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Release Date : 1991
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Pages : 902 pages
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Download Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual PDF Format Full Free by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Collins
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 1988
ISBN 13 : 9780887362491
Pages : 504 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (887 downloads)
Download Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual PDF Format Full Free by Robert A. Collins and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Barron
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2009-11
ISBN 13 : 0893706094
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (76 downloads)
Download Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review PDF Format Full Free by Neil Barron and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review" was founded in 1979 to provide comprehensive coverage of all the major and minor books being released in the genre at that time. This was the golden era of SF publishing, with a thousand titles (old and new) hitting the stands and the bookshelves each and every year. From the older classics to the newest speculative fiction, this was the period when the best and the brightest shined forth their talents. SF&FBR included reviews by writers in the field, by amateur critics, and by litterateurs and University professors. Over a thousand books were covered during the single year of publication, many of them having been reviewed no where else, before or since. The January 1980 issue includes a comprehensive index of all the works featured during the preceding year. This reprint will be a welcome addition to the literature of science fiction and fantasy criticism. Neil Barron is a retired bibliographer and literary critic, editor of the acclaimed "Anatomy of Wonder" series. Robert Reginald was the publisher for twenty-five years of Borgo Press, and has authored over 110 books of his own."
Author : Halbert W. Hall
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 13 : 1563085275
Pages : 536 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (85 downloads)
Download Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index, 1992-1995 PDF Format Full Free by Halbert W. Hall and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extending his earlier two volumes covering 1878-1991, Hall cites without annotation books, articles, essays, new reports, reviews, and audiovisual items about science fiction, fantasy, and horror in all its media published during the three years. About 90% of the sources cited are in English. Most of the subject entries are titles or authors, but others include motion pictures, the sociology of science fiction, and teaching. Only secondary material is included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Release Date : 1990
ISBN 13 : 9780887363696
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (887 downloads)
Download SCIENCE Fiction PDF Format Full Free by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2010-07-06
ISBN 13 : 1429905697
Pages : 688 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (95 downloads)
Download The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection PDF Format Full Free by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirty-two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.
Author : Robert A. Collins
Publisher : Greenwood Press
Release Date : 1990-12-01
ISBN 13 : 9780313280702
Pages : 625 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (313 downloads)
Download Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual, 1989 PDF Format Full Free by Robert A. Collins and published by Greenwood Press. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published annually, this aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror. It reviews significant individual fiction and non-fiction titles published or republished during the preceeding year in Britain, America, Canada and Australia.
Author : Michael R. Collings
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 13 : 9780313264047
Pages : 216 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (313 downloads)
Download In the Image of God PDF Format Full Free by Michael R. Collings and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Collings' absorbing study is the first full-length treatment of Orson Scott Card, the only writer thus far to receive the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards two years in a row. The author examines the unique vision and literary achievements of this writer, a consummate storyteller who uses the medium of science fiction and fantasy to give shape to his deepest religious beliefs and moral convictions. Collings begins with an overview of Card's personal history, including his Mormon background, and suggests some guidelines for approaching the writer's work. The chapters that follow look at Card's exploration of spiritual themes in the context of alien worlds and landscapes. Among the subjects woven into his narratives are the future Christ as potential savior or destroyer, the archetype of the hero, immortality, and the realization of the kingdom of God. His major novels, including Seventh Son, Songmaster, and Wyrms, are discussed, together with many of his short stories and his critical articles, poetry, and plays. Orson Scott Card, who has been compared to C. S. Lewis, brings a depth of moral and spiritual insight to his fiction that is unusual among writers currently working in the science fiction/fantasy genre. This sensitive introduction to his work will be appreciated by scholars, students, and general readers with a specific interest in the genre or in contemporary literature, literature and religion, or epic and heroic narrative.
Author : Halbert W. Hall
Publisher : Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 712 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index, 1985-1991 PDF Format Full Free by Halbert W. Hall and published by Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Collins
Publisher : Greenwood
Release Date : 1991
ISBN 13 : 9780313281501
Pages : 728 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (313 downloads)
Download Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual 1990 PDF Format Full Free by Robert A. Collins and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1991 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume begins with a survey of the year for fiction in the three areas. Each survey section concludes with a recommended reading list. In addition there is a survey of fantasy literature and film scholarship, a survey of the year in young adult fiction in the three main areas.
Author : Brooks Landon
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05
ISBN 13 : 1136761195
Pages : 286 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (761 downloads)
Download Science Fiction After 1900 PDF Format Full Free by Brooks Landon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Release Date : 1986
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Download Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Index PDF Format Full Free by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 13 : 9780313329517
Pages : 498 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (313 downloads)
Download The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy PDF Format Full Free by Gary Westfahl and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive three-volume reference work offers six hundred entries, with the first two volumes covering themes and the third volume exploring two hundred classic works in literature, television, and film.
Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-08-13
ISBN 13 : 9780810863453
Pages : 568 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (81 downloads)
Download The A to Z of Fantasy Literature PDF Format Full Free by Brian Stableford and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.
Author : George Edgar Slusser
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 13 : 9780820317267
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (82 downloads)
Download Science Fiction and Market Realities PDF Format Full Free by George Edgar Slusser and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through case studies, other contributors relate science fiction to other forms of "underground" literature, consider the continual cycle of illegitimate art replacing legitimate art, look at young readers of science fiction, chart the rising and falling "stock" of science fiction writers' reputations, and consider the influence of editors on a writer's work.
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990-01-01
ISBN 13 : 9780520051614
Pages : 872 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (52 downloads)
Download A Reference Guide for English Studies PDF Format Full Free by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.
Author : KHULOD H. HUSAIN
Publisher : KY Publications
Release Date : 2021-08-05
ISBN 13 : 8194807581
Pages : 109 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (87 downloads)
Download OVER EXCESSIVE AMBITION AS REFLECTED IN THREE SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS: FRANKENSTEIN, SOLARIS AND INFERNAL DEVICES PDF Format Full Free by KHULOD H. HUSAIN and published by KY Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to explore the emergence of science fiction as a genre and its development into steampunk as a subgenre of science fiction in selected science fiction novels: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1823), Stanislaw Lem's Solaris (1970) and K. W. Jeter's Infernal Devices (1987). This research shows that the scientists in these novels drag themselves into darkness. Victor, the protagonists of Frankenstein, is an ambition scientist who wants to conquer death but tragically loses his family during this endeavor. Kelvin, the hero of Solaris, is psychologically devastated when he struggles to understand how Solaris ocean creates a simulation of people. The hero of the third novel, George Dewar's father, a mad scientist and inventor, creates a double of his own son as a robot tries to destroy the earth. The main argument of this research is that all these novels set in different eras draw on science fiction to criticize and question man's greedy and unrestricted desire for scientific discovery to the extent that they want to conquer the universe and play the role of God. The study will ask the following questions: How do the ambitious scientists in the novels drag themselves into madness? And how does the scientific desire turn into a crave for transcendence bringing about their damnation? What do these scientific explorations and inventions reveal about human nature? Does steampunk bring evolution to the future as a sub-genre of science fiction?
