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The Wolfe at the Door Gene Wolfe 9781250846204
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £17.96The circus comes to town... and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate. A... -
The Cinematic Tourist: Explorations in Globalization, Culture and Resistance Rodanthi Tzanelli 9780415581325
SciFier: £46.33Recent years have seen a radical transformation of conventional tourist marketing and experience. The use of exotic locations in Hollywood films has allowed global audiences to enjoy distant places... -
Dead Drunk by Pam Lock
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34'Suddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body... he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard...' With a stiff measure of the... -
The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s by Scott Aaron Stine
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This is a study of splatter films of the 1980s. Following a brief overview of the genre, the main part of the book is a filmography. Each entry includes extensive technical information; cast and... -
World Film Locations: Istanbul by Ozlem Koksal
SciFier: £24.44From Fatih Akin's Head-On (2004) to Sydney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express (1974), World Film Locations: Istanbul offers a compelling look at many films shot on location in this multicultural... -
The Matrix and Philosophy by William Irwin
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.74Is the world around us truly as it appears or are we inert bodies in tanks, our brains subjected to electronic stimulation creating a make-believe world of hallucination? The Keanu Reeves cult sci-fi... -
Magic Words, Magic Worlds by Matthew Oliver
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81While all fiction uses words to construct models of the world for readers, nowhere is this more obvious than in fantasy fiction. Epic fantasy novels create elaborate secondary worlds entirely out of... -
The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance: 24 New SHort Stories from the Hottest Names Trisha Telep 9781845299415 [USED COPY]
RRP: £3.99SciFier: £2.02Fall in love with someone out of this world.If love transcends all boundaries then paranormal romance is its logical conclusion. From the biggest names around, here are 24 tales to take you to... -
Introducing Islam by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.76Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of... -
Kubrick, New and Expanded Edition by Thomas Allen Nelson
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.01Stanley Kubrick ranks among the most important American film makers of his generation, but his work is often misunderstood because it is widely diverse in subject matter and seems to lack thematic... -
Legends Omnibus John Byrne 9781799507826
DC ComicsRRP: £125.00SciFier: £76.95The Birth of a New DC Era LEGENDS Rewrites the Rules of Heroism. Legends Omnibus collects the complete 6-issue Legends miniseries and its expansive tie-ins across Action Comics, Justice League of... -
Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema Dr Catherine Lester (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781350135260
SciFier: £112.07Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is... -
The Return of the Honey Buzzard Aimee de Jongh 9781910593165
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.16Simon, a bookseller, has hit hard times. The financial crisis has hit and sales have slumped; his store looks set to close, and he has become increasingly withdrawn. Returning from his storeroom in... -
Woody Allen by Graham McCann
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.91This book is the first detailed study of Woody Allen's life and work, and an original attempt to locate Allen's work in the great tradition of American popular culture. It explores that inimitable... -
Magic: A Beginner's Guide Robert Ralley 9781851687138
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.39The mysterious art of magic has been a source of wonderment since before the time of Christ. Shape shifting between the supernatural practices of 'real' magic and demonstrations of dazzling illusion,... -
Anime Intersections: Tradition and Innovation in Theme and Technique Dani Cavallaro 9780786432349
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21This text examines the artistic development of anime, from its origins as a subset of the Japanese film industry to its modern-day status as one of the most popular forms of animation worldwide... -
War Without Humanity: Conflict in the post-Human Era Daniel M. Gerstein 9781636246581
RRP: £22.95SciFier: £16.49April 2039. On the tense Latvia-Russia border, a U.S. Army platoon holds the defensive line. In the dead of night, the forward squad of humanoid robots suddenly disobeys orders and launches a... -
The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920: Brazen Impudence and Boisterous Vulgarity Sam Beale 9783030479435
SciFier: £93.95This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880-1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British... -
Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the Future Tereza Dedinova 9781793636638
SciFier: £92.99In order to demonstrate that speculative fiction provides a valuable contribution to the discussion about the challenges of the Anthropocene, Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction... -
Bitten In Two: Book Seven of the Jaz Parks Series Jennifer Rardin 9780316043786
