his series of 'City' stories, published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1944; these were ...
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    25,67 €

  • When the Fires Burn High and The Wind is From the North
    Robert J. Ewald / Robert JEwald
    Born in 1904, Clifford D. Simak sold his first science fiction story in 1930, and was soon publishing widely in the pulp magazines. He also pursued a separate career as a journalist and writer on science and other popular topics. He gained widespread fame in the SF world with the first of his series of 'City' stories, published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1944; these were ...
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    16,69 €

  • Warriors of the Tao
    Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature is one of the world’s leading journals of science fiction. Warriors of the Tao includes 16 essays from this landmark (but little-known) review, distilling its witty and sometimes controversial dialogue about fantastic writing during the last third of a century, including such topics as: the NON-sf writing of Philip K. Dick, se...
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    21,81 €

  • The legacy of John Polidori
    Sam George
    This collection explores the genesis of John Polidori’s foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy from the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, through further Gothic fictions and horror films, to twenty-first century paranormal romance. ...
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    157,00 €

  • Gothic Appalachian Literature
    Sarah Robertson
    Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of the representation of economic, environmental, and political concerns. ...
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    35,89 €

  • Nordic Terrors
    Robert William Rix
    In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a setting for Gothic terror. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition as it provided a vocabulary for Gothic texts, examining the cultural significance these references held for writers exploring Britain’s northern heritage. ...
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    36,04 €

  • The mediated Arctic
    Johannes Riquet
    This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production – from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media and politics to an unprecedented extent. ...
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    172,17 €

  • Gothic Grotesques
    Brian Stableford
    This find collection of essays by master science fiction, fantasy, and horror author Brian Stableford covers horror fiction, Gothic rock music, science fiction, and fantasy, by a master critic and fiction writer. Complete with index. ...
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    19,10 €

  • Jaunting on the Scoriac Tempests and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature
    Brian Stableford
    In this new collection of essays, well-known critic Brian Stableford presents twelve pieces on science-fiction and fantasy writers M. P. Shiel, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Humphry Davy, Robert Hunt, Vernon Lee, J. G. Ballard, James Morrow, Dean Koontz, and Terry Pratchett. Complete with detailed index. ...
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    22,18 €

  • The Angel and the Amazing Life of Maggie Love
    C. R. Fabis
    An angel needs to work hard to save Maggie’s soul. 'When I took this assignment, I knew Maggie had killed 20 people. I knew that and little else. Yes, I am an Angel, although we prefer to be called Inspectors simply because that’s what we do. We inspect a recently deceased person’s soul. As I examined her life, some of it began to make sense. But still, how do you justify 20 mu...
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    16,92 €

  • J.R.R. Tolkien en el Reino Peligroso
    Varios autores Varios autores
    «Fantasía es un reino peligroso», señalaba el autor de El Señor de los Anillos, y no lo hacía al azar, sino como alguien que verdaderamente había visitado y habitado sus territorios. El mundo lleva medio siglo girando sin J.R.R. Tolkien en él, y, sin embargo, tal vez ahora resuene con más fuerza que nunca la realidad ya enunciada por Tom Shippey en el cambio de milenio: que Tol...
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    19,76 €

  • The Future of the Space Program
    Octavia E. Butler / Roger Zelazny
    The editor posed two questions regarding the future of the space program, and large corporations and society, to 22 science fiction writers: Poul Anderson, Mildred Downey Broxon, Octavia E. Butler, C. J. Cherryh, Gordon R. Dickson, Raymond Z. Gallun, James Gunn, Isidore Haiblum, James P. Hogan, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Richard A. Lupoff, Larry Niven, Charles Sheffield, Robert Silv...
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    12,77 €

  • Fantasy Voices
    Jeffrey M. Elliot / Jeffrey MElliot / Katherine Kurtz / Manly Wade Wellman
    Jeffrey M. Elliot interviews four important writers of fantasy fiction. Included are: Manly Wade Wellman, John Norman, Hugh B. Cave, and Katherine Kurtz. Features an introduction by William F. Nolan. ...
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    10,46 €

  • A Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Library of Congress Classification Scheme, Second Edition
    Michael Burgess
    Originally published in 1988, this Library of Congress cataloging guide includes: Subject Headings, Classification Numbers (with Index), Author Main Entries and Literature Numbers, LC Literature Numbers, Artist Main Entries and Artist Numbers, Motion Picture Main Entries and Numbers, Television and Radio Program Main Entries and Numbers, and Comic Strip Main Entries and Numbers...
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    16,63 €

  • Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review
    'Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review' was founded in 1979 to provide comprehensive coverage of all the major and minor books being released in the genre at that time. This was the golden era of SF publishing, with a thousand titles (old and new) hitting the stands and the bookshelves each and every year. From the older classics to the newest speculative fiction, this was the ...
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    34,70 €

  • Varied Types
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Varied Types is a collection of essays by G.K. Chesterton that offers a series of insightful and often humorous portraits of notable figures from literature, history, and society. Chesterton’s keen observations and sharp wit shine through as he examines the personalities and ideas of figures such as Charlotte Brontë, Alfred the Great, and Sir Walter Scott, among others. This co...
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    13,41 €

  • The Defendant
    G. K. Chesterton / Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton / GKChesterton
    Varied Types is a collection of essays by G.K. Chesterton that offers a series of insightful and often humorous portraits of notable figures from literature, history, and society. Chesterton’s keen observations and sharp wit shine through as he examines the personalities and ideas of figures such as Charlotte Brontë, Alfred the Great, and Sir Walter Scott, among others. This co...
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    11,13 €

  • Courtship and Marriage
    Annie S. Swan
    Courtship and Marriage is a novel by Annie S. Swan that explores the themes of love, family, and social class in Victorian England. The story follows the life of the protagonist, Margaret, as she navigates the complexities of courtship and marriage. Margaret is a young woman from a middle-class family who falls in love with a wealthy gentleman named Henry. Despite their differe...
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    8,21 €

  • Writing the Cozy Mystery
    Phyllis M. Betz
    This book brings together essays written by a number of well-known writers of cozy mysteries, including Sherry Harris, Amanda Flower, Leslie Budewitz, and Edith Maxwell, among others, who provide insight into their approaches to writing. Topics covered include how they work with the form, develop characters and settings, and utilize the particular hook, skill or business th...
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    57,71 €

  • A Detective’s History of Psychology
    Diane Mello-Goldner
    Are you captivated by detective fiction and mystery stories? Do you enjoy solving puzzles or explaining other people’s behavior? Have you ever thought Miss Marple would make a good therapist or Sherlock Holmes an excellent researcher? If so, you probably have already seen the connection between detective fiction and the field of psychology. This book introduces key concep...
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    57,42 €