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Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.<BR><BR>What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? <BR><BR>What constitutes a 'telling' detail? <BR><BR>When is a metaphor successful? <BR><BR>Is realism realistic? <BR><BR>Why do most endings of novels disappoint?<BR><BR>In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions. <BR><BR>Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carré, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, it incisively sums up two decades of bold, often controversial, and now classic critical work, and will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone interested in what happens on the page.<BR><BR>'Should find a place on every novel-lover's shelf. It has the quality all useful works of criticism should have: refined taste, keen observation, and the ability to make the reader argue, passionately, with it' Financial Times

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Bethany Easton explores Beatles Real Person Fiction (BRPF) as a significant element of 21st-century Beatles fandom through which fans connect with each other and feel more intimate with the group.

Drawing on interviews with authors and readers alongside textual analysis, this work aims to provide insight into the creation of Beatles fiction and its impact on 21st-century fans. It explores the hierarchy that is present within the fiction community and the curator role that some fans play in the production of these texts. The work utilizes case studies to explore the range of texts on offer with a focus on John Lennon due to the multitude of texts centering on him. It aims to offer more insight into the world of Beatles fiction discussing the importance of these texts within Beatles fandom.

Argues that our experience of becoming engrossed in the fictional world of a novel is connected to the fundamental condition of human being: our capacity for language in all its broadest shapes. <BR><BR>Unlocking the subtle riches of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and working across phenomenology, analytic philosophy, and literary criticism, The Experience of Fiction argues that our capacity for language is the bedrock of fiction and of our experience of its worlds. <BR><BR>By harnessing the general structure of fictional worlds that our minds navigate when we read, masterworks of fiction expose our capacity for language for what it is: a capacity to be otherwise and to exceed ourselves. Charting the worlds of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Thomas Jurkiewicz explores the pressures and opportunities that the impulse for coherence places on interpretive experience, arguing that it is finally left to each individual to commit themselves to the actual world.<BR><BR>The Experience of Fiction injects new verve into the burgeoning conversation between literary scholars and philosophers of art and language, bringing hermeneutic philosophy decisively to bear on literary studies. It clears a way between critics invested in critique and those looking for new modes of thinking, appreciating, and taking works of literary fiction seriously, by showcasing how an attitude of openness to experience lays bare both our capacity to reach out towards alterity and to dominate it.

From Blade Runner to The Hunger Games, this book explores costume and dress in science fiction cinema and their impact on fashion and popular culture far beyond the films themselves. <BR><BR>Therèsa Winge considers not only the films' stylistic choices but also their representations of technology and their socio-cultural, political, and philosophical ideologies in order to trace their significant influence on popular trends, culture, and consumption. Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema looks at sci-fi films such as Barbarella, Mad Max: Fury Road, Dune, and The Matrix in order to understand the intersections between this eclectic genre and society and culture at large. <BR><BR>By exploring the visual and material cultures of the films, Winge reveals the importance of characters' costumes and dress in establishing their identities, story arcs, and style. She examines selected science fiction films' aesthetics that impact popular culture beyond the films, influencing designers such as Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, and Paco Rabanne to create fashion collections, promotional campaigns, virtual environments, and more. Winge's expertise in fandom and fan culture extends the reach of her analysis to reveal the enormous collective power of the consumer of science fiction, demonstrating the role of sci-fi in popular culture and fashion. <BR><BR>Giving an incisive account of the complex relationship between dress in science fiction and broader culture and society, Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema is essential reading to all those interested in cinema, popular culture, fashion, and identity.

From Blade Runner to The Hunger Games, this book explores costume and dress in science fiction cinema and their impact on fashion and popular culture far beyond the films themselves. Therèsa Winge considers not only the films' stylistic choices but also their representations of technology and their socio-cultural, political, and philosophical ideologies in order to trace their significant influence on popular trends, culture, and consumption. Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema looks at sci-fi films such as Barbarella, Mad Max: Fury Road, Dune, and The Matrix in order to understand the intersections between this eclectic genre and society and culture at large. <BR><BR>By exploring the visual and material cultures of the films, Winge reveals the importance of characters' costumes and dress in establishing their identities, story arcs, and style. She examines selected science fiction films' aesthetics that impact popular culture beyond the films, influencing designers such as Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, and Paco Rabanne to create fashion collections, promotional campaigns, virtual environments, and more. Winge's expertise in fandom and fan culture extends the reach of her analysis to reveal the enormous collective power of the consumer of science fiction, demonstrating the role of sci-fi in popular culture and fashion. <BR><BR>Giving an incisive account of the complex relationship between dress in science fiction and broader culture and society, Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema is essential reading to all those interested in cinema, popular culture, fashion, and identity.

This book illuminates the relationship between autobiography, fan fiction, and education via philosophical, pedagogical, and formative perspectives. <BR><BR>How might we consider autobiography and fan fiction writing to be educational? How can we harness the potential of fan fiction writing for pedagogical use? How does the practice of creating and consuming fan fiction/autobiographical texts support the formation of identity? This book brings together contributors from across the world to consider the answers to these questions, and more, with the resulting interpretations and perspectives offering something novel in the linking of these three concepts. Separated into three distinct sections, the chapters in this book look first at philosophical perspectives, moving on to pedagogical approaches, and, finally, the role of fan fiction and autobiography in the formation of individual and social identities. The eclectic mix of arguments, methods, and styles aims to provide insights to readers interested in life writing, popular culture and media studies, and those engaged in the multiple sub-disciplines of education studies.

In this book, Jennifer Kelso Farrell investigates the way in which L. Ron Hubbard used his background in science fiction to create a language for his religion that served to gatekeep outsiders out and insulate insiders.<BR> Examining the works of science fiction authors such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, and Samuel Delany, Farrell explores the relationship between language and reality and the role language can play in reprogramming individuals. The author also draws upon high profile biographies from former members such as Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology and My Billion Year Contract to display how indoctrination into such language often causes a language barrier between those within Scientology and those outside of it, thus further isolating members and perpetuating Scientologese within their inner circle. Bridging the gap between fiction and reality, Farrell illustrates how this language came to be, and how it continues to persist today.

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China.<BR><BR>This book discusses the critical narrative of memory in overseas Chinese migrant fiction as an alternative account of histories. It reveals how writers, including Ken Liu, Yiyun Li and Geling Yan among others build the multiple facets of memory and explore the traces and significances of trauma through fiction. The book identifies a tension in dialogues between the writers' memory construction and public discourses, social powers, and transcultural experiences. The counterforces in self-reflexive memory writing are thus unearthed between collective and individual, public and private, as well as global and local.

There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortress Europe, whose exposure of irregular migrants to trafficking, discrimination and deportation is rarely absent from the daily news. Modern European Borders in Fiction offers a comprehensive study of literary responses to the topic.

Through reference to over 600 novels and short stories, Andrew Hammond analyses the wide-ranging engagement of post-1945 novelists with the ideologies, processes and effects of territorialisation, as well as the related issues of military conflict, migration, populism, nationalism and regionalism. Among the topics under study are the ideological divisions of the Cold War, the closed societies of totalitarian communism, the labour migrations of the 1950s and 1960s, the tightening of border controls from the 1970s, the twenty-first-century war on migration, the official restrictions on borderland communities, the conflicts in Bosnia, Georgia and Ukraine and the patterns of social segregation that have marked the continent from the Second World War to the present.

Drawing on theoretical work in the social sciences and the humanities, this is a ground-breaking contribution to European literary studies, establishing the importance of continental border writing and opening up fresh avenues for decolonised teaching and research.

Analysing an expanding body of theatre and performance works, Science Fiction and Contemporary British Theatre examines how the themes and images of science fiction are enabling practitioners to intervene on the most urgent social and political issues of the present moment.<BR><BR>By exploring the genre's impact on the live theatrical event, the book presents an original and topical interrogation of issues that remain at the heart of the national and global political agenda, including military conflict, social injustice, economic inequality, migration, nationhood, anti-democratic populism, and climate collapse.<BR><BR>The author draws upon a wide range of dramatic forms, from critically acclaimed plays by writers such as Alistair McDowall, Caryl Churchill, Dawn King, Anne Washburn and Ella Road, to devised work, site-specific performance, Shakespearean drama and physical theatre. <BR><BR>The book's chapters are based on some of the genre's most resonant images, including post-apocalyptic wildernesses, dystopian regimes and artificial lifeforms. Furthermore, by placing examples in dialogue with a range of theories and scholars, this book constructs an innovative interdisciplinary framework comprised of theatre studies, sociology, philosophy, economic and political science.<BR><BR>Providing an engagingly written, intellectually rich and uniquely compelling analysis, Science Fiction and Contemporary British Theatre charts a new and growing landscape of scholarly research, and establishes science fiction as an exciting, expanding and urgent dramatic and political practice.

In this study, Keli Masten advocates for a new approach to the study of popular fiction in the United States, positioning the detective story as an offshoot of the American Gothic and grounding its conflict in the social anxieties surrounding race, class, and gender in the US.<BR><BR>With deep roots in regional American Gothic literary traditions, detective fiction serves as a source of both macabre entertainment and a cultural critique of corruption and the abuse of power in the United States. Weaving together familiar elements like hostile environments, extreme jeopardy, and intuitive investigators, Masten contests that the way authors draw from multiple genres in American Gothic detective mysteries allows them to examine how the struggles between civility and savagery, authenticity and pretense, and order and chaos have evolved in response to regional American social values and concerns.<BR><BR>Across five chapters, Dark Logic features an influential representative author--Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katharine Green, Mark Twain, and Dashiell Hammett--and offers unique regional perspectives on transgressive crimes and their disentanglement. Readers will not only gain a deeper understanding of gothic detective fiction, but of how these stories serve as a dialogue between the society which created them and the society which consumes them, targeting the values and anxieties of American culture and preventing its people from achieving the tranquility they struggle to impose.

This wide-ranging and timely open access collection of essays is ideal for readers who want to incorporate speculative fiction into their teaching and research across disciplines.<BR><BR>The terms speculation and speculative fictioning are increasingly used in education and interdisciplinary research methods to describe approaches grounded in asking "what if" questions that can unsettle the assumed certainties of the past, present, and future.<BR><BR>An Introduction by editor Sarah E. Truman and a Foreword by Steven Shaviro describe what speculative fiction is and examine its critical implications, offering a theoretical framework for understanding its applications to research and pedagogy. The chapters that follow explore these modes of thinking in practice by drawing on speculative fictions to examine disciplinary concerns related to climate justice, disability justice, racial justice, prison abolition, genetics, AI, the future of work, educational technologies, and gender. Through reflective narratives and critical analyses, twenty-five international contributors engage literary works by authors such as Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Chiang, and N. K. Jemisin, alongside films and television series including Gattaca, The Matrix, Severance, and Star Trek, connecting these texts to their own research and thinking. Each chapter also includes discussion and writing prompts for use in classrooms and research seminars.<BR><BR>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Melbourne.

Focusing on the long-running series Doctor Who and Star Trek, Fantastic Acting examines the non-naturalistic techniques and approaches employed by actors to realize non-human, alien, or monstrous characters on the small screen. <BR><BR>The book draws upon a combination of detailed textual analysis, archive material, and original interviews with actors and directors to unpack the processes required to portray a variety of science fiction archetypes, from the non-human humanoid (humanoid aliens, androids, "possessed"/duplicate humans), through the demonstrably alien or monstrous (other-worldly characters for which prosthetics or visual effects are incorporated as part of the performance) to the robotic or mechanical (for which voice acting plays a more significant role, often in combination with props or CGI). Examining the relationship between this long-established genre and its associated acting styles, Fantastic Acting fills a major gap in the emerging field of television performance studies, shining a much-needed light on a key, yet little-considered aspect of the screen actor's craft.<BR><BR>Utilising long-running television series from both the UK and the US - both of which have now arguably become global phenomena - avoids placing the focus on one particular national performance style. The result is the serious examination of what an actor does with their body, face, and voice to accomplish the fantastic. Ultimately, this study unpacks the relationship between genre and performance in two of television's longest-running and most popular science fiction franchises.

