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Solaris Rising 3
The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
FEATURING NEW WRITING BYBenjanun Sriduangkaew // Chris Beckett // Julie E. Czerneda // Ken Liu // Tony Ballantyne // Sean Williams // Laura Lam // Aliette de Bodard // Ian Watson // Gareth L. Powell // Nina Allan // Adam Roberts // George Zebrowski // Cat Sparks // Rachel Swirsky // Benjamin Rosenbaum...
The Memory of You Lingers
A Scifi Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Baird the convicted rapist knows no peace. Ten years of haunting by the digital ghost of his victim, Frieda, have left him a basket case…but freedom awaits. If he can just make it till tomorrow, his sentence will end, and the digital ghost will become vaporware. But Frieda has no intention of leaving...
by Conclave
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
The focus for this issue is "Writing for Change," reminding us that literature matters and words can change the world for the better. “Literature and writers have always been at the forefront of positive change,” says Editor-in-Chief Lara Bernhardt. "Conclave wants to create a meeting place where...
Tales of Conjure and The Color Line
10 Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
A pioneer in the development of fiction giving voice to the African-American experience, Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932) found literary success with his "conjure tales" — vignettes from black folk life, recounted partially in the vernacular — and later with his "stories of the color line,"...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
**Winner of the 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
Recipient of an Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award
These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.**
Drawing from the great...
by Robert N Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
An eclectic collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror from around the world. The e-version in all formats is available for sharing and distribution in its original format. From a space opera to dark fantasy and into a strange world of steampunk you will find something for you. Most authors...
Utopian Generations
The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally...
The Hills Remember
The Complete Short Stories of James Still
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
James Still remains one of the most beloved and important writers in Appalachian literature. Best known for his acclaimed novel River of Earth (1940), the Alabama native and adopted Kentuckian left an enduring legacy of novels, stories, and poems during his nearly seventy year career.
The Hills...
Surveyors of Customs
American Literature as Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, fired from Salem's Custom House and returning to writing, reconceived his old job title, Surveyor of Customs, as his new one. Taking seriously this naming of the American author's project, Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be...
The Distant Mirror
Reflections on Young Adult Historical Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Young adult historical fiction brings the past alive through stories of adventure, suspense, and mystery. The genre is both complex and controversial, encompassing novels that range from romance and fantasy to stark historical realism. The book examines the various approaches to young adult historical...
Schooling Readers
Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction—though now often forgotten—set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth...
by Students' Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
“The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963” by Christopher Paul Curtis was written and published in the year 1995. It is a historical-fiction novel. The book was republished in the year 1997.The story revolves around a very loving African-American family. The family lives in the town of Flint,...
Age of Wonders
Exploring the World of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction gives an insider's view of the strange and wonderful world of science fiction, by one of the most respected editors in the field, David G. Hartwell (1941-2016).
David G. Hartwell edited science fiction and fantasy for over twenty years....
by Alleen Pace Nilsen, Don L. F. Nilsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
This book shows how authors of young adult literature use the creation of names for people, places, events, inventions, animals, and imaginary concepts as one of their most important literary techniques. Chapters address how authors use names to stretch readers' emotions, to reveal ethnic values and...