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Gaming Disability: Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games Katie Ellis (Curtin University, Australia) 9781032372853
SciFier: $52.35This book is an important collection for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of digital games, and will be of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game... -
Ascension by Steve Tomasula
RRP: $27.73SciFier: $23.70A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind's vexed relationship with natureAscension is a novel about the end of nature, or rather, the end of three "natures": the time just before... -
The Merge Grace Walker 9780063446731
SciFier: $23.67Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063446731Author Grace WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Dis-Orienting Planets by Isiah Lavender
SciFier: $141.77Isiah Lavender III's Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surrounding the racial and ethnic dimensions of science fiction. This edited volume explores depictions of Asia and Asians in... -
Biopunk Dystopias by Lars Schmeink
SciFier: $66.73An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Biopunk Dystopias contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined... -
Speak Louisa Hall 9780356506098
OrbitRRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.08She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen? From a pilgrim girl's diary, to a traumatised child... -
Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie: Gender, Genre and Identity Frances Smith 9781474413091
RRP: $139.00SciFier: $129.28Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly popular, yet often overlooked, film genre. Reconsidering tropes... -
Private I: A Memoir Lynn Hershman Leeson 9798988670087
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $28.34A visionary life at the intersection of art, technology, and feminism.In Private I, Lynn Hershman Leeson-one of the most influential conceptual artists of our time-shares her personal journey and the... -
Serial Killers in Contemporary Television by Brett A.B. Robinson (Brock University, Canada)
SciFier: $55.96This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical... -
Unraveling Resident Evil: Essays on the Complex Universe of the Games and Films Nadine Farghaly 9780786472918
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $26.70Resident Evil is a multidimensional as well as multimedia universe: various books, graphic novels, games and movies (the fifth one came out in 2012) all contribute to this enormous universe. The... -
Lunar Gothic: The Influence of the Moon on the Gothic Imagination Elana Gomel 9783031926204
SciFier: $157.06This book explores the captivating intersection of lunar influence and the Gothic imagination, revealing how the moon has shaped narratives of horror, mystery, and transformation across cultures and... -
Remembering the Future through Cinematic Symbols: Human/Artificial Intelligence Amar Singh 9781666939538
SciFier: $143.85This book explores the making of futuristic memory through cinematic symbols relating to future relationships between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). Amar Singh examines how audiences are... -
The Natural History of Film Form Pansy Duncan 9781399548250
RRP: $27.79SciFier: $24.84The Natural History of Film Form argues that, more than simply ingredients in film stock, gelatin, silver and celluloid helped shape early film aesthetics. Drawing on fan and industry periodicals, as... -
Video Game Ecologies and Culture by Nathalie Aghoro
RRP: $113.98SciFier: $75.62Video Game Ecologies and Culture examines the environments that video games affect and are impacted by. The edited collection engages with the notion of ecology as a critical concept that allows to... -
The Last Man and Gothic Sympathy Michael Cameron (Dalhousie University) 9781009357531
SciFier: $26.74This Element explores the theme of 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels. A liminal site of both possibility and irreconcilability, Gothic sympathy at once challenges... -
The Last Man and Gothic Sympathy Michael Cameron (Dalhousie University) 9781009494526
SciFier: $79.49This Element explores the theme of 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels. A liminal site of both possibility and irreconcilability, Gothic sympathy at once challenges... -
The Natural History of Film Form Pansy Duncan 9781399548243
RRP: $118.15SciFier: $99.80The Natural History of Film Form argues that, more than simply ingredients in film stock, gelatin, silver and celluloid helped shape early film aesthetics. Drawing on fan and industry periodicals, as... -
Tate Dialogues: Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet Val Ravaglia (Curator, Displays & International Art, Tate Modern) 9781849769693
RRP: $6.95SciFier: $5.88From the birth of op art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and play with perception. Electric Dreams, one of Tate Modern's most ambitious exhibitions to... -
Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming Antonio Alcala Gonzalez 9780367713089
RRP: $70.88SciFier: $65.37Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft's influence in contemporary times. Building on a focus centered on the... -
Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics Andrea Goulet 9781783209224
