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In twelve critical and interdisciplinary chapters, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science fiction and postcolonialism, issues of ethnicity, nation and transnational discourse. Altogether, this anthology charts a new discursive space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fa...

Downers Grove bei Chicago sieht aus wie ein ganz normaler und durchschnittlicher Vorort - aber Downers Grove hütet ein beängstigendes Geheimnis. Seit acht Jahren stirbt jedes Jahr ein High School Absolvent einen bizarren Tod - immer kurz vor den Abschlussfeiern. Und dieses Jahr hat Chrissie Swanson das schreckliche und paranoide Gefühl, diejenige zu sein, die sterben muss. Kann Chrissie den Fluch von Downers Grove besiegen - oder wird sie ster...

Downers Grove bei Chicago sieht aus wie ein ganz normaler und durchschnittlicher Vorort - aber Downers Grove hütet ein beängstigendes Geheimnis. Seit acht Jahren stirbt jedes Jahr ein High School Absolvent einen bizarren Tod - immer kurz vor den Abschlussfeiern. Und dieses Jahr hat Chrissie Swanson das schreckliche und paranoide Gefühl, diejenige zu sein, die sterben muss. Kann Chrissie den Fluch von Downers Grove besiegen - oder wird sie ster...

There are seventeen inked dots on the inside of my left forearm - to indicate my age - plus the identifier, F-918. That is my name, the only one I have ever been known by.--A future impossible to imagine. The world is a connected entity, covered in train tracks which link countries and floating cities. The advancements in technology and science also carry a darker edge. Slavery has returned. People are grown to serve. Executions are commonplac...

James Bond ist zurück - und zwar nicht nur auf der Leinwand, sondern erstmals nach zwanzig Jahren ist der berühmteste Agent ihrer britischen Majestät auch wieder im Comic zu sehen. Dabei handelt es sich jedoch nicht um ein weiteres Kino-Abenteuer. Star-Autor Warren Ellis (»Transmetropolitan« etc.) beruft sich stattdessen auf den Ur-Bond seines Schöpfers Ian Fleming, versetzt ihn allerdings in die Gegenwart. Das heißt, 007 ist eher kaltschnäuzi...

Banana skins on the table is a look at the world through the diary entries of Nathan, a man who's not happy with life. He decides to take action, change his attitude towards life and work harder for complete contentment. Nathan begins by adjusting basic elements in his daily routine, upsetting people at work as much as possible and asking himself important life questions. It doesn't all run smoothly though and soon, Nathan's behaviour has beco...

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The fourth book in the Amelia Maylock series. "I need to be careful." People in the old fashioned dimension were not familiar with magic of any kind. Amelia reminded herself that staying disguised was paramount. If she did find something wrong in the town square, Amelia knew she would need to decide quickly if she was going to react, or get out of there to safety. As she turned the final corner and saw the black iron fence ahead of her, it was...

Hidden in the amethyst is the second book in the Amelia Maylock series. Had the old hag made a mistake? This couldn't be what Amelia was supposed to meet here, could it? Why would she send Amelia to fight such a - whatever it was - without warning her first? Amelia didn't have time to worry any longer as the creature took another giant step forward, looming closer and lowering its huge head towards her, revealing its bright white eyes, sitting...