Science Fiction Literary Criticism

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    • By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
    • Narrated by: Andy Serkis
    • Series: The Lord of the Rings, Book 0
    • Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Catherine Belsey
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. This Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture....

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    • By: Deborah Chester
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • There's more to writing a successful fantasy story than building a unique world or inventing a new type of magic. Fantasy author Deborah Chester guides novices and intermediate writers through a step-by-step process of story construction....

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    • (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
    • By: Sami Schalk
    • Narrated by: Renee Reed
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
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    • In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how Black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability....

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    • The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
    • By: Harriet Baker
    • Narrated by: Harriet Baker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and were forever changed by it....

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    • By: Mary Karr
    • Narrated by: Mary Karr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process....

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    • By: Om Books International
    • Narrated by: Vivek Madan
    • Series: 365
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • One treat a day! A 23-volume series of 365 treats: stories, facts, questions and answers, and science experiments for young listeners....

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    • Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
    • By: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Language of the Night is Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays and criticism, with sections on her own background, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literate science fiction....

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    • Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
    • By: Jo Walton
    • Narrated by: Nicole Poole
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is a must-listen, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers.

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    • A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God
    • By: Robert Charles Wilson
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed. In Owning the Unknown, Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson makes the case for what he calls intuitive atheism....

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    • A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • By: James Marcus
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary audiences.

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    • Eine deutsche Affäre
    • By: Rüdiger Safranski
    • Narrated by: Rüdiger Safranski
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-09
    • Language: German
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    • Rüdiger Safranski beschreibt die Epoche der Romantik und ihre Zeitgenossen, die für die Entfesselung des Genies stehen, für den Aufbruch und die Lust am Experiment...

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    • The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age
    • By: John Alberti - Edited by, P. Andrew Miller - Edited by
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell, Esther Wane
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation....

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    • By: Jasmine Elmer
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 12-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Goddess with a Thousand Faces blends historical research with mythological retelling, taking an inspirational, enlightening and fiercely feminist deep dive into ancient goddesses to explore the modern concept of femininity....

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    • By: Katja Kullmann
    • Narrated by: Anna Maria Mühe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-22
    • Language: German
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    • Sie ist die Frau, der man nachsagt, dass sie kein Glück in der Liebe hat. Diejenige, die ihr Leben allein regelt: Die Frau ohne Begleitung...

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    • Plato - Melville - Nietzsche
    • By: Mark Anderson
    • Narrated by: Randal Schaffer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Moby-Dick as Philosophy is at base a chapter-by-chapter commentary on Herman Melville’s masterwork, Moby-Dick. Superimposing portraits of Plato, Melville, and Nietzsche, it generates a composite image from the overlaying and interblending of figures....

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    • My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
    • By: David Denby
    • Narrated by: Edward Asner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-99
    • Language: English
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    • At the age of 48, film critic David Denby returned to his alma mater, Columbia University, to re-experience the core humanities courses...

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    • By: G. A. Georgeson
    • Narrated by: Jon Bolitho-Jones
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • At once a requisite collector's guide and a pursuit of meaning within storytelling, The Essential Guide to Collecting Calvin and Hobbes also offers a critical appraisal of Watterson, as well as a deep examination of the most obscure Calvin and Hobbes relic....

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    • By: David Sterling Brown
    • Narrated by: David Sterling Brown
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet, and Tamora—figures who are never quite 'white enough'—this bold and compelling work emphasizes how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and reaffirms white supremacy....

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