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  • Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by Dr Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular genre. Drawing on literature as well as example from film and television, the book explores the different answers that criticism has offered to the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    A Literary and Cultural Analysis

    by Tom Henthorne ...
    This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its significance and its appeal. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the Hunger Games trilogy, drawing from literary studies, psychology, gender studies, media studies, philosophy, and cultural studies. An analytical rather than evaluative work, it dispenses ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Road to the Dark Tower

    Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus

    by Bev Vincent ...
    AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE DARK TOWER SERIES—INCLUDING BOOK-BY-BOOK ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT INTO STEPHEN KING'S CREATIVE PROCESS.In 1970, Stephen King embarked on what would become the crowning achievement in his literary career-the Dark Tower. The seven-volume series, written and published over a period of 30 years, was inspired by Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," as ... Read more

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  • Exploring J.r.r. Tolkien's "the Hobbit"

    by Corey Olsen ...
    Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is an in-depth look at one of the most beloved books of the twentieth century, uncovering its secrets and delights."An admirable and thought-provoking consideration of the underlying themes of The Hobbit, following the there-and-back-again progress from its famous first line on through to Bilbo's return home at the story's end." —Douglas A. Anderson, author of ... Read more

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  • The Authorized Ender Companion

    by Orson Scott Card, Jake Black ...
    The Authorized Ender Companion is a complete and in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things and events in Orson Scott Card's Ender Universe. Written by Jake Black under the editorial supervision of Card himself, The Authorized Ender Companion will be an invaluable resource for readers of the series.If you ever wondered where Ender went after he left Earth, before he arrived at ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Monsters and the Critics

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    The complete collection of Tolkien’s essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.The seven essays by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this edition were with one exception delivered as general lectures on particular occasions; and while they mostly arose out of Tolkien’s work in medieval literature, they are ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Return Of The Ring Volume I

    Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012

    Edited by Lynn Forest-Hill ...
    Few twentieth-century authors can compete with J.R.R. Tolkien. More than three-quarters of a century after the publication of The Hobbit in 1937, his works continue to captivate millions of readers across the world. As a collection of papers delivered in 2012 at the Tolkien Society’s international conference of the same name, The Return of the Ring is representative of the wide and varied ... 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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  • The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction

    by Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Routledge Concise Histories of Literature
    The term ‘science fiction’ has an established common usage, but close examination reveals that writers, fans, editors, scholars, and publishers often use this word in different ways for different reasons. Exploring how science fiction has emerged through competing versions and the struggle to define its limits, this Concise History:provides an accessible and clear overview of the development of ... Read more

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  • Narnia and the Fields of Arbol

    The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis

    by Matthew Dickerson, David O'Hara ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    An exploration of the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy that "enriches our understanding of how to care for our world" (Alan Jacobs, author of Breaking Bread with the Dead).In Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis, authors Matthew Dickerson and David O'Hara illuminate an important yet overlooked aspect of the author's visionary work. They go beyond ... Read more

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  • The Trill'eon Chronicles

    The Telling-Chronicles I

    by Thomas J Wood ...
    Roakan rose from his concealed cover, raised his sword above his head as more human warriors ran down the ramp of the warship to refortify their depleting forces. Roakan let out a mighty blood curdling battle cry and lowered his sword toward the human formation and as he did so he began jumping over the rubble that concealed him and led his warriors on a foot charge into the ranks of the human ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Death and Immortality in Middle-earth

    Peter Roe Series XVII

    Edited by Daniel Helen ...
    Series Book 17 - Peter Roe
    Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016J.R.R. Tolkien deplored allegory and rejected any suggestion that The Lord of the Rings has an inner meaning or message. In reading back the tale, however, he became aware of a dominant motif: ‘The real theme for me is […] Death and Immortality: the mystery of the love of the world in the hearts of a race “doomed ... Read more

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