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Journal articles on the topic "Science fiction adventures"

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Lyzlov, Maxim. "Conversations about Science Fiction: The Category of “Fantastic” in The Bibliographic Discourse of the 1960s and 1970s." Children's Readings: Studies in Children's Literature 19, no. 1 (2021): 360–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.31860/2304-5817-2021-1-19-360-372.

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In the 1950s and 1970s, bibliographers made attempts to define the genre of fiction and offer a systematization of the available fiction literature. The purpose of the article is to trace the development of the category of “fantastic” in the recommendation indexes of Z. P. Shalashova “Adventures. Journeys. Science Fiction”, “Artificial Earth satellites. Interplanetary flights”, “Adventures and travel”. The problems faced by bibliographers were related both to the sharp increase in publications of fantastic literature, and to the weak development of the theoretical apparatus in literary studies and bibliography. The concept of “fantastic” has evolved from an adventure-related type of scientific and educational literature to a metaphorical “dream world” devoid of terminological clarity. The material of bibliographic indexes, de- spite its limited functionality, nevertheless demonstrates that the processes that took place in the field of recommendation bibliography of children’s books reflect the significant difficulties that bibliographers experienced in finding a language for describing fiction.
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Bruce, Scott G. "Sunt altera nobis sidera, sunt orbes alii: Imagining Subterranean Peoples and Places in Medieval Latin Literature." Mediaevistik 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 105–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2019.01.04.

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Owing to the enduring popularity of Jules Verne’s science fiction story Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), modern readers have taken for granted a hollow, habitable core beneath the earth’s crust as a time-honored, though scientifically implausible, setting for speculative fiction.1 Verne’s fantastic tale of Professor Otto Lidenbrock’s descent into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull and his perilous adventures underground featuring forests of giant mushrooms and prehistoric monsters remains the most widely read work of nineteenth-century “subterranean fiction.” In 1926, the story was reprinted in a three-part serial in the widely-read American science fiction magazine Amazing Stories (Fig. 1). Throughout the twentieth century, it spawned a host of imitators, from Edgar Rice Burrough’s Pellucidar series (1914‐1963) to C. S. Lewis’ Narnian chronicle The Silver Chair (1953), as well as a successful 1959 film adaptation starring James Mason and Pat Boone.
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Sengupta, Sohini. "Empowering Girlhood Journeys: Feminist Mythic Revision in Contemporary Indian Diaspora Children’s Fiction." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 3 (2022): 248–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.73.37.

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There had been relatively little interest in a narrative of female individuation within mythology. Revisionist myths and legends in contemporary literaturehave thus addressed issues of women’s identity and autonomy while redesigningthe gendered spaces in these cultural narratives. The need for alternative mobility arcs within the cultural imaginary was also recognized for adolescent girls in their quest for subjectivity.This paper thus explores two works of children’s fiction, viz. Sayantani Dasgupta’s Game of Stars(2019) from the Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond series and Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah and the End of Time (2018) as coming-of-age immigrant narratives where young girls undergo heroic adventures restructuringIndian mythology and Bengali folktales. Dasgupta’s Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond series intertwines intergalactic science and Bengali folktales, mostly from the Thakumar Jhuli (1907), meshing different fairy tale characters aidingthe adolescent female protagonist Kiranmala, who isa neotericgutsy counterpart of the warrior princess in Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder's fairy tale collection.At the same time, Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah fantasy adventure series celebrates the Indian heritage of Hindu mythology (particularly the Mahabharata) in the diaspora, while empowering young immigrant girls to imagine and undertake non-normative feminist voyages.
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Mussies, Martine. "“Dashing and daring, courageous and caring”: Neomedievalism as a Marker of Anthropomorphism in the Parent Fan Fiction Inspired by Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears." Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 60–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.32798/dlk.625.

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As is already visible in its opening credits, the television series Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985–1991) uses neomedievalism to confirm the anthropomorphism of the titular characters. More than 35 years after this series’ first episode aired, this phenomenon is still easily traceable in the parent fan fiction, online stories about the Gummi Bears, written for children by adults. This paper addresses two seemingly overlooked fields: The Gummi Bears series and the fan fiction it inspired. It shows that this anthropomorphic perception adds new perspectives on human relations with the natural environment and on the treatment of animals, and thus contributes to building the awareness of ecological and animal rights in societies, especially when it comes to future generations.
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Maciejewska, Anna. "O elementach fantastyki w literaturze XVI i XVII wieku. Wizje niezwykłych krain, państw i miast." Literatura i Kultura Popularna 27 (December 29, 2021): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0867-7441.27.10.

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The purpose of the article is to present elements of fantasy in selected works of old literature. It focuses above all on presenting the amazing places shown in literary works created in the 16th and 17th centuries. The author also shows similarities between fantasy, fairy tale, and utopia. Science fiction was created on the basis of utopia or anti-utopia, which lost their cognitive functions and began to discuss the characters’ adventures in such a way as to primarily provide entertainment to readers. In addition, the author points out that in the Renaissance era, Western European literary works containing elements of fantasy were primarily utopian or fairy-tale in nature. Their main role, however, was not to fulfill the entertainment function. It was only in the 19th century that leisure literature was discovered, when the ability to read and access to the text spread.
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Moran, Christopher. "Ian Fleming and the Public Profile of the CIA." Journal of Cold War Studies 15, no. 1 (January 2013): 119–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00310.

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This article represents the first major analysis of the appearance of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the James Bond novels of British spy fiction writer Ian Fleming. The article shows that Fleming was remarkably influential during the early Cold War in establishing the public profile of the CIA. The novels, which include manifold references to the agency and its staff, were published at a time when the CIA kept out of the public limelight and when other cultural forms, including Hollywood, refrained from making too much fanfare about intelligence matters. Drawing on recently declassified material, including the papers of fabled CIA Director Allen Dulles, the article demonstrates that the agency took a keen interest in Bond, even drawing inspiration from his adventures and the novels' depictions of technology.
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Tattersdill, Will. "Periodicity, Time Travel, and the Emergence of Science Fiction: H. G. Wells's Temporal Adventures in the Pages of the New Review." Victorian Periodicals Review 46, no. 4 (2013): 526–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2013.0048.

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Smith, Michael G. "Cosmic Plots in Early Soviet Culture: Flights of Fancy to the Moon and Mars." Canadian–American Slavic Studies 47, no. 2 (2013): 170–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22102396-04702003.

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This article explores two classics of Soviet science fiction – Konstantin Tsiolkovskii’s Beyond the Earth (1918) and Aleksei Tolstoi’s Aelita (1923) – in their related historical contexts. Both had their origins in the popular nineteenth-century “cosmic romance,” owing to their staple characters, settings, and plots. These were extraordinary adventures into the heavens, modern signposts of how the fantastic was becoming real. Yet both novels also became leading texts in the genre of Stalinist Socialist Realism, stories that made “fairy tales come true.” Tsiolkovskii and Tolstoi both appealed to the Bolshevik Revolution as a radical break in time here on earth, much as they predicted that the rocket would become a radical new means to reach beyond into outer space. They centered their stories on real science and technology, articles of comprehension and anticipation. They created characters that revealed the utopian potential of human beings to create new regimes of equality and freedom. Part inheritance from abroad, part innovation at home, the cosmic romance in their hands became a successful medium to situate and justify the Soviet experience.
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Porat, Michal. "Telling It Like It is—And Like It is Not: Fiction in the Service of Science in Jay Hosler’s The Sandwalk Adventures." Children's Literature in Education 46, no. 1 (June 22, 2014): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-014-9225-z.

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Obidič, Andrejka. "Margaret Atwood’s Postcolonial and Postmodern Feminist Novels with Psychological and Mythic Influences: The Archetypal Analysis of the Novel Surfacing." Acta Neophilologica 50, no. 1-2 (November 13, 2017): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.50.1-2.5-24.

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The paper analyzes Margaret Atwood’s postcolonial and postmodern feminist novels from the psychological perspective of Carl Gustav Jung’s theory of archetypes and from the perspective of Robert Graves’s mythological figures of the triple goddess presented in his work The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1997). In this regard, the paper focuses on the mythic and psychological roles embodied and played by Atwood’s victimized female protagonists who actively seek their identity and professional self-realization on their path towards personal evolution in the North American patriarchal society of the twentieth century. Thus, they are no longer passive as female characters of the nineteenth-century colonial novels which are centered on the male hero and his colonial adventures. In her postcolonial and postmodern feminist novels, Atwood further introduces elements of folk tales, fairy tales, legends, myths and revives different literary genres, such as a detective story, a crime and historical novel, a gothic romance, a comedy, science fiction, etc. Moreover, she often abuses the conventions of the existing genre and mixes several genres in the same narrative. For instance, her narrative The Penelopiad (2005) is a genre-hybrid novella in which she parodies the Grecian myth of the adventurer Odysseus and his faithful wife Penelope by subverting Homer’s serious epic poem into a witty satire. In addition, the last part of the paper analyzes the author’s cult novel Surfacing (1972 (1984)) according to Joseph Campbell’s and Northrop Frye’s archetypal/myth criticism and it demonstrates that Atwood revises the biblical myth of the hero’s quest and the idealized world of medieval grail romances from the ironic prospective of the twentieth century, as it is typical of postmodernism.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Science fiction adventures"

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Broadhurst, Kieron. "Adventures in the Irreal: Science Fiction, Utopia and Contemporary Art Practice." Thesis, Curtin University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81387.

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Adventures in the Irreal is a practice-led investigation which explores the speculative possibilities of science fiction from within a contemporary art practice. As part of this process two methods for creating science fiction artworks are developed. These methods are then utilised in the creation of three science fiction artworks, with each artwork offering a unique, speculative approach to utopian aspects of its real world subject matter.
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Lahtinen, Lauri. ""Humanity is Unnatural!" Feminisms and Science-Fiction Strategies in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and The Adventures of Alyx." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23558.

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While acknowledging that Russ’s work is problematic in some regards, the aim of this thesis is to counter the criticism of Russ’s oeuvre as outdated and sometimes stuck in second-wave feminist positions, instead demonstrating how Russ’s use of sci-fi strategies such as cyborgism, possible-worlds theory, utopianism, and concretised metaphors in The Female Man and The Adventures of Alyx enables her to move beyond second-wave feminist positions and anticipate third-wave feminism in ways that are still relevant today.
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Cupitt, Catherine Anne. "Space opera: a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy." Thesis, Curtin University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1082.

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This thesis considers space opera as a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy.“Falling Stars,” the creative component which includes fantasy, space opera and science fiction stories, constitutes a spectrum of speculative fiction. In order to illustrate the similarities and difference between the genres represented in the spectrum, I focus on the central figure of the alien other and the ways in which such a figure can be gendered and embodied. The space opera novella combines motifs of both fantasy and science fiction within the figure of the cyborg, Orlando, who is transgendered and hyperchangeably embodied.The exegesis offers a theoretical context through which to view the creative work. I argue that space operas are melodramatic adventure stories, which operate as a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy, using the non-realist expectations inherent in both, but mixing the extrapolations and icons of science fiction with the self-consistent but unbelievable discontinuities of fantasy. I also consider space opera’s tendency to exhibit a conservative, unexamined colonialistic imperative, with the attendant assumptions that create a potential for feminist subversion.
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Fleetwood, Carolyn. "Imarill of the star : an illustrated children's novel." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2002. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/273.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.
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Puncekar, Alex J. "The Bright Garden." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1495189855840834.

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Magnuson, Markus Amalthea. "The Dig : De grafiska äventyrsspelen som flyktigt medium." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filmvetenskapliga institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-179044.

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Palewska, Marie. "Un romancier d'aventures à la Belle Epoque : paul d'Ivoi (1856-1915) et ses "Voyages excentriques"." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030013.

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Publiés en volumes chez l’ancienne librairie Furne entre 1894 et 1917, les « Voyages excentriques » de Paul d’Ivoi constituent une collection prisée par la jeunesse à la Belle Epoque. Ces romans d’aventures inscrits dans la lignée de Jules Verne sont très représentatifs de leur temps, avec des intrigues enracinées dans un contexte politique proche du moment de leur écriture. Soucieux de contribuer à la formation patriotique et morale de leurs lecteurs, ils s’appliquent à soutenir l’œuvre coloniale de la France, à promouvoir les valeurs de la République française et à célébrer le rayonnement du pays à travers le monde. L’action, qui présente souvent un enjeu diplomatique international, suscite le voyage en terre étrangère et la rencontre avec d’autres nationalités dont la vision est le reflet des relations amicales ou conflictuelles que la France entretient avec elles. Mais de la réalité, les « Voyages excentriques » basculent dans la fiction en usant des diverses ressources que leur offre le genre du roman d’aventures alors à son apogée. L’exotisme et la fantaisie scientifique sont les deux thèmes les plus représentés, parfois agrémentés d’une touche policière ou d’espionnage. Dans sa pratique du roman d’aventures, Paul d’Ivoi cultive l’art de la variation par rapport à ses prédécesseurs, affirmant sa propre manière dans l’inventivité de ses gadgets scientifiques merveilleux ou la place prépondérante qu’il donne aux femmes. Il connut un grand succès au début du XXème siècle comme cadeau d’étrennes, livre de prix, fascicule populaire, feuilleton de quotidien à un sou, adapté au théâtre et même au cinéma. Son originalité réside surtout dans la notion d’excentrique qui fédère sa collection de romans Belle Epoque
Published in volumes between 1894 and 1917 by the former bookshop Furne, Paul d’Ivoi’s "Voyages Excentriques" made up a collection which was very much valued by the youth of the Edwardian Era.These adventure novels, in the tradition of Jules Verne, were highly representative of their time with plots deeply rooted in the political ideas pervading then. They were anxious to contribute to the patriotic and moral moulding of their readers and applied to support the colonial work of France while promoting the values of the French Republic and celebrating its influence all over the world. The action, which often deals with international diplomatic stakes, sends the characters abroad to meet other nationalities whose visions reflect their relationships with France, whether friendly or of conflict.However the "Voyages Excentriques" swing from reality into fiction using the various means that adventure novels, then at their peak, offered them. Exotism and scientific extravagance are the main themes, often accompanied with detective stories or spy fiction as secondary sorts. When writing his adventure novels, Paul d’Ivoi carefully paid attention to differentiating himself from his predecessors, asserting his own manner by inventing wonderful scientific gadgets or giving a preponderant role to women. His books were a great success at the turn of the 20th century as New Year’s gifts, school prizes, popular manuals or cheap serials which were adapted on stage or even in movies.He is most original in his dealing with eccentricity which is to be found all through his collection of Belle Epoque novels
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Rao, Giridhar A. "Beyond the sense of wonder science fiction as adventure fiction." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/1255.

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Books on the topic "Science fiction adventures"

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Simon, Beecroft, ed. Amazing adventures. Toronto: DK, 2010.

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Lapine, Warren. Harsh Mistress Science Fiction Adventures: Guidelines for writers and artists. Edited by Rogers Kevin, Ballou Tim, and Comix collection. Greenfield, MA: The Adventures, 1992.

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Tonnies, Mac. Illuminated black and other adventures. Nantucket, MA: Phantom Press Publications, 1995.

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Russ, Joanna. The Adventures of Alyx. London: The Women's Press, 1985.

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Russ, Joanna. The adventures of Alyx. New York, N.Y: Baen Science Fiction Books, 1986.

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Russ, Joanna. The adventures of Alyx. London: Women's Press, 1985.

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Millar, Mark. Superman adventures. New York, NY: DC Comics, 2006.

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Berne, Emma Carlson. Daring adventures. Los Angeles, CA: Disney Lucasfilm Press, 2017.

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Sondra, Marshak, and Culbreath Myrna, eds. The New Voyages 2: Star Trek Adventures. London: Bantam Books, 1988.

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Castle, Barbara Grady. The adventures of Captain Rhema. Wilson, NC: Star Books, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Science fiction adventures"

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Taylor-Pirie, Emilie. "Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire." In Empire Under the Microscope, 1–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3_1.

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AbstractIn this introduction, Taylor-Pirie appraises the intersections of the ‘imaginative architecture of science and empire’ by examining how, as a fledging medical discipline at the fin de siècle, parasitology entered into significant encounters and exchanges with the literary and historical imagination. Introducing readers to Nobel Prize–winning parasitologist Ronald Ross (1857–1932), Taylor-Pirie lays the foundations for the rest of the book by examining how forms such as poetry and biography, genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction, and modes such as adventure and the Gothic together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. In addition to considering the contemporaneous public understanding of science, she also explores how parasitologists were often engaged in writing their own histories of the discipline, a practice that led to a predominantly white, predominantly male understanding of science that finds a legacy in gender disparities in STEM and biases in popular histories of medicine in favour of a mode of ‘heroic biography’. She provides a brief critical overview of the field of literature and science and places her methodology and the field in the context of contemporary topics like the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and the heritage culture wars.
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"◾ Adventures." In Science Fiction Video Games, 72–149. A K Peters/CRC Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b17460-9.

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Pottle, Jules. "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland." In Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 8–12, 183–219. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315265810-7.

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Eburne, Jonathan P. "Approximate Life: The Cybernetic Adventures of Monsieur Wzz…" In Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics, 62–81. Liverpool University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781381434.003.0004.

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Bingemer, Stephan. "11 Holidays with Inspector Maigret: Mixed Reality Adventures as Value Drivers in Future Tourism." In Science Fiction, Disruption and Tourism, 133–44. Multilingual Matters, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21832/9781845418687-014.

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Vuohelainen, Minna. "‘The most dangerous thing in England’? Detection, deviance and disability in Richard Marsh’s Judith Lee stories." In Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526124340.003.0004.

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This essay examines the adventures of Richard Marsh’s female detective and lip-reader Judith Lee (1911–16). The short-story series offers a powerful example of the cross-fertilisation of the genres of detective, Gothic, New-Woman and science fiction through Marsh’s ambivalent construction of his protagonist as a potentially progenerate being with seemingly supernatural communication skills. Lee is a liminal heroine who is simultaneously resistant to and complicit with the normalising taxonomies of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class commonly associated with detective fiction. However, while the stories’ conformist position as scientifically minded crime fiction is complicated by their apparent tolerance of deviance, Lee’s expertise as a teacher of the deaf undermines counter-hegemonic readings because her profession aims to ‘cure’ a disability, deafness. Lee’s adventures show how popular fiction synthesised disparate discursive frameworks drawing on criminology, eugenics, science, communications technology and psychical research.
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Portnoy, Kenneth. "Action Adventure and Science Fiction." In Screen Adaptation, 77–89. Elsevier, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-240-80349-4.50009-2.

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Potter, Amanda. "Greek Myth in the Whoniverse." In Ancient Greece on British Television, 168–86. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412599.003.0009.

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Along with 21st-century spinoffs The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood, the iconic British science fiction series Doctor Who has engaged with Greek mythological characters and storylines across five decades. This chapter explores trends in this engagement. Troy and Atlantis are settings for the time-travelling Doctor inadvertently to set in motion events leading to their fall (‘The Myth Makers’, 1965, ‘Time Monster’, 1972), Medusa and the Minotaur are creatures in a fantasy world (‘The Mind Robber’, 1968) and stories of the Argonauts, the Minotaur and the Trojan War are set in space (‘Underworld’, 1978, ‘The Armageddon Factor’, 1979 and ‘The Horns of Nimon’, 1979-80). More recently, Greek mythological objects are cast as alien: e.g. Philoctetes (‘Greeks Bearing Gifts’, 2006), the Gorgon (‘The Eye of the Gorgon’, 2007), Pandora’s box (‘The Pandorica Opens’, 2010), the Minotaur (‘The God Complex’, 2011), and the Siren (‘The Curse of the Black Spot’, 2011). Evidence for the popularity of Greek mythology amongst contemporary viewers is discussed. By tracing shifting intersections between Greek myth and the ever-developing mythology of Doctor Who, this chapter considers how the long-running series anticipates, plays with and informs audience knowledge of Greek mythology, and spurs them on towards criticism and invention.
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Mody, Sujata S. "Rise of the Modern Hindi Short Story." In The Making of Modern Hindi, 178–213. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489091.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 provides an overview and history of the modern Hindi short story as it developed in Sarasvatī from 1900 to 1920, under Dwivedi’s direction. Dwivedi did not explicitly articulate his vision for short fiction; however, as editor of a journal that pioneered the modern genre in Hindi, he exerted great control over its development. Drawing inspiration from Shakespeare, Poe, and Verne to Shriharsh and Tagore, among other influences, short story writers in Hindi experimented with adventure-romance, science fiction, horror, and historical fiction but eventually settled on subject matter that was more mundane than spectacular, as per Dwivedi’s agenda for language, literature, and nation.
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McCrea, Christian. "Introduction." In Dune, 7–12. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325826.003.0001.

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This chapter focuses on David Lynch's 1984 film version of Dune. It analyses Dune's narrative structure, characterisations, its approach to science fiction, and audiovisual language that are all highly idiosyncratic. It also illustrates Dune as an audacious science-fiction film that refuses to be futuristic, as a political narrative that is undone by the power of prophecy and dream, and as an adventure story structured like a poem. The chapter talks about the feeling of watching Dune, which is described as being unmoored from cinema itself and free-floating in the form's infinite, unexplored possibilities. It explores the core elements of Frank Herbert's novel version of Dune, which is heavily reliant on its own internal logic.
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Conference papers on the topic "Science fiction adventures"

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Ramos, Iolanda. "Exploring the realms of utopia: Science fiction and adventure in A red sun also rises and The giver." In The 2nd International Multidisciplinary Congress Phi 2016 – Utopia(S) – Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary. CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315265322-71.

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