wyszukanych pozycji: 434
Heterocosms
ISBN: 9780809519071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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96,89 zł |
Heterocosms
ISBN: 9780809509072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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170,00 zł |
The Devil's Party: A Brief History of Satanic Abuse
ISBN: 9781434403339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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86,46 zł |
Salome and other Decadent Fantasies
ISBN: 9781587154089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,85 zł |
Opening Minds
ISBN: 9780893704032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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80,69 zł |
The Sociology of Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780893701659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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172,74 zł |
Complications and other Stories
ISBN: 9781587154119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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145,47 zł |
Outside the Human Aquarium
ISBN: 9780893704575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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81,90 zł |
Snuggly Tales of Hashish and Opium
ISBN: 9781645250401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,71 zł |
The Sociology of Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780893702656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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96,89 zł |
Yesterday's Bestsellers
ISBN: 9780809509065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A study of the popluar fiction of the past.
A study of the popluar fiction of the past.
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145,47 zł |
Stirring Stories
ISBN: 9781645250869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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92,28 zł |
The Literary Appreciation of Russian Writers
ISBN: 9780521280037 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a wide range of Russian literature as well as literal translations for the first part of the book.
This book provides a wide range of Russian literature as well as literal translations for the first part of the book.
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216,69 zł |
Algebraic Fantasies and Realistic Romances
ISBN: 9780893701833 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Seven lucid and entertaining essays on masters of science fiction and fantasy literature, including Bob Shaw, M.P. Shiel, Douglas Adams, Stephen R. Donaldson, and more.
Seven lucid and entertaining essays on masters of science fiction and fantasy literature, including Bob Shaw, M.P. Shiel, Douglas Adams, Stephen R. Do...
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136,32 zł |
Asgard's Secret: A Science Fiction Novel: The Asgard Trilogy, Book One
ISBN: 9781434445032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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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77,66 zł |
News from the Moon
ISBN: 9781932983890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of nine proto-science fiction tales, translated and edited by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, ranges from Louis-Sbastien Mercier's 1768 opening tale, in which the hero communicates with the dead through a beam that anticipates a modern-day laser, to an 1887 story by Guy de Maupassant that speculates on Martian life. In between, we have tales of a heart transplant, a device that can see through time and an alien dragon. The book also includes Albert Robida's classic novella "The Monkey King" in which Saturnin Farandoul, shipwrecked as a baby and...
This collection of nine proto-science fiction tales, translated and edited by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, ranges fro...
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111,47 zł |
The Mirror of Dionysus
ISBN: 9781612275857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brian M. Stableford's latest novel, The Mirror of Dionysus, explores the mystery of the origins of the immortal Axel Rathenius, who lives on the artists' colony of Mnemosyne, an island off the northern coast of what in our world is called France, in the Everlasting Empire, 2,000 years after the birth of the Divine Caesar... Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He has... Brian M. Stableford's latest novel, The Mirror of Dionysus, explores the mystery of the origins of the immortal Axel Rathenius, who lives on the ar... |
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106,61 zł |
Living with the Dead
ISBN: 9781612279022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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145,47 zł |
Frankenstein in London (the Empire of the Necromancers 3)
ISBN: 9781935558781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 1823. Thanks to the technique discovered by Victor Frankenstein, it is now possible to resurrect the dead. Many competing factions now plans to use such technology to reshape the world. Scotland Yard Superintendent Gregory Temple is forced to team up with Victor Frankenstein and the vampire Count Szandor against a secret cabal of Illuminati led by Joseph Balsamo. Meanwhile, in Haiti, a resurrected Napoleon faces the zombie armies of Marie Laveau... Frankenstein in London is the third volume in a prodigious Alternate History saga which embraces the works of Mary Shelley, Paul Feval, Alexandre...
1823. Thanks to the technique discovered by Victor Frankenstein, it is now possible to resurrect the dead. Many competing factions now plans to use su...
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101,76 zł |
Gothic Grotesques: Essays on Fantastic Literature
ISBN: 9781434403391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ten essays on horror fiction, Gothic rock music, science fiction, and fantasy, by a master critic and fiction writer. Complete with index.
Ten essays on horror fiction, Gothic rock music, science fiction, and fantasy, by a master critic and fiction writer. Complete with index.
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91,02 zł |