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Cover of The Crime Fiction Handbook
by Peter Messent
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012

The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fiction Moves...
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emerge 17

The Writer's Studio Anthology

by Gurjinder Basran, T. M. Baldwin, Lis Jakobsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017

Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal. Words...
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by Debbie Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

These twenty wry and witty short stories examine change at every stage of life, in a natural progression from birth to death. Mostly lighthearted, but often moving too, this collection is written with an admirable economy of style. They're short enough to class as flash fiction, sudden fiction,...
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MYTHIC ORBITS 2016

BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION by Christian Authors

by Kerry Nietz, Kirk Outerbridge
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016

The name "Mythic Orbits" was simply intended to suggest both science fiction and fantasy and to identify this book in a distinctive way, along with any that follow after it in a series. Ideally this collection would include the best stories published in a particular year, but that...
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Fiction River Presents

Readers' Choice

by Kris Nelscott, Debbie Mumford, Lee Allred
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017

Fiction River readers make the call in this latest volume of Fiction River Presents. From a reluctant warrior fighting a battle in her own backyard, to a man coming to terms with the racial inequality of his youth, to a romance blooming out of adversity, Readers’ Choice offers up favorite stories...
Cover of The World Turned Upside Down
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005

GET READY FOR A GIANT, MIND-EXPANDING DOSE OF THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION EVER WRITTEN BY THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS OF ALL TIME!When readers first encounter science fiction, they find adventures on other planets and in future worlds, explorations of future technology and its implications, and...
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Fiction Vortex

June 2013

by Fiction Vortex, Marilyn K. Martin, R.W.W. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016

We have conclusive proof in this issue that the May issue was more than just a fluke because we have yet another month's worth of fantastic stories to deliver. This issue has some great surprises, too. Fiction Vortex publishes science fiction and fantasy. All stories in this issue appeared on FictionVortex.com...
Cover of Fiction River Presents: Writers Without Borders
by Fiction River, Karen L. Abrahamson, Melissa Yi
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017

Fiction River crosses the border (and sometimes the galaxy) in this latest volume of Fiction River Presents. From a look into the Canadian side of World War II to the streets of London’s East End to worlds altogether alien, Writers Without Borders offers up international perspectives from Fiction...
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Fiction Vortex

July 2014

by Fiction Vortex, Caren Gussoff, Robert Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016

This month we have a few trips into the surreal, with a workplace fight, a shape-shifting shopper, and an unidentified no-longer-flying object. There are plenty of great ideas and storylines to enjoy, so have a seat in the shade and get started. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the 277th...
Cover of The Works of Clifford D. Simak Volume Four

The Works of Clifford D. Simak Volume Four

The Big Front Yard and Other Stories, Time Is the Simplest Thing, and The Goblin Reservation

by Clifford D. Simak
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018

A collection of masterpieces from a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction who “has never written a bad book” (Theodore Sturgeon). The Big Front Yard and Other Stories: Handyman Hiram likes things he can understand and fix. But he has a true mystery on his hands...
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Alien Constructions

Science Fiction and Feminist Thought

by Patricia Melzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and gender of the body to global power relations among sexes, races, and nations. Feminist thinkers and writers...
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Astounding Wonder

Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America

by John Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012

When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while...
Cover of Understanding William Gibson
by Gerald Alva Miller Jr., Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016

Gerald Alva Miller Jr.’s Understanding William Gibson is a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short stories. Gibson is the recipient of many notable awards for science fiction writing including the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick awards....
Cover of Locus Magazine, Issue #678, July 2017
by Locus Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017

Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings. Locus Issue #678 (July 2017) features interviews with Cory Doctorow and Sam J. Miller, a column by Cory Doctorow, complete results of this year’s...
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