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So many science fiction and fantasy movies and so little time. Metropolis, King Kong, War of the Worlds, Fantastic Voyage, Star Wars, The Terminator, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Inception . . . Plan 9 From Outer Space . . . and so many, many more. Where to start and which ones to watch? Well that's...

"The Lying Brain is a study to take seriously. Its argument is timely, clear, and of particular importance to the enlargement of our understanding of the relationships among science studies, literary studies, and technology studies." ---Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma Real...

A. E. van Vogt: Science Fantasy's Icon presents a study of select works by van Vogt and some limited biographical data. The main thrust of this book is to explain how, and why, van Vogt's various real life interests were often included in his fiction and nonfiction. Van Vogt went to work immediately...

Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s...

Swords, Sorcery & Space Ships in Science Fantasy Classic! First time ever in book form, Last Days of Thronas is one of the rarest of the fabled science fiction adventures from the golden days of the pulp magazines. It appeared only in a rare 1954 issue of Science Stories and has never been reprinted....

A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of Altruism We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart...

** WALDENBOOKS BOOK OF THE WEEK **** LOCUS RECOMMENDED READING LIST **An alien armada from the center of Orion makes its deadly way through the galaxy, destroying all human life in the process, and only Marine Corporal Kenneth Jonson and the Aggressor Six team can stop the onslaught.REVIEWS:“An...

SPACE PRISON AND OTHER GOLDEN AGE SCIENCE FICTION STORIES features seven science fiction stories by noted writer Tom Godwin, including his novel SPACE PRISON. • And Devious the Line of Duty • The Barbarians • Brain Teaser • Cry From a Far Planet • The Helpful Hand of God • The Nothing...

Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology...

A New Novel From Award-Winning Master of Fantasy and Science Fiction Tim Powers. A modern ghost story as only Tim Powers can write it. Something weird is happening to the Los Angeles freeways—phantom cars, lanes from nowhere, and sometimes unmarked offramps that give glimpses of a desolate...

Eric Hoffer Book Awards First Place for Commercial Fiction Visionary and satiric. Two astronomers discover an asteroid: Death is possible -- will it hit? Strong doses of romance, science, religion and sex . . . with some ballet thrown in for good measure. A courageous and visionary work...

Science Alive (1-5) is a completely new 5-year course specially designed to make the teaching and learning of science a meaningful and truly 'aliVe' experience. The series is planned around the philosophy that science can be learnt only if the  child acquires a scientific temperament — there must...

From New York Times and USA Today Best-Selling Author, Rebecca York After a soul-killing two-year undercover assignment in prison, Federation agent, Jack Younger agrees to one more risky masquerade--as a terrorist. He doesn't count on his old love, Sophia DeAngelo, ending up in the middle of an armed...

From New York Times and USA Today Best-Selling Author, Rebecca York Mail order bride, Carin Tully, arrived on the frontier planet, Palomar, hoping for a better life--with her new husband Gabe Cooper. Like all the guys on Palomar, he hadn't seen a woman for fifteen years--since the plague that had...