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Author : Tom Shippey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2003-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192803818
A collection of classic science fiction short stories features tales by H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clark, Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Brian Aldiss, Ursala K. LeGuin, and many others. Edited by the author of The Road to Middle-Earth. 20,000 first printing.
Author : T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A collection of 30 stories spanning the period from 1903 (H.G. Wells) to 1990 (David Brin). Shippey (English language and medieval lit., U. of Leeds) has chosen well and reflects upon the genre in a longish introduction. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192803825
'So you won't sell me your soul?' said the Devil. 'Thank you,' replied the student, 'I had rather keep it myself, if it's all the same to you.' So begins this rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories. Figures such as the devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons have long been part of the human psyche, and the authors of these marvellous tales draw upon this deep well of images, characters, and landscapes with great imagination and subtlety. With thirty-one tales by writers as diverse as John Buchan and Mervyn Peake, Angela Carter and Terry Pratchett, this is an anthology for the newcomer and dedicated fan alike.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195092622
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : David Seed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199557454
David Seed examines how science fiction has emerged as a popular genre of literature in the 20th century, and discusses it in relation to themes such as science and technology, space, aliens, utopias, and gender. Looking at some of the most influential writers of the genre he also considers the wider social and political issues it raises.
Author : Glenda Abramson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Glenda Abramson's informative introduction sets the scene for a powerful literary collection, the definitive anthology of a vibrant modern genre.
Author : T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192823984
A century's worth of the exotic and the fantastic. The stories range from Richard Garnett's "The Demon Pope," a story on soul-selling, to Terry Prachett's amusing "Troll Bridge, " in which Cohen the Barbarian philosophizes on the decline of magic.
Author : Rob Latham
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0199838844
The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction attempts to descry the historical and cultural contours of SF in the wake of technoculture studies. Rather than treating the genre as an isolated aesthetic formation, it examines SF's many lines of cross-pollination with technocultural realities since itsinception in the nineteenth century, showing how SF's unique history and subcultural identity has been constructed in ongoing dialogue with popular discourses of science and technology.The volume consists of four broadly themed sections, each divided into eleven chapters. Section I, "Science Fiction as Genre," considers the internal history of SF literature, examining its characteristic aesthetic and ideological modalities, its animating social and commercial institutions, and itsrelationship to other fantastic genres. Section II, "Science Fiction as Medium," presents a more diverse and ramified understanding of what constitutes the field as a mode of artistic and pop-cultural expression, canvassing extra-literary manifestations of SF ranging from film and television tovideogames and hypertext to music and theme parks. Section III, "Science Fiction as Culture," examines the genre in relation to cultural issues and contexts that have influenced it and been influenced by it in turn, the goal being to see how SF has helped to constitute and define important(sub)cultural groupings, social movements, and historical developments during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Finally, Section IV, "Science Fiction as Worldview," explores SF as a mode of thought and its intersection with other philosophies and large-scale perspectives on theworld, from the Enlightenment to the present day.
Author : Andrew Goodwyn
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780198312611
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192781673
A collection of stories about time, exploring all the different ways that we can twist and play with time. The stories take in trips to the future, package holidays to the past, visitors from other times with unwelcome messages, a thief with the power to stop time altogether, a man in lovewith someone who died years before he was born, a star fleet that paradoxically caused its own destruction, and many more. With a sure appeal for everyone who likes an exciting, thought-provoking story, as well as fans of science fiction and ghost stories, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of stories to amuse, amaze, and enthral.