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Book cover for Robert E. Howard: The Black Stranger and Other American Tales

The Black Stranger and Other American Tales

Robert E. Howard
Paperback - $29.95

Robert E. Howard is celebrated as the founding father of sword-and-sorcery, the creator of Conan of Cimmeria and Kull of Atlantis. The Black Stranger and Other American Tales demonstrates that in some of his most powerful heroic fantasy and horror st ...

Book cover for Don Hutchison: The Great Pulp Heroes

The Great Pulp Heroes

Don Hutchison
Paperback - $21.95

Here is an affectionate look back at the outsized heroes who once occupied the imagination of millions of loyal readers-The Shadow, Tarzan, Doc Savage, Captain Future, The Spider, Zorro. They were the original super guys, godfathers and inspiration t ...

Book cover for Neil D. Isaacs: Understanding the Lord of the Rings

Understanding the Lord of the Rings : The Best of Tolkien Criticism

Neil D. Isaacs
Hardcover - $39.95

Including essays by Edmund Wilson, W.H. Auden, C.S. Lewis, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and others, this collection adds to the many delights of the "Lord of the Rings" films.

Book cover for Rosemary Jackson: Fantasy

Fantasy : The Literature of Subversion

Rosemary Jackson
Hardcover - $372.95



Book cover for Edward James: The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

Edward James
Paperback - $59.95

Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all varieties of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and p ...

Book cover for Fredric Jameson: Archaeologies of the Future

Archaeologies of the Future : The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

Fredric Jameson
Paperback - $41.95

In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful?
"Archaeologies of the Future," Jameson's most substantial work since ...

Book cover for Robert Jordan: The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time

The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time

Robert Jordan
Hardcover - $62.95

This essential companion to The Wheel of Time is for the millions interested in the history and the background of this incredible series - never-before-told legends, previously unknown peoples and lands, exotic beasts, and portents of what may come t ...

Book cover for Robert Jordan: The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time

The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time

Robert Jordan
Paperback - $35.95

This essential companion to "The Wheel of Time" is for the millions interested in the history and the background of this incredible series of never-before-told legends, previously unknown peoples and lands, exotic beasts, and portents of what may com ...

Book cover for John Kessel: The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories

John Kessel
Hardcover - $38.95

"A superb satirist with a keen eye for detailing the human spirit."-"Philadelphia Inquirer"

"Stories that liberate the mind."-"The New York Times Book Review"

A long-awaited collection that intersects imaginatively with "Pride and Prejudice," "Fr ...

Book cover for John Kessel: The Baum Plan for Financial Independence

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence : And Other Stories

John Kessel
Paperback - $26.95

"A superb satirist with a keen eye for detailing the human spirit."-"Philadelphia Inquirer"

"Stories that liberate the mind."-"The New York Times Book Review"

A long-awaited collection that intersects imaginatively with "Pride and Prejudice," "Fr ...

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