wyszukanych pozycji: 431
The Devil's Party: A Brief History of Satanic Abuse
ISBN: 9781434403339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Allegations of "Satanic abuse" became fashionable in the late twentieth century, but such episodes actually date back many centuries. Well-known critic and historian Brian Stableford provides a thorough history of Satanism, from its earliest times to the modern period, and also examines the appearance of "His Nibs" in horror and other fiction. Complete with bibliography and index.
Allegations of "Satanic abuse" became fashionable in the late twentieth century, but such episodes actually date back many centuries. Well-known criti...
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87,09 zł |
Heterocosms
ISBN: 9780809519071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media features the following pieces: "The Last Chocolate Bar and the Majesty of Truth: Reflections on the Concept of 'Hardness' in Science Fiction," "How Should a Science Fiction Story End?," "The Third Generation of Genre Science Fiction," "Deus ex Machina; or, How to Achieve a Perfect Science-Fictional Climax," "Biotechnology and Utopia," "Far Futures," "How Should a Science Fiction Story Begin?," and "The Discovery of Secondary Worlds: Notes on the Aesthetics and Methodology of Heterocosmic Creativity."...
This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media features the following pieces: "The Last Chocolate Bar and ...
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97,60 zł |
Snuggly Tales of Hashish and Opium
ISBN: 9781645250401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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95,39 zł |
Heterocosms
ISBN: 9780809509072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media features the following pieces: "The Last Chocolate Bar and the Majesty of Truth: Reflections on the Concept of 'Hardness' in Science Fiction," "How Should a Science Fiction Story End?," "The Third Generation of Genre Science Fiction," "Deus ex Machina; or, How to Achieve a Perfect Science-Fictional Climax," "Biotechnology and Utopia," "Far Futures," "How Should a Science Fiction Story Begin?," and "The Discovery of Secondary Worlds: Notes on the Aesthetics and Methodology of Heterocosmic Creativity."...
This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media features the following pieces: "The Last Chocolate Bar and ...
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171,22 zł |
Salome and other Decadent Fantasies
ISBN: 9781587154089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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73,38 zł |
Opening Minds
ISBN: 9780893704032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This collection of critical essays explores the philosophy, theory, and history of science fiction and fantasy, from its earliest beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through more recent times.
This collection of critical essays explores the philosophy, theory, and history of science fiction and fantasy, from its earliest beginnings in the mi...
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81,27 zł |
The Sociology of Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780893701659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Well-known critic Brian Stableford, a former professor at the University of Reading, contributes "a fascinating and valuable attempt to grapple with the questions of why SF authors write what they write, and why SF readers like what they like"-Interzone. Contents: Introduction; Approaches to the Sociology of Literature; The Analysis of Communicative Functions; The Evolution of Science Fiction as a Publishing Category; The Expectations of the Science Fiction Reader; Themes and Trends in Science Fiction; and Conclusion: The Communicative Functions of Science Fiction. Complete with Notes and...
Well-known critic Brian Stableford, a former professor at the University of Reading, contributes "a fascinating and valuable attempt to grapple with t...
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174,00 zł |
Yesterday's Bestsellers
ISBN: 9780809509065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A study of the popluar fiction of the past.
A study of the popluar fiction of the past.
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146,52 zł |
Stirring Stories
ISBN: 9781645250869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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92,95 zł |
Complications and other Stories
ISBN: 9781587154119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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146,52 zł |
Outside the Human Aquarium
ISBN: 9780893704575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Brian Stableford's essays cover Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, Kurt Vonnegut, Barry Malzberg, Robert Silveberg, Mack Reynolds, Clark Ashton Smith, Philip K. Dick, David H. Keller, Theodore Sturgeon, and Stanley G. Weinbaum.
Brian Stableford's essays cover Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, Kurt Vonnegut, Barry Malzberg, Robert Silveberg, Mack Reynolds, Clark Ashton Smith, P...
