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  • Alien and Philosophy

    I Infest, Therefore I Am

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am presents a philosophical exploration of the world of Alien, the simultaneously horrifying and thought-provoking sci-fi horror masterpiece, and the film franchise it spawned.The first book dedicated to exploring the philosophy raised by one of the most successful and influential sci-fi franchises of modern timesFeatures contributions from an acclaimed ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Stranger Things and Philosophy

    Thus Spake the Demogorgon

    Edited by Jeffrey A. Ewing, Andrew M. Winters ...
    Series Book 126 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Stranger Things and Philosophy is an important book, the first of its kind to examine the fantastical world of this award-winning, widely beloved, phenomenal show with a philosophical lens. This is important precisely because the show rests so heavily on a complex and thought-provoking mythos based around secretive government experiments and a parallel dimension that darkly reflects readers' own. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Death by Landscape

    by Elvia Wilk ...
    From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of “fan nonfiction” about living and writing in the age of extinctionIn this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self.Wilk ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Transformers and Philosophy

    More than Meets the Mind

    Edited by John R. Shook, Liz Stillwaggon Swan ...
    Series series Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Transformers began with toys and a cartoon series in 1984 and has since grown to include comic books, movies, and video games - its science fiction story has reached an audience with a wide range second only to that of Star Wars. Here, in Transformers and Philosophy, a dream team of philosophers pursues the fascinating questions posed by humankind’s encounter with an artificially intelligent ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Philip K. Dick and Philosophy

    Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits?

    Edited by D. E. Wittkower ...
    Series Book 63 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) is the giant imagination behind so much recent popular culture—both movies directly based on his writings, such as Blade Runner (based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and The Adjustment Bureau plus cult favorites such as A Scanner Darkly, Imposter, Next, Screamers, and Paycheck and works revealing ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

    New Essays

    by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Everything and Less

    The Novel in the Age of Amazon

    by Mark McGurl ...
    **National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistBest Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub)What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism?**Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The “Everything Store” has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In Everything and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Story Paradox

    How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down

    by Jonathan Gottschall ...
    Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy itHumans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore. Storytelling, the very tradition that built human civilization, may ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Avatar and Nature Spirituality

    Edited by Bron Taylor ...
    Series Book 8 - Environmental Humanities
    Avatar and Nature Spirituality explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron's film Avatar (2010), one of the most commercially successful motion pictures of all time. Its success was due in no small measure to the beauty of the Pandora landscape and the dramatic, heart-wrenching plight of its nature-venerating inhabitants. To some audience members, the film was inspirational, ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Green Planets

    Ecology and Science Fiction

    Edited by Gerry Canavan, Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fantasy Role-Playing Game

    A New Performing Art

    by Daniel Mackay ...
    Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Future War

    by Christopher Coker ...
    Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network which can read their thoughts? Will war be fought with greater or lesser humanity? Will it be played out in cyberspace and further afield in Low Earth Orbit? Or will it be fought more intensely still in the sprawling cities of the developing world, the grim black holes of social ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD