The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe write by Kij Johnson. This book was released on 2016-08-16. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of NPR's Best Books of 2016 and a Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, and Locus Award finalist for Best Novella Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her. "Kij Johnson's haunting novella The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is both a commentary on a classic H.P. Lovecraft tale and a profound reflection on a woman's life. Vellitt's quest to find a former student who may be the only person who can save her community takes her through a world governed by a seemingly arbitrary dream logic in which she occasionally glimpses an underlying but mysterious order, a world ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares. Those familiar with Lovecraft's work will travel through a fantasy landscape infused with Lovecraftian images viewed from another perspective, but even readers unfamiliar with his work will be enthralled by Vellitt's quest. A remarkable accomplishment that repays rereading." —Pamela Sargent, winner of the Nebula Award At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Privilege of the Happy Ending
The Privilege of the Happy Ending - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Privilege of the Happy Ending write by Kij Johnson. This book was released on 2023-10-24. The Privilege of the Happy Ending available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A surprising and exciting new collection of speculative and experimental stories that explore animal intelligences, gender, and the nature of stories. The Privilege of the Happy Ending collects award-winning writer Kij Johnson’s speculative fiction from the last decade. The stories explore gender, animals, and the nature of stories, and range in form from classically told tales to deeply experimental works. The collection includes the World Fantasy Award-winning “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” and “The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe,” as well as two never-before published works.
Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas
Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas write by Victor LaValle. This book was released on 2017-10-10. Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Four new Lovecraftian tales told by four amazing talents in this ebundle, Reimagining Lovecraft. Government agents, monstrous P.I.s, walkers of dreams and magical hustlers meet in the pages of this astonishing anthology of four novellas. The Ballad of Black Tom — the Nebula Award-nominated novella from Victor LaValle. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe — the Nebula Award-nominated novella from Kij Johnson. Hammers on Bone — from Cassandra Khaw, an amazing new voice on the dark fiction scene. Agents of Dreamland — from the multi award-winning Caitlín R. Kiernan. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Science Fiction and the Dismal Science
Science Fiction and the Dismal Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science Fiction and the Dismal Science write by Gary Westfahl. This book was released on 2019-11-27. Science Fiction and the Dismal Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these conspicuous gaps in the critical literature by focusing on various connections between science fiction and economics, with some attention to related fields such as politics and government. Its seventeen contributors include five award-winning scholars, five science fiction writers, and a widely published economist. Three topics are covered: what noted science fiction writers like Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, and Kim Stanley Robinson have had to say about our economic and political future; how the competitive and ever-changing publishing marketplace has affected the growth and development of science fiction from the nineteenth century to today; and how the scholars who examine science fiction have themselves been influenced by the economics of academia. Although the essays focus primarily on American science fiction, the traditions of Russian and Chinese science fiction are also examined. A comprehensive bibliography of works related to science fiction and economics will assist other readers and critics who are interested in this subject.
Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination
Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination write by Henry Jenkins. This book was released on 2020-02-04. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we’re fighting for—not just what we’re fighting against. Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes “civic imagination” as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culture—from Beyoncé to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VR—for the vernacular through which they can express their discontent with current conditions. A young activist uses YouTube to speak back against J. K. Rowling in the voice of Cho Chang in order to challenge the superficial representation of Asian Americans in children’s literature. Murals in Los Angeles are employed to construct a mythic imagination of Chicano identity. Twitter users have turned to #BlackGirlMagic to highlight the black radical imagination and construct new visions of female empowerment. In each instance, activists demonstrate what happens when the creative energies of fans are infused with deep political commitment, mobilizing new visions of what a better democracy might look like.
