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The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
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3.90 avg rating — 124 ratings
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New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
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3.56 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Snape: A Definitive Reading
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4.10 avg rating — 2,911 ratings
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The Power of Myth
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4.26 avg rating — 54,687 ratings
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H.P. Lovecraft: A Biography
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3.82 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction
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3.42 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Institutional Racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale
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3.96 avg rating — 935 ratings
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Fantasy's Othering Fetish
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4.40 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Metamorphosis of Nick Adams
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Secular Rabbi: Philip Rahv and Partisan Review
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
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3.69 avg rating — 4,300 ratings
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Finding Ferrante: Authorship and the Politics of World Literature
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4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
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4.32 avg rating — 4,325 ratings
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Ira Levin
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Reading Matters: How Literature Influences Life
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4.93 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Flesh and the Mirror: Essays on the Art of Angela Carter
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4.07 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Kirby: King of Comics
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4.12 avg rating — 2,460 ratings
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Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
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4.12 avg rating — 2,764 ratings
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In Search of Wonder
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3.67 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends
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4.19 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Morphology of the Folktale
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4.01 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
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The Tragic Thread in Science Fiction
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics
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3.50 avg rating — 80 ratings
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James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
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4.23 avg rating — 1,431 ratings
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Stranger Magic: Charmed States & The Arabian Nights
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4.11 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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4.33 avg rating — 3,040 ratings
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Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
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4.06 avg rating — 401 ratings
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The Eureka Years: Boucher and McComas's Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1949-1954
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
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4.12 avg rating — 1,481 ratings
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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
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3.72 avg rating — 375 ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
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4.07 avg rating — 16,903 ratings
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Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
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4.11 avg rating — 1,492 ratings
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Fantasists on Fantasy: A collection of Critical Reflections by Eighteen Masters of the Art
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3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings
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A Comics Studies Reader
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3.68 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Secret Feminist Cabal
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3.90 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
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3.95 avg rating — 3,902 ratings
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Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life: Neil Gaiman!! Jodi Picoult!! Brad Meltzer!! . . . and an All-Star Roster on the Caped Crusaders That Changed Their Lives
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3.66 avg rating — 401 ratings
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42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams
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4.19 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
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4.09 avg rating — 1,621 ratings
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The Futurians
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3.64 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias
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3.94 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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3.95 avg rating — 6,171 ratings
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The Road to Science Fiction 1 (The Road to Science Fiction, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction
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3.83 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy
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3.76 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes
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3.43 avg rating — 258 ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
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3.89 avg rating — 5,740 ratings
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The World According to Star Wars
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3.25 avg rating — 3,016 ratings
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Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler
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4.09 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Breakfast in the Ruins
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3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale
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4.08 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures
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4.26 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
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Reading Comics
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3.72 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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3.74 avg rating — 17,097 ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
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4.27 avg rating — 412 ratings
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The Invention of Angela Carter
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4.27 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography
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4.65 avg rating — 4,714 ratings
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The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
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3.83 avg rating — 336 ratings
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The Law of Superheroes
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3.86 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale
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3.88 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy
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4.46 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series)
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3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
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4.32 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Robin Hood
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3.71 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History and Cataloging
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4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK
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4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
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How to Live Forever: Science Fiction and Philosophy
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3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
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3.96 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Strokes: Essays and Reviews, 1966-1986
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4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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4.35 avg rating — 608 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
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4.39 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Fairies in Victorian Art
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4.10 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Lore of the Unicorn
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3.75 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Personnel of Fairyland: A Short Account of the Fairy People of Great Britain for Those Who Tell Stories to Children
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
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4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
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3.87 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Wish I Was Here
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4.01 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Appendix N
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3.64 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Letters to Tiptree
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4.09 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
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3.97 avg rating — 1,950 ratings
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The Last Straw: A Critical Autopsy of a Galaxy Far, Far Away
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4.27 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
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3.75 avg rating — 326 ratings
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From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come
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4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
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4.34 avg rating — 9,974 ratings
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The Lament of Prometheus: An Examination of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Pratchett's Women: Unauthorised Essays on Female Characters of the Discworld
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3.88 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
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3.80 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling
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3.90 avg rating — 3,868 ratings
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The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth
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4.31 avg rating — 581 ratings
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The Postmodern Archipelago
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Michael Moorcock: Death Is No Obstacle
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4.15 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
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4.21 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
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3.92 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Wonder Woman: The Complete History
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4.06 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
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4.07 avg rating — 1,684 ratings
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The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower
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4.01 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature
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3.85 avg rating — 52 ratings
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To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction
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4.15 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
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3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings
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