An analysis of US science fiction, through the lens of critical race theory, that illuminates how the genre offers new directions for serious appraisals of race and racism between yesterday, today, and tomorrow In Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction, Isiah Lavender III takes seriously the theoretical, stylistic, and rhetorical possibilities ......
What's your game, TV Century 21? Killer robot penguins, maniacal treasure hunters, time-travelling dam busters - Thunderbirds remained one of TV Century 21's most popular comic strips into the late 1960s and their continuing adventures pushed International Rescue into increasingly surreal territory! Thunderbirds Comic Anthology Volume Two ......
Originally written by Tim Heald and published as a softcover in 1976, this 50th anniversary hardback edition has been updated, revised and expanded to provide a more comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the making of the popular television series, Space: 1999.
Feminist Folklore Transformations in Irish Writing
Irish folklore is replete with images of the monstrous feminine. The wandering witch, the wailing banshee, the mysterious changeling and others recur throughout folktales and have become well-known through contemporary depictions in books and on screens. In the wake of recent feminist thinking, online movements, and revelations of gender-based ......
The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction
Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction's embrace of genre fiction's conceits as "genre bending" ......
The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction
Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction's embrace of genre fiction's conceits as "genre bending" ......
Delightfully blending literary fiction with speculative genres, the stories in The Church of Divine Electricity somehow manage to feel as though they could take place today. In Emily Mitchell's created worlds, as in our own, technology bewitches us, especially with its ability to heighten both connections and isolation. Whether being held by a ......
With its electrifying newspaper-styled headlines and breath-taking artwork, TV Century 21 catapulted Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's sci-fi puppet heroes to fantastic success in comic strip form. Launched in January 1965, the comic's early issues featured the ongoing spy-fi adventures of Lady Penelope and Parker in the Elegance, Charm & Deadly Danger: ......