Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation (Bishop Katherine E.)(Pevná vazba)

Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation (Bishop Katherine E.)(Pevná vazba)

Plants in Science Fiction, the first-ever volume on plants (and fungi) in science fiction, allows us to speculate further on what - or who - plant life may be while exploring how we understand ourselves in relation to the complex world of

Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction (Meeker Natania)(Paperback)

Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the

Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (Carrington Andr M.)(Paperback)

In Speculative Blackness, Andr M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction--including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures--to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness

Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction (Thiess Derek J.)(Pevná vazba)

Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction examines fantastic representations of sport in science fiction, both cataloguing this almost entirely unexamined literary tradition and arguing that the reason for its neglect reflects a more widespread social suspicion of the athletic body as monstrous

Dear Science and Other Stories (McKittrick Katherine)(Pevná vazba)

In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she

River Called Time (Newland Courttia)(Pevná vazba)

A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics and conscience set in parallel

Recent Trends in Life Sciences(Pevná vazba)

The combination of multidisciplinary research in plants, animals, microorganisms and their interactions with molecular biology, genetic engineering approaches and advances in cell biology research has broadened the horizons of the life sciences. This book deals with recent trends in the life

Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies (Addey Dave)(Pevná vazba)

Discover and Do: Plants (Lacey Jane)(Pevná vazba)

DISCOVER the facts and DO the activities in this fun science

Those Dark Places: Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying (Hicks Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Jonathan Hicks, published twice in the British Science Fiction Association's writer's magazine 'FOCUS' and the mission designer/dialogue writer of the mobile telephone game of acclaimed television show 'Battlestar Galactica', presents twelve short stories about the little people in the big

Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy (Van Troyer Gene)(Paperback)

The first book in an ongoing series, Speculative Japan presents a selection of outstanding works of Japanese science fiction and fantasy in English translation... and a glimpse into new worlds of the imagination. It was first released at Nippon 2007, the 65th World Science Fiction Convention in

Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation (Asimov Isaac)(Pevná vazba)

Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy--one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction--in a single hardcover volume. - Winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series. - THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION. It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after

Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw (Li Hua)(Pevná vazba)

This is the first book in English to focus on the transitional period of Chinese science fiction - a key prelude to the increasingly global stature of Chinese science fiction in the twenty-first

Wild Scientists - How animals and plants use science to survive (Mould Steve)(Pevná vazba)

War of the Worlds (Wells H.)(Pevná vazba)

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is Wells's classic science-fiction tale in which Martians descend on the Home

A Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle Madeleine)(Pevná vazba)

Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture. It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most

Exterminator 17 (Bilal Enki)(Pevná vazba)

In this science fiction adventure, warrior robots known as `Exterminators' are strewn across the galaxy in a host of deadly environments, fighting for their human masters. But when the creator of these mechanical killers finds his soul trapped in an Exterminator, the balance of power is about to

Providence (Barry Max)(Pevná vazba)

From the award-winning author of Lexicon comes a mind-bending science fiction masterpiece in the tradition of The Martian and

Is There Anybody Out There? (O Briain Dara)(Pevná vazba)

Science fiction meets science fact in this brand new book from the UK and Ireland's best-loved comedian, Dara O Briain. So - is there anybody out there? NO. Well, maybe. Sort your science fiction from your science fact and find out what to say (and how to say it) when you meet an extra-terrestrial

Bacterial Disease Resistance in Plants - Molecular Biology(Pevná vazba)

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (Frakes Randall)(Pevná vazba)

The perfect companion to AMC's six-part television series James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, this unique book explores the history and evolution of the genre with contributions from the filmmakers who have helped bring it to life For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the

Stargrave: Science Fiction Wargames in the Ravaged Galaxy (McCullough Joseph A.)(Pevná vazba)

A skirmish wargame set in a dangerous galaxy where players command a small crew of adventurers hunting for loot, while trying not to call too much attention to their activities. In a galaxy torn apart by the Last War, vast pirate fleets roam from system to system, robbing, extorting, and enslaving

The Simon & Kirby Library: Science Fiction (Simon Joe)(Pevná vazba)

The Simon and Kirby Library: Science Fiction spans more than 20 years, beginning with the first stories Joe Simon and Jack Kirby ever produced together (beginning in June 1940)--their ten-issue run of Blue Bolt adventures. Then the Cold War years will be represented by Race For the Moon, featuring

The Electric State (Stlenhag Simon)(Pevná vazba)

A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic