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The Trans Space Octopus Congregation

Author : Bogi Takács

Publisher :

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 48,6 MB

Release : 2019-10-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781590216934

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"Lethe Press is excited to be releasing the debut short story collection by Bogi Takács. Takács may be known more for their recent editorial efforts, winning a Lambda Literary Award for Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Themed Speculative Fiction. But Takács is a talented storyteller and poet. An uplifted octopus finds a strange capsule in the water and wonders if one of the long-vanished humans might be found inside; a team of scientists perform some reverse-engineering on a space station and shapeshifting becomes political; and other tales of AI, hybrids, and the far future."--Publisher's description.



The Trans and Non-Binary Hero's Journey

Author : Valerie Estelle Frankel

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 14,31 MB

Release : 2024-07-10

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1476652597

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A brave heroine whose quest involves living her true gender. A genderqueer knight who battles the transphobic court to save their prince. Often fearing discovery, the trans hero embarks on adventure, aided by an accepting mentor and other allies, and challenged by transphobic villains and sometimes uncomprehending family members. Ultimately, the trans hero triumphs, finding love, selfhood, and affirmation. This book adapts Joseph Campbell's classic pattern of comparative mythology and applies it to trans and non-binary heroes in modern popular media who are traversing multiple worlds. Analyzed are works for the screen such as Steven Universe, The Matrix, Sense8, and Sandman; print materials such as DC and Marvel comics; and television, fantasy books, and graphic novels from trans and non-binary creators worldwide.



Other Covenants

Author : Harry Turtledove

Publisher : Ben Yehuda Press

Page : 363 pages

File Size : 18,5 MB

Release : 2022-12-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1953829813

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What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams? Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction.



Rebuilding Tomorrow

Author : Tsana Dolichva

Publisher : Twelfth Planet Press

Page : 351 pages

File Size : 25,92 MB

Release : 2020-12-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1922101664

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What if the apocalypse isn’t the end of the world? The stories in this follow-up anthology to Defying Doomsday, focus on disabled and chronically ill characters building new worlds from the remains of the old. Read new perspectives on life after the apocalypse from authors: Janet Edwards, Lauren Ring, K L Evangelista, S. B. Divya, TJ Berry, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Andi C. Buchanan, Fran Wilde, Octavia Cade, Stephanie Gunn, Tyan Priss, Emilia Crowe, E. H. Mann, Katharine Duckett and Bogi Takács. Rebuilding Tomorrow is an anthology filled with stories of people getting on with living with the new normal that has been established after various apocalyptic disasters. This is the follow-up anthology to Defying Doomsday, an award winning anthology of apocalypse-survival fiction focusing on disabled protagonists.



All Kinds of Other

Author : James Sie

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 432 pages

File Size : 13,34 MB

Release : 2021-05-04

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0062962515

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In this tender, nuanced coming-of-age love story, two boys—one who is cis, and one who is trans—have been guarding their hearts, until their feelings for each other give them a reason to stand up to their fears. Two boys are starting over at a new high school. Jules is still figuring out what it means to be gay…and just how out he wants to be. Jack is reeling from a fall-out with his best friend…and isn’t ready to let anyone else in just yet. When Jules and Jack meet, the sparks are undeniable. But when a video linking Jack to a pair of popular trans vloggers is leaked to the school, the revelations thrust both boys into the spotlight they’d tried to avoid. Suddenly Jack and Jules must face a choice: to play it safe and stay under the radar, or claim their own space in the world—together.



The Best Science Fiction of the Year

Author : Neil Clarke

Publisher : Start Publishing LLC

Page : 817 pages

File Size : 46,68 MB

Release : 2020-10-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1597806560

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From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected in a Single Paperback Volume Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more—a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to present the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year’s writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome “sensawunda” that the genre has to offer.



Song of Blood & Stone

Author : L. Penelope

Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin

Page : 383 pages

File Size : 14,23 MB

Release : 2019-07-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1250258383

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A TIME 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time A Time Magazine Best Fantasy Book of 2018 L. Penelope's Song of Blood & Stone is a treacherous, thrilling, epic fantasy about an outcast drawn into a war between two powerful rulers. The kingdoms of Elsira and Lagrimar have been separated for centuries by the Mantle, a magical veil that has enforced a tremulous peace between the two lands. But now, the Mantle is cracking and the True Father, ruler of Lagrimar and the most powerful Earthsinger in the world, finally sees a way into Elsira to seize power. All Jasminda ever wanted was to live quietly on her farm, away from the prying eyes of those in the nearby town. Branded an outcast by the color of her skin and her gift of Earthsong, she’s been shunned all her life and has learned to steer clear from the townsfolk...until a group of Lagrimari soldiers wander into her valley with an Elsiran spy, believing they are still in Lagrimar. Through Jack, the spy, Jasminda learns that the Mantle is weakening, allowing people to slip through without notice. And even more troubling: Lagrimar is mobilizing, and if no one finds a way to restore the Mantle, it might be too late for Elsira. Their only hope lies in uncovering the secrets of the Queen Who Sleeps and Jasminda’s Earthsong is the key to unravel them. Thrust into a hostile society and a world she doesn’t know, Jasminda and Jack race to unveil an ancient mystery that might offer salvation.



Religion and Science Fiction

Author : James H. Thrall

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 230 pages

File Size : 17,3 MB

Release : 2024-05-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1040021565

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Religion and Science Fiction: An Introduction guides students into deeper understanding of how religion and science fiction engage often overlapping questions. This textbook introduces key ideas of religious studies through critical consideration of print and visual media that fall within the general category of science fiction. The goal throughout is to help students move beyond simply identifying points of interrelation between religious studies and forms of what is often called, more broadly, speculative fiction, to considering how the studied texts open new ways of thinking about human (and nonhuman) experience taken to be religious. With discussion questions, lists of key terms, extensive additional resources, and suggestions for projects and essay questions, this book is a foundational text for students and instructors of religion and science fiction.



No Logo

Author : Naomi Klein

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 520 pages

File Size : 49,37 MB

Release : 2000-01-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780312203436

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"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.



Accelerando

Author : Charles Stross

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 596 pages

File Size : 21,69 MB

Release : 2005-07-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1101208473

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The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber’s son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity. For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form...