The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
10 best books like The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Edward James): Metamorphoses, Bloodchild and Other Stories, Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction, The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction, How To Read a Film: Technology: Image & Sound: Enhanced and Expanded, The Nature of Narrative, Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media..., Timequake, Compulsory
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...
Bloodchild and Other Stories
| Author | Octavia E. Butler |
| ISBN | 1583226982 |
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who...
Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
| Author | Grady Hendrix |
| ISBN | 1594749817 |
Written in dead letters... and covered in blood!
Demonic possession! Haunted condominiums! Murderous babies! Man-eating moths! No plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable for the Paperbacks From Hell.
Where did they come from? Where did they go?...
| Author | Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. |
| ISBN | 0819568899 |
As the world undergoes daily transformations through the application of technoscience to every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. However much science fiction texts vary in artistic quality and intellectual sophistication,...
Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction
| Author | Robert Scholes |
| ISBN | 0300018509 |
From time to time a current of thought sweeps through a culture and moves its most disparate elements in the same direction. Such a current is structuralism. Reacting against "modernist" alienation and fragmentation, it is an integrative and holistic way of looking at the world; it seeks reality not...
How To Read a Film: Technology: Image & Sound: Enhanced and Expanded
This is section 2 of How To Read a Film, enhanced and expanded.
Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply "the best single work of its kind." And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at James Monaco's ability to collect "an enormous amount of useful information and...
| Author | Robert Scholes |
| ISBN | 0195151755 |
For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling...
Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media...
| Author | John Stossel |
| ISBN | 0060529156 |
Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basements to some of America's most powerful executives and leading politicians. His efforts shut down countless crooks -- both famous and obscure. Then...
According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the...
Murderbot prequel short story! 3.5 stars. It's free online here at Wired magazine. Review posted on Fantasy Literature:
I hugely enjoyed reading the four MURDERBOT DIARIES novellas last year, so when I found that Martha Wells had published a prequel short story online in December, I was all...
| Author | Farah Mendlesohn |
| ISBN | 0819568686 |
Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct...
