There has been a cohesive cultural response from Japan to the atomic bomb and its radiological consequences: cultural ic......more

’Very thin indeed is the curtain between us and the unknown’ The short stories of H. G. Wells are about many things, but......more

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction will cover the history of science fiction literature through a chronology, an i......more

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Exploring a range of international works such as films, streaming television series, a graphic novel, and a picture book......more

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A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key hi......more

Speculative fiction imagines impossible futures and alternative pasts, alien species and angelic monsters, technological......more

An in-depth look at the concept of cosmic humour, a politically influential, philosophically pessimistic form of humour,......more

An introduction to key concepts in international relations and strategy through the interstellar narratives of Cixin Liu......more

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Exploring the phenomenon of Femslash fanfiction (fan narratives that bring together heterosexual female characters from ......more

The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and......more

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This book offers a groundbreaking literary-ethical examination of cloning narratives in science fiction, positioning its......more

An analysis of US science fiction, through the lens of critical race theory, that illuminates how the genre offers new d......more

The first systemic analysis of time travel as narrative device, Edward Royston’s Transgressing Time argues that as a fic......more

Discover the Shocking Economics of the Wizarding World! The world of Harry Potter is filled with magic, mystery, and adv......more

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings......more

Joanna Russ’s writing career was relatively short, running from 1968 to 1987, with a number of essay collections publish......more

Harry Potter, Psychoanalysis, and the Unconscious studies the Harry Potter series through the lens of psychoanalysis foc......more

Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary for disc......more

How utopian stories have preserved the vision of a better world in a cultural climate dominated by dystopia. Saving Utop......more

In Black Aliens, Joanna Davis-McElligatt examines extraterrestrial and interdimensional aliens in Black speculative medi......more

Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings offers a psychoanalytical perspective on The Lord of the Rings, informed by the......more

In a time defined by uncertainty, change and inequality, speculative fiction is fast-becoming the genre of the 21st cent......more

Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a com......more

Irish folklore is replete with images of transforming women. The wailing banshee, the alluring mermaid, the unsettling c......more

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This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval - musical performance, li......more

Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England,......more

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and......more

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and......more

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and......more

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and......more

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This book explores three monstrous figures prominent in contemporary popular culture--zombies, vampires, and witches--fr......more

One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings imagine, with panic or pleas......more

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"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Margaret Atwood’s fiction and poetry. Addresses topics including gender, the......more

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Contents A Note on Translation, Transliterations, Names, and References List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chapter 1......more

When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new novel, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World is the first pu......more

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaim......more

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaim......more

No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth--a world tha......more

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science fiction ......more

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science fiction ......more

Voices from wide-ranging academic fields, time periods, and scholarly backgrounds converge in this first collection to f......more

This book is a comprehensive examination of contemporary Chinese science fiction (sf) under the framework of Chinese tec......more

The volume explores the way in which the lottery was imagined in early-modern and long-eighteenth-century Europe. It pre......more

’How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?’ Written in the first half of the career ......more

This issue of ALT provides content narratives, critical frames and theoretical constructs to read and critique writings ......more

Collecting the essays in Speculative Insight: A Journal of Space, Magic and Footnote from July-December 2024, plus a bon......more

Collecting the essays in Speculative Insight: A Journal of Space, Magic and Footnote from January and June 2025, as well......more

This book collects all of the essays published by Speculative Insight across 2024, including the two bonus essays by Lis......more

Approaching translations of Tolkien’s works as stories in their own right, this book reads multiple Chinese translations......more

Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part o......more

This striking collection of seven books with specially designed spines and illustrated page edges encompasses the myriad......more

Lovers of Tolkien’s works know well his penchant for including song lyrics and verse in his prose. This book offers a th......more

In the first decades of the twenty-first century, science fiction literature has been transformed in many ways, as the g......more

This book seeks to create a new means of interrogating the direction in which contemporary science fiction is progressin......more

The conversation between Draco Malfoy and Albus Dumbledore, in the chapter "The Lightning-Struck Tower" from Harry Potte......more

Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits offers an in-depth examination of how transmodern literatures ......more

Spanning more than half a century, Russell Hoban’s celebrated literary career won him critical accolades and legions of ......more

Magical Realism in Twenty-First-Century Transnational Fiction: The Global Supernatural offers a much-needed re-evaluatio......more

From Gilgamesh to Gawain and the Green Knight, the Brothers Grimm to Grimdark, the natural world has provided the backdr......more

This book explores the fictional work of Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the eminent twentieth-century Brazilian writer. ......more

This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of ......more

If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterat......more

Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary tradi......more

In this book, Jennifer Kelso Farrell investigates the way in which L. Ron Hubbard used his background in science fiction......more

In these highly-candid radio interviews, more than fifty legendary, larger-than-life personalities trade anecdotes about......more