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

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

Western science fiction has evolved to reflect the social, cultural, and political issues of the contemporary world. Whi......more

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

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

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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

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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

This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King’s now-familiar American imagin......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

These proceedings contain papers from the Tolkien Society Hybrid Seminar 2023. It is the first ever event and edited col......more

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

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

Most books on Tolkien are organized thematically. This one is arranged episodically, following the history of Middle-ear......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 January and June 2025, as well......more

Collecting the essays from the first six months of the journal Speculative Insight: A Journal of Space, Magic and Footno......more

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

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

In a world of increasingly sophisticated AI, the relationship between creator and creation has shifted. Robot lovers coe......more

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

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

The most popular legends about the Rings of Power are discussed in detail in this deluxe edition that will hold a specia......more

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

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

Automation is everywhere: in the supermarket, in home appliances, and on our commutes. While we worry about what automat......more

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

A comprehensive history and analysis of the Soviet illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings published between 1981 ......more

Using an Ecogothic lens, this book offers a new conceptual framework for the werewolf in literature, recasting the lycan......more

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

The study of French science fiction - even in France - remains an underexploited field. Only recently have French litera......more

Offering a survey of Hollywood science fiction cinema from 1979 to 2017 (from Ridley Scott’s Alien to Denis Villeneuve’s......more

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

Caribbean Futurism and Beyond is a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the sf (speculative fiction, sci......more

"What can an exploration of pseudoscientific phenomena like telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis tell ......more

"What can an exploration of pseudoscientific phenomena like telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis tell ......more

In Afrofuturism and World Order, Reynaldo Anderson delves into the evolution of Black speculative thought and Afrofuturi......more

This book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed asse......more

In this examination of violence and masculinity in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire and its t......more

In Dispelling Fantasies, Joy Sanchez-Taylor examines how authors of color, such as R. F. Kuang, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Oko......more

In Dispelling Fantasies, Joy Sanchez-Taylor examines how authors of color, such as R. F. Kuang, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Oko......more