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  • Discovering Dune

    Essays on Frank Herbert's Epic Saga

    by Donald E. Palumbo ...
    Series Book 81 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the most well-known science fiction novels of all time, and it is often revered alongside time-honored classics like The Lord of the Rings. Unlike Tolkien's work, the Dune series has received remarkably little academic attention. This collection includes fourteen new essays from various academic disciplines--including philosophy, political science, disability studies ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-Building

    by Audrey Isabel Taylor ...
    Series Book 60 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    From wondrous fairy-lands to nightmarish hellscapes, the elements that make fantasy worlds come alive also invite their exploration. This first book-length study of critically acclaimed novelist Patricia A. McKillip's lyrical other-worlds analyzes her characters, environments and legends and their interplay with genre expectations. The author gives long overdue critical attention to McKillip's ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy

    Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy

    by Edited by Mary F. Pharr and Leisa A. Clark. Series Editors Donald E. Palumbo and C.W. Sullivan III ...
    Series Book 35 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using theories grounded in historicism, feminism, humanism, queer theory, as well as cultural, political, and media studies. The essayists demonstrate diverse perspectives regarding Collins's novels but their works have three elements in common: an appreciation ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Discworld and the Disciplines

    Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works

    Edited by Anne Hiebert Alton, William C. Spruiell, Donald E. Palumbo ...
    Series Book 45 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    This collection of new essays applies a wide range of critical frameworks to the analysis of prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Essays focus on topics such as Pratchett's treatment of noise and silence and their political implications; art as an anodyne for racial conflict; humor and cognitive debugging; visual semiotics; linguistic stylistics and readers' perspectives of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lois McMaster Bujold

    Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy

    Edited by Janet Brennan Croft, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III ...
    Series Book 37 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Lois McMaster Bujold has won a shelf full of awards--Hugos, Nebulas, and others--for both her science fiction and fantasy writing. She is one of the most respected names in the field, always delivering polished, thoughtful, and well-crafted writing. She consistently addresses great issues and problems on a human level, where they are faced by quirky, prickly, and very real characters, and her ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • An Asimov Companion

    Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries

    by Donald E. Palumbo ...
    Series Book 51 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    A prolific author, Isaac Asimov is most admired for his science fiction, including his collection of short stories I, Robot and his Robot, Empire and Foundation series novels. While each of these narratives takes place in a different fictional universe, Asimov asserted at the end of his career that he had, with his last Robot and Foundation novels, unified them into one coherent metaseries.This ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Science Fiction Mythmakers

    Religion, Science and Philosophy in Wells, Clarke, Dick and Herbert

    by Jennifer Simkins ...
    Series Book 54 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    A literary genre that pervades 21st-century popular culture, science fiction creates mythologies that make statements about humanity's place in the universe and embody an intersection of science, religion and philosophy.This book considers the significance of this confluence through an examination of myths in the writings of H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Doctor Who in Time and Space

    Essays on Themes, Characters, History and Fandom, 1963-2012

    by Gillian I. Leitch ...
    Series Book 39 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    This collection of fresh essays addresses a broad range of topics in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, both old (1963-1989) and new (2005-present). The book begins with the fan: There are essays on how the show is viewed and identified with, fan interactions with each other, reactions to changes, the wilderness years when it wasn't in production. Essays then look at the ways in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder

    A Critical Study of the Writings

    by Joe Sanders ...
    Series Book 70 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Since they began appearing in the 1970s, Michael Bishop's science fiction and fantasy stories have been recognized for their polished prose and their depth of thought and feeling. His award-winning fiction includes No Enemy but Time (1982), Unicorn Mountain (1988), Brittle Innings (1994) and the outstanding short story "The Pile" (2008). After the 2017 publication of his collection Other Arms ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Truths of Monsters

    Coming of Age with Fantastic Media

    by Ildikó Limpár ...
    Series Book 76 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    As monster theory highlights, monsters are cultural symbols, guarding the borders that society creates to protect its values and norms. Adolescence is the time when one explores and aims at crossing borders to learn the rules of the culture that one will fit into as an adult. Exploring the roles of monsters in coming-of-age narratives and the need to confront and understand the monstrous, this ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Magic Words, Magic Worlds

    Form and Style in Epic Fantasy

    by Matthew Oliver, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III ...
    Series Book 80 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    While all fiction uses words to construct models of the world for readers, nowhere is this more obvious than in fantasy fiction. Epic fantasy novels create elaborate secondary worlds entirely out of language, yet the writing style used to construct those worlds has rarely been studied in depth. This book builds the foundations for a study of style in epic fantasy. Close readings of selected novels ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • English Magic and Imperial Madness

    The Anti-Colonial Politics of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

    by Peter D. Mathews, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III ...
    Series Book 78 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Regency England was a pivotal time of political uncertainty, with a changing monarchy, the Napoleonic Wars, and a population explosion in London. In Susanna Clarke's fantasy novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, the era is also witness to the unexpected return of magic. Locating the consequences of this eruption of magical unreason within the context of England's imperial history, this study ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD