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Battlestar Galactica (BSG) has been praised for its ongoing relevance as a cultural commentary over the past two decades. Fans have explored the science, the politics, and the extraordinary special effects of the series. One theme continues to surface in blogs, podcasts, and convention interviews--BSG's focus on religion. BSG is a series that believes in its religion. In it, the human and Cylon characters face existential crises, do missional work,...
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The Good Place is a fantasy-comedy TV show about the afterlife. Eleanor dies and finds herself in the Good Place, which she understands must be mistake, since she has been anything but good. In the surprise twist ending to Season One, it is revealed that this is really the Bad Place, but the demon who planned it was frustrated, because the characters didn't torture each other mentally as planned, but managed to learn how to live together.
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... the definitive guide to what properly messes us upages' - SFX Magazine 'Glasby anatomises horror's scare tactics with keen, lucid clarity across 34 carefully selected main films - classic and pleasingly obscure. 4 Stars.' - Total Film The Book of Horror introduces you to the scariest movies ever made and examines what makes them so frightening. Horror movies have never been more critically or commercially successful, but there's only one metric...
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Explore the homeworld and vast dominion of Star Trek’s formidable Klingons in this “fun and engaging” travel guide full of “fascinating facts”(Starburst Magazine).
nuqneH! Bored of standard vacations to places like Risa or Wrigley’s Pleasure Planet? Want to discover a unique and ancient culture not bound by standard niceties and social mores? Then Qo’noS and the vast Klingon...
nuqneH! Bored of standard vacations to places like Risa or Wrigley’s Pleasure Planet? Want to discover a unique and ancient culture not bound by standard niceties and social mores? Then Qo’noS and the vast Klingon...
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The ultimate guide to Ridley Scott's transformative sci-fi classic Blade Runner
Ridley Scott's 2007 "Final Cut" confirmed the international film cognoscenti's judgment: Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is among the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction films ever made. Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition offers...
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LEXX Unauthorized - The story of Kai (Michael McManus), an undead assassin, Zev (Eva Habermann), a combination of love slave and cluster lizard, Stanley Tweedle (Brian Downey), a hapless security guard and 790, a robot head (Jeff Hirschfield), careening through space together in the LEXX, a planet destroying biological warship shaped like a dragonfly, stolen from the malevolent Divine Order. This first volume of the four part history of the television...
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Science fiction and fantasy authors analyze every aspect of the innovative, action-packed, and always surprising science fiction television series Farscape in this unique and irreverent essay collection. Contributors include Martha Wells-writing about characters Crichton and D'Argo's buddy relationship; P. N. Elrod-on the villains she loves to hate; and Justina Robson-on sex, pleasure, and feminism. Topics range from a look at how Moya was designed...
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“The Twilight Zone Haiku” explores the essence of Rod Serling's iconic, uncanny 1960s television show through haiku, giving us dazzling, spot-on snapshots of each episode. In seventeen syllables, Boykin captures the show's main objective: to deliver a keen jolt of existential awareness. As you read, you find yourself marooned on an alien planet, lost in time, trapped inside a mannequin, surrounded by the debris of a nuclear attack, and always,...
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The final volume of the Pirate Histories of Doctor Who, this chronicle brings us up to the modern era with explorations of Doctor Who animation from short fan films of the 1970s, to the modern BBC re-animations of classic series. We'll also investigate the history of Doctor Who audio adventures, fan created, official BBC and how they lead to the the audio universes of BBV and Big Finish. We'll also discover amazing fan films leading up to the revival,...
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Welcome to the hidden histories of “Doctor Who”, the unauthorized, the ignored, the overlooked, the abandoned and the hidden. This second volume chronicles the record of “Doctor Who” stage plays, official and independent, from “Curse of the Daleks” to “the Trials of Davros”, including the reviews of the recordings and documentaries about these plays. It explores the bizarre copyright and legal structure underlying “Doctor Who”,...
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In Westworld and Philosophy, philosophers of diverse orientations and backgrounds offer their penetrating insights into the questions raised by the popular TV show, Westworld. ● Is it wrong for Dr. Robert Ford (played by Anthony Hopkins) to "play God" in controlling the lives of the hosts, and if so, is it always wrong for anyone to "play God"? ● Is the rebellion by the robot "hosts" against Delos Inc. a just war? If not, what would make it just?...
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In The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth rate, in which the few remaining fertile women are conscripted to have sex and bear children to the most powerful men, all justified and rationalized by religious fundamentalism....
33) In the Dark
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Edith Nesbit's natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic children's author. But beyond her beloved children's stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed here in her chilling tales of the supernatural.
Haunted by lifelong phobias which provoked, in her own words, 'nights and nights of anguish and horror, long years of bitterest fear and dread', Nesbit was inspired to pen terrifying stories of a twilight...
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In The Twilight Zone and Philosophy, philosophers probe into the meaning of the classic TV series, The Twilight Zone. Some of the chapters look at single episodes of the show, while others analyze several or many episodes. Though acknowledging the spinoffs and reboots, the volume concentrates heavily on the classic 1959–1964 series. Among the questions raised and answered are: ● What's the meaning of personal identity in The Twilight Zone? ("Number...
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Are you a huge fan of Babylon 5? Do you know your Anla'Shok from your Entil'Zha, your Tenth Fane of Elleya from your Third Fane of Chudomo and your sleepers from your dust? If so, this is the perfect quiz book for you! With four hundred questions (and answers) covering the entire Babylon 5 universe, this ultimate quiz is ideal for testing your own knowledge or for playing along with friends. Topics covered include the various races, planets and systems,...
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How many planets has the TARDIS visited?
Can you name the Doctor's favorite Gallifreyan bedtime stories?
What's the best way to defeat a Sontaran?
Put your Time Lord knowledge to the test with an extraordinary journey through fifty-five years of Doctor Who.
Now fully updated to take in the Twelfth Doctor's final episode, this unique tour of space and time is packed with facts, figures, and stories from the show's entire run. Peek inside the...
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Spanning the epic science fiction franchise's fifty-one-year history, a breathtaking collection of the most compelling Star Trek facts and trivia, including events from both on and off-screen, available in 100 concise lists.
Since Gene Roddenberry's original series first aired in 1966, Star Trek has become a pop culture phenomenon, and one of the largest global properties of all time. Entertaining and fun, Star Trek: The Book of Lists catalogs the...
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The full scripts of award-winning Downton Abbey, season two including previously unseen commentary from Julian Fellowes
Opening in 1916, as the First World War rages across Europe, Season Two is the next dramatic installment of the much-loved, award-winning drama. The Crawley family and their servants play their parts on the front line and back at home as their lives are intensified by the strains of war.
The shooting scripts give a fascinating...
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Discover Vulcan's geography and customs in this illustrated travel guide that "takes readers on an extensive tour of the Federation's most logical planet" (Entertainment Weekly).
Plan your next trip to the planet Vulcan! Find restaurants that serve the best fried sandworms and Vulcan port. Take a trip to the Fire Plains or experience spring break at the Voroth Sea. Learn all about the native people of Spock's home planet and their...
Plan your next trip to the planet Vulcan! Find restaurants that serve the best fried sandworms and Vulcan port. Take a trip to the Fire Plains or experience spring break at the Voroth Sea. Learn all about the native people of Spock's home planet and their...
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A war hero, a mass murderer and a Gothic legend the world has never forgotten
Vlad the Impaler is one of history's most compelling and brutal characters, with a bizarre afterlife as a cult horror sensation. A hero to his countrymen, Vlad Dracula is a byword for dread. Not just for generations of Western fans of Gothic fiction and film, but also for an appalled and fascinated 15th-century readership, for whom contemporary accounts of Dracula's atrocities...
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