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Establishing science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as they appear in the conventional modern novel. Inspired by, and building upon, Georg Lukács's criticism of the orthodox novel for its depiction of life as alienating and disjointed, Milner, Murphy and Roberts demonstrate that science fiction steps beyond this contemporary form to be a more constructive form of literature, one able to conceive of society as complete, integrated and well-rounded. Taking stock of three kinds of science fiction which lie outside the scope of the modern novel – theological/ ontological science fiction, the science fiction of future history and epic science fiction – this book demonstrates the genre's unique capacity to encapsulate the whole world, persons and events, things and objects in a glance, and address the motive behind the longing for meaningful totality. With reference to a vast array of works by authors such as Michel Houellebecq, Elias Canetti, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Marge Piercy, Iain M. Banks, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Dirk C. Fleck, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book offers a compelling argument for rethinking the position and potential of the science fiction novel and to challenge the way we perceive our culture.
Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is an in-depth analysis of the sociohistorical conflict impacting Indigenous communities in Latin America. Continuing the project he began in volume 1, Arturo Arias analyzes contemporary Peninsular and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. He examines the works of Yucatecan writers Jorge Cocom Pech, Javier Gómez Navarrete, Isaac Carrillo Can, and Marisol Ceh Moo. For Chiapas, Arias looks at the works of Tseltal novelist Diego Méndez Guzmán, Tsotsil short-story writer Nicolás Huet Bautista, and Tseltal narrative writer Josías López Gómez. Arias problematizes the nature of Western modernity and the crisis of Western models of development in the present. By way of his analysis, he suggests that we are facing a historical impasse because we have neglected native knowledges that offer alternative codes of ethics and beingness that emerge from Indigenous cosmovisions. The text skillfully contributes to and strengthens debates between US-centered and Latin American cultural studies theorists, as well as the hemispheric expansion of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is inspired more by the past as it impinges upon a continuing, constantly expanding present. Arias’s reading of Maya literatures forces us to reconsider the space-time structure of Western thinking. Indeed, this book is intriguing precisely because it views literature from an Indigenous perspective, evidencing how that social space is full of multiple contrasting experiences and historical processes. “By drawing attention to the articulation between the contemporary literary production and its relationship to Mayan cosmovision in a broad sense, and focusing on the different traditions preserved through diverse languages and customs, this rich, comprehensive overview offers glimpses of a very different worldview.” — Cynthia Margarita Tompkins, author of Affectual Erasure: Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Cinema
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Adventure tale of an angel and her hero against the forces of evil. This book contains the first two novels of this epic adventure.
John Koch was a man who had it all, looks, a successful law career, a loving wife, three sons, and all of the trappings of success. However, John carried demons in his head from an abusive childhood, and these demons carried into his adult life. He could never shake his hatred for his father, and everything he did in life, was to show his father that he was a bigger and better man than he. His pain, however, was too deep, and he found solace in a bottle of alcohol. He walked away from his successes, and began to travel a dark road into the world of alcoholism.This made him lose everything, and he became one of the homeless, invisible to society, someone to be shunned. He was given a second chance when he lost his memory due to an accident, and found that he had won 4 million dollars on a lottery scratch ticket. But when his memory returned, his demons returned, and he found out to his horror just how much his own past had ruined the lives of his wife and children.
A compelling tale of following your destiny, drenched with love and war. Sultan is a sixteen-year-old kid son of a potter who lives in poverty and misery. Sultan may be poor but his dreams are big and he wants to become a king one day. He decides to learn under the King of Kings, King Shiva, to emulate him. People laugh at him, but he convinces his grandfather and marches towards his destiny along with his father. The palace of the king is far away and the path is difficult. Sultan has to cross the forest of the Oracle, the river of the dead and the valley of snakes. On his journey, he encounters Dhamin, a shape shifting snake, who gives him a powerful silver dagger and asks Sultan to kill his uncle, the king of the valley of snakes. Dhamin threatens to kill them if he doesn’t do so. On his way, Sultan saves a girl from the cave of a monster and falls in love with her. He finds that the girl is an Angel who gives Sultan two of her ‘tears’ and tells her that the tears have Godlike powers. Sultan now has to decide whether to kill Dhamin’s uncle, and whether to follow a road that leads to his love or the one that leads to his destiny. This is a mesmerizing story that will entice you to do something bigger and memorable in your life.