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  • Arthur C. Clarke

    by Gary Westfahl ...
    Series series Modern Masters of Science Fiction
    Already renowned for his science fiction and scientific nonfiction, Arthur C. Clarke became the world’s most famous science fiction writer after the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He then produced novels like Rendezvous with Rama and The Fountains of Paradise that many regard as his finest works.Gary Westfahl closely examines Clarke's remarkable career, ranging from his forgotten juvenilia to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • A Sense-of-Wonderful Century

    Explorations of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films

    by Gary Westfahl ...
    This book gathers together many of the illuminating essays on science fiction and fantasy film penned by a major critic in the SF field. The pieces are roughly organized in the chronological order of when the movies and television programs being discussed first appeared, with essays providing more general overviews clustered near the beginning and end of the volume, to provide the overall aura of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Stuff of Science Fiction

    Hardware, Settings, Characters

    by Gary Westfahl ...
    While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeatedly addressed in ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Science Fiction Literature through History

    An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

    by Gary Westfahl ...
    This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar.This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference ... Read more

    $211.99 CAD

  • A Day in a Working Life

    300 Trades and Professions through History [3 volumes]

    by Gary Westfahl ...
    Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient times to the 21st century.This unique book provides detailed studies of more than 300 occupations as they were practiced in 21 historical time periods, ranging from prehistory to the present day. Each ... Read more

    $342.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s

    by Gary Westfahl ...
     By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the art that has accompanied science fiction, the subgenres of space opera and hard science fiction, the rise of SF anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on authors.Included are in ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Science Fiction

    Toward a World Literature

    by George Slusser, Gregory Benford, Gary Westfahl ...
    In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern science ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Science Fiction and the Dismal Science

    Essays on Economics in and of the Genre

    Edited by Gregory Benford, Howard V. Hendrix, Gary Westfahl ...
    Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these conspicuous gaps in the critical literature by focusing on various connections between science fiction and economics, with some attention to related fields such as politics and government. Its seventeen ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy

    Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences

    Edited by Gary Westfahl, Howard V. Hendrix, Gregory Benford ...
    The J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature--long held at the University of California, Riverside--have been a major influence in the study of science fiction and fantasy for thirty years. The conferences have attracted leading scholars whose papers are published in Eaton volumes found in university libraries throughout the world.This collection brings together 22 of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Science Fiction Quotations

    From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits

    Edited by Dr. Gary Westfahl ...
    In this unprecedented collection of science fiction and fantasy quotations, the reader revisits the stunning moment when Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein monster first comes to life; witnesses the transformation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde; is present when Bruce Wayne resolves to become Batman; and overhears the cosmic conclusions of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Drawing upon ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

    Travel, Technology, Time

    by Jessica Clark, Kip Kline, Kwasu David Tembo, Gary Westfahl, Ingrid E. Castro, Muireann B. Crowley, Joseph Giunta, Erin Kenny, Jessica Kenty-Drane0, Megan McDonough1, Joaquin Muñoz2, Stephanie Thompson3 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children’s and youth’s agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children’s lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • The Sixth Science Fiction MEGAPACK®

    25 Classic and Modern Science Fiction Stories

    by Johnston McCulley, Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Philip K. Dick, Pamela Sargent ...
    "The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack" presents 25 more mind-bending excursions through time and space, with great stories by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Lawrence Watt-Evans, George Zebrowski, Philip K. Dick, and many more! Included are:OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS, by Nancy KressTHE HANGING STRANGER, by Philip K. DickWALKING JOHN AND BIRD, by Neal AsherTHE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION, by ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD