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Speculative fictions contemporary Canadian novelists and the writing of history / by Wyile, Herb, 1961-

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Speculative fictions : Chilean culture, economics, and the neoliberal transition / by Fornazzari, Alessandro, 1970-

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Science fiction and speculative fiction : challenging genres /

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Bodyminds Reimagined : (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction / by Schalk, Samantha Dawn

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Techno-Orientalism : imagining Asia in speculative fiction, history, and media /

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Character and the supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe / by Usongo, Kenneth

“…Routledge studies in speculative fiction…”
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Dystopian fiction east and west universe of terror and trial / by Gottlieb, Erika

Table of Contents: “…The answers of utopia, tragedy, and dystopia -- Nineteenth-century precursors of the dystopian vision -- The dictator behind the mask : Zamiatin's We, Huxley's Brave new world, and Orwell's Ninteenth eighty-four -- Dictatorship without a mask : Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player piano, and Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- The writer on trial: socialist realism and the exile of speculative fiction -- The dystopia of revolutionary justice : Serge's Conquered city, Zazubrin's "The chip," and Rodionov's Chocolate -- The legalization of terror: Platonov's The foundation pit, Ribakov's Children of the Arbat, and Koestler's Darkness at noon -- Terror in war, terror in peace: Grossman's Life and fate, Tertz Sinyavski's The trial begins, and Daniel's This is Moscow speaking -- Collective paranoia: the persecutor and the persecuted: Andzrejewski, Déry, Fuks, Hlasko, Örkény, Vaculik, and Mrozek -- Kafka's ghost: The trial as theatre: Klima's The castle, Karvas's The big wig, and Havel''s Memorandum -- From terror to entropy : the downward spiral: Konwicki's A minor apocalypse, Déry's Mr G.A. in X and Zinoviev's The radiant future -- Speculative fiction returns from exile : Dystopian vision with a sneer: Voinovich's Moscow 2042, Aksyonov's The island of Crimea, Dalos's 1985, and Moldova's Hitler in Hungary -- Dystopia East and West: conclusion.…”
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The jewel-hinged jaw notes on the language of science fiction / by Delany, Samuel R.

Table of Contents: “…Ethical aesthetics, an introduction / by Matthew Cheney -- About 5,750 words -- Critical methods/speculative fiction -- Quarks -- Thickening the plot -- Faust and Archimedes -- Alyx -- Prisoners' sleep -- Letter to the symposium on "Women in science fiction" -- To read The dispossessed -- A fictional architecture that manages only with great difficulty not once to mention Harlan Ellison.…”
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Victorian literature and finance

Table of Contents: “…: Victorian women investors in fact and fiction / Nancy Henry -- Literary realism in the wake of business cycle theory : the way we live now (1875) / Tara McGann -- Speculative fictions and the fortunes of H. Rider Haggard / Francis O'Gorman -- Cultural versus financial capital : defining literary value at the Fin de Siècle / Josephine M. …”
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Virtual worlds, real libraries librarians and educators in Second Life and other multi-user virtual environments /

Table of Contents: “…Jacobson -- Teen Second Life / Kelly Czarnecki -- HealthInfo Island : Center of Consumer Health and Medical Information in Second Life / Guus van den Brekel and Carol Perryman -- A sense of wonder : speculative fiction and virtual worlds / Abbi Ball and Erik Gordon Bainbridge -- Mystery Manor on Info Island / Mack Lundy -- Virtual communities from long ago : the Parish of Reading Primley, Renaissance Island, and its educational possibilities / Mary-Carol Lindbloom -- Land of Lincoln : Abraham Lincoln gets a second life / DaisyBlue Hefferman -- Why have a second life? …”
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Pataphilology: An Irreader

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Dystopias and utopias on Earth and beyond : feminist ecocriticism of science fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Ecofeminism and speculative fiction : a writer's reflection / Vandana Singh -- Preface / Douglas A. …”
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MythomaniaS: Crime Scenes & Psycho Case Studies

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