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Free Download Complete Fiction of W.M. Spackman By William Mode Spackman
1997 | 634 Pages | ISBN: 1564781372 | PDF | 114 MB
Described by Stanley Elkin as "this country’s best-kept literary secret" and "a lost American classic," W. M. Spackman is one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.This omnibus edition includes all five of the author’s previously published novels: Heyday (and here presented with revisions the author made shortly before his death); and the critically acclaimed novels published between 1978 and 1985: An Armful of Warm Girl (1978), A Presence with Secrets (1980), A Difference of Design (1983), and A Little Decorum, for Once (1985). The novel As I Sauntered Out, One Midcentury Morning is published here for the first time, as well as the author’s only two short stories.

Free Download Alison James, "The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief "
English | ISBN: 0367635151 | 2023 | 522 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 11 MB

Free Download Andrew Cowan, "The Art of Writing Fiction Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1138593699 | 2023 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 453 KB + 3 MB
An elegant and intimate insight into the personal and practical processes of writing, Andrew Cowan’s The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with emerging writers at the University of East Anglia.

Free Download Professor Matthew J. Christensen, "Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020: The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal "
English | ISBN: 1847013872 | 2024 | 244 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 5 MB
Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces its history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens.

Free Download Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God (Audiobook)
English | September 26, 2023 | ASIN: B0CCYVHS98 | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 25m | 179 MB
Author: Robert Charles Wilson | Narrator: Pete Cross
Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed.
As Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson argues in Owning the Unknown, the genre’s freewheeling speculation and systematic world-building make it a unique lens for understanding, examining, and assessing the truth claims of religions in general and Christianity in particular.

Free Download Jonathan Alexander, "Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship"
English | ISBN: 1498538428 | 2016 | 206 pages | EPUB | 522 KB
Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship shows how many young adult novels model for young people ways to manage the various media tools that surround them. Jonathan Alexander examines not only young adult texts and their media ecologies but also young people’s multiliterate media making in response to their favorite texts and stories. As such, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned about young people’s literacies and the relationship between literacy development and the culture industries.

Free Download Brian Stableford, "Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1434435997 | EPUB | pages: 190 | 0.2 mb
Although the problems of writing fantasy and science fiction include all those pertaining to the writing of any kind of fiction, particular problems arise in stories in which unprecedented things can and do happen, as well as stories that often involve unhuman characters of various sorts, and that might require the elaborate design of entire imaginary worlds. This book provides an elementary introduction to problems of those kinds, and the ways in which they modify the general problems of writing fiction. It also suggests strategies that might enable the problems to be handled constructively and productively. The author has published more than seventy novels in the field, more than twenty short story collections, and more than twenty related works of non-fiction; he has, as the saying goes, been there, done that, and chewed his t-shirt in relevant frustration. Robert Reginald says: "An absolutely first-rate guide to writing fantastic literature. Stableford has much to say that potential writers of ALL fiction might find valuable, interesting, and highly illuminating. His reasonable discussion and dissection of the basic issues facing authors of creative fiction-and the solutions to be found to each problem-are dollops of solid gold advice, in this editor’s humble opinion. Every would-be author should read this book-and more than once!"

Free Download Sébastien Doubinsky, "Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words: Conversations with Authors and Editors"
English | ISBN: 1501384465 | 2024 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 599 KB + 4 MB
What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed individuals or communities?

Free Download Rob Breton, "The penny politics of Victorian popular fiction "
English | ISBN: 1526156385 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan’s longest and most significant people’s movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.

Free Download Emily Horton, "The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1350268216 | 2024 | 336 pages | EPUB, PDF | 493 KB + 2 MB
This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate national literatures of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shifts in modes of attention and reading.