"Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers--John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard--who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world"--

Ray Bradbury spent his childhood imagining new worlds. Eventually, he put his animated ideas on paper, becoming one of the most popular fantasy writers of all time. His short stories, novels, TV shows, and films have taken people to never-before-dreamed-of places. Bradbury's best-known and most beloved books, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, are classic pieces of literature.He is a one-of-a-kind ability to spin magic...

In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction--including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures--to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness in the popular imagination. Carringtons argument about authorship, fandom, and race in a genre that has been both marginalized and celebrated offers a black...

The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by double Hugo Award-winning essayist and fantasy novelist Kameron Hurley. The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including We Have Always Fought, which won the 2013 Hugo for Best Related Work. The Geek Feminist Revolution will also feature several entirely new essays written specifically for this volume.Unapologetically...