OrbitRRP: £18.99SciFier: £13.49Jaz Parks here. I. Am. Pissed. Just as Vayl and I arrive in Morocco to secure an ancient artifact, he wakes up calling me by another woman's name. And it's not even a good one. But since any form of... -
Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film Leger Grindon 9781566391825
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.01Studying popular Hollywood films from "Gone With the Wind" to "Reds" and such distinguished European films as "La Marseillaise" and "The Rise to Power of Louis XIV", Leger Grindon examines how... -
Photocinema by Neil Campbell
SciFier: £37.55Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema - or the interplay of the still and moving image - the photographs, interviews, and critical essays in this volume explore the ways in which the... -
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception Yuri Tsivian 9781138968097
SciFier: £47.20This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years.The author... -
The Cadillac Man by John Wayne Comunale
SciFier: £17.32Good does not exist. There is only the ever-swirling chaos of evil lurking just beyond the veil of our perception waiting to strike arbitrarily without purpose or reason. When evil throws its wiry... -
Calvin & Hobbes:Tenth Anniversary Book: Calvin & Hobbes Series: Book Fourteen Bill Watterson 9780751515572
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.17A special tenth anniversary edition of comic cartoons starring the Calvin and Hobbes pair. Calvin, cheeky, hyperactive and mischievous, and Hobbes, his cuddly toy tiger who, as far as Calvin is... -
Goth Girl by Robert Shepyer
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £11.99In the thrilling dystopian narrative of Goth Girl, the year is 2066, and a world under constant surveillance comes to life. The story follows Ovid, a surveillance specialist who unwittingly falls in... -
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation Michael DC Drout 9781324093886
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £20.99No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his world of Middle-earth. In The Tower and the Ruin, Michael D.C. Drout explores Tolkien's genius, allowing... -
Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema Jill Murphy 9781041189503
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into... -
Sebastian P.D. Cacek 9781787586888
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.12"Decidedly creepy, insidious and unsettling, but even more important, it's such a mature, perceptive and compassionate novel."Thomas Tessier, author of Fog Heart and Bram Stoker Award finalist The... -
Video Games, Crime, and Control: Getting Played Jonathan A. Grubb (Professor at Georgis Souther University, USA.) 9781032388038
SciFier: £39.39Discussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the video game medium, this book discusses the criminological importance of video... -
Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin by Mila Ganeva (Customer)
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £23.58Shows how cinematic treatments of fashion during times of crisis offer subtle reflections on the everyday lives, desires, careers, and self-perceptions of postwar German women. This book steers... -
Sebastian P.D. Cacek 9781787586864
RRP: £12.95SciFier: £9.19"Decidedly creepy, insidious and unsettling, but even more important, it's such a mature, perceptive and compassionate novel."Thomas Tessier, author of Fog Heart and Bram Stoker Award finalist The... -
Sternberg and Dietrich by James Phillips (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales)
RRP: £68.00SciFier: £67.31James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the... -
Magnetic Dogs by Bruce Meyer
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £12.13Magnetic Dogs is a collection of short stories that examines how displaced individuals - those who have been snatched out of their time and place - struggle to adapt and reinvent themselves in an... -
The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art by Matthew Kirkpatrick
RRP: £15.00SciFier: £13.81A strange museum, an even stranger curator, the deceased artist who haunts him, and the mystery surrounding the museum founders' daughter, lost at sea as a child . . . The Ambrose J. and Vivian T... -
Hidden Agenda by David J Lightfoot
SciFier: £13.49Set in North Cornwall where there is a clear view of stars, meteorites, satellites and unidentified objects. In a Cornish town a loud bang followed by a shockwave rattled windows. There is known to... -
Cities Beyond Crisis: Race, Affect, and Urban Culture in Twenty-First-Century Iberia Catalina Iannone 9780826507334
SciFier: £92.99In Cities Beyond Crisis, Catalina Iannone studies the rapid evolution of Iberian urban centers in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, identifying how this event catalyzed a protracted... -
Hooked in Film by John Markert
SciFier: £114.99Though drug use was widespread in the nineteenth century, the negative influence of narcotics was mostly unknown. Cinema of the early twentieth century was instrumental in making viewers aware of the... -
The Paradox of Transgression in Games Torill Mortensen 9781032400617
SciFier: £42.86The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary... -
An Apple from a Tree and Other Early Stories by Margaret Elphinstone
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £14.49This new edition of An Apple from a Tree, with additional stories previously published elsewhere, provides the reader with the opportunity to revisit some of Margaret Elphinstone's early writing...