Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of texts that traditionally have been excluded from the main corpus of the ancient Greek novel and confined to the margins of the genre, such as the "Life of Aesop", the "Life of Alexander the Great", and the "Acts of the Christian Martyrs". Through comparison and contrast, intertextual analysis and close examination, the boundaries of the dichotomy between the 'fringe' vs. the 'canonical' or 'erotic' novel are explored, and so the generic identity of the texts in each group is more clearly outlined

Drawn from the Science Fiction Research Association conference held in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2008, the essays in this volume address intersections among the reading, writing, and teaching of science fiction.

Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction

Studies of Irish fiction are still scanty in contrast to studies of Irish poetry and drama. Attempting to fill a large critical vacancy, Irish Novels 1890-1940 is a comprehensive survey of popular and minor fiction (mainly novels) published between 1890 and 1922, a crucial period in Irish cultural and political history. Since the bulk of these sixty-odd writers have never been written about, certainly beyond brief mentions, the book opens up for further exploration a literary landscape, hitherto neglected, perhaps even unsuspected. This new landscape should alter the familiar perspectives on Irish literature of the period, first of all by adding genre fiction  

Doomsday Book

Doomsday Book is a 1992 SF novel which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was shortlisted for other awards, placing it among the most-honored works of science fiction in recent history. It is an intelligent and satisfying blend of classic science fiction and historical reconstruction.  The book draws upon the writer's understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.

A Season Beyond a Kiss

Married to a handsome American shipping magnate, Raelynn Barrett soon finds herself defending him against accusations of wrongdoing.
It's time to celebrate The New York Times bestselling author Kathleen E. Woodiwiss's latest epic, A Season Beyond a Kiss. This pioneer of the romantic fiction genre renews her grateful readers' acquaintance with old friends, the Birminghams of The Flame and the Flower and The Elusive Flame fame.