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Turn the Other Chick

Esther Friesner
Turn the Other Chick Book PDF

Author : Esther Friesner
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618244567

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THOSE RAMBUNCTIOUS CHICKS IN CHAINMAIL ARE BACK¾AND BOTH THEIR WIT AND THEIR SWORDS ARE AS SHARP AS EVER! One good turn deserves another and those unpredictable amazons are in action again, swords sharpened, chainmail polished, and makeup in place, ready to fight the good fight on the field of battle. And if you think they're just male wish-fulfillment fantasies, you'd better say it under your breath and out of their earshot, because these barbarian babes were born to battle. All new adventures of fearless women warriors by Eric Flint, author of 1632; Nebula-winning author Harry Turtledove; Jody Lynn Nye, co-author of the national best seller The Ship Who Won; Campbell Award-winner Wen Spencer, and many more, including the inimitable Esther Friesner herself, as fantasy adventure takes a turn for the lighter side. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Begat

David Crystal
Begat Book PDF

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780199585854

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What do the following have in common? Let there be light -- A fly in the ointment -- A rod of iron -- New wine in old bottles -- Lick the dust -- How are the mighty fallen -- Kick against the pricks -- Wheels within wheels. They're all in the King James Bible. This astonishing book "has contributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial expressions than any other literary source." So wrote David Crystal in 2004. In Begat he returns to the subject: he asks how a work published in 1611 could have had such an influence on the language and looks closely at what the influence has been. He comes to some surprising conclusions. No other version of the Bible however popular (such as the Good News Bible) or put upon the church (like the New English Bible) has had anything like the same impact. David Crystal shows how its words and phrases found independent life in the work of poets, playwrights, novelists, and politicians, and how more recently they have been taken up by journalists, advertisers, Hollywood, and hip-hop. He reveals the great debt the King James Bible owes to its English forbears, especially John Wycliffe's in the fourteenth century and William Tyndale's in the sixteenth. He also shows that the revisions and changes made by King James's translators were crucial to its universal success. "A person who professes to be a critic in the delicacies of the English language ought to have the Bible at his finger's ends," Lord Macaulay advised Lady Holland in 1831. David Crystal shows how true this is. His book is a revelation.

Terribly Twisted Tales

Jean Rabe,Martin H. Greenberg
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Author : Jean Rabe,Martin H. Greenberg
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101029275

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Terribly Twisted Tales by Jean Rabe,Martin H. Greenberg Pdf

Eighteen original stories that take familiar fairy tales and shift them around to give an entirely new slant. Fairy tales are among the earliest fantasies we are exposed to when young and impressionable. They stay with us throughout our lives, whether in their original versions or filtered thorugh cartoon retellings. What more fun could a fantasy writer have than to take up the challenge of drawing up on this rich material and transforming it into something new? The eighteen stories in Terribly Twisted Tales do exactly that. From the adventure of the witch in the gingerbread house and her close encounter with an oven... To Golda Lockes, who has a special arrangement with those well-known bears... To a murderous attack with a glass slipper... To Jack, a successful theorectical geneticist, who discovers just how perilous research can be... To a wolf detective who sets out to solve "Grandma's" murder... This volume highlights inventive stories that give a new perspective on classic tales! Includes stories from: Dennis L. McKiernan — Annie Jones — Chris Pierson Mickey Zucker Reichert — Mary Louise Eklund — Robert E. Vardeman Kathleen Watness — Jody Lynn Nye — Jim C. Hines Steven D. Sullivan — Brendan DuBois — Paul Genesse Ramsey "Tome Wyrm" Lundock — Skip & Penny Williams — Elizabeth A. Vaughan Janet Deaver-Pack — Kelly Swails — Michael A. Stackpole

Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature

Allen Stroud
Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature Book PDF

Author : Allen Stroud
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781538166079

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Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature by Allen Stroud Pdf

Fantasy is a genre in motion, gradually expanding its reach and historical sources to embrace a global identity Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, Second Edition is a snapshot of the genre in this moment, identifying new themes and sources that are emerging to inspire, enhance and invigorate the published works of fantasy writers.

Strip Mauled

Esther Friesner
Strip Mauled Book PDF

Author : Esther Friesner
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618247452

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Werewolves and the suburbs are a natural go-together. Okay, so theyre not the Obligatory/Iconic Suburban Golden Retriever or Chocolate Labrador, but theyve got a much better chance of taking home the Best in Show ribbon than their Undead rivals, the vampires. In some suburban households, if it brings home a trophy, who cares if it also brings home bloody chunks of the neighbors every time the full moon shines? And lets not forget one more advantage to the suburban werewolf: If his lupine side does something nasty on your lawn, his human side can come by later with the Pooper Scooper. In your face, Dracula! Therefore, welcome to the fur-sprouting, mall-browsing, moon-howling, latt_-sipping world of Strip Mauled. Youll like what you find. Sit. Stay. Good reader. Stories of suburban lycanthropy by Sarah A. Hoyt, Dave Freer, K. D. Wentworth, and more¾including Esther Friesner herself. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

The A to Z of Fantasy Literature

Brian Stableford
The A to Z of Fantasy Literature Book PDF

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810863456

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Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.

Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy [2 volumes]

Robin Anne Reid
Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2 volumes Book PDF

Author : Robin Anne Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313054747

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Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy [2 volumes] by Robin Anne Reid Pdf

Works of science fiction and fantasy increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. This book examines women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy across a range of media and genres, such as fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music. The first volume offers survey essays on major topics, such as sexual identities, fandom, women's writing groups, and feminist spirituality; the second provides alphabetically arranged entries on more specific subjects, such as Hindu mythology, Toni Morrison, magical realism, and Margaret Atwood. Entries are written by expert contributors and cite works for further reading, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students and general readers love science fiction and fantasy. And science fiction and fantasy works increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. Older works demonstrate attitudes toward women in times past, while more recent works grapple with contemporary social issues. This book helps students use science fiction and fantasy to understand the contributions of women writers, the representation of women in the media, and the experiences of women in society.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection

Gardner Dozois
The Year s Best Science Fiction Twenty Second Annual Collection Book PDF

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429903868

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2004 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing. The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Under Cover of Darkness

Julie Czerneda,Jana Paniccia
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Author : Julie Czerneda,Jana Paniccia
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0756404045

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Under Cover of Darkness by Julie Czerneda,Jana Paniccia Pdf

Featuring contributions from Doranna Durgin, Larry Niven, Tanya Huff, and Douglas Smith, this collection of fourteen original stories ponders the existence of secret groups--with mystical affiliations--that guard historical artifacts and secrets, protecting and shaping the world's future. Original.

Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

Don D'Ammassa
Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction Book PDF

Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2061 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : 9781438140636

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Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Elemental

Brian Aldiss
Elemental Book PDF

Author : Brian Aldiss
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466827356

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"The entire collection constitutes thought-provoking entertainment for a good cause, with all publisher and author profits earmarked for the Save the Children Tsunami Relief Fund."--Booklist In the winter of 2005, after the horrifying natural disaster of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, Steve Savile and Alethea Kontis joined forces to raise money to help the distressed survivors and have created Elemental. They solicited SF and fantasy stories, all new and never published elsewhere, from many of the top writers in the genres today, and received immediate responses in the form of the excellent stories here in this book. Elemental has an introduction by Arthur C. Clarke and more than twenty stories by Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Larry Niven, Sherrilyn Kenyon writing as Kinley MacGregor, and a Dune story by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, and many others. They created in Elemental one of the most important genre anthologies of the year, but more than that: in giving real value for the purchase price, everyone who sells this book can be proud, and everyone who buys it will be richly rewarded for supporting the tsunami relief effort. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Year's Best SF 18

David G. Hartwell
Year s Best SF 18 Book PDF

Author : David G. Hartwell
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466838185

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Year's Best SF 18 by David G. Hartwell Pdf

Once again, the finest SF short stories of the year have been collected in a single volume. With Year's Best SF 18, acclaimed, award-winning editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell demonstrates the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing astonishing short stories from some of science fiction's most respected names as well as exciting new writers to watch. In this anthology, prepare to travel light years from the ordinary into a tomorrow at once breathtaking, frightening, and possible with some of the greatest tales of wonder published in 2012. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Fangs for the Mammaries

Esther Friesner
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Author : Esther Friesner
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618247858

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Having inflicted the smug homes of suburbia with witches and werewolves. Esther Friesner now unleashes the undead to tap a vein of blood and humor, and drain the suburbs dry of both. Vampires and the suburbs are a match made in heaven, or maybe Levittown. Remember Dracula? He didn't run into any real problems until he took his act on the road and traveled to the Big City. But in the suburbs, everyone is polite and respectful of their neighbors' right to privacy. And if your neighbors happen to have kids selling gift-wrap, magazine subscriptions, cookies, or other school fundraising ploys, and little Emily or Jason happen to come peddling their wares after sundown . . . Who says you have to stay in the city if you want good take-out meals delivered right to your door? There's no one quite like a vampire for saying, _All of you kids get off of my lawn!Ó and putting some teeth into it. The stories in these pages¾by Sarah A. Hoyt, K.D. Wentworth, Dave Freer and more, including Esther Friesner herself¾will convince the reader that vampires and suburbs go together like wine and cheese, gin and tonic, desperation and housewives, marriage and pre-nups. Enter freely and of your own will... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Witch Way to the Mall

Esther Friesner
Witch Way to the Mall Book PDF

Author : Esther Friesner
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618247254

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Move over, urban fantasy¾here comes suburban fantasy. What self-respecting witch, vampire, or werewolf would be caught dead¾or undead¾anywhere but the Big City, you may ask Look, let's give the uncanny crew a little credit for intelligence: If they had the smarts to see the advantage in packing up and moving into the cities, why wouldn't they have the smarts to move out of said cities if it looked like they could get a better quality-of-life/death elsewhere (Tough enough going about your otherworldly business and evading the occasional mob wielding halogen torches and designer pitchforks, but have you ever seen city real estate prices ) So let's welcome our first group of supernatural suburbanites, the witches. Their powers are awesome, their methods of coping with the lumps, bumps, and idiosyncrasies of Suburbia are ingenious, and they always bring the loveliest gingerbread to the PTA bake sale. But whatever you do, don't try telling them that life in a non-city setting is bland, banal and boring, or you might get turned into . . . ribbit! Stories of suburban sorcery by Harry Turtledove, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jan and S.M. Stirling, K. D. Wentworth, and more¾including Esther Friesner herself. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Armored

John Joseph Adams
Armored Book PDF

Author : John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618248510

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Armor up for a metal-pounding explosion of action, adventure and amazing speculation by topnotch writers¾including Nebula-award winner Jack McDevitt, Sean Williams, Dan Abnett, Simon Green, and Jack Campbell¾on a future warrior that might very well be just around the corner. Science fiction readers and gamers have long been fascinated by the idea of going to battle in suits of powered combat armor or at the interior controls of giant mechs. It's an armor-plated clip of hard-hitting tales featuring exoskeleton adventure with fascinating takes on possible future armors ranging from the style of personal power suits seen in Starship Troopers and Halo to the servo-controlled bipedal beast-mech style encountered in Mechwarrior and Battletech. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).