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“andrea redondo”

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  • Lingua Cosmica

    Science Fiction from around the World

    by Daína Chaviano, Jacek Dukaj, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Andreas Eschbach, Angélica Gorodischer, Sakyo Komatsu, Cixin Liu, Laurent McAllister, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Johanna Sinisalo, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Vibeke Rützou Petersen, Amy J Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, Natacha Vas-Deyres ...
    Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative ... Read more

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  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    You Must Read Before You Die

    by Peter Boxall ...
    Series series 1001
    Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

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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

    $15.00 USD

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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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  • The Ends of the World

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Déborah Danowski ...
    Translated by Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes ...
    The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these visions have been ... Read more

    $20.00 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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  • The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history – an integrated chronological ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Parabolas of Science Fiction

    Edited by Brian Attebery, Veronica Hollinger ...
    As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection explore ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem

    by Peter Swirski ...
    The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fiction Bach. The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem provides an inter-disciplinary analysis of his influence on Western culture and the creative partnering of art and science in his fiction and futorology by ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Vital Illusion

    by Jean Baudrillard ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Aren't we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard challenges us to face up to our deadly, technologically empowered renunciation of mortality and subjectivity as he grapples with the complex issues that define our postmillennial world. What does the advent and proliferation of cloning mean for our ... Read more

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