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82,50 zł |
The Sociology of Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780893702656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Well-known critic Brian Stableford, a former professor at the University of Reading, contributes "a fascinating and valuable attempt to grapple with the questions of why SF authors write what they write, and why SF readers like what they like"-Interzone. Contents: Introduction; Approaches to the Sociology of Literature; The Analysis of Communicative Functions; The Evolution of Science Fiction as a Publishing Category; The Expectations of the Science Fiction Reader; Themes and Trends in Science Fiction; and Conclusion: The Communicative Functions of Science Fiction. Complete with Notes and...
Well-known critic Brian Stableford, a former professor at the University of Reading, contributes "a fascinating and valuable attempt to grapple with t...
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97,60 zł |
Glorious Perversity
ISBN: 9780809519088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A study of the decadent literary movements in England and France, focusing upon such poets and authors as Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde.
A study of the decadent literary movements in England and France, focusing upon such poets and authors as Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde.
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68,75 zł |
The Revolt of the Machines
ISBN: 9781612273334 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Revolt of the Machines, translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, features eight stories written between 1865 and 1918, providing a cross-section of the early development of what the editor of the 19th century magazine La Science Ilustree, Louis Figuier, called roman scientifique scientific fiction]. Expanding upon the scientific speculations of the day, the stories in this volume often adopt philosophical or moral tones when conceptualizing the consequences of the discovery of anti-gravity; the breakthrough finding that life is possible...
The Revolt of the Machines, translated and annotated by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, features eight stories written b...
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122,06 zł |
The Florians: Daedalus Mission, Book One
ISBN: 9781434435422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) They call them the "rat-catchers." Theyre the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost space colonies. Alex Alexander, ships biologist, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. The planet Floria initially appears to be one of the few Earth colonies thats actually prospered since its initial settlement. But underneath the surface of the society, the "Planners" keep a strict, repressive rule over the Florians, while the...
They call them the "rat-catchers." Theyre the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-...
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73,33 zł |
Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
ISBN: 9781434457431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Eight highly-readable essays on science fiction and fantasy writers, including David Brin, Jonathan Carroll, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Robert Irwin, Graham Joyce, Michael Shea, plus a major piece, "Against the New Gods," on British SF and crime writer Sydney Fowler Wright. Complete with Bibliography and Index.
Eight highly-readable essays on science fiction and fantasy writers, including David Brin, Jonathan Carroll, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Robert Ir...
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73,33 zł |
The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales
ISBN: 9781434457226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Eight tales of science fiction and fantasy perched on the edge of reality, including one dark fantasy novella, "Appearances," published for the first time anywhere.
Eight tales of science fiction and fantasy perched on the edge of reality, including one dark fantasy novella, "Appearances," published for the first ...
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68,44 zł |
Asgard's Secret: A Science Fiction Novel: The Asgard Trilogy, Book One
ISBN: 9781434445032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) They call it Asgard, the Home of the Gods. Beneath its artificial shell are at least three vast cave-systems, each one the size of an Earth-like world; and beneath those, possibly many more. No one knows how many layers there might be, and no one knows what secrets might be buried down at the "center"--if there is a center. At some time in the distant past, Asgard had suffered a terrible catastrophe. Now its outer layers are cold, its builders presumed dead. Explorers and exploiters from a hundred different worlds and races are scavenging among the ruins--but deep down, there might still be...
They call it Asgard, the Home of the Gods. Beneath its artificial shell are at least three vast cave-systems, each one the size of an Earth-like world...
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78,23 zł |
The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas
ISBN: 9781434457110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Six stories of fantasy and science fiction by a modern master, including three pieces published for the first time: "The Path of Progess," "Kalamada's Blessing," "The Shepherd's Daughter," "Shadows of the Past," "Reconstruction," and the original short fantasy novel, "The Return of the Djinn."
Six stories of fantasy and science fiction by a modern master, including three pieces published for the first time: "The Path of Progess," "Kalamada's...
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73,33 zł |
The Painter of Spirits
ISBN: 9781612279008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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102,49 zł |