Animal Alterity

Sherryl Vint

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 39
• Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the a... Lees meer

H. G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies

Keith Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 36
• This book investigates Wells's interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific con... Lees meer

Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film, 1979-2017

Harry Warwick

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 95
• Offering a survey of Hollywood science fiction cinema from 1979 to 2017 (from Ridley Scott's Alien to Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 ), Dystopia... Lees meer

Solar Flares

Andrew M Butler

• Paperback | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 43
• Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale." The New Wave was... Lees meer

Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future

Peter Swirski

• Paperback | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 51
• Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem's life, career, and literary legacy to light. Part One traces the ... Lees meer

Shakespeare and Science Fiction

Sarah Annes Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
• In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Shakespeare when imagining humani... Lees meer

Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles

Jeremy Withers

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 66
• Given the extensive influence of the 'transport revolution' on the past two centuries (a time when trains, trams, omnibuses, bicycles, cars, airplanes... Lees meer

Fighting for the Future

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 67
• The first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery , the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and acad... Lees meer

The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020

Mike Ashley

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 73
• The Rise of the Cyberzines concludes Mike Ashley's five-volume series, which has tracked the evolution of the science-fiction magazine from its earlie... Lees meer

Solar Flares

Andrew M Butler

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 43
• Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale." The New Wave was... Lees meer

Space for Peace

Richard Howard

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 68
• Science fiction might not be the first thing that springs to mind when we think of Irish literature. But in the post-war period in Belfast, two author... Lees meer

Gothic Science Fiction, 1980-2010

• Paperback | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 41
• This timely book explores what might be termed 'Gothic science fiction' from 1980 to 2010. This designation may at first appear contradictory, as the ... Lees meer

Very Different Story

• Paperback | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 14
• In 1890 a poem entitled Similar Cases appeared in the USA in The Nationalist. In it, one of that country's best-known utopian writers, Charlotte Perki... Lees meer

Science Fiction Double Feature

• Paperback | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 52
• Critical discussion of cult cinema has often noted its tendency to straddle or ignore boundaries, to pull together different sets of conventions, narr... Lees meer

Science Fiction and Climate Change

Andrew Milner, J R Burgmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 63
• Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Best Non-Fiction Award 2020 Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction A... Lees meer

Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction

Tom Shippey

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 53
• An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The fifteen essays collected in Hard... Lees meer

Biology and Manners

• Paperback | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 64
• This volume of essays continues the establishment of Lois McMaster Bujold as an important author of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. It argue... Lees meer

Excavating the Future

Shawn Malley

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 57
• A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the Future explores the popular archaeolo... Lees meer

Sideways in Time

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 59
• Alternate history is a genre of fiction that, although connected to science fiction, has its own rich history and lineage. With its roots in the writi... Lees meer

Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction

Jaime Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 81
• What does it mean to be human in a world increasingly determined by algorithms? How can fiction articulate identity and subjectivity in the face of te... Lees meer

Science Fiction and Empire

Patricia Kerslake

• Paperback | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 35
• This book is about the human desire to experiment with empire. In the past it was done with real soldiers and expeditions and slaves and trade and mis... Lees meer

Apocalypse in Crisis

Christopher Palmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 72
• Apocalypse is traditional and familiar, and it is an actual threat; it is feared, desired, and banal. Apocalypse in Crisis discusses fictions from the... Lees meer

Biology and Manners

• Hardcover | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 64
• This volume of essays continues the establishment of Lois McMaster Bujold as an important author of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. It argue... Lees meer

Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990

Mike Ashley

• Paperback | Engels | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | nr. 54
• Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazine... Lees meer