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Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction

Author : Damien Broderick
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434443299
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction written by Damien Broderick and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien. It participates, in brilliantly lighted imagination, in their strange lives. In this second gathering from Van Ikin's critical journal, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, writers of the alien are investigated with wit and insight. G. Travis Regier follows the Other into its own home, accompanying those experts in the alien, C. J. Cherry and Samuel R. Delany. In the book's long key essay, Terry Dowling pursues the Art of Xenography as exemplified by Jack Vance's "General Culture" novels. Three expert commentators look into Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's postcolonial and postmodern frolics into alternative realities. And the Xeno fictions of Isaac Asimov, Greg Egan, Mary Gentle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Naomi Mitchison, Neal Stephenson, and Stanley Weinbaum are read as their road maps into the strange. Eleven revealing essays on speculative fiction by some of the best critics in the field.

Xeno Fiction

Author : Damien Broderick
Publisher : Borgo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781479400799
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Xeno Fiction written by Damien Broderick and published by Borgo Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien. It participates, in brilliantly lighted imagination, in their strange lives. In this second gathering from Van Ikin's critical journal, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, writers of the alien are investigated with wit and insight. G. Travis Regier follows the Other into its own home, accompanying those experts in the alien, C. J. Cherry and Samuel R. Delany. In the book's long key essay, Terry Dowling pursues the Art of Xenography as exemplified by Jack Vance's "General Culture" novels. Three expert commentators look into Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's postcolonial and postmodern frolics into alternative realities. And the Xeno fictions of Isaac Asimov, Greg Egan, Mary Gentle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Naomi Mitchison, Neal Stephenson, and Stanley Weinbaum are read as their road maps into the strange. Eleven revealing essays on speculative fiction by some of the best critics in the field.

Xeno

Author : Dennis Feltham Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780283985294
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Xeno written by Dennis Feltham Jones and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narratology Beyond the Human

Author : David Herman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019085040X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Narratology Beyond the Human written by David Herman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent, and in what manner, do storytelling practices accommodate nonhuman subjects and their modalities of experience, and how can contemporary narrative study shed light on interspecies interactions and entanglements? In Narratology beyond the Human, David Herman addresses these questions through a cross-disciplinary approach to post-Darwinian narratives concerned with animals and human-animal relationships. Herman considers the enabling and constraining effects of different narrative media, examining a range of fictional and nonfictional texts disseminated in print, comics and graphic novels, and film. In focusing on techniques such as the use of animal narrators, alternation between human and nonhuman perspectives, the embedding of stories within stories, and others, the book explores how specific strategies for portraying nonhuman agents both emerge from and contribute to broader attitudes toward animal life. Herman argues that existing frameworks for narrative inquiry must be modified to take into account how stories are interwoven with cultural ontologies, or understandings of what sorts of beings populate the world and how they relate to humans. Showing how questions of narrative bear on ideas of species difference and assumptions about animal minds, Narratology beyond the Human underscores our inextricable interconnectedness with other forms of creatural life and suggests that stories can be used to resituate imaginaries of human action in a more-than-human world.

Berserker Fury

Author : Fred Saberhagen
Publisher : JSS Literary Productions, LLC
ISBN 13 : 097962570X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Berserker Fury written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berserkers, a race of machines bent on destroying all organic life, have developed a new trick: Berserker units that can pass for human-created androids. As a showdown with the Berserkers draws near, Spacer Sebastian Gift and his fellow crew members must be ready to battle. And if they fail, it will be the beginning of the end. Action-adventure combine with psychological drama as Nifty Gift deals with guilt and his crew mate deals with revenge.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312551049
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology marks the 27th edition of the award-winning annual compilationof the year's best science fiction stories.

Science Fiction and Futurism

Author : Ace G. Pilkington
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629552
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and Futurism written by Ace G. Pilkington and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and science fiction have become inseparable--with common stories, interconnected thought experiments, and shared language. This reference book lays out that relationship and its all-but-magical terms and ideas. Those who think seriously about the future are changing the world, reshaping how we speak and how we think. This book fully covers the terms that collected, clarified and crystallized the futurists' ideas, sometimes showing them off, sometimes slowing them down, and sometimes propelling them to fame and making them the common currency of our culture. The many entries in this encyclopedic work offer a guided tour of the vast territories occupied by science fiction and futurism. In his Foreword, David Brin says, "Provocative and enticing? Filled with 'huh!' moments and leads to great stories? That describes this volume."

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140622
Total Pages : 1697 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Science Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the science fiction genre of literature, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Genreflecting

Author : Diana Tixier Herald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Genreflecting written by Diana Tixier Herald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librarians who work with readers will find this well-loved guide to be a treasure trove of information. With descriptive annotations of thousands of genre titles mapped by genre and subgenre, this is the readers' advisor's go-to reference. Next to author, genre is the characteristic that readers use most to select reading material and the most trustworthy consideration for finding books readers will enjoy. With its detailed classification and pithy descriptions of titles, this book gives users valuable insights into what makes genre fiction appeal to readers. It is an invaluable aid for helping readers find books that they will enjoy reading. Providing a handy roadmap to popular genre literature, this guide helps librarians answer the perennial and often confounding question "What can I read next?" Herald and Stavole-Carter briefly describe thousands of popular fiction titles, classifying them into standard genres such as science fiction, fantasy, romance, historical fiction, and mystery. Within each genre, titles are broken down into more specific subgenres and themes. Detailed author, title, and subject indexes provide further access. As in previous editions, the focus of the guide is on recent releases and perennial reader favorites. In addition to covering new titles, this edition focuses more narrowly on the core genres and includes basic readers' advisory principles and techniques.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466829478
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1991-06-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Year's Best Science Fiction collects twenty-five of the finest works of speculative fiction to see print in 1990, stories from the genre's every edge, and from its heart. Among the many marvels are tales from the field's most accomplished artists: Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Shobies' Story" returns to the Hainish worlds with a reality-defining story, while Joe Haldeman's "The Hemmingway Hoax" embarks from our world on a time-defying trip through other possibilities. Kate Wilhelm, Michael Moorcock, Robert Silverberg, and John Brunner demonstrate too with their stories why they remain among the most popular science fiction writers of all time. With the closing of a decade and cyberpunk virtually becoming reality, many of the leading writers of the eighties have begun to bring new insight and vision to their fiction: Bruce Sterling examines a classic clash of cultures in "We See Things Differently," and James Patrick Kelly's "Mr. Boy" presents a hard-edged story about the guts of growing up. Lewis Shiner's "White City" and Connie Willis's "Cibola" both seek peace--of sorts--amid spectacle, and works by Nancy Kress, Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier, Pat Murphy, and John Kessel also dazzle and amaze. Among the many other stories in this volume are powerhouse piece by Terry Bisson, Molly Gloss, Ian McDonald, Charles Sheffield, Alexander Jablokov, and Dafydd ab Hugh, as well as towering new mindscapes from young talents such as Jonathan Lethem, Ian R. MacLeod, Greg Egan and Ted Chiang. A wonderful tour through possible, probable, and virtual realities, The Year's Best Science Fiction is an ideal assemblage of the year's short fiction. This volume is essential to anyone who reads sf. "A virtually indispensable series."--Kirkus Reviews

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250119243
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents some of the best science fiction short stories written in 2016.

Science Fiction and Anticipation

Author : Bernard Montoneri
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666918148
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and Anticipation written by Bernard Montoneri and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Anticipation focuses on American and European influential works of science fiction published between the 18th and 20th century. The book explores how writers presented in this book envisioned the future of their country, and it discusses issues such as ethics, censorship, racism, sexism, and slavery.

Spartan X

Author : Christopher Hinz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781480191501
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Spartan X written by Christopher Hinz and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shapeshifting alien -- code name Spartan -- reaches Earth with dire plans for civilization. Corbet Tomms, a freespirited loner troubled by psychic visions, is recruited by a secret agency to hunt down the creature. With the help of his no-nonsense FBI handler, Aggie Rittenhouse, Corbet tracks the murderous alien. But he soon realizes that Spartan is at the heart of his most terrifying vision, one that portends global disaster. Spartan must be found before it activates a freakish weapon that will forever alter what it means to be human.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312336592
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction. More than two dozen outstanding tales written in the previous year.

Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature

Author : Mark A. Fabrizi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538166054
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature written by Mark A. Fabrizi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries covering authors, subgenres, tropes, awards, organizations, and important terms related to horror.,

The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages and Today

Author : Flo Keyes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786425962
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages and Today written by Flo Keyes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of medieval literature is instantly apparent in modern fantasy literature, where knights and wizards populate castle-strewn landscapes. Less obvious but still recognizable is the influence in science fiction, which draws on medieval story structure and themes. Beyond these superficial similarities, deeper connections become evident through an analysis of the literature's social function. Like the fantasy and science fiction of today, the romances of the Middle Ages were written in times of extreme and prolonged social upheaval. In all three genres, the storytellers draw on the same archetypes--the hero, the quest, the transformation--for stories whose goal is to provide hope. Using Jungian theory and comparative analysis, this book explores the connections between the three genres. It finds common ground among them in plots that often reflect the recurring cycle of life and the elements of psychological rather than literal realism. Representative texts such as Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, the Witch World series by Andre Norton and More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon are examined in depth, and the use of archetypes in each is thoroughly explored. Analysis reveals similarities in images, structures, and the pervasive belief that a perfectible universe is within man's capabilities--if not now, then someday.

SCIFI Double Novel

Author : Adam Drake
Publisher : Adam Drake
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SCIFI Double Novel written by Adam Drake and published by Adam Drake. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are two exciting science fiction novels from genre author, Adam Drake. Both are the beginning installments for their own series. Bitch Berserker (Bitch Berserker Book 1) Trapped in a savage new reality! I'm a kind and gentle person. Or should I say, I was... As an interstellar surveyor, my job is to find and explore new star systems at the very fringes of humankind's reach. There are no conflicts, or even stress – it's simply a career which allows me to quietly drift through the cosmos, enjoying its endless beauty. Then I found myself trapped on a world like no other. Dark, bloody and brutal, I had to adapt quickly to this new reality, or me and my crew would never get a chance to escape. My life quickly morphed from one of peace, to one of pure savagery. And as I carved a blood-soaked path across this realm of carnage, there was one horrifying fact about myself I needed to confront: Learning to kill was easy, but learning not to love it so much... now that's hard. Escape to the Fringe (Fringe Outlaws Book 1) A pair of outlaws searching for riches. A stolen ship with a secret cargo. A strange alien with bizarre abilities. When Ash and Femke Quinly decide to steal a transport ship from the local criminal syndicate, their troubles have just begun. With enemies in relentless pursuit, and their options dwindling, an already dangerous situation becomes more futile. But when the universe is gunning for you, there is one insane option only the truly desperate can take: They must escape to the fringe of the galaxy! science fiction, action, adventure, space opera, series, spaceship, alien, aliens, litrpg, gamelit, dark fantasy, fantasy, cyberpunk, science fiction, horror, progression, wuxia