Tag: Fiction

Free Download Louisa Uchum Egbunike, "ALT 39: Speculative & Science Fiction "
English | ISBN: 184701285X | 2021 | 276 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 2 MB
Explores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and the genealogy of the works.

Free Download Lara Narcisi, "Radical Empathy in Multicultural Women’s Fiction: From the Library to Liberation"
English | ISBN: 1666921505 | 2023 | 150 pages | EPUB, PDF | 378 KB + 2 MB
Fiction provides the possibility for radical empathy by connecting us with strangers and Radical Empathy in Multicultural Women’s Fiction: From the Library to Liberation both analyzes and embodies this phenomenon by putting women novelists of color in conversation with one another. Foregrounding the growing importance of intersectionality studies, this book considers how race, gender, and class interact for each author. In our increasingly fragmented national dialogue, this approach is unique and timely, demonstrating how novels can transform how we understand ourselves and act towards others.

Free Download The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on their Craft and Ideas by Maxim Jakubowski, Edward James
English | 1992 | ISBN: 0333524829 | 219 Pages | PDF | 21.6 MB
Where do science fiction writers get their inspiration from?

Free Download Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century by Edward James
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0192892444 | 272 Pages | PDF | 13.4 MB
Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century is the first book to challenge the traditional approach to science fiction as a series of texts and authors.

Free Download Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers by Laurie Lamson
English | 2014 | ISBN: 039916555X | 384 Pages | EPUB | 667.6 KB
Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison (R), Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more.

Free Download Good Fiction Guide by Jane Rogers, Hermione Lee, Mike Harris
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0192100211 | 512 Pages | PDF | 10.7 MB
Covering everyone from Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain to Don De Lillo and Lorrie Moore, Good Fiction Guide offers an informative reference work on novelists and their works, with an emphasis of twentieth-century fiction and popular classics, but with ample coverage of major novelists of the past.

Free Download Valerie Estelle Frankel, "Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age"
English | ISBN: 1793637121 | 2021 | 230 pages | EPUB, PDF | 588 KB + 3 MB
Science fiction first emerged in the Industrial Age and continued to develop into its current form during the twentieth century. This book analyses the role Jewish writers played in the process of its creation and development. The author provides a comprehensive overview, bridging such seemingly disparate themes and figures as the ghetto legends of the golem and their influence on both Frankenstein and robots, the role of, Jewish authors and publishers in developing the first science fiction magazine in New York in the 1930s, and their later contributions to new and developing medial forms like comics and film. Drawing on the historical context and the positions Jews held in the larger cultural environment, the author illustrates how themes and tropes in science fiction and fantasy relate back to the realities of Jewish life in the face of global anti-Semitism, the struggle to assimilate in America, and the hope that was inspired by the founding of Israel.

Free Download Pamela Bedore, "The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction"
English | ISBN: 0367645718 | 2024 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1351 KB + 12 MB
Who are the most important Canadian crime and detective writers? How do they help represent Canada as a nation? How do they distinguish Canada’s approach to questions of crime, detection, and social justice from those of other countries? The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction provides a much-needed investigation into how crime and detection have been, are, and will be represented within Canada’s national literature, with an attention to contemporary popular and literary texts. The book draws together a representative set of established Canadian authors who would appear in most courses on Canadian crime and detective fiction, while also introducing a few authors less established in the field. Ultimately, the book argues that crime fiction is a space of enormously productive hybridity that offers fresh new approaches to considering questions of national identity, gender, race, sexuality, and even genre.

Free Download The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City) edited by Atef Abu Saif
English | July 3, 2014 | ISBN: 1905583648 | EPUB | 224 pages | 4.3 MB
Bringing together a dozen of Palestine’s greatest modern prose writers, this unique anthology sets contemporary stories against the backdrop of one of the world’s most talked-about cities, presenting them in English translation for the first time.

Free Download Eric Sandberg, "Studying Crime in Fiction"
English | ISBN: 0367742098 | 2024 | 212 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1040 KB + 12 MB
The primary aim of Studying Crime in Fiction: An Introduction is to introduce the emerging cross-disciplinary area of study that combines the fields of crime fiction studies and criminology. The study of crime fiction as a genre has a long history within literary studies, and is becoming increasingly prominent in twenty-first-century scholarship. Less attention, however, has been paid to the ways in which elements of criminology, or the systematic study of crime and criminal behaviour from a wide range of perspectives, have influenced the production and reception of crime narratives. Similarly, not enough attention has been paid to the ways in which crime fiction as a genre can inform and enliven the study of criminology. Written largely for undergraduate and graduate students, but also for scholars of crime fiction and criminology interested in thinking across disciplinary boundaries,