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John Rieder

Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises,this book demonstrates how the genre provides resources against demagogic falsehoods,…

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Fantasy trifft Science Fiction

Von den fernen Nebeln des Orion bis zu den hintersten Winkeln des Märchenwaldes ... Fantasy und Science-Fiction sind Geschwister, die sich gut vertragen. Lassen Sie sich entführen in außerirdische Welten,…

Vicente Lecuna

A Promising Past

Vicente Lecuna examines an array of fictions surrounding Parque Central, a high-rise development conceived and built by the Venezuelan government as a key component of a modernization and urban renewal pr…

Brian Jeffrey Maxson

Early Modern Europe

Through the exploration of nine common myths about the history and culture of early modern Europe, roughly 1350-1700, this book uses common assumptions to introduce newcomers to the period and its key fig…

Stephanie Bird

Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies this book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity.

Sofie Behluli

Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction

Since 2010, a number of Anglo-American novels on visual art have been published and critically acclaimed. Dr Behluli interprets this wave of novels as a particular literary genre: the 'ekphrastic novel'. …

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The Big Other

Interactive Documentary and Non-Fiction Media

Interactive documentaries combine moving images, text, graphics, and digital interactions to create dynamic, web-based narrative formats. As a post-cinematographic expansion of the classical documentary f…

Meng Xia

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China. Draw…

James Peacock,

Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction

Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia. Litera…

Jonathan Hay

Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene

With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our species' place within our own world, this book is a deep…

Yoko Okuda

Emotions and Contingencies in Conrad's Fiction

This book sets out to elucidate Conrad's unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engaged in Conrad studies. It argues that the originality of …

Roger Zelazny

On Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy

Roger Zelazny was a stylist. Indeed, few writers have had a better grasp of the English language than he did, to say nothing of rhythm and style. More than any other writer Zelazny makes writing look fun.…

Christopher Burlingame

Adapting Transgressive Fiction to Film

This book examines the role that the film and publishing industries play in promoting narratives that preserve and consolidate power among society's elite, drawing explicit focus on a betrayal of intentio…

Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction

For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientatio…

Steven D. Smith

Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law

Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world.Is there any connection linking some of the malad…

Kevin Ohi

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire. Its detailed readings consider seminal modernists-Ford, Woolf, Faulk…

Douglas Kearney

I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always

A Best Book of 2025 by the New York Public LibraryOn the heels of Sho (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and Optic Subwoof (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, I I…

Samuel Manickam

Mexican Women Writers of Science Fiction

This book is the first to offer an in-depth scholarly study of Mexican women writers of science fiction and highlight their innovative contributions to the growth and development of the genre in Mexico. B…