Enter a "steam-psi" Victorian world where newly discovered mental abilities are changing everything — and may have given Jack the Ripper a path to absolute power.In Victorian England, 1888, some say Sir Simon Taggart is under the punishment of God.In a world awash with mentalist powers — levitation, mesmerism, human telegraphy — the baronet is unique, possessing mental shields that render him immune to any psychic assault. Even his friends think it's a curse, cutting him of...

Atoms for Peace asks a simple question: what if the SF films of the 1950s had really happened?The story starts in 1953, just a year after the Martians invaded and almost wiped humanity out. Retired OSS spy Gwen Montgomery discovers Martians aren't the only super-science threat we have to face when a dead half-lizard man shows up near her apartment.In The Claws That Catch, dignified Boston doctor Danielle Taylor finds her hometown overwhelmed by an invasion o...

The Bond movies make up the most successful film series of all time. Sex for Dinner, Death for Breakfast looks at each film, it's role in the series, and it's place in the culture and politics of the time it came out. It includes every film from Dr. No through Spectre, plus non-series screen Bonds: the 1967 Casino Royale, a 1954 TV adaptation, Never Say Never Again and Operation Kid Brother.

Fantasy in strange times and strange places.In Sword of Darcy you'll see Conan the Barbarian take Mr. Darcy's role in Pride and Prejudice?The Wodehouse Murder Case reimagines Bertie Wooster as a wizard who write murder mysteries on the side. Only now he has to solve one …Atlas Shagged turns Ayn Rand's iconic hero John Galt into "Big Johnson" Galt, the porn star out to stop the engine of the world — Internet porn.A Wall Street powerhouse wakes up in Uneasy Lies t...

Welcome to the world of undead sexist cliches. They're the sexist, misogynist and male supremacist beliefs that refuse to die – no matter how many times they've been disproven. The rationale for male superiority changes — it's god! Genetics! Testosterone! The need to compete for women! — but the end conclusion never does.You may have heard the bullcrap I'm writing about a thousand times already: Women aren't as smart as men. Women don't really like sex. Feminists don't want equalit...

It's the 1900s but not as we knew them. Nazi shadow invaders battle Tesla and Edison. The Wandering Jew works as a private investigator. Teenage girls face sorcerers who kill through mirrors. A science fiction convention hides a conspiracy by Nazi occultists. Robert F. Kennedy's death unleashes cosmic horror. Nursery rhymes walk the streets of New York.Welcome to 19-Infinity, a supernatural version of the 20th century captured in 11 short stories. Whether riding along with ...

Philosophy and Fairy Tales collects four previously published short stories. In "Jack Be Nimble," Jack's mother tries to make him a proper fairy-tale hero. "Original Synergy" has a meeting planner struggle to pull off a conference of all the great international conspiracies. In "Learning Curve," a teacher tries to show her science class why flies spontaneously generate in rotting meat. Finally, in "Red Moon Rising," Red Riding Hood plots to seduce the wolf—but learns things about the wolf,...

This book analyzes Jewish tropes in popular science fiction ranging from Star Trek and Marvel to other prominent franchises. Sometimes the representation is subtle and thought-provoking; other times, it is limited to cliché and oversimplification of characters. The chapters in this collection examine the representation of Jewish characters in films and franchises including Superman, Lord of the Rings, The Mandalorian, The Twilight Zone, and more to shed light on the broad range of represen...

Welcome to a world where the Cold War was fought not with the threat of nuclear destruction, but with Giant Monsters.Watch as the denizens of this Earth that might have been learn to harness the power of these legendary creatures for good and ill. In these seven tales you'll witness first hand as…--A young boy learns the value of sacrifice when the Japanese use a giant monster to attack Pearl Harbor…--An Inuit boy confronts his heritage to harness a frightening crea...

It's May 1973 and Maria Esposito has spent three years as a wanted fugitive. Constantly on the run, she never lets anyone get close.Now torrential floods have trapped her in Pharisee Georgia, in the middle of an FBI investigation. Maria needs to keep a low profile; too bad the murder victim's widow insists she can help solve the case. The county sheriff makes it clear saying no is not an option.The FBI soon becomes the least of Maria's problems. There's the hostile ravens. Th...

More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time travel--stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by centuries, journeys to the past or the (often dystopian) future. This book examines some of the roles time travel plays on screen in science fiction and fantasy.Plot synopses and credits are listed for films and TV series from England, Canada, the UK and Japan, as well as for TV and films from elsewhere in the world. Tropes and plot elements are highlighted.

Aliens: They have taken the form of immigrants, invaders, lovers, heroes, cute creatures that want our candy or monsters that want our flesh. For more than a century, movies and television shows have speculated about the form and motives of alien life forms. Movies first dipped their toe into the genre in the 1940s with Superman cartoons and the big screen's first story of alien invasion (1945's The Purple Monster Strikes). More aliens landed in the 1950s science fiction movie boo...