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Tufa novels volume Book 6
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Tor Books
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2018.
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In Bledsoe's multilayered sixth contemporary fantasy tale of the Tufa, exiled fae who long ago settled in the Appalachians, the discovery of a long-lost silent film offers up clues to their forgotten origins, as well as a potential way home. In the present day, grad students Justin Johnson and Veronica Lopez stumble across impossibly realistic century-old footage of a woman becoming a fairy. They follow the trail to the former mining town of Sadieville,...
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El gran Gatsby es una de las novelas más importantes del siglo XX y una de la más grandes historias de amor de todos los tiempos, cuyo protagonista ha sido encarnado por actores como Leonardo DiCaprio y Robert Redford.⍾La novela se ubica en los felices años veinte, un momento de optimismo inusitado pasada la Primera Guerra Mundial y la pandemia de gripe española, que, a la par de la Prohibición, produjo un estallido de riqueza y de nuevos magnates....
3) El proceso
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Nueva traducción de El proceso que respeta el peculiar estilo de Kafka, con reordenación de capítulos y un fragmento inédito en español.
Josef K., un ciudadano corriente, se despierta una mañana en presencia de unos misteriosos funcionarios que han ido a detenerlo a la pensión en la que reside. Le interrogan y le comunican que se le permite seguir con su vida diaria a pesar de estar detenido. A partir de ahí, se ve envuelto en un proceso judicial...
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Bloomsbury Academic
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2013.
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"As we move through the twenty-first century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and...
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As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading-about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com....
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Nueva edición de una obra maestra de la literatura inglesa y victoriana, con introducción de Virginia Woolf y posfacio de Ángeles Caso.
En una gélida noche de tormenta, un hombre busca refugio en Cumbres Borrascosas. Allí, en la casa que corona los páramos de Yorkshire, conocerá los tumultuosos acontecimientos que desolaron el lugar años atrás: una trágica historia de amor y venganza entre Heathcliff y Catherine Earnshaw, dos seres indómitos,...
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Nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017 for non-fiction and cover art!
'This is an essential guide to help readers and writers of fantasy know their grimdark from their urban, dark, epic, high and metaphysical fantasy. International fantasy author A J Dalton explains how each of the sub-genres of fantasy literature is a response to their own social and historical period. Each sub-genre thereby describes a distinct political and philosophical outlook....
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A cultural history of science and science fiction. Using key canonical science fiction narratives, Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines examines the intersection of the literary and scientific cultures of the nineteenth century. In this original and refreshing approach to the study of early science fiction, author Martin Willis maintains that science fiction was just as important in defining the culture of the nineteenth century as other critics maintain...
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Afrontar un primer acercamiento a la ciencia ficción y sus análisis es siempre complejo. Por una parte, las propias características del género implican una manera muy diferente de entender los análisis literarios. Por otra parte, el profano se encontrará con un tipo de virtudes y concepciones de la literatura que supondrán un esfuerzo al que no está acostumbrado. Por eso suele decirse que es rara la persona que se vuelve incondicional del...
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Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction gives an insider's view of the strange and wonderful world of science fiction, by one of the most respected editors in the field, David G. Hartwell (1941-2016).
David G. Hartwell edited science fiction and fantasy for over twenty years. In that time, he worked with acclaimed and popular writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe,...
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The First and Second Ages within Tolkien's legendarium feel like a time far removed from that of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings even though they constitute the underpinnings of J.R.R. Tolkien's entire mythology.
This book explores those underpinnings and in particular the nature of good and evil, creators and destroyers, and the very foundations of the world itself. It is a diverse collection of four articles, which will no doubt cause the...
12) Microworlds
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The author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays. In this bold and controversial examination of the past, present, and future of science fiction, Lem informs the raging debate over the literary merit of the genre with ten arch, incisive, provocative essays. Edited and with an Introduction by Franz Rottensteiner. Translated by Rottensteiner and others. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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This volume of proceedings contains papers from the largest and, perhaps, most diverse Tolkien Society Seminar to date.
Following a much-contested Call for Papers, 'Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens' explores Tolkien's complex use of religious ideology, the readers' approach to their beloved fictional world via unusual spiritual and philosophical channels, and how Middle-earth almost became a faith unto itself.
14) Uncanny Bodies
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One hundred years ago Freud's definition of the uncanny was 'not the strange, but the familiar become strange'. In this anthology of new work from a range of writers and academics, the uncanny is a place where you feel at home – until home turns against you. It's a city where the streets can't join up. The uncanny alienates your own body from you through medical advances, such as prosthetic limbs or cardiac defibrillators. The 'uncanny valley' is...
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The New Ray Bradbury Review is designed principally to study the impact of Bradbury's writings on American culture and is the chief publication of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies-the archive of Bradbury's writings located at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but...
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Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016
J.R.R. Tolkien deplored allegory and rejected any suggestion that The Lord of the Rings has an inner meaning or message. In reading back the tale, however, he became aware of a dominant motif: 'The real theme for me is… Death and Immortality: the mystery of the love of the world in the hearts of a race "doomed" to leave and seemingly lose it; the anguish in the...
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The papers focus on the theme of love and relationships in fantasy and science fiction, in all their forms, in different media.
Featuring papers from Josephine Maria Yanasak- Leszczynski, Cheryl Wollner, Cheryl Morgan, AJ Dalton, Tatiana Fajardo, Christina Lake, Lynn O'Connacht, Steph P. Bianchini, Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Barbara Stevenson, Dr. Ester Torredelforth.
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A fines del siglo XIX, la ciencia no era todavía como la conocemos hoy. Lejos de ser sólo un saber de especialistas, formaba parte también del universo cotidiano de las personas. Presente en todas las formas de difusión destinadas al gran público, fascinaba a quienes se dejaban encantar por sus promesas de cambio y por los potenciales mundos que permitía imaginar.
En este original libro, Soledad Quereilhac reconstruye ese clima de época que...
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The first single-volume study of an important Lewis novel… C. S. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his best works. A triumph of imaginative science fiction, Perelandra-the second volume of Lewis's "Space Trilogy"-is also theologically ambitious. C. S. Lewis's Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos explores how the novel synthesizes the three traditions of cosmology, mythology, and Christianity. The first group of essays considers...
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Science Fantasy blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative, most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner, Michael Moorcock, and Thomas Burnett Swann, among others. This book looks closely at the whole trajectory of that...