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Author: Andrew Milner
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Published: 2020-03-27
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1789621720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a timely, comprehensiveand thoroughly researched study of climate fiction from around the world,including novels, short stories, films and other formats. Informed by a sociologicalperspective, it will be an invaluable resource for students and scholarslooking to enter and expand the field of climate fiction studies.
Author: Glyn Morgan
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1789620139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important collection of essays acknowledges the long and distinctive history of the alternate history genre whilst also revelling in its vitality, adaptability, and contemporary relevance, with many of the chapters discussing late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts which have previously received little or no sustained critical analysis.
Author: Andrew Milner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1846318424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts.
Author: Curtis D. Carbonell
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1789620570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDread Trident examines the rise of imaginary worlds in tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs), such as Dungeons and Dragons. With the combination of analog and digital mechanisms, from traditional books to the internet, new ways of engaging the fantastic have become increasingly realized in recent years, and this book seeks an understanding of this phenomenon within the discourses of trans- and posthumanism, as well as within a gameist mode. The book explores a number of case studies of foundational TRPGs. Dungeons and Dragons provides an illustration of pulp-driven fantasy, particularly in the way it harmonizes its many campaign settings into a functional multiverse. It also acts as a supreme example of depth within its archive of official and unofficial published material, stretching back four decades. Warhammer 40k and the Worlds of Darkness present an interesting dialogue between Gothic and science-fantasy elements. The Mythos of HP Lovecraft also features prominently in the book as an example of a realized world that spans the literary and gameist modes. Realized fantasy worlds are becoming ever more popular as a way of experiencing a touch of the magical within modern life. Reworking Northrop Frye's definition of irony, Dread Trident theorizes an ironic understanding of this process and in particular of its embodied forms.
Author: T. A. Shippey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1781382611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of politics and the role of the 'soft sciences' in Science Fiction.
Author: Andrew Milner
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9004314156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgain, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner’s distinctively Orwellian version of cultural materialism between 1981 and 2015. The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies. They are bookended by two conversations between Milner and his editor J.R. Burgmann, the first looking back retrospectively on the development of Milner’s thought, the second looking forward prospectively towards the future of academia, the political left and science fiction.
Author: Gavin Parkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1781381437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to look at the relationship either between Surrealism and Science Fiction or between Surrealism and comics.
Author: Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
Publisher: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
Published: 2020-01-31
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1789620287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book-length study of the relationship between science fiction, the techno-scientific policies of independent India, and the global non-aligned movement that emerged as a response to the Cold War and decolonization. Today, we see the trend of science fiction writers being used by governments as advisors on techno-scientific policies and defence industries. But such relationships between literature, policy and geo-politics have a long and complex history. Glimpses of this history can be seen in the case of the first generation of post-colonial Indian science fiction writers, the policies of scientific and technological development in independent India, and the political strategy of non-alignment advocated by India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who proposed that Third World nations should maintain an equal distance between Washington and Moscow. Such a perspective reveals the surprisingly long and relatively unknown life of Indian science fiction, as well as the critical role played by the genre in imagining alternative pathways for scientific and geo-political developments to those that dominate our lives now.
Author: George Turner
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2013-03-14
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0575118709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrancis Conway is Swill - one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness and nature have conspired to turn Swill homes into watery tombs. And now the young boy must find a way to escape the approaching tide of disaster. The Sea and Summer, published in the US as The Drowning Towers is George Turner's masterful exploration of the effects of climate change in the not-too-distant future. Comparable to J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World, it was shortlisted for the Nebula and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel, 1988
Author: Peter Swirski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1781381860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem's life, career, and literary legacy to light in order to mete out cognitive justice to the writer who preferred to be known as the philosopher of the future.
