A series of provocative essays on how the fantastic genres evolve and growIn this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fant...

In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fantastic reasserted itself in popular genre literature, and how these genres themselves grew increasin...

"Who'd want to kill a dumb cartoon bunny?"That's what Eddie Valiant wants to know. He's the toughest private eye in Los Angeles, and he'll handle anything – if you're human. If you're a Toon, that's another story.Eddie doesn't like Toons – those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans. Not the way they look, and especially not the way they talk: word-filled balloons come out of their mouths and then disintegrate, leaving dust all over his rug.Eddie will wo...

Welcome to Toontown where cartoon characters – Toons – live side-by-side with humans. The whole Who Framed Roger Rabbit cast is here: Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant, Baby Herman, and of course Jessica Rabbit, the sultriest woman ever "drawn that way." They're up to their old tricks in a whimsical new mystery by Toontown's original creator, the man who first brought these delightful creatures to life.Who P-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit? opens with a call from Roger to hard-boiled private ey...

In Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?, hard-boiled gumshoe Eddie Valiant lands a plum job as Gary Cooper's bodyguard while Coop scouts locations for his next movie—a screwball comedy titled Hi, Toon! But Eddie's dream job quickly turns into a nightmare. The film's being shot in Toontown, and Coop's co-star turns out to be none other than Roger Rabbit. Eddie's a big fan of Coop. Of Roger? Not so much. Now a sinister hoodlum is threatening to murder Coop if the movie gets made. Before long, Eddie, Coo...

This companion to the AMC's mini-series features the full interviews plus essays by sci-fi insiders and rare concept art from Cameron's archives.For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmaking—Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ridley Scott, and Steven Spielberg—to get their perspectives on the importance of the genre. This book reproduces the interviews in full as the...

The Best Short Stories of award winning Roger Rabbit creator Gary K. Wolf. These stories were all published in well known, prestigious science fiction and fantasy magazines and anthologies. As you read through them you'll see the Roger Rabbit characters come alive and take shape. Until finally they emerge as the whacko, bizarre, lovable and endearing goofballs who inhabit a unique place in fantasy literature. Wolf's stories experiment with unusual formats, fantastically curious places, and...

The woman the whole world knows as Jessica Rabbit started as Jessica Krupnick, an ordinary young woman living in an all-too-human world. (Toons don't exist in this world. At least not yet!)Jessica is plain-featured, skinny, wears thick glasses, and has mousy brown hair. Nothing the least bit va-va-voomy about her. She works for minimum wage in a boring, dead end job. She's dated a long string of boyfriends, caddish and callow guys who invariably love her and leave her, often for on...

Private eye Eddie Valiant doesn't like Toons—those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans. Not the way they look, and especially not the way they talk: word-filled balloons come out of their mouths and then disintegrate, leaving dust all over his rug.Eddie will work for a Toon if his cash supply is low enough. So he reluctantly agrees when Roger Rabbit, a Toon who plays straight man (or should that be straight rabbit) in the Baby Herman cartoon series, asks h...

Inédit en France, le polar palpitant qui a inspiré le film culte, Qui veut la peau de Roger Rabbit ?L'heure est grave : quelqu'un a tenté d'étouffer le célèbre lapin de bande dessinée Roger Rabbit. Eddie Valiant, un détective privé bourru embauché pour une simple affaire de contrat, se retrouve donc à se poser des questions sur la sécurité de son client.Mais alors qu'il est sur le point de clore son enquête et de partir le plus loin possible de l'é...

Every morning from 6 until 7 am, Joyce Williams plays a video game called LifeMaster. This game is embodied in a small, square, ruby colored crystalline cube.Using the game, Joyce plays through all the events of his coming day. At the end of the playing hour, his day gets locked in.Joyce then goes out and lives exactly what happens to him in the game he's just played.He's an average player. He lives a normal, average life. No big highs, no big lows. Strictly straight d...

It's thirty years in the future. In the Boston Minutemen locker room, Street Football League quarterback T.K. Mann prepares himself for the biggest, riskiest, most dangerous game of his life. At the age of thirty-four, T.K. is the oldest player in the ultraviolent sport of Professional Street Football, a phenomenally popular twenty-four-hour-long athletic event combining pro football with mixed martial arts and armed combat.From its outlaw beginnings as a gang game played on urban ...