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How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies
by Daniel H. Wilson  
Powells.com Staff Pick Come on, Humans, stop kidding yourselves. You know that the robots are growing in strength. The confrontation is inevitable. You are unprepared! Buy this book or die. You pathetic bag of water. Recommended by Eugene Lamb, Powells...
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The Zombie Survival Guide
by Max Brooks Publisher Comments The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie...
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How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself against the Coming Rebellion
by Daniel H. Wilson
Powells.com Staff Pick Come on, Humans, stop kidding yourselves. You know that the robots are growing in strength. The confrontation is inevitable. You are unprepared! Buy this book or die. You pathetic bag of water. Recommended by Eugene Lamb, Powells...
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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived
by Daniel H. Wilson and Richard Horne
Powells.com Staff Pick If you are like me, the Roomba just does not cut it when what I expect is the domestic help of the robot maid featured on The Jetsons. In this highly entertaining look at futuristic inventions once envisioned, but never fully realized, Daniel Wilson...
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How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Bestselling Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer Shares
by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments Orson Scott Card shares his advice on how to break into this field, how to develop fantastic story ideas, and evolve fresh plots....
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Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West
by Carl Abbott Publisher Comments Will the settlement of Mars prove much different from the settlement of the West? Look to science fiction master Kim Stanley Robinson for fascinating ideas; then turn to historian Carl Abbott for further insights. Over the last half-century, science...
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction (Complete Idiot's Guides)
by Cory Doctorow Synopsis If you love science fiction and would like to write some of your own, this book will give you practical advice. Describing the different types of science fiction and fantasy genres and subgenres, it explains everything from how putting your manuscript...
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The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula
by Eric Nuzum
Publisher Comments The Dead Travel Fast is about vampires, death, chickens, fear, things that smell bad, the love of a good woman, and germs — but mostly it's about vampires. The undead are everywhere. They're not just in movies and books, but in commercials...
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Breakfast in the Ruins: Science Fiction in the Last Millennium
by Barry N. Malzberg
Publisher Comments Barry N. Malzberg reflects back over four decades of writing science fiction, giving an insider's view of the field during that time which few can match, both for its authority and for the sharp and witty way he describes the highs and lows of one...
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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
by William Irwin Publisher Comments If the world as we know it is nothing more than our dream of it, does this make the dream real? If we had the choice to step out of our world into a more-real but less-pleasant one—to take the red pill—would it be a moral failure not to do so?...
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How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Orson Scott Card Synopsis Provides advice for every science fiction and fantasy writer interested in constructing stories about people, worlds and events that stretch the boundaries of the possible and the magical. The guide also includes information on potential markets and how...
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Technophobia!
by Daniel Dinello Publisher Comments Techno-heaven or techno-hell? If you believe many scientists working in the emerging fields of twenty-first-century technology, the future is blissfully bright. Initially, human bodies will be perfected through genetic manipulation and the fusion of...
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Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
by Jeff Prucher Publisher Comments The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction shows exactly how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time, with full citations and bibliographic...
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Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
by Jayme Lynn Blaschke Publisher Comments As the world around us becomes more fantastic, and science itself more surreal, the realms of science fiction and fantasy become correspondingly both more bizarre and more relevant. Voices of Vision offers a rare look into the inner workings of this...
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The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by Milly Williamson Synopsis < P> Williamson explores the curiosity and fascination surrounding the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires. Interest in vampires is still prevalent in popular culture, suggested by the recent popularity of such television shows as < I>...
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The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
by Thomas M Disch Publisher Comments From acclaimed science fiction writer Thomas M. Disch comes "The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of", a keenly perceptive account of the impact science fiction has had on American culture. As only a consummate insider could, Disch provides a fascinating view of...
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Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy #7: Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF
by Richard D Erlich Publisher Comments Taken to extremes, social organization--however necessary in itself--leads to the creation of what editors Erlich and Dunn label "Clockwork Worlds." This anthology has been organized to define and expand that concept for the reader. Arthur O. Lewis...
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Seek: Selected Nonfiction
by Rudy Rucker Publisher Comments The essays and memoirs collected in Seek! trace Rudy Rucker's trajectory through the final decade of the second millennium. His topics include artificial life, chaos, the big bang, Pieter Brueghel, the church of the subgenius, live sex, mathematics...
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The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy
by David Pringle Synopsis With a foreword by Terry Pratchett, this essential reference has been revised and updated for 2008. Lavishly illustrated and expertly informed it details everything the novice needs to know about the genre and everything the well-read fan is calling out...
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Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy
by Michael Moorcock Synopsis Newly revised and expanded by the author, this seminal study of epic fantasy analyzes the genre from its earliest beginnings in Medieval romances on through practitioners like Tolkien up to today's brightest lights....
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