Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling
Author: Monica Valentinelli
Publisher: Apex Book Company
Published: 2016-12-13
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13:
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Upside Down
Author: Jaym Gates
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781370692279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This compendium of literary undercutting and rebuilding is both enjoyable to read and an incisive work of commentary on the genre."-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling is an anthology of short stories, poetry, and essays edited by Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates. Over two dozen authors, ranging from NYT-bestsellers and award winners to debut writers, chose a tired trope or cliche to challenge and surprise readers through their work.Read stories inspired by tropes such as the Chainmaille Bikini, Love at First Sight, Damsels in Distress, Yellow Peril, The Black Man Dies First, The Villain Had a Crappy Childhood, The Singularity Will Cause the Apocalypse, and many more...then discover what these tropes mean to each author to find out what inspired them.Join Maurice Broaddus, Adam Troy-Castro, Delilah S. Dawson, Shanna Germain, Sara M. Harvey, John Hornor Jacobs, Rahul Kanakia, Alethea Kontis, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Haralmbi Markov, Sunil Patel, Kat Richardson, Nisi Shawl, Ferrett Steinmetz, Anton Strout, Michael Underwood, Alyssa Wong and many other authors as they take well-worn tropes and cliches and flip them upside down.CONTENTSIntroduction -- Jerry GordonSECTION I: INVERTING THE TROPESOn Loving Bad Boys: A Villanelle -- Valya Dudycz LupescuSingle, Singularity -- John Hornor JacobsLazzrus -- Nisi ShawlSeeking Truth -- Elsa Sjunneson-HenryThwock -- Michelle MuenzlerCan You Tell Me How to Get to Paprika Place? -- Michael R. UnderwoodChosen -- Anton StroutThe White Dragon -- Alyssa WongHer Curse, How Gently It Comes Undone -- Haralambi MarkovBurning Bright -- Shanna GermainSanta CIS (Episode 1: No Saint) -- Alethea KontisRequiem for a Manic Pixie Dream -- Katy Harrad & Greg StolzeThe Refrigerator in the Girlfriend -- Adam-Troy CastroThe First Blood of Poppy Dupree -- Delilah S. DawsonRed Light -- Sara M. HarveyUntil There Is Only Hunger -- Michael MathesonSuper Duper Fly -- Maurice BroaddusDrafty as a Chain Mail Bikini -- Kat RichardsonSwan Song -- Michelle Lyons-McFarlandThose Who Leave -- Michael ChoiNouns of Nouns: A Mini Epic -- Alex ShvartsmanExcess Light -- Rahul KanakiaThe Origin of Terror -- Sunil PatelThe Tangled Web -- Ferrett SteinmetzHamsa, Hamsa, Hamsa, Tfu, Tfu, Tfu. -- Alisa SchreibmanReal Women Are Dangerous -- Rati MehrotraSECTION II: DISCUSSING THE TROPESI'm Pretty Sure I've Read This Before ... -- Patrick HesterFractured Souls -- Lucy A. SnyderInto the Labyrinth: The Heroine's Journey -- A.C. WiseEscaping the Hall of Mirrors -- Victor RaymondTropes as Erasers: A Transgender Perspective -- Keffy R.M. KehrliSECTION III: DEFINING THE TROPESAfterword -- Monica Valentinelli & Jaym GatesTrope Definitions/Index of TropesSECTION IV: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND ADDITIONAL BIOS
Lost Souls Short Stories
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Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-12-15
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 1787552500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Authors and collections. A collection of new tales with brilliant new writers and lost souls from the darkest corners of literature and legend: Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer mingles with Dante’s infernal spirits and a retold tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses. And with the dark fiction of William Hope Hodgson and Arthur Machen this promises to be a haunting, chilling read. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Sara Dobie Bauer, Sarah L. Byrne, Rachael Cudlitz, C.R. Evans, Geneve Flynn, Adele Gardner, Anne Gresham, Sara M. Harvey, Kurt Hunt, Michael Matheson, J.A.W. McCarthy, John M. McIlveen, Jessica Nickelsen, Michael Penncavage, Lina Rather, Alexandra Renwick, Aeryn Rudel, Lizz-Ayn Shaarawi, Erin Skolney, Lucy A. Snyder, David Tallerman, and Damien Angelica Walters. These appear alongside classic stories by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, F. Marion Crawford, Washington Irving, Perceval Landon, Edith Wharton and more.
The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories
Author: Alex Shvartsman
Publisher: UFO Publishing
Published: 2018-04-01
Total Pages: 277
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK31 science fiction and fantasy short stories encompassing hard SF, fantasy humor, and everything in-between. * Refugees with a salvaged mech suit find that family ties are stronger than armor. * Two artificial intelligences in love turn the world into their playground. * Modern-day Dante is guided through hell by the ghost of Bob Marley. * Ancient gods and monsters stalk the halls of a 1920s night club. * A young woman must save her planet by committing an act of terror. * In the rekindled space race between the United States, Russia, and India, the winner might be the nation willing to sacrifice the most.
Re-imagining Hate Crime
Author: Ben Colliver
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 3030657140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book draws upon empirical data to offer a fresh and unique perspective on hate crime victimisation, using transphobic hate crime as a case study. It adopts the lens of ‘visibility’ as a way of understanding hate crime victimisation and to challenge dominant theoretical and conceptual perspectives of hate crime. In adopting this lens, key aspects of victimisation are explored, including the hierarchical nature of hate crime victimisation that afford visibility to particular types of victimisation and to particular groups of people to make them ‘legitimate’ victims. In challenging these notions, this book highlights the pervasive, everyday nature of much hate crime and introduces the concept of ‘micro-crimes’ as a way to conceptualise the nature of victimisation that is often overshadowed by discussions around ‘microaggressions’ and more socially recognisable forms of ‘hate crime’. Key ideas relating to space, place and identity performance are drawn upon throughout these analyses and discussions to provide a nuanced overview and conceptualisation of hate crime victimisation.
Toxic Masculinity
Author: John Mercer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-01-31
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1000813738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToxic Masculinity brings together scholars across disciplines to explore the ways in which toxic masculinity is constructed, configured and represented online. What is "toxic masculinity"? Examining what it means in the media and public discourse, the contributors have explored a constellation of behaviours, cultures and practices that have been labelled as (or associated with) toxic masculinity including those of politicians, extremists, incels, as well as individual "ordinary" men and their everyday behaviours. Topics covered in the collection include incels and Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), bro culture, sexual violence, internalised homophobia, transphobia, white masculinity and political discourse. Toxic Masculinity is intended for a broad spectrum of gender, media, cultural and masculinity studies professionals, academics, researchers and students. The book also includes suggestions for further reading, a discussion of methods used in each chapter and contextual prefaces to make connections between critical questions and cases.
Submerged
Author: Seanan McGuire
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Published: 2017-09-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 194070913X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryone has their eyes set on the black depths of space...but what about the deep abysses of the ocean? What dark monsters swim unseen beneath the waves? What ancient wonders lie hidden, waiting to be discovered? What sirens call, either here on Earth or in the icy waters of a far off planet...or even at the bottom of a wine glass? So much remains to be explored below the surface, where light fades and the pressure kills. Here are seventeen stories from today’s leading science fiction and fantasy authors that take us into those depths, whether we want to or not. Join Seanan McGuire, Michael Robertson, Esther Friesner, F. Brett Cox, Wendy Nikel, Marsheila Rockwell & Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Jody Lynn Nye, Bill Kte’pi, Jenna Rhodes, Susan Jett, James Van Pelt, J.D. Koch, Misty Massey, A. Merc Rustad, David Farland, Sara M. Harvey, and Nicky Drayden as they explore unfathomable trenches, underwater volcanoes, and abyssal plains. Take the plunge...into the Deep End!