SciFier: $33.97Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics is an edited collection that covers the areas in which the series has generated the most academic interest: performance and technology; gender and... -
Ashes of Candesce Karl Schroeder 9780765324931
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $14.93A world of endless sky, with no land, no gravity: this is Virga. Beginning in the seminal science fiction novel "Sun of Suns", the saga of this striking world has introduced readers to the people of... -
Necromedia Marcel O'Gorman 9780816695713
RRP: $30.57SciFier: $24.88In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O'Gorman takes aim at "the collusion of death and technology," drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to... -
The Cyborg Caribbean: Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction Samuel Ginsburg 9781978836228
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $29.20The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and... -
Death of the Author: A visionary new science fiction novel from the international bestseller Nnedi Okorafor 9781399622974
GollanczRRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.08The future of storytelling is here.Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of... -
The Cyborg Caribbean: Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction Samuel Ginsburg 9781978836259
RRP: $36.13SciFier: $30.27The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and... -
Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience Donna J. Haraway 9781138303416
SciFier: $55.73One of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read... -
The Performance of Video Games by Kelly I. Aliano
RRP: $55.59SciFier: $48.21When viewed through the context of an interactive play, a video game player fulfills the roles of both actor and spectator, watching and influencing a game's story in real time. This book presents... -
In the Mouth of the Whale by Paul McAuley
GollanczSciFier: $28.48A novel of a savage future war, perfect for fans of Alastair Reynolds and Peter F. Hamilton.Humanity's future rests on the shoulders of a Child from the past, and she must never know of the battles... -
Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene by William Brown
RRP: $25.01SciFier: $17.88Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene radically re-interprets Buster Keaton's iconic 1924 film, The Navigator, through the combined lenses of posthumanism and critical race... -
EcoComix by Sidney I. Dobrin
RRP: $40.30SciFier: $34.49Exploring image and imagination in conjunction with natural environments, the animal, and the human, this collection of essays turns the ecocritical and ecocompositional gaze upon comic studies. The... -
Japanese Horror Culture by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
SciFier: $123.00Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, cultural, and religious fabric. Ever since the... -
The Forbidden Stars by Tim Pratt
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $9.34Aliens known as the Liars gave humanity access to the stars through twenty-nine wormholes. They didn't mention that other aliens, the ancient, tyrannical - but thankfully sleeping - Axiom occupied... -
Drones, Clones, and Alpha Babes by Diana M.A. Relke
RRP: $40.24SciFier: $31.62The Star Trek franchise represents one of the most successful emanations of popular media in our culture. The number of books, both popular and scholarly, published on the subject of Star Trek is... -
Accelerando Charles Stross 9781841493893
OrbitRRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.08His most ambitious novel to date, ACCELERANDO is a multi-generational saga following a brilliant clan of 21st-century posthumans. The year is some time between 2010 and 2015. The recession has ended,... -
The Cinema of James Cameron: Bodies in Heroic Motion James Clarke 9780231169769
RRP: $97.30SciFier: $79.34This timely volume explores the massively popular cinema of writer-director James Cameron. It couches Cameron's films within the evolving generic traditions of science fiction, melodrama, and the... -
Genesis by Paul Antony Jones
SciFier: $14.03After an alien invasion devastates humanity, a battered group of survivors huddles in a remote outpost, fighting to endure in a now-hostile world. Resources are dwindling, and internal power... -
The World of Final Fantasy VII by Jason C. Cash
RRP: $55.59SciFier: $48.21Final Fantasy VII altered the course of video game history when it was released in 1997 on Sony's PlayStation system. It converted the Japanese role-playing game into an international gaming standard... -
Biofictions: Literary and Visual Imagination in the Age of Biotechnology Lejla Kucukalic 9780367676759
SciFier: $84.87Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: 'biofiction,' 'bioimagination,' and 'biodiscourse' to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology. The book proposes a new... -
Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean Emily A. Maguire 9781683404828
RRP: $48.58SciFier: $31.36How writers and artists use science fiction to speak to the current moment in the CaribbeanExploring the remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating from Spanish-speaking parts... -
Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean Emily A. Maguire 9781683404583
RRP: $98.69SciFier: $77.67How writers and artists use science fiction to speak to the current moment in the CaribbeanExploring the remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating from Spanish-speaking parts...