Brittle Innings
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Author |
: Michael Bishop |
Publisher |
: Bantam |
Total Pages |
: 550 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:49015002042985 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brittle Innings by : Michael Bishop
The acclaimed author of No Enemy But Time combines humor, tragedy, and suspense to tell a uniqely American story reminiscent of the film Field of Dreams. When 17-year-old Danny Boles joins a Class C farm club in Georgia, he forms some unusual friendships--but his mind is on making it to the big leagues.
Author |
: Brian Stableford |
Publisher |
: Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages |
: 191 |
Release |
: 2017-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479425938 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479425931 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature by : Brian Stableford
Acclaimed author and scholar Brian Stableford turns his penetrating mind to matters of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in this collection of essays. He covers such diverse topics as: SLAVES OF THE DEATH SPIDERS: Colin Wilson and Existentialist Science Fiction IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD?: The Woeful Prophecies of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale A FEW MORE CROCODILE TEARS?: Gwyneth Jones THE ADVENTURES OF LORD HORROR: Across the Media Landscape FILLING IN THE MIDDLE: Robert Silverberg's The Queen of Springtime RICE'S RELAPSE: Memnoch the Devil FIELD OF BROKEN DREAMS: Michael Bishop's Brittle Innings THE MAGIC OF THE MOVIES H. G. WELLS AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE THE MANY RETURNS OF DRACULA TARZAN'S DIVIDED SELF SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love THE TWO THOUSAND YEAR QUEST: George Viereck's Erotic Odyssey THE PROFESSION OF SCIENCE FICTION
Author |
: Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher |
: Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 1998-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780809509102 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0809509105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature by : Brian M. Stableford
This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media features the following pieces: "Slaves of the Death Spiders: Colin Wilson and Existential Science Fiction," "Is There No Balm in Gilead? The Woeful Prophecies of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale," "A Few More Crocodile Tears?" "The Adventures of Lord Horror Across the Media Landscape," "Filling in the Middle: Robert Silverberg's The Queen of Springtime," "Rice's Relapse: Memnoch the Devil," "Field of Broken Dreams: Michael Bishop's Brittle Innings," "The Magic of the Movies," "H. G. Wells and the Discovery of the Future," "The Many Returns of Dracula," "Tarzan's Divided Self," "Sympathy for the Devil: Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love," "The Two Thousand Year Odyssey: George Viereck's Erotic Odyssey," and "The Profession of Science Fiction" (an autobiography). Brian Stableford is the bestselling writer of 50 books and hundreds of essays, including science fiction, fantasy, literary criticism, and popular nonfiction. He lives and works in Reading, England. ISBN 0-8095-0910-5 (cloth) ISBN 0-8095-1910-0 (paper)
Author |
: Michael Bishop |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2012-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1933846313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781933846316 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brittle Innings by : Michael Bishop
The semi-biographical story of Danny Boles, a major baseball league scout. It picks him up leaving his home in Oklahoma at the age of 17 to join a club in Georgia and being raped on the way, which leaves him with a permanent stutter.
Author |
: John Clute |
Publisher |
: Gateway |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 2016-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781473219809 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1473219809 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scores by : John Clute
For more than 50 years John Clute has been reviewing science fiction and fantasy. As Scores demonstrates, his devotion to the task of understanding the central literatures of our era has not slackened. There are jokes in Scores, and curses, and tirades, and apologies, and riffs; but every word of every review, in the end, is about how we understand the stories we tell about the world. Following on from his two previous books of collected reviews (Strokes and Look at the Evidence) this book collects reviews from a wide variety of sources, but mostly from Interzone, the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Weekly. Where it has seemed possible to do so without distorting contemporary responses to books, these reviews have been revised, sometimes extensively. 125 review articles, over 200 books reviewed in more than 214,000 words.
Author |
: Timothy Morris |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0252065972 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780252065972 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making the Team by : Timothy Morris
He concludes with a chapter that asks, "What does it mean to be 'literary'?" What distinguishes "high art" from a baseball novel, or a mystery, or a romance novel, or pornography? Making the Team suggests that drawing the line may be a more vital concern - not just for scholars, but for Americans at large - than anything critics have argued about for a very long time.
Author |
: Brian Stableford |
Publisher |
: Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2009-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781434457554 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1434457559 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction and Other Essays on Imaginative Fiction by : Brian Stableford
Eight essays on science fiction and fantasy: "Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction," "Immortality in Science Fiction," "Why There Is (Almost) No Such Thing as Science Fiction," "Perfectibility and the Novel of the Future," "In Search of a New Genre," "Ecology and Dystopia," "Cosmic Horror," and "Growing Up as a Superhero." Complete with bibliography and index.
Author |
: Joe Sanders |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 203 |
Release |
: 2022-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476640570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476640572 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder by : Joe Sanders
Since they began appearing in the 1970s, Michael Bishop's science fiction and fantasy stories have been recognized for their polished prose and their depth of thought and feeling. His award-winning fiction includes No Enemy but Time (1982), Unicorn Mountain (1988), Brittle Innings (1994) and the outstanding short story "The Pile" (2008). After the 2017 publication of his collection Other Arms Reach Out to Me, Bishop was inducted into the Georgia Writers' Hall of Fame. Revision and republication of much of Bishop's fiction in recent years have renewed interest in Bishop's explorations of religion, belief and the pursuit of human truth. This book is the first comprehensive study of Michael Bishop's literary body, examining his work in full. Featured are close readings of all his novels and studies of short stories, poetry and essays that Bishop himself identified for special attention.
Author |
: Bradley Denton |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 373 |
Release |
: 2015-07-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250091543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250091543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis One Day Closer To Death by : Bradley Denton
Highlighting this collection is an ingenious new episode in the saga of Jimmy Blackburn, the eponymous serial killer of Denton's third novel. "Blackburn Bakes Cookies" might best be called the icing on the cake that is Blackburn's story, and it is appropriately delectable. Other highlights of this collection include: "The Territory," a "what if?" story revisiting Kansas in the days of the Civil War and imagining, in one small way, how things might have gone a bit differently; "We Love Lydia Love," a science-fictional examination of the ways in which modern obsessions with celebrity and stardom can change us...and the ways in which we'll never change; and "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians," a moving and funny trip to the afterlife, where all great comics go when they die. In assembling these stories, Bradley Denton discovered that all of them are concerned with some aspect of death. It's true. And yet (as they say), in death there is life: these eight tales brim with such vitality and joie de vivre that readers will find themselves enjoying the work of this fantastic storyteller again and again.
Author |
: Brooks Landon |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2014-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136761188 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136761187 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science Fiction After 1900 by : Brooks Landon
First published in 2003. Brooks Landon analyses science fiction not as a set of rules for writers, but as a set of expectations for readers. He presents science fiction as a social phenomenon that moves beyond literary experience through a sense of mission based on the belief that SF can be a tool to help you think. He offers a broad overview of the genre and the stages through which it has developed in the twentieth century from the dime store novel through the New Wave of the '60s, the cyberpunk '80s, and soft agenda SF of the '90s. The writers he examines range for E. M. Forster and John W. Campbell to Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin. He also examines the large body of criticism now devoted to the genre and includes a bibliographic essay and a list of recommended titles.