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An oral history of the film that has been hailed as the greatest action movie ever made features interviews with the cast and crew, including director George Miller and stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.
It won six Oscars, but it is a miracle Mad Max: Fury Road ever made it to the screen... or that anybody survived the production. Production stalled several times; the stars clashed repeatedly in the brutal Namib Desert, and director George Miller's...
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"A remarkable guided tour through the field—a kind of nonfiction companion to Among Others. It's very good. It's great." —Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
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...
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...
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...
4) Peter Pan
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Todos los niños, menos uno, crecen». Así comienza la historia de ese jovencito que se resiste con vehemencia a convertirse en adulto, ese atribulado y domesticado engranaje necesario para el sistema social. El País de Nunca Jamás es su hogar, su resistencia; allí es un pequeño caballero, valeroso guerrero espadachín. Alicia lo saluda desde el País de las Maravillas, seguro. Pinocho, desde «la eternidad pueril de la madera encantada», como...
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What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that the appeal for fans goes far deeper than just quests and magic rings and hobbits. In fact, through this epic, Tolkien found a way to provide something close to spirit in a secular age. This thoughtful book focuses on three main aspects of Tolkien's fiction: the social and political structure of Middle-earth...
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Este libro explora lo fantástico en la literatura peruana a través de un conjunto de ensayos dedicados a Clemente Palma, Abraham Valdelomar, César Vallejo, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Luis Loayza, José Durand, Manuel Mejía Valera, José B. Adolph, Rodolfo Hinostroza, Harry Belevan, Carlos Calderón Fajardo y Enrique Prochazka; quienes contribuyen a la narrativa que cuestiona los usos realistas habituales.
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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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Mark Payne is the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, and the College at the University of Chicago. His books include Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction, The Animal Part, and Hontology.
An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genres
The literary lineage of postapocalyptic...
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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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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...
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Allí apareció, espada en mano, Conan el cimerio, de pelo negro y mirada taciturna, ladrón, saqueador y asesino, tan desbordante de melancolía como de júbilo, dispuesto a hollar con sus sandalias los engalanados tronos de la Tierra.
Las Crónicas Nemedias
Así se iniciaba «El Fénix en la espada», el relato que dio a conocer al más famoso de los héroes bárbaros. Durante los siguientes cuatro años, Robert E. Howard iría narrando la peripecia...
13) Loremasters and Libraries in Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Gedenkschrift for David D. Oberhelman
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David Dean Oberhelman (1965-2018) was a librarian and scholar with wide-ranging research interests, who had a long association with the Mythopoeic Society. He was an enthusiastic supporter of other scholars, a gifted editor, and an outstanding teacher. The core concept of this collection developed from panel discussions in which David drew together a group of fantasy, science fiction, and comics scholars to discuss libraries, librarians, archives,...
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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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A lot of people read Perry Rhodan novels. Just not here in the English speaking world. In Germany, the science fiction novels about Perry Rhodan are published once a week. They are rip roaring space operas.
There is nearly sixty years of Perry Rhodan novels. But they never took off in America.
David Macpherson picked up a bunch of Perry Rhodan novels that were translated and published in the 1970s. He reads eight of those books and takes you along...
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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.
17) 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 papers focus on the theme of worldbuilding in fantasy and science fiction, in all its forms, in different media. Featuring papers from Ricardo Victoria-Uribe and Martha Elba González- Alcaraz, Allen Stroud, Sarah McPherson, Sébastien Doubinsky, Cheryl Morgan, Peter Garrett, Eugen Bacon, Octavia Cade, Enrico Spadaro, Tatiana Fajardo, Claire Burgess, Ellen Forget, Kevin Cooney, Jyrki Korpua, Rachel Jones.
19) After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon's Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse
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With contributions from professors, scholars, bloggers, playwrights, and novelists from Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, and Great Britain, as well as the US, this collection explores recent additions to the multifaceted Whedonverse. But it doesn't stop there. Above all comes the question "What's Next?" How will Whedon adapt other Shakespeares like Hamlet and Twelfth Night, seeing that he hates to make the same project twice? Will he offer a female...
20) 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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