This wide-ranging and timely open access collection of essays is ideal for readers who want to incorporate speculative fiction into their teaching and research across disciplines.<BR><BR>The terms speculation and speculative fictioning are increasingly used in education and interdisciplinary research methods to describe approaches grounded in asking "what if" questions that can unsettle the assumed certainties of the past, present, and future.<BR><BR>An Introduction by editor Sarah E. Truman and a Foreword by Steven Shaviro describe what speculative fiction is and examine its critical implications, offering a theoretical framework for understanding its applications to research and pedagogy. The chapters that follow explore these modes of thinking in practice by drawing on speculative fictions to examine disciplinary concerns related to climate justice, disability justice, racial justice, prison abolition, genetics, AI, the future of work, educational technologies, and gender. Through reflective narratives and critical analyses, twenty-five international contributors engage literary works by authors such as Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Chiang, and N. K. Jemisin, alongside films and television series including Gattaca, The Matrix, Severance, and Star Trek, connecting these texts to their own research and thinking. Each chapter also includes discussion and writing prompts for use in classrooms and research seminars.<BR><BR>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Melbourne.

Establishing mid-20th-century queer fiction as both text and book object made up of crucial para-textual elements, this book explores the effect of post-Second World War politics and society on queer novels of the time and the circumstances surrounding their production, marketing and distribution.<BR><BR>In a largely intolerant climate, post-Second World War British publishers issued hundreds of works of fiction featuring queer characters or plotlines; but, against a backdrop of notions of discretion and laws prohibiting homosexuality, both the books and the texts were 'toned down'. Exploring how these products were sites of containment and resistance, and representations of disrupted social, political, and economic conditions of the time, The Publishing Closet calls for us to re-examine and re-define our understandings off mid-century queer fiction and literary culture. With close readings, case studies and analysis of elements such as dust jackets alongside new evidence from the archives of publishing businesses, authors, literary agents, and editors, Christopher Adams covers works by Denton Welch, Francis King, Mary Renault, Martyn Goff and Gore Vidal and events including the accusations of censorship against the retailer W. H. Smith and the obscenity trial of Radcylffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. Casting fresh light on queer literary history by mapping the confines of the 'publishing closet', this book demonstrates that in viewing queer fiction as book objects we might more fully understand them as products of constricting and competing social, legal, and economic forces that cohered around mid-century conceptions of the queer.

Analyzing the horror genre across literature, film, and television, Rebecca Gibson unveils the hidden horrific undercurrents of the mundane.<BR><BR>Gibson argues that while many people are excited to cohabitate, marry, have children, or grow older together, others do so because that is what they are expected to do-and often they do so not with excitement, but with a sense of dread. Normative Lifecycle Milestones Examined Through Horror Fiction examines the progression of a human life, and the expectations of the milestones we are meant to meet, through the lens of horror fiction. Across nine chapters, this book examines fundamental phases of life (birth and childhood, adolescence/independence, courtship, cohabitation, marriage, parenthood, old age, and death), and the often dreadful aspects and outcomes of what is purported to be periods of joy and ambition. Incorporating various theories from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, sociology, and gender studies, this book not only serves as an analysis of contemporary horror, but as a guide to examining human behavior and emotions about our daily lives.

Exploring nine works of contemporary feminist speculative fiction by Rhoda Lerman, Angela Carter, Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman, this book asks how biblical myths of creation and apocalypse can intensify characters' emotions or distract them from dealing with the more immediate problems presented by climate crisis, conflict, social inequality and other distressing realities.<BR><BR> Engaging with affect theory - the study of emotion - across feminist, womanist and queer biblical reception history, this book argues that certain myths can become, in the words of Sara Ahmed, 'sticky', attaching themselves (and their associated emotions) to certain people, stories or ideas. It asks how and why these stories 'stick', and how this can shine a light on the societies reflected in the novels as they respond to debates within the feminism(s) of their time. The book takes negative emotions such as rage, loneliness, depression and disgust, and explores how these operate on and through fictional characters, who in many cases cannot escape the pull of Eden or the push of apocalypse. These novels impel the reader to identify moments in which such characters may (or may not) 'stay with the trouble', as Donna Haraway would put it, rather than giving in to the seductive dream of beginning afresh.

An exploration of how the corset is employed to construct character and narrative in mid-Victorian sensation fiction and contemporary Neo-Victorian literature, this book re-contextualizes the Victorian corset within its own cultural narratives and treats these as a primary context for Neo-Victorian fiction. Re-centring Victorian responses to the corset that both vilified the garment and defended its virtues in periodicals and conduct manuals, Emma Butler-Way digs into the co-textual relationship between Victorian corset narratives and mid-Victorian sensation fiction as well as the reliance of Neo-Victorian writers upon a mixture of Victorian and modern social and sartorial sensibilities. Split into two parts, the first half examines the Victorian corset in situ whilst the latter considers how modern writers engage with both current stereotypes and Victorian contexts to reconstruct and reinterpret the corset and its meaning for modern readers.<BR><BR> Employing twin lenses that engage with fashion and the body, Butler-Way takes readers on a chronological journey from 'first generation' sensation writer Wilkie Collins, through the more risqué 'second generation' writer Rhoda Broughton to 21st-century approaches to the Victorian corset offered by Sarah Waters, Laura Purcell, Kady Cross, and Nancy Springer. Tracing the natural and strange progression of the discussions surrounding the corset across 3 centuries, the book covers works such as The Woman in White, No Name, Not Wisely, but Too Well, Fingersmith, The Corset, The Girl in the Steel Corset, and the Enola Holmes series. Engaging with context and co-text and borrowing from the methodologies of historicism and new historicism, this book determines the use of the corset as a symbol and textual apparatus across Victorian and Neo-Victorian writing.

