by Thomas Peele (2007)
"Queer Popular Culture is an exciting new collection that brings together work from several disciplines that address queer representation in multiple contexts. The chapters cover many aspects of contemporary U.S. and international queer culture, including the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, the expansion of representations of blackness, and work on queer, Taiwanese online communities. Other chapters address queer representations from soap operas to gangster films. The book also includes a pedagogical section that addresses the use of queer concepts in the classroom."--Jacket.
Philip José Farmer
Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They are miraculously provided with food, but with not a clue to the possible meaning of this strange afterlife. And so billions of people from history, and before, must start living again.
Maria Wilhelm y Dirk Mathison
Companion to the 2009 science fiction movie, Avatar. "This report details Pandora's alien ecosystem; its mining mother lode and topography; its flora and fauna; and the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, the aggressive hunter-gatherer race called the Na'vi. ... Also included in this manual are highly confidential and detailed descriptions of RDA [the "enemy"--The Resources Development Administration] technology and weapons systems deployed to suppress the indigenous hostiles and defend employees agingst the dangerous Pandoran environment"--Page 4 of cover.
Stephen Leigh
Containing three novels in one volume, this exciting book follows the Hoorka - a guild of assassins with a single law: if the victim can survive until dawn, he or she may go free, as they deal with some unpleasant consequences of their own ethics.
edited and introduced by Robert Silverberg
An anthology of eight science fiction stories, written by Robert Silverberg, Brian W. Aldiss, R. A. Lafferty, Jack Vance, and others.