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Ebony Hill'No matter how much you might want to leave a place, if it's where you were raised it holds a piece of you it doesn't easily give up.' Ness is looking out to sea, waiting for the arrival of Dev. It's been two years since the two set out in a dinghy, escaping the wrath of the Islanders of Dunnett;....
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Guardian of the DeadA gripping fantasy set on the shifting boundary between what is real and what is legend. Can Ellie discover a power she never knew she possessed?
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Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction and Other Essays on Imaginative Fiction(Paperback)Eight essays on science fiction and fantasy: "Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction," "Immortality in Science Fiction," "Why There Is (Almost) No Such Thing as Science Fiction," "Perfectibility and the Novel of the Future," "In Search of a New Genre," "Ecology and Dystopia," "Cosmic Horror," and "Growing Up as a Superhero." Complete with bibliography and index.
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The Limping Man (Salt Trilogy #03)What is the source of the Limping Man's monstrous power? Nobody can withstand it, a soft crawling that seeps into your skin and wriggles into your mind, making you powerless with love for him even as his cruelties multiply. When Hana's mam chooses to swallow frogweed poison rather than die in the great witch-burning in People's Square, Hana flees the....
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Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction(Hardback)The fantastic elements of Bram Stoker's novels seem at odds with the world of science. Nonetheless, he drew on a body of scientific theory and technological innovation in his writings. This text studies his blending of the Gothic with emerging science and technology.
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Teaching Science Fact with Science Fiction(Hardback)Strap yourself in and teach todays lessons with insights from some exciting futures as envisioned by the best classic and contemporary authors.
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Science Fact and Science Fiction(Hardback)Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. This book examines in how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences.
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Science-Fiction(Hardback)Complementing "Science-Fiction: The Early Years", which surveys Science Fiction books from its beginnings through to 1930, this volume covers all science-fiction printed in the genre magazines - "Amazing", "Astounding" and "Wonder", along with offshoots and minor magazines - from 1926 through 1936.
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Science Fiction(Paperback)Includes a history of science fiction, and the ways in, which the genre has been used and defined. This book provides explanations of key concepts in science fiction criticism and theory. It introduces the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist, and Cyberpunk science fictions.
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Science Fiction(Paperback)David Seed examines how science fiction has emerged as a popular genre of literature in the 20th century, and discusses it in relation to themes such as science and technology, space, aliens, utopias, and gender. Looking at some of the most influential writers of the genre he also considers the wider social and political issues it raises.
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Science Fiction(Electronic book text)Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this volume includes: * a concise history of science fiction and....
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The Fiction of Science(Hardback)Vivid photographs that indicate the recent rediscovery of abstraction and geometrical work in contemporary art. The Fiction of Science is a collection of work by the Berlin-based photographer Frank Hlsbmer, whose dynamic depictions of immobile objects exist at the intersection of aesthetic abstraction and conceptual content. Whether sketchily visualized thoughts or meticulously staged motifs, the featured series evolve from the....
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Science Fiction: Reading Lists for Every Taste(Paperback)Suitable for new science fiction readers looking for a place to start exploring the genre, as well as for long-time fans who want to delve in deeper, this title covers a broad spectrum of science fiction titles, organizing books into lists designed to appeal to a variety of reading tastes.
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Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology(Paperback)An invaluable contribution to the serious study of science fiction as well as a highly entertaining collection, Science Fiction contains 27 chronologically-arranged stories and excerpts, ranging from such early classic works as Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Shelley's Frankenstein to recent stories such as Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" and Ursula K. Le Guin's "Vaster Than....
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Science Fiction(Hardback)Explore aliens, time travel, and more before reading "The City" and seeing how the future might not be a great place to live.
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Science Fiction: The Best of 2005(Paperback)A collection of some of the best SF prose written in 2005 by some of the genre's greatest writers and selected by one of science fiction's most respected editors and writers.
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Science Fiction(Electronic book text)In Science Fiction Adam Roberts offers a clear and critically engaging account of the phenomenon illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history.
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V (Science Fiction)(Paperback)High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! V is a science fiction franchise created by American writer, producer and director Kenneth Johnson about an invading alien race known as the "Visitors" (reptilian humanoids disguised as human beings) trying to take over Earth, and the human Resistance group attempting to stop them.It debuted in 1983 as the two-part television miniseries V, written....
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Science Fiction: The Best of 2004(Electronic book text)A collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2004, by some of the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of SF's most respected editors. Best Sci Fi '03 had more Nebula and Hugo finalists than competing Dozois and Hartwell books!
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Science Fiction: The Best of 2004(Electronic book text)A collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2004, by some of the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of SF's most respected editors. Best Sci Fi '03 had more Nebula and Hugo finalists than competing Dozois and Hartwell books!
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