A new, post-#MeToo critical approach to reading and recuperating the gendered representations of women in a selection of Roth's novels.<BR><BR>Women, Sexuality, and Empowerment in Philip Roth's Fiction intervenes in the current critical conversation about Philip Roth and his depictions of women. Some critics have determined that Roth portrays women in a misogynistic manner. However, these same critics have ignored women who are sexually empowered or rebellious in a few of his most recognizable novels. With this study, Hirth argues that despite Roth's evident male gaze towards the women he creates for the page, these women reorient the sexualized power dynamic in the relationships in which they participate and thereby problematize the assumption that Roth is a sexist author.<BR><BR>Each chapter details some of Roth's most dynamic female characters from his most recognizable novels at different periods of his literary career, including Goodbye Columbus, The Dying Animal, Sabbath's Theater, and Indignation, and demonstrates how Roth crafts complex women. This analysis illuminates how Roth's women operate against the social constraints that limit their power and potential. In short, the in-depth analysis of a few of Roth's characters disproves the overly generalized claims that Roth cannot write women and advocates for a reading that illustrates how he not only creates empowered women but can also inspire them.

This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of our contemporary global condition. <BR><BR>Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald's work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonald's science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary.

A look at the Horned God's role as an environmental figure in modern paganism, fantasy fiction and Live Action Role-Play, this book explores how narratives informed by pagan thought are uniquely suited to introduce environmental concerns and their possible solutions. <BR><BR>Tracing the development of the Horned God from the figure's coalescence in the Romantic period to the popularisation of the term by Margaret Murray in 1931, author Anna Milon considers his composite characters - Cernunnos, Pan, Sorcerer of Trois Freres, and Herne the Hunter and more - his connection to the Wild Hunt, ritual, the literary Maiden, and the trope of the Dying God. Not just alert to portrayals in a broad range of speculative and eco-fantasy fiction by writers including Susan Cooper, Lucy Holland, William Rainer, Mark Chadbourn and Terry Pratchett, the book also examines how related narratives are taken up in Live Action Role-Play games such as Curious Pastimes to show how LARPing offers a locus for consumers of narrative to respond and develop those narratives in real time.<BR><BR>With the Horned God revealed as a nature deity and a liminal figure between humanity, animality and divinity, the book positions him as a vehicle for considering human relationships with the environment without falling into didacticism or alienating people with traumatic depictions of ecological collapse. With readings of eco-fantastical narratives as a meaningful way of engaging with environmental activism, Anna Milon charges the Horned God with encouraging us to reconceptualise our relationship with the more-than-human world.

Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary tradition, setting up a dialogue with modernity that is no less relevant today.<BR><BR>Late-Victorian literature is full of fascinating examples of what was then called the "scientific romance," an emerging form of science or speculative fiction whose concern with the liveliness - or "agentiality" - of the nonhuman animal and more-than-human, natural world today makes it particularly noteworthy. In a succession of short stories and novels, many now forgotten, writers such as Grant Allen, John Davidson, George Griffith, and Henry Marriott Watson dramatized the possibility that "Nature" had not been "conquered" by industrial modernity, but might instead be reacting to it with an unexpected dynamism. Long before environmental issues such as climate change came to the public's attention, they asked whether humankind might one day inadvertently create existential threats to its own survival. In so doing, these pioneers of sf depicted their world in terms that anticipate the recent new materialist focus on a mutable and dynamic reality, responsive and perhaps resistant to human endeavor.

This book seeks to create a new means of interrogating the direction in which contemporary science fiction is progressing.

In the late 1950s, Hugh Everett III suggested that there is no way to say that there are not as many versions of what we experience as reality as there are particles in the universe. This movement in contemporary science fiction serves as the foreground for the sense of loss and the need for sacrifice to set things 'right' after generations of technological praxis by the nations and communities that have traditionally driven science fiction-the Global North-that have damaged communities throughout the Global South. Colonialism and the drives for spheres of influence in the Cold War are now being met with the realities of such existential threats as global climate change. Narratives about the loss of control over time, reality, and human consciousness demonstrate the on-going ideological crises of faith in institutions like religion, capitalism, and education. It is the grief for lost utopian dreams for the future that drives this interest in Everett's 'Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics' or 'MWI.'

THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017<BR><BR>SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER<BR><BR>When he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, international lawyer Philippe Sands begins a journey on the trail of his family's secret history. In doing so, he uncovers an astonishing series of coincidences that lead him halfway across the world, to the origins of international law at the Nuremberg trial. Interweaving the stories of the two Nuremberg prosecutors (Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin) who invented the crimes or genocide and crimes against humanity, the Nazi governor responsible for the murder of thousands in and around Lviv (Hans Frank), and incredible acts of wartime bravery, EAST WEST STREET is an unforgettable blend of memoir and historical detective story, and a powerful meditation on the way memory, crime and guilt leave scars across generations.<BR><BR>* * * * * <BR><BR>'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' John le Carré<BR><BR>'One of the most gripping and powerful books imaginable' SUNDAY TIMES<BR><BR>Winner:<BR>Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction<BR>JQ-Wingate Literary Prize<BR>Hay Festival Medal for Prose

Shortlisted for the 2025 Wolfson History Prize<BR>Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-fiction<BR>A Times Best History Book of the Year 2024<BR><BR>'Every page glittering with insight... [a] wonderful book' Dominic Sandbrook<BR>'Brilliantly written... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland<BR>'Takes us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more satisfying Viking world.' Dan Snow<BR><BR>'A fascinating tour ... Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history' The New York Times<BR><BR>It's time to meet the real Vikings. A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field. A note from an angry wife to a husband too long at the tavern. Doodles on birch-bark, made by an imaginative child.<BR><BR>From these tiny embers, Eleanor Barraclough blows back to life the vast, rich and complex world of the Vikings. These are not just the stories of kings, raiders and saga heroes. Here are the lives of ordinary people: the merchants, children, artisans, enslaved people, seers, travellers and storytellers who shaped the medieval Nordic world.<BR><BR>Immerse yourself in the day-to-day lives of an extraordinary culture that spanned centuries and spread from its Scandinavian heartlands to the remote fjords of Greenland, the Arctic wastelands, the waterways and steppes of Eurasia, all the way to the Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphate.

