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Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction by Larry McCaffery 9780822311683
Booksplease Price: €46.56The term "cyberpunk" entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery... -
Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing by E. Lynn Harris 9780786713875
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.41Freedom in This Village charts for the first time ever the innovative course of black gay male literature of the past 25 years. Starting in 1979 with the publication of James Baldwin's final novel,... -
Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t by Mary C. Foltz 9783030465292
Booksplease Price: €55.07Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including... -
Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t by Mary C. Foltz 9783030465322
Booksplease Price: €55.07Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including... -
Moon Songs: Selected Stories by Carol Emshwiller 9798989908936
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.98"A major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist." - Ursula K. LeGuinCarol Emshwiller's pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace... -
We Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ 9780819567598
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.73A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an uncharted barren tundra. With no technical skills and scant supplies, the survivors face a bleak end... -
Masters of the Drum: Black Lit/oratures Across the Continuum by Robert E. Fox 9780313292965
Booksplease Price: €72.65Masters of the Drum, comprising eight essays and two interviews, examines both celebrated and insufficiently explored Caribbean, African, and African-American lit/orature that asserts the interface... -
OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture by Julie R. Enszer 9781978828049
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €57.50Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emerging canon. OutWrite provided a space where literary... -
The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction Sharon DeGraw 9780415802895
Booksplease Price: €44.04While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series,... -
The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction Sharon DeGraw 9780415979016
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €113.99While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series,... -
Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: 'Prism, Mirror, Lens' Amanda Dillon 9781836244868
Booksplease Price: €135.87Metafictionality has become the cornerstone of the stylistic zeitgeist of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century. This trend reaches back to literary experiments first... -
OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture by Julie R. Enszer 9781978828032
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emerging canon. OutWrite provided a space where literary... -
NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America by Constance Penley
Booksplease Price: €21.44This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to reinforce its public standing. It... -
Cyberfiction: After the Future by Paul Youngquist 9780230621510
Booksplease Price: €56.03Cyberfiction: After the Future explores a world where cybernetics sets the terms for life and culture - our world of ubiquitous info-tech, instantaneous capital flows, and immanent catastrophe... -
The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox Nisi Shawl 9798986614663
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €12.85A long forgotten Beat poet brought back to life in utterly fantastical fashion. In beautifully vivid journal entries, Black poet Mardou Fox chronicles her 1950s and '60s experiences with... -
Gregory Benford by George Slusser 9780252079801
Booksplease Price: €29.11Gregory Benford is perhaps best known as the author of Benford's law of controversy: "Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available." That maxim is a quotation from... -
Arkdust by Alex Smith
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28Pain, hope, and love collide in this explosive collection of speculative fiction. Arkdust demands revolutions while seeking compassion and understanding. Alex Smith gives us abandoned Black Panthers,... -
Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction by Wendy Gay Pearson 9781846315015
Booksplease Price: €41.42Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of... -
Space Odes R. T. A. Parker 9781913861346
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45RTA Parker's Space Odes is an entertainingly bonkers romp of constellation and collage, writing and re-writing its entertainingly allusive way through intertextual space lampooning, deriding,... -
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora Sheree R. Thomas 9780446693776
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.91In the tradition of The Norton Anthology of Black Literature, DARK MATTER: READING THE BONES, like its ground-breaking predecessor, will introduce black SF, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers... -
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond by Bill Campbell
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond is a groundbreaking speculative fiction anthology that showcases the work from some of the most talented writers inside and outside speculative fiction... -
Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures (A Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Book) by Martin Duberman
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €31.08Queer Representations celebrates the eclectic, diverse nature of gay and lesbian culture and its production. The volume begins by asking how we can interpret an image--is the image homosexual and... -
Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman 9781408845462
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.32Chosen and introduced by Neil Gaiman, this thoroughly beguiling collection of short stories is inhabited by an amazing menagerie of creatures from myth, legend and dark imagination The griffin,... -
Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading by Tyler Bradway 9781349955541
Booksplease Price: €31.65This volume argues that postwar writers queer the affective relations of reading through experiments with literary form. Tyler Bradway conceptualizes "bad reading" as an affective politics that... -
Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future Roy Christopher 9781912248346
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first century. Emerging alongside cyberpunk in the 1980s, the hallmarks of hip-hop - allusion, self-reference,... -
Conversations with John A. Williams by Jeffrey Allen Tucker 9781496815361
Booksplease Price: €118.68One of the most prolific African American authors of his time, John A. Williams (1925-2015) made his mark as a journalist, educator, and writer. Having worked for Newsweek, Ebony, and Jet magazines,... -
Fights of Fancy: Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and Fantasy by George Edgar Slusser 9780820352329
RRP: €115.37Booksplease Price: €103.68This collection of fifteen original essays offers new perspectives on armed conflict as a central aspect of science fiction and fantasy writing. Looking past the superficial conventions associated... -
African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader by Gene Andrew Jarrett 9780814742877
Booksplease Price: €108.14It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse... -
New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.93Octavia E. Butler said, "There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking-breakthrough stories, stories... -
Counternarratives by John Keene 9780811225526
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.14Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to... -
Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s by Andrew M. Butler 9781781381175
Booksplease Price: €42.29Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale." The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive... -
The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual by Lavelle Porter
Booksplease Price: €35.77The Blackademic Life critically examines academic fictions produced by black writers. In it, Lavelle Porter evaluates the depiction of academic and campus life in literature as a space for black... -
Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction by James E. Gunn 9780810849020
Booksplease Price: €78.49Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future... -
The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power by Carl Freedman 9781846949432
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The fundamental argument of this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, did... -
Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space In The Wake Of The City by Dianne Chisholm 9780816644049
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43Discovers parallels between modern gay and lesbian views of urban life and Benjamin's Paris, "the capital of the nineteenth century"Queer Constellations investigates the dreams and catastrophes of... -
Speculative Orientalism: Asian Religions in New Wave Science Fiction Sang-Keun Yoo 9781350447899
Booksplease Price: €108.46Examining the works of prominent New Wave science fiction authors from the 1950-1960s, Sang-Keun Yoo highlights the underexplored connection between American science fiction and Asian religions, such... -
The Wavering Knife by B. K. Evenson
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20Harrowing short stories that range from horror to humor; Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial... -
Let's Play White by Chesya Burke 9781937009991
Booksplease Price: €17.75White brings with it dreams of respect, of wealth, of simply being treated as a human being. It's the one thing Walter will never be. But what if he could play white, the way so many others seem to... -
Dismantlings: Words against Machines in the American Long Seventies by Matt Tierney
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.39"For the master's tools," the poet Audre Lorde wrote, "will never dismantle the master's house." Dismantlings is a study of literary, political, and philosophical critiques of the utopian claims... -
American Homo: Community and Perversity by Jeffrey Escoffier
Booksplease Price: €24.63American Homo offers a sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural and economic struggles of lesbian, gay and bisexual people to reveal how sexual minorities have challenged and changed...