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Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781476670263 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hugo Award winning writer James Gunn (1923-) has been called "the last Golden Age author" of science fiction. In a career spanning almost 70 years, he has written 28 books and dozens of short stories and participated in the production of films, radio and television programs and comic books. Gunn's memoir provides an intimate account of his unusual life and career, and of the colorful world of science fiction during the latter half of the 20th century.
Hugo Award winning writer James Gunn (1923-) has been called "the last Golden Age author" of science fiction. In a career spanning almost 70 years, he...
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Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey
ISBN: 9781606353004 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers. In Conundrums for the Long Week-End, Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis explore how Sayers used her fictional hero to comment on, and come to terms with, the social upheaval of the time.
Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence...
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El Hombre Invisible
ISBN: 9781544260525 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El hombre invisible (The Invisible Man es el titulo original en ingles) es una famosa novela de ciencia ficcion escrita por H. G. Wells. La obra fue originalmente publicada en entregas en la revista Pearson's Magazine en 1897 y como novela el mismo ano. El hombre invisible del titulo es Griffin, un cientifico que teoriza que si se cambia el indice refractivo de una persona para coincidir exactamente con el del aire y su cuerpo no absorbe ni refleja la luz, entonces no sera visible. Griffin logra llevar a cabo este proceso consigo mismo, pero luego no puede volver a ser visible, llegando a un...
El hombre invisible (The Invisible Man es el titulo original en ingles) es una famosa novela de ciencia ficcion escrita por H. G. Wells. La obra fue o...
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Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination
ISBN: 9780820351223 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Julie Dash, and Janelle Monae. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis supplements historically situated conceptions of blackness with imaginative projections of black futures. This theoretical approach allows her to acknowledge the importance of history without positing a purely historical origin for black identities. The authors considered in this... Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary b... |
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The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft
ISBN: 9781476668772 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fanfiction--a genre criticized as both tasteless and derivative--and other "guilty pleasure" reading (and writing), including romance and fantasy. The complicated relationship between "fanfic" and intellectual property rights is discussed in light of the millennia-old tradition of derivative literature, before modern copyright law established originality as the hallmark of great fiction. "Absorbed reading"--the practice of immersing oneself in the...
Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fanfi...
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Eleanor Cameron: Dimensions of Amazement
ISBN: 9781496814487 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science fiction novels of all time, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, and later winning the National Book Award for her time fantasy The Court of the Stone Children.In addition, Eleanor Cameron played an often vocal role in critical debates about children's...Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnin... |
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Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9780822370734 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability, showing how the genre's exploration of bodyminds that exist outside of the present open up new social and ethical possibilities.
Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of body...
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
ISBN: 9781640320826 / Angielski / Twarda / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,06 |
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The Educational Prophecies of Aldous Huxley: The Visionary Legacy of Brave New World, Ape and Essence, and Island
ISBN: 9781138287013 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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195,06 |
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Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World
ISBN: 9781496816696 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents twelve essays that explore this posthumanism's relevance in young adult literature. Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism, including democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity, multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analysing recent works for young adults.
Presents twelve essays that explore this posthumanism's relevance in young adult literature. Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism,...
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The Women of Orphan Black: Faces of the Feminist Spectrum
ISBN: 9781476674124 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BBC's Orphan Black shattered conventions with one actress - Tatiana Maslany - playing a host of main characters. At the same time, it burst through the expectations of a crowd that anticipated male heroes and female victims. This volume provides an analysis of the series.
BBC's Orphan Black shattered conventions with one actress - Tatiana Maslany - playing a host of main characters. At the same time, it burst through th...
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Radical Philosophy 2.01
ISBN: 9781999979300 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,79 |
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Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film
ISBN: 9781138598072 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,26 |
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Religion and Technology Into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve
ISBN: 9781498580908 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the broad significance of the current trends in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the present as it is trending into the future against the richly relevant and surprisingly long past.
This book examines the broad significance of the current trends in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making ...
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Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
ISBN: 9781479811748 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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360,96 |
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Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
ISBN: 9781479825851 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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136,53 |
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Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television
ISBN: 9781786941190 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well-known in science fiction for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist has been a rich source for imagining `strange new worlds' from `strange old worlds.' But more than a well-spring for SF scenarios, the genre's archaeological imaginary invites us to consider the ideological implications of digging up the past buried in the future. A cultural study of an array of very popular, though often critically-neglected, North American SF film and television texts-running the gamut of telefilms, pseudo-documentaries, teen serial drama and Hollywood blockbusters-Excavating the Future...
Well-known in science fiction for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist has been a rich source for imagining `strange new worlds' from `...
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The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age
ISBN: 9780231188630 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned.
The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to ...
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Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England
ISBN: 9781474441315 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new critical edition situates 'After London' in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and cultural issues of the period.
This new critical edition situates 'After London' in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the evolutionary theories of Charles Darw...
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The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age
ISBN: 9780231188623 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned.
The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to ...
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