A new title from Dr Naomi Fisher, author of the bestselling books Changing Our Minds, When the Naughty Step Makes Things Worse and The Teenager's Guide to Burnout.

From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing.Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and bad news is that in fiction writing, there are no definitive answers to such questions: writers must come up with their own. Elizabeth McCracken, author of bestselling novels, National Book Award long-listed story collections, and a highly praised memoir, has been teaching for more than thirty-five years, guiding her many students through their own answers.In A Long Game, she shares insights gleaned along the way, offering practical tips and incisive thoughts about her own work as an artist. The book covers:

• - Understanding and developing characters- Plot, and what to do if it eludes you- Her thoughts on common writing “rules”- And of course, the Butter Cow Lady of the Iowa State Fair and her work as it relates to revision

Writing “is a long game,” she notes. “What matters is that you learn to get work done in the way that is possible for you, through consistency or panic. Through self-recrimination or self-delusion or self-forgiveness: every life needs all three.”
As much a book about the life of a working artist as it is a guide to thinking about fiction, A Long Game is a revelatory and indispensable resource for any writer.

This book presents the first major collection on the intersection of videogames and detective fiction, bringing insights on a variety of topics from a range of leading scholars in this exciting, emerging field.<BR><BR>Although known primarily as a literary genre, detective fiction thrives in contemporary forms of media, such as videogames, where designers experiment with a variety of mechanics and formats. While detective fiction has a rich history in literature, much less has been written about detective fiction in videogames and this is one of the primary objectives of this book.<BR><BR>Each chapter places detective fiction into dialogue with videogames, covering a variety of topics from remediation and adaptation, participatory culture and transmedia storytelling, transcultural exchange-especially between the Anglo-American and Japanese games industries-and the well observed tension between gameplay and story, known as the ludology/narratology debate. <BR><BR>The book takes an experimental and interdisciplinary approach, and by borrowing insights from each field, this fusion sheds new light on the fields of narratology and game design more broadly. As the dominant popular culture of our age, videogames are also uniquely positioned to explore the reasons behind the renaissance of detective fiction in contemporary culture, placing the genre into the wider socio-political landscape.

An interdisciplinary team of humanities scholars examine how identities are narrated, constructed, and aesthetically represented in Chinese art and culture around the world.<BR><BR> Featuring contributions from cultural studies, film and literature, history, and media arts, this collection is organized around three interrelated themes: Narrating Chinese Diaspora, Posthumanism in Chinese Science Fiction, and Collective Chinese Cinephilia. Each section connects contemporary Chinese culture with recent work in gender studies, literary theory, and visual culture.<BR><BR> The first section explores representations of identity, cultural hybridity, and transnational belonging. The second critically engages with emerging narratives in popular Chinese sci-fi, challenging conventional notions of subjectivity, boundaries, and relationality. The final section investigates how spectatorship and filmmaking practices contribute to community-building and shared cultural memory. Chapters offer timely insights through case studies on museum exhibitions, science fiction literature, and cinema.<BR><BR>This unique interdisciplinary approach to identity narration captures the dynamics of changing cultural worlds. It uses analysis of new aesthetic forms to shed light on the ongoing dialectics of identity formation and presents an original framework for understanding Chinese diaspora in the 21st-century.

Bringing together J. M. Coetzee's sustained interests in language, animals, music, and dance, this book explores the role of non-verbal communication in the Jesus novels, arguing for its central role in shaping a distinct vision of his late style.<BR><BR>The Jesus novels are read as a metalinguistic experiment in which the loss of the mother tongue exposes the fragility of language. Drawing on Daniel Heller-Roazen's concept of echolalia, fractured speech emerges as the residue of a once stable, referential language, allowing alternative, embodied forms of connection to emerge. Such forms become prominent in encounters between humans and animals that bypass shared language yet still create the impression of dialogue. Music extends the exploration, producing affect and knowledge beyond verbal expression. Coetzee's transposition of J. S. Bach reveals the composer as a musical presence and an aesthetic and ethical principle. The novels also reimagine the body as a site of creativity, a vision shaped by Central European Modernism, from Rudolf Steiner's spiritual pedagogy and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze's eurhythmics to Robert Walser's Jakob von Gunten.<BR><BR>The book concludes that the novels mark a late style experiment where fiction becomes less a vehicle for representation than a space of experimentation. By aestheticizing linguistic failure and turning to non-verbal modes of communication - hallmarks of Coetzee's late style - he produces a fiction in which words seem to take flight from the page, leaving behind resonances that gesture toward new beginnings beyond ordinary language.

A fascinating examination of the real-world possibilities behind famous YA dystopian fiction, and what teens can do to stop them from actually happening.<BR><BR>Could the countries of North America collapse in the wake of a series of environmental disasters, as they did in the world of The Hunger Games? It might happen if we don't correct course and reduce carbon emissions. Will we fall prey to a fungal infection like in The Last of Us? Maybe-but we could also take steps to minimize the chances of a not-so-friendly fungi takeover. <BR><BR>In A Dozen Dystopias and How to Dodge Them, A.J. Van Belle dives into twelve dystopian fiction scenarios that have gripped our collective interest, the real science of how those not-so-desirable futures could come about, and what we can do to prevent them from happening. Each chapter features relevant current events and lively explorations of related environmental science and cutting-edge technology. <BR><BR> With discussions of some of YA literature's most beloved dystopian novels and thoughtful interviews with well-known authors, including Lois Lowry and Scott Westerfeld, A Dozen Dystopias and How to Dodge Them is as gripping as our favorite futuristic fiction, with an added dose of grounded, science-informed hope.

