Honorable Mention, 2026 AAAS Book Award in Literary Studies, Association for Asian American StudiesShortlisted, 2025 ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the PresentShortlisted, 2023-2024 MELUS Book Award, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United StatesAfter the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countr...

Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions addresses the impact of a volatile post-pandemic present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The backdrop of this highly anticipated follow-up is a world that is radically different than in 2015: COVID-19, threats of a “new cold war” with China, Russi...

Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short stories, artwork, and poetry. A new genre for the 21st Century, solarpunk is a revolution against despair. Focusing on solutions to environmental disasters, solarpunk envisions a future of green, sustainable energy used by societies that value inclusiveness, cooperation, and personal freedom.Edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland and containing work by Kristi...

The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences—a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most programmers ceased sharing code freely. A band of revolutionaries, self-described “hackers,” challenged this new norm by bu...

Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming; analyze specific programs and the impact of related social media interactions; and scrutinize the past fan culture to anticipate how social media programming will develop in the future. The con...

Shows how to reintroduce old technology to create new and exciting programming and collections for your library.Let's face it, new physical media is disappearing, and digital reigns. New film, music, and video game releases will eventually be digital-only. To move forward, libraries need to look backward.Old technology offers an exciting and diverse landscape for programs and lending collections. There are more retro video games available than anyone could ...

Loewe-Bücher: garantiert ohne KIDer Tod ist keine IllusionEs ist nur ein Kontrollbesuch in Kerrybrook, einem idyllischen Fischerdorf mit viel Grün und geduckten Häuschen. Aber seit dem Morgen gab es dort einige Ausfälle. Und dann wird vor Janas Augen jemand umgebracht.Jana Pasco ist als Weltendesignerin bei Mastermind verantwortlich für die Gestaltung – und die Sicherheit – digitaler Realitäten. An ihrer Designstation entstehen alternative Re...

As a teenager Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo in the company of James Bond, but in her punk phase she'd got herself pregnant and by the time she reaches forty-six she's a grandmother, her dreams as dry as the dust her Dyson sucks up from her hall carpet every day. Then her son Ross, a researcher working for an arms manufacturer in Switzerland, is forced to disappear before some characters cut from the same cloth as Blofeld persuade him to part with the secrets...

Ein Abstecher in die Abgründe der menschlichen Psyche – der neue Psychothriller von Sebastian Fitzek!In seiner Jugend litt Leon Nader an Schlafstörungen. Als Schlafwandler wurde er während seiner nächtlichen Ausflüge sogar gewalttätig und deswegen psychiatrisch behandelt. Eigentlich glaubte er geheilt zu sein – doch eines Tages, Jahre später, verschwindet Leons Frau unter unerklärlichen Umständen aus der gemeinsamen Wohnung. Ist seine Krankheit etwa wieder ausgebro...

In an era of buyouts by consortia and sovereign wealth funds, the relationship between football clubs and their fan communities has never been under such strain.Examining models of football club ownership and how they clash with fan ideals, Contradictions in Fan Culture and Club Ownership in Contemporary English Football considers the fan – or at least, some idealised, all-encompassing image of the fan – as the underlying foundation for the ideological structures of footba...

This chapbook comprises a selection of dark, gritty, horror-noir fan fiction. Original tales to appease the most ardent movie fanatics. There are plenty of Easter eggs and nods, and a broad and diverse selection of characters to sate the most devouring appetites.An ode to much-loved horror and cult fandom figures. Legacy Tales create fanfiction and original character content in the realms of horror, science fiction and fantasy. We strive to offer original insights and story arcs cr...

The Giant Rat of Sumatra A Sherlock Holmes Fan Fiction By Christopher Milner "... the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared." So said Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in the story The Adventure of The Sussex Vampire. Is the world finally ready in the 2nd decade of the 21st Century? Well ready or not, here it comes. In Mr. Milner's telling of the story which is p...