Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

In a world shrunk by modern transport and communication, Star Trek has maintained the values of western maritime exploration through the discovery of strange new worlds in space. Throughout its fifty-year history, the starry sea has provided a familiar backdrop to an ongoing interrogation of what it means to be human.

This book charts the developing Star Trek story from the 1960s through to the present day. Although the core values and progressive politics of the series earliest episodes have remained at the heart of Star Trek throughout half a century, in other ways the story it tells...

Since it first aired in 2011, Game of Thrones galloped up the ratings to become the most watched show in HBO's history. It is no secret that creator George R.R. Martin was inspired by late 15^th century Europe when writing A Song of Ice and Fire, the sprawling saga on which the show is based. Aside from the fantastical elements, Game of Thrones really does mirror historic events and bloody battles of medieval times--but how closely?

Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood is a collection of thought-provoking essays by medieval...

The official guide to the crazy science of Orphan Black

With exclusive insights from the show's co-creator Graeme Manson and science consultant Cosima Herter, The Science of Orphan Black takes you behind the closed doors of the Dyad Institute and inside Neolution. Authors Casey Griffin and Nina Nesseth decode the mysteries of Orphan Black; from the history of cloning, epigenetics, synthetic biology, chimerism, the real diseases on which the clone disease is based, and the transhumanist philosophies of Neolution, to what exactly happens when a projectile...

So you want to join the Midnight Society, huh?

Remember Zeebo the clown?

How about the Ghastly Grinner?

Ever listen to the Dark Music?

Did you want to eat wild boar with Dr. Vink and buy fake vomit from Sardo?

If the answer is yes to any of these, then you, my friend, are ready to join

Strike up your own campfire, and grab this campfire companion as we relive the children's TV series that made a whole generation afraid of the dark. D.J. MacHale's Are You Afraid of the Dark? was the Twilight Zone for kids and teens growing up in the 90s, and for...

If you were a kid of the 1980s, or if you simply are a fan of the films of the 1980s, Netflix's series Stranger Things will feel very familiar in very satisfying ways. This book, in A-Z format, covers character profiles, the origins of the show and inspirations which shaped the series. Season 2 of the series is due to air October 31st.