This collection showcases the speculative writing of Scottish-born and California-based writer Robert Duncan Milne (1844-99) whose works mark him as one of the forgotten pioneers of early science fiction. Hailed as the first full-time science fiction writer in America, this critical edition draws together the most expansive collection of his writing ever published and places his life, works and themes into their historical, literary and scientific contexts. With his writing touching on nearly every subset of the genre, including climate catastrophe, utopia, cryogenics, molecular re-engineering of the body, personality transfer, drone warfare, remote surveillance, and satellite phones, this book offers an overdue correction to the science fiction canon. Grouped thematically and with volume and story introductions that connect Milne's work to his peers and science fiction scholarship, this is the essential guide to a crucially overlooked writer. Astonishingly prescient and fulfilling the missing link in science fiction literary history that bridges the gap between the likes of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, Milne makes clear the often-obscured contribution of both Scotland and California in the development of the science fiction genre.

This open access book argues for a closer look at applications of ecofeminism in current popular genre fiction. As discussions of the development of climate change and new understandings of the term "Anthropocene" are being circulated in the public now more than any other time, creators have been using their fictional spaces to perform thought experiments of moral, scientific, and social approaches to addressing our future. While engaging with aspects of environmentalism in fiction is not new, the conversations are increasing across media spaces. This project approaches these works by centering intersections of gender and the environment. This book seeks to generate new conversations of ways popular media inspires conversations, ideas, and approaches to living and surviving within the Anthropocene.<BR><BR>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective

Exploring current debates in creative writing about the borders between fiction and creative nonfiction, this collection of essays draws on concepts of the uncanny and hauntology to challenge, subvert and transgress the boundary between forms. Hauntology, as originally defined by Derrida, challenges the certainties of ontology, in a similar way to debates about truth in creative nonfiction; by bringing together authors that undermine the fiction/nonfiction binary, Haunted Writing considers the ways in which real events and experiences haunt writers as they craft their work. Offering insight into how the past - both personal and historical - is experienced and understood in the present, this book includes writing from a diverse group of established and emerging authors who situate their work on genre boundaries and discuss their own creative practice to show how their writing 'haunts' real events.<BR><BR>With essays covering a range of ideas from subjectivity, intersectionality and challenging dominant versions of history, to braiding personal and researched stories, playfulness, experimentation and creating stories from archival documents, this beautifully written collection intervenes in contemporary discussions in creative writing and culture surrounding ownership, appropriation and ethics. Bringing a fresh voice and new perspectives to ever-present questions within creative writing, Haunted Writing uncovers how the past is a spectre that disrupts contemporary writing.

Exploring current debates in creative writing about the borders between fiction and creative nonfiction, this collection of essays draws on concepts of the uncanny and hauntology to challenge, subvert and transgress the boundary between forms. Hauntology, as originally defined by Derrida, challenges the certainties of ontology, in a similar way to debates about truth in creative nonfiction; by bringing together authors that undermine the fiction/nonfiction binary, Haunted Writing considers the ways in which real events and experiences haunt writers as they craft their work. Offering insight into how the past - both personal and historical - is experienced and understood in the present, this book includes writing from a diverse group of established and emerging authors who situate their work on genre boundaries and discuss their own creative practice to show how their writing 'haunts' real events.<BR><BR>With essays covering a range of ideas from subjectivity, intersectionality and challenging dominant versions of history, to braiding personal and researched stories, playfulness, experimentation and creating stories from archival documents, this beautifully written collection intervenes in contemporary discussions in creative writing and culture surrounding ownership, appropriation and ethics. Bringing a fresh voice and new perspectives to ever-present questions within creative writing, Haunted Writing uncovers how the past is a spectre that disrupts contemporary writing.

Through case studies of émigré literary translators and editors, this open access book traces how Russian literature kindled the American imagination in the 20th century.

In the 19th century, American literature was invaded by great Russian novels, including the works of Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gorky, and others, all mediated, translated, and sometimes even discovered by devoted freelance translators like Isabel Hapgood, Leo Wiener, and Nathan Haskell Dole. Throughout the 1900s these translators made Russian literature, from Nobel prizewinners like Solzhenitsyn to obscure émigrés like Mark Aldanov, accessible to American readers. Some literary translators were also publishers, like Nicholas Wreden (1901-55), at different times a bookseller at Scribner's, an editor at E.P. Dutton and a publishing executive at Little, Brown. His style was so well-regarded that Hemingway wished he wrote in Russian so that Wreden could translate him. He was also a lumberjack, a trainee naval officer and an émigré who fled Russia in 1920 to become a naturalized American citizen. Uniquely, as a translator and as a publisher, Wreden helped determine which Russian novels the American public would read.

This book tells Wreden's story. It also reconstructs, using archival sources, the lives of other extraordinary translator-publishers like Thomas Seltzer, Bernard Guilbert Guerney, and Carl Proffer, who, with his wife Ellendea, ran Ardis Publishers, the firm that brought Soviet writing to the US. Invading the American Canon tells the history of the translation of Russian literature in America and its changing critical reception over a hundred turbulent years.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by a European Research Council Horizon 2020 Starting Grant (grant agreement no. 802437)

This open access book undertakes a close reading of four contemporary novels which employ the themes of artificial intelligence and mind uploading in order to explore alternative and more constructive ways to situate ourselves in the world.<BR><BR>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

This intellectual and literary history explores the entanglement of historical imagination and left-wing politics in interwar Europe. <BR><BR>Contrary to the popular perception of historical continuity and revolutionary action as incompatible, the connections between the two phenomena prove to be as vital and productive as they are messy and complicated. Revolution, She Wrote offers a novel way of studying these phenomena by focussing on three cases from interwar Europe whence the revolutions and revolutionary figures of the past became the subject of historical fiction authored by women. It argues that these works, despite their fictional status, functioned as carriers of radical knowledge. <BR><BR>Stanislawa Przybyszewska (1901-1935) wrote plays about the French Revolution of 1789 that caused unexpected agitation in Poland's theatrical world and beyond. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) made a transgressive contribution to the British Cultural Front with her novel set in 1848 Paris. And Olga Forsh (1873-1961) carved out her place among the cultural workers of the new Soviet state by writing histories of the Bolshevik revolution's ancestors. All three authors belonged on the left side of the political spectrum and remained at the periphery to the cultural markets and intellectual milieus in their countries. Their fictionalized revolutions are thus marked, on the one hand, by sympathy and engagement, and on the other, by their ex-centric positions. <BR><BR>Revolution, She Wrote demonstrates the dynamic entanglement of national and pan-European historical cultures, breaking with the defeatist perception of interwar left-wing intellectual activism to advance historical writing as a locus of hope and resistance.

