Free Download Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from around the World
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0252041755 | 378 Pages | EPUB (True) | 0.5 MB
Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative English-language scholarship on figures ranging from Cuban pioneer Daína Chaviano to Nigerian filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi to the Hugo Award-winning Chinese writer Liu Cixin. These essays invite readers to ponder the themes, formal elements, and unique cultural characteristics within the works of these irreplaceable-if too-little-known-artists. Dale Knickerbocker includes fantasists and genre-benders pushing SF along new evolutionary paths even as they draw on the traditions of their own literary cultures. Includes essays on Daína Chaviano (Cuba), Jacek Dukaj (Poland), Jean-Claude Dunyac (France), Andreas Eschbach (Germany), Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina), Sakyo Komatsu (Japan), Liu Cixin (China), Laurent McAllister (Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel, Francophone Canada), Olatunde Osunsanmi (Nigeria), Johanna Sinisalo (Finland), and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russia). Contributors: Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Vibeke Rützou Petersen, Amy J. Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, and Natacha Vas-Deyres.

Free Download Best of Woman's Weekly Fiction - Issue 28 - March 2023
English | 70 pages | PDF | 34 MB

Free Download Jeremiah Morelock, "Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction "
English | ISBN: 0367435101 | 2021 | 140 pages | EPUB | 439 KB
With a focus on I Am Legend and Day of the Dead―two series of film remakes of popular science fiction stories―this book addresses the social origins of the recent surge in authoritarian and populist social movements. Exploring the ways in which the themes of tribalism, confidence in medical science, and confidence in military violence changed over the years in the process of re-telling these stories in popular culture, the author identifies the shift towards a narrowing of moral scope, an embrace of military violence and a distrust of medical science with three elements of authoritarian populism: tribalism, distrust of rational elites and their institutions, and willingness for violent coercion. An engaging study of popular culture that sheds light on contemporary political attitudes,

Free Download Neil Clarke, Xia Jia, Regina Kanyu Wang, "New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1642361127, 1642361119 | 222 pages | EPUB | 0.36 MB
Science fiction is international in scope, but many works are often unavailable to readers because of language barriers or the costs involved in transcending them. In the eleven years I've been publishing science fiction works from China, I've had the privilege of working with and featuring stories by both of my co-editors, as well as dozens of other authors. Anthologies and projects like this one are an editor's joy. We've been given the opportunity to shine a light on eight Chinese authors that have not been previously published (at that time) in English. Authors you should know about. New voices, or at least new to you.

Free Download G.H. Janus, "Interstellar Visions: 60 Classic Science Fiction Paintings For Pulp Magazine Covers (1929-62)"
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08P1CFK6M | 64 pages | PDF (scan) | 47.6 MB
Some of the greatest populist, or pulp, art created in American cultural history was during the period from 1929 to 1962, when a vast range of cutting-edge magazines sprang up with exceptionally striking, often startling cover illustrations by some of the most innovative artists of the time. Many of these publications were purveyors of science fiction, featuring stories of space travel, futuristic science, and alien life forms.INTERSTELLARVISIONS collects 60 full-page, full-color SFartworks by a wide range of vintage American artists, presenting some of the world's most visionary and often bizarre magazine cover design from the golden age of pulps.

Free Download Imagining Home: American War Fiction from Hemingway to 9/11 By Susan Farrell
2017 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 1640140018 | PDF | 5 MB
War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently examined war according to traditional gender expectations: that boys become men by going to war and girls become women by building a home. Yet the writers discussed in this book complicate these expectations, since their female characters often take part directly in war and especially since their male characters repeatedly imagine domestic spaces for themselves in the midst of war. Chapters on Hemingway and the First World War, Kurt Vonnegut and the Second World War, and Tim O'Brien and the Vietnam War place these writers in their particular historical and cultural contexts while tracing similarities in their depiction of gender relationships, imagined domestic spaces, and the representability of trauma. The book concludes by examining post-9/11 American literature, probing what happenswhen the front lines actually come home to Americans. While much has been written about Hemingway, Vonnegut, O'Brien, and even 9/11 literature separately, this study is the first to bring them together in order to examine views about war, gender, and domesticity over a hundred-year period. It argues that 9/11 literature follows a long tradition of American writing about war in which the domestic and public realms are inextricably intertwined and in which imagined domestic spaces can provide a window into representing wartime trauma, an experience often thought to be unrepresentable or incomprehensible to those who were not actually there.Susan Farrell is Professor of English at the College of Charleston.Table of ContentsIntroduction"Isn't It Pretty to Think So?": Ernest Hemingway's Impossible Homes"A Universe of Two": Constructing Worlds through Narrative in the Work of Kurt Vonnegut"It Wasn't a War Story. It Was a Love Story": Tim O'Brien and the Ethics of Home"A Hole in the Middle of Me": Shattered Homes in Post-9/11 LiteratureAfterwordNotesWorks CitedIndex

Free Download Domenic Moran, "Questions of the Liminal in the Fiction of Julio Cortazar"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 1900755203 | PDF | pages: 276 | 5.1 mb
The great Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar (1914-84) was immersed in one of the most vibrant and revolutionary intellectual scenes of the last century, the Paris of the 1950s and 60s. Yet his often highly cerebral work has never received the close philosophical attention it deserves. Moran's book fills this critical lacuna. Rather than indiscriminately applying 'theory' to Cortazar, it aims to show that his work both engages with and often foreshadows many of the problems which were to become central to so-called poststructuralist philosophy and poetics. This study demonstrates that Cortazar remains enduringly, problematically modern.

Free Download Euphonics For Writers: Professional Techniques for Fiction Authors (Writer's Craft) by Rayne Hall, Hanna-Riikka Kontinaho
English | December 24, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B018J00IFO | 116 pages | EPUB | 2.47 Mb
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Free Download David M. Higgins, "Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-victimhood "
English | ISBN: 1609387848 | 2021 | 250 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, in which technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England. They ask Western audiences to imagine what it's like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. David Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are thoughtful and provocative, reverse colonization fantasy has also led to the prevalence of a very dangerous kind of science fictional thinking in our current political culture. It has become popular among groups such as anti-feminists, white supremacists, and far-right reactionaries to appropriate a sense of righteous, anti-imperial victimhood-the sense that white men, in particular, are somehow colonized victims fighting an insurgent resistance against an oppressive establishment. Nothing could be timelier, as an armed far-right mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an effort to stop the presidential election from being "stolen from them."

Free Download Roberto del Valle Alcalá, "Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1032240016, 0367426498 | PDF | pages: 171 | 3.0 mb
Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction has imagined, interpreted, and in most cases resisted, the collapse of the socio-economic structures built after the Second World War and their replacement with a presumably immaterial order of finance-led economic development. Through a series of detailed readings of the words of authors Martin Amis, Hari Kunzru, Don DeLillo, Zia Haider Rahman, John Lanchester, Paul Murray and Zadie Smith among others, this study sheds light on the embattled and decidedly unstable nature of contemporary capitalism.