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  • The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History

    A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History

    by Dr Jack Dann ...
    A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. First giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to differentiate the different forms of counterfactual fiction, Jack Dann lays out the 'tricks of the trade' such 'Heinleining', how to create ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey

    Edited by Stephanie Schwam ...
    Series series Modern Library Movies
    "If 2001 has stirred your emotions, your subconscious, your mythological yearnings, then it has succeeded."--Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick's extraordinary movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1969. The critics initially disliked it, but the public loved it. And eventually, the film took its rightful place as one of the most innovative, brilliant, and pivotal works of modern cinema. The ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Science Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Seed ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Maps of the Imagination

    The Writer as Cartographer

    by Peter Turchi ...
    In Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities. The author explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work, making crucial decisions about what to include and what to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Uncharted

    Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture

    by Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel ...
    “One of the most exciting developments from the world of ideas in decades, presented with panache by two frighteningly brilliant, endearingly unpretentious, and endlessly creative young scientists.” – Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our NatureOur society has gone from writing snippets of information by hand to generating a vast flood of 1s and 0s that record almost every aspect of ... Read more

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  • Family Resemblance

    An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres

    by Marcela Sulak, Jacqueline Kolosov ...
    When we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, Family Resemblance is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, providing craft essays and examples of hybrid forms by 43 distinguished authors. In this study of eight hybrid genres—including lyric essay, epistolary, poetic memoir, prose poetry, performative, short ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

    by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay ...
    This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today's world.As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and ... Read more

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  • Building Imaginary Worlds

    The Theory and History of Subcreation

    by Mark J.P. Wolf ...
    Mark J.P. Wolf’s study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of ... Read more

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  • Stay

    by John Clute ...
    Stay gathers together 100,000 words of reviews, plus short fiction by John Clute, and was originally published to coincide with Loncon3 (the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention) at which he was one of the Guests of Honour.Also included is a complete reprint of the text of The Darkening Garden. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history – an integrated chronological ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD