Fantasy og science fiction

"A gripping tale of survival and resilience, We Called Them Giants masterfully captures the enduring power of kindness and friendship in a shattered world.” —Marjorie Liu (Monstress, The Night Eaters) A poignant, romantic, and devastating story of a young girl who wakes up to find her world has turned upside down.Lori wakes to find the streets empty. Everyone has gone. Or at least, nearly everyone. She’s thrown into a world where she has to scrape by in the ruins of civilization, nearly starving, hiding from gangs when … They arrive. The award-winning team behind dark fantasy smash DIE release their first stand alone original graphic novel.

Reveals the alt-right's project to claim science fiction and-by extension-the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled with Aryan supermen and all-white space colonies. Speculative Whiteness traces these ideas through the entangled histories of science fiction culture and white supremacist politics, showing that debates about representation in science fiction films and literature are struggles over who has the right to imagine and inhabit the future. Although fascists insist that tomorrow belongs to them, they have always been and will continue to be contested by antifascist fans willing to fight for the future.

A warrior struggles through an apocalyptic landscape and the world after death Kree has been raised as a fearless fighter in a ravaged world: postapocalyptic, posthuman, the population decimated by wars and civilization long since collapsed. After her attempt to avenge the death of her dog, Loka, goes horribly wrong, Kree finds herself lost in a world after death and wanders into the city of the terrible mendicants.   Under the Brothers’ totalitarian rule, Kree can lead a quiet life and forget her violent past, even if needles grow in her skull and hallucinatory blood rains occasionally pour down to remind her. She can make friends: a healer with a shaking tent, a mysterious stranger hatched from an egg, and a gruff electrician in a world without electricity. And she can have her Loka as long as she toes the Party line and does as she’s told. When she can’t—when her friends start to disappear and the Brothers turn against her—Kree sets out on a quest, searching for a new way forward.   Multiply reincarnated and unstuck in time, Kree is the characteristically marvelous creation of Manuela Draeger, whose extraordinary stories, in the words of author China Miéville, “are as close to dreams as fiction can be.”

Focusing on the corpus of Fantasy texts written in colonial India during the late 19th and early 20th century, this book explores the origins, motivations, nature and role of speculative writing around the period of the Indian independence movement. Taking stock of Bengali texts previously designated as children's literature, Mayurika Chakravorty examines the works of such authors as Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay, Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay, Sukumar Ray and Parashuram (Rajshekhar Basu) and Sukumar Ray to shed light on how their writing offered stringent commentaries on the colonial situation whilst grappling with larger questions surrounding science, progress, the environment, ethics and morality. With a focus on how key works - previously omitted from the established canon of fantasy literature - were based on diverse classical streams from European, Persian, classical Sanskrit and local folk traditions, the book explores how speculative writers challenged the dominant literary tropes of both colonial (Western) and revivalist (Sanskrit) classicism. In highlighting overlooked writing within Indian literary history and fantasy and children's literature studies, Chakravorty demonstrates that in understanding these works in relation to one another, they provide evidence of compelling bodies of work produced in the context of, and in resistance to, empire.

Exploring expressions of 'Indianness' buried within and scattered across post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English, this book asks questions around what it means to 'belong' to an India of 'now' and what it might mean to belong to multiple Indias of the (near) future.With dystopia, near-future, apocalyptic Indias and fantastical metropolises all imagined across this body of writing, Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English traces economic, social and political transformations in post-2000 'New India' across these various narratives. Drawing on established notions of the speculative, Dawson Varughese argues for a recognized, post-millennial canon of Indian speculative writing in English which moves beyond Western-centric frames of reference, centring instead on Indian sensibilities, expressions of belonging to India and speculative 'Indian' futures.Organized around key tropes and characteristics of post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English to date - urban infrastructures, citizenship, bodies and biotech, future (Indian) histories and climate catastrophes - it takes stock of a range of science fiction, fantasy, near-future and dystopian novels and short stories and offers critical insights into the writings of Samit Basu, Varun Thomas Mathew, Gautam Bhatia, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Prayaag Akbar and Anil Menon, alongside many others. Post-millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English examines shifting ideas of what it means to belong to India and conceptions of India as a nation and pulls these ideas together, creating a workable framework of understanding for this nascent field as we move into the third decade of the millennium.

The Last Soul Among Wolves is the brilliant second instalment in Melissa Caruso's Echo Archives series,a whip-smart adventure fantasy featuring a murder mystery, cursed relics, and sapphic romance.

The Last Vigilant begins an unmissable new epic fantasy series, where unforgettable characters, intricate conspiracies and ancient magic collide

Homura's ability to set things on fire gets her summoned to another world asking for help, so, along with a group of similarly offbeat high school girls who all have their own powers, Homura sets off to incinerate evildoers.

Deep in the unexplored reaches of the dungeon, a corpse is discovered-one that shouldn't exist. After Iarumas is resurrected, his memories of life before death are gone, and he spends his days delving into the dungeon to retrieve the bodies of dead adventurers. Can they be revived as well? Or will God reduce them to piles of ash on the altar? Either way, Iarumas collects his finder's fee. And though his skills earn him some grudging respect, he's also scorned for this cold, utilitarian attitude. The living keep their distance-Iarumas consorts primarily with the dead. That is, until he meets Garbage, a feral young swordswoman who's the sole survivor of a massacred party. With Garbage by his side, Iarumas ventures deeper, scouring the dungeon for clues to his past, avoiding monsters, traps, and the inevitability of a permanent ashen demise.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind, critically assessing the relations of gender and genre in science fiction, especially-but not exclusively-as explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world.

When Cetia is targeted by the church's forces, and she goes on a rampage-and so the end of our tale approaches! Searching for the truth behind all the deadly ecclesiastic schemes, Kurnig meets with Bishop Zyle, leader of the church. And while his battle with Agredios rages on, the Bishop realizes that the cure everyone is looking for might lay under their noses... Griamelda's in a rage, and Cetia's running wild...will the witch and the knight really make it through alive-!?