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  • Science Fiction and Narrative Form

    by Professor David Roberts, Dr Andrew Milner, Dr Peter Murphy ...
    Establishing science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as they appear in the conventional modern novel. Inspired by, and building upon, Georg Lukács's criticism of the orthodox novel for its depiction of life as alienating and disjointed, Milner, Murphy and Roberts demonstrate that ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Cosmos and Psyche

    Intimations of a New World View

    by Richard Tarnas ...
    A groundbreaking book that explores how astrology can inform our understanding of the events that have shaped our world—the inspiration for the docuseries Changing of the Gods.In these pages, distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Based on thirty years of meticulous research, and on ... Read more

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  • Facing Gaia

    Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

    A History, a Philosophy, a Warning

    by Justin Smith-Ruiu ...
    An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the ancient to ... Read more

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  • Science Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Seed ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Microworlds

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    The author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays.Celebrated science fiction master Stanislaw Lem turns his always sharp and insightful pen to criticism in this bold and controversial analysis of the genre for which he is most known. In this collection of ten essays—ranging from an introspective examination of his own biographical and literary history to biting ... Read more

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  • Westworld and Philosophy

    If You Go Looking for the Truth, Get the Whole Thing

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    “We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.”—Dr. Robert Ford, WestworldHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality? HBO’s Westworld, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

    by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay ...
    This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today's world.As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and ... Read more

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  • Straw Dogs

    Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

    by John Gray ...
    A radical and thought-provoking philosophical challenge to the Western tradition's most cherished assumptions about human beings and their place in the world.In the British bestseller Straw Dogs, John Gray sets out to question our deepest-held beliefs about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, Gray argues that the Western tradition ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Green Planets

    Ecology and Science Fiction

    Edited by Gerry Canavan, Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green ... Read more

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  • Science Fiction

    by Adam Roberts ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this volume includes:a concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the genre ... Read more

    $38.99 USD