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by Lavie Tidhar
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Appeals to fans of classic/contemporary science fiction and literary fiction
Contains topical, international, and multicultural themes
Author's previous novel won the Campbell Award and was shortlisted for the Clarke and British Science Fiction awards
Science Fiction Criticism
An Anthology of Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as:
·Definitions and boundaries of the...
What Makes This Book So Great
Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading*—*about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging...
John Gardner on Writing
On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Three books in one volume: Advice and reflections on modern fiction from “one of the greatest creative writing teachers we’ve ever had” (Frederick Busch).
In On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner advises the aspiring fiction author on such topics as the value of creative writing workshops,...
An Informal History of the Hugos
A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, An Informal History of the Hugos is a book about the renowned science fiction award for the many who enjoyed Jo Walton's previous collection of writing from Tor.com, the Locus Award-winning What Makes This Book So Great.
The Hugo Awards, named...
Thrill Me
Essays on Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands
Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely have noticed a certain shift: After writing two short-story collections and a literary novel, he delivered...
In Other Worlds
SF and the Human Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale
At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths...
The Art of Fiction
A Guide for Writers and Readers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript...
by David Pringle
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
From one of the best-known editors in modern science fiction, this lively and authoritative guide will appeal to both newcomers and connoisseurs of the genre alike. Informative and readable, David Pringle's choices focus on landmark works by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Alfred Bester and J.G. Ballard,...
by James Blish
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
James Blish, in his incarnation as "William Atheling, Jr.," has written more than his share of the most incisive criticism of contemporary science fiction. In 1964 Advent brought out The Issue at Hand, a collection of Atheling's critical essays on stories in the science-fiction magazines.Now...
Red Star Tales
100 Years of Russian Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
**For over a century, most of the science fiction produced by the world’s largest country has been beyond the reach of Western readers. This new collection aims to change that, bringing a large body of influential works into the English orbit. **
A scientist keeps a severed head alive, and...
Time Travel
The Popular Philosophy of Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative “laboratory,” a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are represented in the form of literal devices...
A Billionaire's Ransom Part 1: A Military Action and Adventure Romance Novel Series
A Billionaire's Ransom series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
An illegal diamond merchant goes missing in war-torn Bornu State, northeastern Nigeria, a large poverty-stricken region on the edge of the mighty Sahara Desert being besieged by the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic terrorists. He leaves behind a vast legitimate fortune and the heir apparent is an impulsive...
Dragonwriter
A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
When Anne McCaffrey passed in November 2011, it was not only those closest to her who mourned her death; legions of readers also felt the loss deeply. The pioneering science fiction author behind the Dragonriders of Pern® series crafted intricate stories, enthralling worlds, and strong heroines that...