Science Fiction Literary Criticism

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    • Written by: J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
    • Narrated by: Andy Serkis
    • Series: The Lord of the Rings, Book 0
    • Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2023-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron....

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    • The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
    • Written by: Hetta Howes
    • Narrated by: Amy Noble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2025-01-07
    • Language: English
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    • An invaluable reassessment of what we think we know about the daily lives of women in medieval Europe.

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    • Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
    • Written by: Toni Morrison
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection - a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades....

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    • (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
    • Written by: Sami Schalk
    • Narrated by: Renee Reed
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2022-02-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how Black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability....

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    • Written by: René Girard
    • Narrated by: Mike Fraser
    • Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-15
    • Language: English
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    • An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis.

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    • Written by: Mary Karr
    • Narrated by: Mary Karr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2015-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process....

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    • Written by: Jasmine Elmer
    • Narrated by: Jasmine Elmer, Nerissa Bradley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-17
    • Language: English
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    • Goddess with a Thousand Faces blends historical research with mythological retelling, taking an inspirational, enlightening and fiercely feminist deep dive into ancient goddesses to explore the modern concept of femininity....

    Price: $26.00 or 1 Credit

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    • Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
    • Written by: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2025-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, her thoughts on writing, and her commentary on literary science fiction and fantasy and their future.

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    • Written by: Jaan Puhvel
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2024-05-28
    • Language: English
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    • In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-European origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs.

    Price: $26.30 or 1 Credit

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    • Written by: Deborah Chester
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • There's more to writing a successful fantasy story than building a unique world or inventing a new type of magic. Fantasy author Deborah Chester guides novices and intermediate writers through a step-by-step process of story construction....

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    • Written by: Rosemary Hennessy
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-30
    • Language: English
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    • In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers who as young women turned to communism around the Great Depression and, over decades of national crisis, spoke to issues of labor, land, and love.

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    • A Life
    • Written by: Jamie Hood
    • Narrated by: Jamie Hood
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 2025-03-25
    • Language: English
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    • From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival.

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Catherine Belsey
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. This Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture....

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    • A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God
    • Written by: Robert Charles Wilson
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2023-09-26
    • Language: English
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    • All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed. In Owning the Unknown, Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson makes the case for what he calls intuitive atheism....

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    • Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
    • Written by: Andrew Klavan
    • Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2025-05-06
    • Language: English
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    • In The Kingdom of Cain, crime novelist, screenwriter, and cultural critic Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the evil of murder in film and literature can point us to ways of living honestly, beautifully, and even joyfully in a dark world.

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    • Essays
    • Written by: Jonathan Franzen
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The End of the End of the Earth is a collection of Jonathan Franzen's essays and speeches from the past five years, in which he grapples with the most important and heated ethical subjects of the day: environmentalism, capitalism, wealth inequality, race, technology....

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    • Writing as an Other
    • Written by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 2025-04-08
    • Language: English
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    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.

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    • Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
    • Written by: Jo Walton
    • Narrated by: Nicole Poole
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2024-05-14
    • Language: English
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    • Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is a must-listen, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers.

    Price: $26.30 or 1 Credit

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