The Oxford Book Of Fantasy Stories

Author : T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192823984
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories written by T. A. Shippey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century's worth of the exotic and the fantastic. The stories range from Richard Garnett's "The Demon Pope," a story on soul-selling, to Terry Prachett's amusing "Troll Bridge, " in which Cohen the Barbarian philosophizes on the decline of magic.

Author : T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories written by T. A. Shippey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 30 stories spanning the period from 1903 (H.G. Wells) to 1990 (David Brin). Shippey (English language and medieval lit., U. of Leeds) has chosen well and reflects upon the genre in a longish introduction. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : David Ketterer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253331229
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy written by David Ketterer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories written by T. A. Shippey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century's worth of the exotic and the fantastic. The stories range from Richard Garnett's "The Demon Pope," a story on soul-selling, to Terry Prachett's amusing "Troll Bridge, " in which Cohen the Barbarian philosophizes on the decline of magic.

Author : Jan Mark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192823977
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Children's Stories written by Jan Mark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories written for children over the past 250 years by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Carl Sandburg, Joan Aiken, and Rosa Guy.

Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826477607
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction written by Peter Hunt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Morag Styles and written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering the key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published, read and studied. This book provides an illuminating guide to literature that creates alternative worlds for young readers. Focusing on the work of Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman, the book considers both the genre of ?alternative worlds? and the distinctiveness of these authors? texts, including Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass.

Author : Gardner R. Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312132212
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction written by Gardner R. Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorothea Brande
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Writer written by Dorothea Brande and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of my adult life I have been engaged in the writing, the editing, or the criticizing of fiction. I took, and I still take, the writing of fiction seriously.

Author : Jamie Williamson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137515791
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Modern Fantasy written by Jamie Williamson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive study, Williamson traces the literary history of the fantasy genre from the eighteenth century to its coalescence following the success of Tolkien's work in the 1960s. While some studies have engaged with related material, there has been no extended study specifically exploring the roots of this now beloved genre.

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476637563
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and the Dismal Science written by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these conspicuous gaps in the critical literature by focusing on various connections between science fiction and economics, with some attention to related fields such as politics and government. Its seventeen contributors include five award-winning scholars, five science fiction writers, and a widely published economist. Three topics are covered: what noted science fiction writers like Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, and Kim Stanley Robinson have had to say about our economic and political future; how the competitive and ever-changing publishing marketplace has affected the growth and development of science fiction from the nineteenth century to today; and how the scholars who examine science fiction have themselves been influenced by the economics of academia. Although the essays focus primarily on American science fiction, the traditions of Russian and Chinese science fiction are also examined. A comprehensive bibliography of works related to science fiction and economics will assist other readers and critics who are interested in this subject.