Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion ...
 Everywhere you turn today, someone (or something) is talking to you-the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone, and you're not mistaken. In this ... [... more]
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Galactic Rapture
Part sci-fi novel, part philosophical treatise! Flynn pulls no punches in this novel, which is both an amusing and intelligent science fiction novel flavoured with a strong subtext on the perils of religion. Even with the grand scope of the novel, his ... [... more]
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Doctor Omega - Collector's Edition
France, 1905. In a quiet Normandy village, amateur violinist Denis Borel meets a mysterious white-haired scientist known only as Doctor Omega, who is building an amazing spacecraft, the Cosmos. Doctor Omega invites Borel to accompany him on his maiden ... [... more]
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Androids, Humanoids, and Other Folklore Monsters: ...
Science fiction films, from the original Frankenstein and The Fly to Blade Runner and The Terminator, traditionally have been filled with aliens, spaceships, androids, cyborgs, and all sorts of robotic creatures along with their various creators. The ... [... more]
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Edging Into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary ...
Edging into the Future explores contemporary science fiction literature and media as imaginative expressions of an already science-fictional present and as literal descriptions of postmodern culture. Thirteen noted scholars and writers, including Brian ... [... more]
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Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction
Tesseracts Nine also made the LOCUS Recommended reading list for 2006. It was included in the Locus Poll for best anthology! Many of the stories have now appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies. While other stories ... [... more]
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Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought
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, ... [... more]
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The Luck of Huemac
A very enjoyable book! I have read all of Mr. Peters books and I have not been disapointed. You don't have to be a scholar in order to enjoy "The Luck of Huemac". The fall of the Aztec Empire is a topic that has inspired many authors, including ... [... more]
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The Transcendent Adventure: Studies of Religion in ...
Excellent science fiction resource This text is a four-part study of religious themes in science fiction. Part I contains four essays concerning religious thought in science fiction literature in general. Part II has three essays devoted to C.S. Lewis's ... [... more]
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Optiques: The Science of the Eye And the Birth of Modern ...
Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She argues that French realism, detective fiction, science ... [... more]
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The Invisibles Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution
Not my cup of reality-warping hallucinogenic tea. Long ago, a friend who raved about "The Invisibles" loaned me this first book. I don't have very clear memories of it, but I remembered it as being very hard to read, and I remember not getting ... [... more]
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Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction ...
Twenty-four of the best new stories and poems by neophyte and established Canadian science fiction authors are presented in this seminal anthology which has entered its third decade of existence. Edited by award-winning authors Cory Doctorow and Holly ... [... more]
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