Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Science Fiction & Fantasy

• Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent scientific developments
• Explores questions relating to transhumanism, brain enhancement, time travel, the nature of the self, and the ethics of artificial intelligence
• Features...

In Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and film share important connections concerning imaginings of the future. Contributors look at themes across a wide variety of films, including many international co-productions to explore individualism versus collectivism, technological obstacles to travel through time and space, the accumulation of capital and colonization, struggles of oppressed groups, the dangers of false ideologies, and the extension of the concept of labor due...

Deep Ends 2016 is a full-size, full colour anthology featuring 27 of today's top J.G. Ballard scholars, artists, and informed Ballardians. Contents include: "Ballard/Baxter/Ballard: In Conversation," by Fay Ballard and Jeannette Baxter, "Empires of the Self: J.G. Ballard's Autobiographical Novels," by D. Harlan Wilson, two poems by Richard Brown -- "Super-Mare" and "Afterwords," "J.G. Ballard's Elaborately Signalled Landscape' The Drafting of Concrete Island" by Chris Beckett (includes...

Black and Brown Planets embarks on a timely exploration of the American obsession with color in its look at the sometimes contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors, including De Witt D. Kilgore, Edward James, Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen S. Barr, among others, explore science fiction worlds of possibility (literature, television, and film), lifting blacks, Latin Americans, and indigenous peoples out from the background of this historically white genre.

This collection considers the role of race and ethnicity in our visions of the future. The...

Deep Ends 2016 is a full-size, full colour anthology featuring 27 of today's top J.G. Ballard scholars, artists, and informed Ballardians. Contents include: "Ballard/Baxter/Ballard: In Conversation," by Fay Ballard and Jeannette Baxter, "Empires of the Self: J.G. Ballard's Autobiographical Novels," by D. Harlan Wilson, two poems by Richard Brown -- "Super-Mare" and "Afterwords," "J.G. Ballard's Elaborately Signalled Landscape' The Drafting of Concrete Island" by Chris Beckett (includes...

Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as:

-Definitions and boundaries of the genre
-The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space'
-Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings
-The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals
-Race and the legacy of colonialism

The...

Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as:

.Definitions and boundaries of the genre
.The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space'
.Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings
.The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals
.Race and the legacy of colonialism

The...

Beautifully illustrated with dozens of original full-color and black-and-white drawings, The Plants of Middle-earth connects readers visually to the world of Middle-earth, its cultures and characters and the scenes of their adventures. Tolkien's use of flowers, herbs, trees, and other flora creates verisimilitude in Middle-earth, with the flora serving important narrative functions. This botanical tour through Middle-earth increases appreciation of Tolkien's contribution as preserver and transmitter of English cultural expression, provides a refreshing and enlivening perspective for...

C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other's works-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing? How does creative collaboration enhance individual talent? And what can we learn from their example?

Complemented with original illustrations by James Owen, Bandersnatch offers an inside look at the Inklings of Oxford--and a seat at their table at the Eagle and...