Author: T. A. Shippey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192823984
Category : Fantastic fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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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: John Clute
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312198695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
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Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.
Author: T. A. Shippey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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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
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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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: David Ketterer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253331229
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Author: Jan Mark
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192823977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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A collection of short stories written for children over the past 250 years by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Carl Sandburg, Joan Aiken, and Rosa Guy.
Author: Peter Hunt
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826477607
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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Edited by Morag Styles and written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering the key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published, read and studied. This book provides an illuminating guide to literature that creates alternative worlds for young readers. Focusing on the work of Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman, the book considers both the genre of ?alternative worlds? and the distinctiveness of these authors? texts, including Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass.
Author: Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312132212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Collects short stories exploring themes of time and space travel, self-discovery, and science and technology.
Author: Dorothea Brande
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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For most of my adult life I have been engaged in the writing, the editing, or the criticizing of fiction. I took, and I still take, the writing of fiction seriously.
Author: Ian Watson
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1849014280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences. Praise for the editors: 'Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.' The Times 'One of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers.' New Scientist