Black Cat Weekly #47
Author: Peter Lovesey
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 1479473642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to Black Cat Weekly #47. Another fine issue is at hand—with mysteries from Peter Lovesey (thanks to acquiring editor Barb Goffman), Laird Long (thanks to acquiring editor Michael Bracken), and classics from Christopher B. Booth, Edgar Wallace, and Nicholas Carter. (Not to mention a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles!) On the science fiction front, we have Nisi Shawl’s excellent “Lazzrus” (thanks to acquiring editor Cynthia Ward) plus classics from George O. Smith, E.E. “Doc” Smith, and Algis Budrys. Here’s the complete lineup: Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “Suicide Sleep,” by Laird Long [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “Boxed In,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] Popping Round to the Post,” by Peter Lovesey [Barb Goffman Presents short story] “Penny Protection,” by Christopher B. Booth [short story] Chick, by Edgar Wallace [novel] The Sultan’s Pearls, by Nicholas Carter [novel] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “Lazzrus,” by Nisi Shawl [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] “Firegod,” by Algis Budrys [short story] “Robot Nemesis,” by E.E. “Doc” Smith, Ph.D. [novelet] Pattern for Conquest, by George O. Smith [novel]
Do Not Go Quietly
Author: Jason Sizemore
Publisher: Apex Publications
Published: 2019-05-21
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResistance. Revolution. Standing up and demanding to have your space, your say, your right to be. From small acts of defiance to protests that shut down cities, Do Not Go Quietly is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories about those who resist. Within this anthology, we will chronicle the fight for what is just and right, and what that means: from leading revolutions to the simple act of saying “No.” Resistance can be a small act of everyday defiance. And other times, resistance means massive movements that topple governments and become iconic historical moments. Either way, there is power in these acts, and the contributors in Do Not Go Quietly will harness that power to shake our readers to the core. We are subordinates to a power base that is actively working to solidify its grip on the world. Now is time to stand up and raise your voice and tell the world that enough is enough! TABLE OF CONTENTS: John Hornor Jacobs - "Glossolalia" A. Merc Rustad - "The Judith Plague" Maurice Broaddus/Nayad Monroe - "What the Mountain Wants" Karin Lowachee - "Sympathizer" Brooke Bolander - "Kindle" Cassandra Khaw - "What We Have Chosen to Love" Fran Wilde - "The Society for the Reclamation of Words and Meaning" Rich Larson - "Scurry" Sarah Pinsker - "Everything Is Closed Today" Sheree Renée Thomas - "Thirteen Year Long Song" Dee Warrick - "Nobody Lives in the Swamp" Russell Nichols - "Rage Against the Vending Machine" Meg Elison - "Hey Alexa" Marie Vibbert - "South of the Waffle House" Veronica Brush - "Face" Jo Miles - "Choose Your Truth" Rachael K. Jones - "Oil Under Her Tongue" Eugenia Triantafyllou - "April Teeth" E. Catherine Tobler - "Kill the Darlings (Silicone Sister Remix)" Shanna Germain - "Salted Bone and Silent Sea" Cover art by Marcela Bolívar. Includes 4 interior original black & white illustrations by the cover artist.
Talk like a Man
Author: Nisi Shawl
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1629637742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNisi Shawl’s steampunk-flavored alternate history of the “Belgian” Congo, Everfair, has taken the science fiction and fantasy world by storm. No surprise there. Their swift, sure, and savvy short stories had already established them as a cutting-edge Afrofuturist icon whose politically charged fiction is in the grand feminist tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Suzy McKee Charnas. In these previously uncollected stories, Shawl explores the unexpected possibilities and perils opened up by SF&F’s new intersectionality. In Shawl’s side-slippery world, sex can be both commerce and worship, complete with ancient rites, altars, and ointments (“Women of the Doll”); a virtual reality high school is a proving ground for girlpacks and their unfortunate adversaries (“Walk like a Man”); and a British rock singer finds an image in a mirror that reflects both future hits and ancient horrors (“Something More”). Also included is a presentation at a southern university, in which they patiently (and gleefully) deconstructs the academic and arcane intersections between ancient rites and modern tech. Ifa, anyone? Plus: Our Outspoken Interview with Shawl, in which unapologetics are proffered, riddles are unraveled, and icons are, as always, clasted.