Step into the dark heart of small-town Australia in this gripping follow-up to the award-winning The Unbelieved – perfect for fans of Chris Hammer’s Scrublands and Jane Harper’s The Dry. <BR><BR> After a calm start to the summer holiday season, the small coastal town of Deception Bay is rocked by a report of a missing baby. Detective Antigone Pollard steps up to lead the team searching for the kidnapper, but the case is complicated by the return of her old boss, Bill Wheeler, who seems determined to thwart her progress.<BR>  <BR> To make matters worse, the frantic investigation is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Antigone’s mother in need of her help. As family secrets threaten to spill over, and with time running out to find the missing baby, Antigone finds herself fighting on two fronts and facing the same two questions. Who’s protecting the women? And what happens when we don’t believe them?<BR>  <BR> ‘Delivers on absolutely every page. Vikki Petraitis is the real deal!’ HAYLEY SCRIVENOR, award-winning author of Dirt Town <BR>  <BR> ‘Crackles with tension’ CHRISTIAN WHITE, author of The Ledge<BR>  <BR> ‘A must-read’ JACQUELINE BUBLITZ, author of Before You Knew My Name

* From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead. Winner of the ORANGE PRIZE

From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of America's finest writers. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top 6 novels of 2004. 'A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured' Sarah Waters

Everyone loves Johanna Bell:<BR><BR> 'A heartwarming story of women discovering their inner strength . . . I couldn't put it down' Vicki Beeby<BR><BR> 'I absolutely loved this book series, it's one of those where you feel lost when you've finished, like what am I going to do now? A definite must read' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'This is a story that needed to be told . . . I love Johanna Bell from the bottom of my heart for giving a voice to the women who first made a way for me and countless others' Penny Thorpe<BR><BR> 'Outstanding once again! When does the next book come out?! This is an exceptional series . . . lots of little twists and turns that make it hard to stop reading' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'Filled with richly drawn characters that leap from the page, and a plot that's so well researched and well written you will believe you are in the thick of wartime . . . A must-read for all saga fans' Fiona Ford<BR><BR> 'I'm so taken with the Blitz girls . . . The pacing was perfect and I was on the edge of my seat with the unravelling of plot lines and story development - I was super invested. The ending was perfection' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'If you haven't read any of this author's books you are missing out so much' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'Absolutely mind-blowingly good' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'Oooh what a book! Couldn't put it down, amazing characters and the storyline was great, felt as if I was there' 5 star reader review

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2026A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK A VOGUE BEST DEBUT 2026'Stunning' Sunday Times'Profoundly moving' Elif Shafak'A wonderfully heartfelt debut' Marie-ClaireA stunning and deeply moving novel of grief, loss and female friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic natural eventsWhen six-year-old Marissa loses her mother, she is taken by her father to live on a small Thai island in the Andaman Sea. There, she forms a deep friendship with Arielle and together they explore the fragile wonders of its forests, reefs, and beaches. Holding their breath for minutes at a time, they learn to dive into the deep, as effortlessly synchronized as the manta rays they come to know by name. Then, on Boxing Day 2004, when the Indian Ocean tsunami makes landfall, they are swept up by the first wave and separated.Eight years later, Marissa is living in New York. She spends her days wandering through the city and her nights seeking solace in the beds of strangers. As the city prepares for a devastating storm, Marissa reflects on her past and learns how to sustain herself in a precarious world.Under Water is a story about friendship and grief, but also ecological change and natural disasters. It is a meditation on loss, a tribute to our dying oceans and forests, and a love letter to the disappearing coral reefs.'The horrors of 2004 are told with verve in this debut about a woman haunted by survivor guilt . . . there are stunning descriptions of island wildlife . . . Tara Menon tells the story with confidence and style' Sunday Times____Readers love Under Water'A beautiful read. Haunting and visceral and profound, magical and tragic, but mostly very, very well written''I loved it''This is writing of the highest order and it will reward focussed reading. Definitely one of this year's best reads so far''Highly, highly recommended''Beautiful and devastating''I loved this, even though it made me cry!''The best books change my perception, bring something I thought I knew into a different light. This is one of those'

Exciting and intriguing new literary fiction coming soon from Fleet.

This volume of collected short fiction gathers and celebrates the work of one of Australia's most loved authors.<BR><BR>These stories that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life - are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner's mastery of the form.<BR><BR>A W&N Essential

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes a searing science fiction epic in which a battleworn samurai's final mission thrusts her deep into a world of corporate espionage, dark secrets and tarnished honour. There, she will uncover a conspiracy that could upend society on an isolated colony planet.

The multiple-award-winning science fiction master continues the epic adventure that began in Hyperion, where the opening of the Time Tombs threatens to alter the very fabric of time and space, in the second novel in the ground breaking Hyperion Cantos.The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Ousters are laying siege to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence; God. The God of Machines. His genesis could mean annihilation for man.Something is drawing the Hegemony, the Ousters, the AIs, the entire universe to the Shrike.Readers love Hyperion, where the story first began:'One of the best epic, old mythology, and literature inspired, mindblowing, amazingly ingeniously written space operas' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'The scope of imagination, wordplay, and critical analysis of humankind is astounding . . . this is a story-driven narrative, and the stories that we're given are well worth the entry into a brave, new, unfamiliar world' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Hyperion has that indescribable, almost Lovecraftian terror, dread and brooding present throughout' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Combine the artful poetry of John Keats with a science fiction retelling of the Canterbury Tales . . . what you have is Hyperion. A masterpiece of literature' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A science fiction classic . . . If you count yourself a SF fan you need to read this. If you just want to read a damn good book this is also for you' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Garner is a fascinating companion on the page' THE TIMES
'Her piercing intellect, fearlessness and compassion shine through in every word' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
'Helen Garner's work is a thrilling discovery' DUA LIPAHelen Garner is one of Australia's most widely loved and critically acclaimed authors. She has published classic novels, true crime narratives, scripts, diaries, stories and plays. But, between it all, she paid the bills with journalism.

