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  • Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction

    A Review of Speculative Fiction

    Edited by Damien Broderick, Van Ikin ...
    Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid ... Read more

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  • [Re]Awakenings, an anthology of new Speculative Fiction

    an anthology of new Speculative Fiction

    by Alison Buck, Neil Faarid, Gingerlily, Robin Moran, PR Pope, Alexander Skye, Peter Wolfe ...
    [Re]Awakenings are the starting points for life-changing experiences; a new plane of existence, an alternate reality or cyber-reality. This genre-spanning anthology of new speculative fiction explores that theme with a spectrum of tales, from science fiction to fantasy to paranormal; in styles from clinically serious to joyfully silly. As you read through them all, and you must read all of them, ... Read more

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  • Ancillary Justice

    by Ann Leckie ...
    Series Book 1 - Imperial Radch
    Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards: This record-breaking novel follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey."There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." -- John ScalziOn a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In Other Worlds

    SF and the Human Imagination

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    **A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, exploring her lifelong relationship to science fiction—as a reader and as a writerThe ebook edition of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating ebook-exclusive illustrations by the author**At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dire Cartographies

    The Roads to Ustopia and The Handmaid's Tale

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    Margaret Atwood describes how she came to write her utopian, dystopian works.The word “utopia” comes from Thomas More’s book of the same name—meaning “no place” or “good place,” or both. In “Dire Cartographies,” from the essay collection In Other Worlds, Atwood coins the term “ustopia,” which combines utopia and dystopia, the imagined perfect society and its opposite. Each contains latent versions ... Read more

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  • Vampires, A Very Peculiar History

    by Fiona Macdonald ...
    Series Book 27 - A Very Peculiar History
    Dragged from the deepest, darkest depths of the 'Very Peculiar History' vaults, this book collects tales of terror, morbid myths and frightening facts that will chill you witless. Introduced by everyone's favourite bloodsucker, Count Dracula, 'Vampires: A Very Peculiar History' features the origin of vampire-like creatures and a biological and mythological look at human blood (including the best ... Read more

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  • Battle Royale Slam Book

    Essays on the Cult Classic by Koushun Takami

    by Various Haikasoru ...
    Series series Battle Royale Slam Book
    Koushun Takami’s Battle Royale is an international best seller, the basis of the cult film, and the inspiration for a popular manga. And fifteen years after its initial release, Battle Royale remains a controversial pop culture phenomenon.Join New York Times best-selling author John Skipp, Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm, Philip K. Dick Award-nominated novelist Toh EnJoe, and an array of writers, ... Read more

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  • Study Guide - Mistborn: The Final Empire (Book One)

    by BookCaps ...
    Brandon Sanderson's "Misborn" trilogy has been called one of the greatest fantasies of all time--but it is massive! There are dozens of characters, plots, and settings. This study guide is a companion to the first book in the series: The Final Empire. It's the perfect guide to someone who wants extra help keeping up with all the twist and characters, or who just wants a refresher while reading ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Bio-Punk

    Stories from the Far Side of Research

    by Sara Maitland, Sean O'Brien, Adam Marek ...
    'Fascinating reading.' - Financial Times'An exhilarating read.' - The Short ReviewToby Litt's Bio-Punk story 'Call it ''The Bug'' Because I Have No Time to Think of a Better Title' short-listed for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.Featuring:AUTHORS: Jane Feaver, Simon Ings, Annie Kirby, Toby Litt, Sara Maitland, Adam Marek, Gregory Norminton, Sean O’Br... ... Read more

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  • Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams

    Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime

    Edited by Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Takayuki Tatsumi ...
    Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s—while little attention ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Strokes

    by John Clute ...
    For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. Strokes is a collection of reviews from a wide variety of sources - including Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly - about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as ... Read more

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  • Strange Highways: Reading Science Fantasy, 1950-1967

    by John Boston, Damien Broderick ...
    Science Fantasy blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative, most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner, Michael Moorcock, and Thomas Burnett Swann, among others. This ... Read more

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