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  • Resnick at Large
    Mike Resnick
    These 61 essays and articles include Mike Resnick’s work for galaxyonline.com, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, book introductions, and much, much more! Features an introduction by Robert J. Sawyer 3 ...
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    23,42 €

  • Studies in the Marvellous
    Benjamin P. Kurtz / Benjamin PKurtz
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    19,51 €

  • Fable of Cupid and Psyche
    Thomas Taylor
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    19,22 €

  • The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut
    Donald E. Morse / Donald EMorse
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    121,71 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
    Martin Priestman
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    44,06 €

  • The H.G. Wells Reader
    HGWells / John Huntington
    Huntington carefully compiled this readable anthology of Well’s fiction. Includes 17 works, including The Time Machineand two other complete novels-the rarer The First Men and the Moon and In the Days of the Comet, 10 short stories, and excerpts from 6 other novels. ...
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    16,42 €

  • Stout Fellow
    O. E. McBride
    Are you one of the millions who has spent many pleasant hours reading about Nero Wolfe converting the calories from his gourmet dining (albeit grudgingly) into mental energy to solve a murder? If you have traipsed through that morass of neuroses, idiosyncrasies and obsessive-compulsive behaviors, you must have questions.Did you know that while Wolfe usually tilts the scales nea...
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    34,43 €

  • Stout Fellow
    O. E. McBride
    Are you one of the millions who has spent many pleasant hours reading about Nero Wolfe converting the calories from his gourmet dining (albeit grudgingly) into mental energy to solve a murder? If you have traipsed through that morass of neuroses, idiosyncrasies and obsessive-compulsive behaviors, you must have questions.Did you know that while Wolfe usually tilts the scales nea...
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    23,18 €

  • Primary Ignition
    Allen M. Steele / Allen MSteele
    Assembled for the first time are all of two-time Hugo Award-winner Allen M. Steele’s articles, essays, and travelogs. Drawn from such diverse sources as Absolute Magnitude, Artemis, and even his testimony on space travel before the United States Congress, Steele has put together a collection of work which spans his entire career as a writer. From insightful looks into the futur...
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    35,60 €

  • Reading Harry Potter
    David G. Epstein / David GEpstein
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    82,47 €

  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    Leslie Ellen Jones / Richard J. Cox / Richard JCox
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    30,58 €

  • L. Frank Baum’s World of Oz
    Suzanne Rahn
    Beginning with a glance back over the entire history of research and commentary on the Oz books, this work is organized in three main sections. Essays in the 'Origins of Oz' examine Frank Baum’s personal history and unlock the mystery of one of the most bizarre episodes in the Oz books. 'The World of Oz' looks at three very different aspects of Baum’s world: its concept of home...
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    114,02 €

  • Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults
    Francis J Molson / Francis J. Molson / Francis JMolson / Pamela S Gates / Pamela S. Gates / Pamela SGates / Susan B Steffel / Susan B. Steffel / Susan BSteffel
    Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults offer teachers and fans of fantasy literature a historical and critical review of this fascinating genre. Readers will be introduced to the various subgenre and categories of fantasy literature for children and young adults and be provided with criteria with which to evaluate the many texts available. ...
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    114,17 €

  • Fantastic Odysseys
    Mary Pharr
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    95,77 €

  • Technology in American Drama, 1920-1950
    Dennis G. Jerz / Dennis GJerz
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    69,72 €

  • The Road to Science Fiction
    James Gunn
    Volume 4 From Here to Forever covers the period from 1950-1992, illustrating how science fiction can be as concerned with language and character as much as traditional fiction and anything in the mainstream. Includes stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Matheson, C. M. Kornbluth, Jack Vance, and Pamela Zoline. ...
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    26,47 €

  • Tarlton’s Jests and News Out of Purgatory
    J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps / James Orchard Halliwell / JOHalliwell-Phillipps
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    19,66 €

  • Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980
    Moira Davison Reynolds
    Millions of Americans know and love Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Blondie and Dagwood, Doonesbury, Li’l Abner, Garfield, Cathy, Beetle Bailey and other such comic strip characters. Thanks to the cartoonists--the people who have brought and still bring these and other characters to life day after day in the newspapers--the characters have become an entertaining and important part of...
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    42,95 €

  • Human Prehistory in Fiction
    Charles De Paolo
    What was the world like for people thousands of years ago? How can we know? Through fiction? This is a work of literary criticism, and more. It begins with a discussion of the problem of authenticity and then considers twelve pieces of fiction that depict human prehistory: H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, Pierre Boulle’s The Planet of the Apes, Jules Verne’s The Villa...
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    43,08 €

  • The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction
    Peter Brigg
    From the 1960s (when the advent of what many call the postmodern style made establishing genres more difficult) to the present day, writers have been incorporating science--not only the commonly thought of science and technology but also the 'soft' sciences such as psychology and sociology--into what was previously considered mainstream fiction. This book examines works by Thom...
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    57,48 €

  • The Complete Critical Assembly
    David Langford
    This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome’s greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers ...
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    18,26 €

  • Star Trek Reader’s Reference to the Novels
    Alva Underwood
    This Star Trek Reader’s Reference to the Novels: 1980-1983 continues the effort of the first book ( the novels 1970-1979) by offering information about Klingons, Hortas, Sigmunds, UFP , ships of the fleet, Rigellians bloodworms, Scotty’s kilt and more. Although enjoyable reading on it own, it enhances the reading of the novels. ...
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    21,89 €

  • Seldom Disappointed
    Tony Hillerman
    In this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented novelist and reporter, Hillerman draws brilliant portrait not just of his life, but of the world around him. ...
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    16,98 €

  • No Cure for the Future
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    95,77 €

  • The Road to Science Fiction
    James Gunn
    Now in Paper! The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology of science fiction that covers the development of science fiction from its earliest prototypes in the Sumerian Gilgamesh and the Greek epics to approximately 1990. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classes, these volumes have become mass-market sellers as well, since they are not only a sourc...
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    27,36 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
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    44,09 €

  • European Gothic
    Avril Horner
    The only collection to concentrate on the European Gothic - writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. Charts the rich process of cross-fertilisation, especially regarding Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel. Emphasises the importance of the impact of translation on the development of the Gothic novel. Uses a variety of critical perspecti...
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    32,06 €

  • The Road to Science Fiction
    James Gunn
    Now in paperback! Cloth edition previously published in 1979. Volume 2: From Wells to Heinlein, samples the science fiction from a wide variety of authors that paved the way for the Golden Age. ...
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    26,57 €

  • Gothic Vision
    Dani Cavallaro
    The Gothic Vision examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late-eighteenth century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing. It argues that such narratives are objects for historical analysis, due to their implication in specific ideologies, while also focusing on the recurrence o...
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    396,02 €

  • Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide
    Alzina Stone Dale
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    28,77 €