True Stories collects the revered Australian writer's short non-fiction written over a period of almost fifty years. In its pages, Garner visits the morgue and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, gets the sack for teaching her students about sex, attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, about days spent in courtrooms following murder trials.

The result is an intoxicating, masterly collection of short non-fiction pieces, united by Garner's trademark honesty, humility and humour. A perfect companion to Garner's Baillie Gifford Prize-winning diaries How to End a Story, True Stories gives further insight into the life, mind and notebooks of a brilliant writer.

'A born noticer, someone on whom nothing is lost' COLM TÓIBÍN
'One of Australia's finest writers' OBSERVER
'Garner's unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive' NEW YORKER

Multiple-award-winning science fiction master Dan Simmons concludes the renowned Hyperion Cantos with this magnificent 'full-blooded action novel' (New York Times).The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike - monster, angel, killing machine - who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered - an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.Readers love Hyperion, where the story first began:

'One of the best epic, old mythology, and literature inspired, mindblowing, amazingly ingeniously written space operas' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'The scope of imagination, wordplay, and critical analysis of humankind is astounding . . . this is a story-driven narrative, and the stories that we're given are well worth the entry into a brave, new, unfamiliar world' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Hyperion has that indescribable, almost Lovecraftian terror, dread and brooding present throughout' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Combine the artful poetry of John Keats with a science fiction retelling of the Canterbury Tales . . . what you have is Hyperion. A masterpiece of literature' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'A science fiction classic . . . If you count yourself a SF fan you need to read this. If you just want to read a damn good book this is also for you' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror - and the third book of one of the science fiction's greatest sagas, the Hyperion Cantos, introducing new characters who bear the fate of time itself in their hands.Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Federico de Soya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. And the Shrike is far from gone. It will reappear on their journey, as Raul's quest raises as many questions as it provides answers.Readers love Hyperion, where the story first began:

'One of the best epic, old mythology, and literature inspired, mindblowing, amazingly ingeniously written space operas' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'The scope of imagination, wordplay, and critical analysis of humankind is astounding . . . this is a story-driven narrative, and the stories that we're given are well worth the entry into a brave, new, unfamiliar world' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Hyperion has that indescribable, almost Lovecraftian terror, dread and brooding present throughout' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Combine the artful poetry of John Keats with a science fiction retelling of the Canterbury Tales . . . what you have is Hyperion. A masterpiece of literature' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'A science fiction classic . . . If you count yourself a SF fan you need to read this. If you just want to read a damn good book this is also for you' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Prescient, dark, and ultimately hopeful' PIERCE BROWN
'Excellent' PETER F. HAMILTON
'A menacing experience' FONDA LEE
'Science fiction at its finest' SUNYI DEANIn this brand-new blistering science fiction epic, Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan presents a thrilling tale of survival and an eviscerating examination of totalitarianism.

WHO GIVES YOU LIFE?
PATER AETERNUS.

Katherine Fuller's husband is dead. As an esteemed member of Pater Aeternus - governing party of the fascist, galaxy-spanning Decurion Empire - he has left behind an estate of immeasurable wealth. And Katherine is going to inherit it.WHO GIVES YOU PURPOSE?
PATER AETERNUS.

Life under the Eternal Father is rigidly stratified, surveilled, and controlled - each new day to be endured, not lived. But with Katherine's newfound fortune, she is presented with a rare and dangerous opportunity: purchase a virgin world, and create a better, fairer society.WHO GIVES YOU JOY?
PATER AETERNUS.

But the Empire cannot allow its wayward daughter to succeed. And as Katherine works in secret, recruiting allies she's not even sure she can trust, she will discover exactly how far Pater Aeternus is willing to go to stop her. Because Katherine is going to create something nobody has seen for many years.A democracy.1984 meets The Man in the High Castle in gripping sci-fi The Infinite State from Richard Swan, which begins at a flashpoint in the lives of a widowed party member, a disgraced investigator, and a hypersled pilot - entangled in a plot to escape the suffocating authority of a fascist state.'A thrilling vision of resistance to dystopian fascism' J.T. GREATHOUSE
'Absorbing and thought-provoking' SCOTT DRAKEFORD
'Richard's writing is scapel-sharp' NICHOLAS EAMES
'A masterclass in storytelling' DAILY MAIL

Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction.<BR><BR>In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book "More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction". Originally, he did so in order to explicate the manifold connections between Afrofuturism and Techno, connecting them to Jazz, Breakbeat and Electronica. His argument, his narrations and his explorative language operations however inspired researchers, artists, and scholars since then. Sonic Fiction became a myth and a mantra, a keyword and a magical spell. <BR><BR>This book provides a basic introduction to sonic fiction. In six chapters it explicates the inspirations for and the transformations of this concept; it explores applications and extrapolations in sound art and sonic theory, in musicology, epistemology, in critical and political theory. Sonic fiction is presented in this book as a heuristic for critique and activism.

Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction.<BR><BR>In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book "More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction". Originally, he did so in order to explicate the manifold connections between Afrofuturism and Techno, connecting them to Jazz, Breakbeat and Electronica. His argument, his narrations and his explorative language operations however inspired researchers, artists, and scholars since then. Sonic Fiction became a myth and a mantra, a keyword and a magical spell. <BR><BR>This book provides a basic introduction to sonic fiction. In six chapters it explicates the inspirations for and the transformations of this concept; it explores applications and extrapolations in sound art and sonic theory, in musicology, epistemology, in critical and political theory. Sonic fiction is presented in this book as a heuristic for critique and activism.