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Dissent, disease, disaster.
This genre-spanning anthology explores the many ways that we grow, adapt, and survive in the face of our ever-changing global realities. These evocative, often prescient, stories showcase new and emerging writers from across Africa to investigate many of the pressing issues of our time: climate change, pandemics, social upheaval, surveillance, and more.
In Disruption, authors from across Africa use their stories to explore...
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Science fiction and fantasy authors analyze every aspect of the innovative, action-packed, and always surprising science fiction television series Farscape in this unique and irreverent essay collection. Contributors include Martha Wells-writing about characters Crichton and D'Argo's buddy relationship; P. N. Elrod-on the villains she loves to hate; and Justina Robson-on sex, pleasure, and feminism. Topics range from a look at how Moya was designed...
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In The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth rate, in which the few remaining fertile women are conscripted to have sex and bear children to the most powerful men, all justified and rationalized by religious fundamentalism....
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The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics' characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a proliferation of poetry in this genre-receiving wide literary and popular attention.
This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets, who have written verse within this growing tradition, including Terrance Hayes, Lucille Clifton, Gill Scott-Heron, A. Van Jordan, Glenis Redmond, Tracy K. Smith,...
285) On Joanna Russ
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This critical anthology presents a multifaceted look at one of the most original and influential voices in both science fiction and feminism.
Best known for her groundbreaking feminist sci-fi novel The Female Man (1975), Joanna Russ has produced an important and wide-ranging body of fiction and essays. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula...
286) Vanishing Acts
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"A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species-be they human or animal, mythical or alien." -Publishers Weekly
In this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories draw you into compelling, adventurous, and even humorous tales that will make you think about the future of animals, humanity, and the world around us. You'll find bugs and buffalo, humans and aliens, creatures...
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De la science-fiction à la fantasy en passant par le fantastique, dix auteurs proposent leur vision d'un avenir du passé.
Dans ce rétro-futur haut en couleurs, la vapeur et la voile cohabitent, le chevalier d'Éon use de charmes inattendus, des automates interrogent le tic tac de leur cœur mécanique et des élixirs permettent de changer de sexe à volonté. Embarquez à bord de la Vagabonde ou du Quatorze Sacs à Malice, destination la Russie,...
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J.R.R. Tolkien's works have gained global appeal, leading to translations in over thirty languages and a host of stylistically unique illustrations.
As a translator and illustrator himself, Tolkien was acutely aware of the challenges and benefits that both bring to a written text. Translating and Illustrating Tolkien explores what these processes add to, emit from, or complement Tolkien's original text.
Hosted online, the Tolkien Society 2021 autumn...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Brave New World tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Aldous Huxley's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Brave New World includes: Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the main charactersThemes and symbolsImportant...
290) Bridges to hope
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This collection of 17 uplifting short stories and poems by 13-18-year old writers from 10 countries is a short read that will give you hope for the future.
In April 2020, the publishers set an open challenge to young people aged 8-18 to craft messages of hope for the COVID era. The task asked them to imagine life thirty years into the future, then send a message back through time to 2020. This anthology is a collection of the creative responses...
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How does an immortal deal with death?What can an ancient Time Lord teach us about real human nature?Why does the Doctor say he and Freud "got on very well"?How do the Daleks and Cybermen reflect concerns about losing our humanity?And what new challenges loom ahead when the Doctor regenerates as a woman?Hailed as the "most successful sci-fi series ever made" (Guinness World Records), Doctor Who has been a cult-classic for more than half a century....
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In Avengers Infinity Saga and Philosophy, philosophers explore the momentous issues and the fascinating puzzles raised by Marvel's compelling series of movies:
● Is the Thanos snap truly an answer to overpopulation and famine, or is it simply indefensible mass murder on a cosmic scale?
● Are the Avengers who try to stop Thanos dishing out justice or merely fighting a man who is himself just?
● Captain America or Tony Stark-which leader...
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