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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A key differentiator between fantasy and science fiction is that fantasy stories often take place in worlds, while science fiction stories take place on a planet. Thus, the theme of planets is common among some of the great science fiction works in history. Explore the use of planets—whether being discovered or already colonized—in a variety of works. Focus on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, which uses accurate scientific data, and take...
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Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In human experience, time travel has always been the subject of fantasy stories. But as scientists learn more about people and the universe, they're starting to realize that some forms of time travel might be possible"--
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde....
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Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Most fantasy stories come down to a pivotal battle between good and evil. Which intrepid hero will dare take on the venomous villain? Sometimes, the perfect place to find inspiration for an illustrator's protagonist is history. This volume demonstrates that the past is rife with figures, both historical and mythical, who can serve as muses for a fantasy figure. Fairy queens, samurai, and knights are some of the characters readers will learn to draw...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years-sixteen of his best-plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty...
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight--on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the...
Series
Guys read volume 4
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An anthology of original science fiction and fantasy stories.
Publisher
Forest Avenue Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Too often, science fiction and fantasy stories erase--or cure--characters with disabilities. Soul Jar, edited by author and bookstore owner Annie Carl, features thirty-one stories by disabled authors, imagining such wonders as a shapeshifter on a first date, skin that sprouts orchid buds, and a cereal-box demon. An insulin pump diverts an undead mob. An autistic teen sets out to discover the local cranberry bog's sinister secret. A pizza delivery...
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Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year. By sending us to alternate universes and chronicling ordinary magic, introducing us to mythical beasts and talking animals, and engaging with a wide spectrum of emotion from...
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