Feminist Discussions on The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy by Aiqing Wang

“…As the first Asian Hugo Award laureate, Liu Cixin is an illustrious science-fiction writer in China, whose chef-d’oeuvre is an award-winning trilogy entitled Remembrance of Earth’s Past, or more widely renowned by the title of its first volume, viz. …”
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Queering the Anglo-Saxons through their psalms by Martine Mussies

“…In the short story "Æthelflaed and Lagertha," fan fiction writer Bandi Crawford uses an Alfredian psalm to connect The Last Kingdom to another major TV series, Vikings (2013–). …”
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The Experimentation of Strategy in Samyah’s Short Story by Shimah Al-Shimmari

“…This study attempts to trace its features in a pioneering narrative experience, namely the experience of Jordanian fiction writer Samia Elatout who has always experimented with creative experience in different areas in terms of subjects, language and narrative techniques, the serenity of the traditional recipient altogether, the most prominent of its manifestations at the level of the linguistic composition of the poetic language, aligned, densification, bias and the language of irony. …”
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‘End of the Goddamned thing!!’ by Richard Williams

“…The mystery fiction writer Erle Stanley Gardner and his publisher Thayer Hobson of Morrow devised an unusual procedure for connecting the first ten Perry Mason novels with ‘leads’ to provoke the reader’s curiosity, and so promote the sale of the succeeding book. …”
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“Bothersome Forms, of Course, Were Mechanically Exterminated”: Colonialism, Science, Racial Dysgenia, and Extermination in the Work of H.P. Lovecraft, Intertextually and Beyond by Lee Matthias Herrmann

“…The science-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft is famed for his apocalyptic oeuvre. …”
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Creative Expression of Existentialism in Kaghazi Ghat by Sara Majeed, Azra Parveen

“…Khalida Hussain was an eminent Urdu fiction writer. She introduced a new trend in fiction writing. …”
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Handling Rejection as Failure: Aspiring Writers Getting the Rejection Slip by Henrik Fürst

“…Included in the definition of being an aspiring person is the risk of failure. Aspiring fiction writers are no exception. This article shows that the role of aspiring fiction writer involves managing three issues: the hope of being published, rejection by a publisher, and the perception of the rejection as a failure. …”
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The Battle Within and the Battle Without: The Posthuman Worldview of Ken MacLeod’s The Corporation Wars Trilogy by PATRA INDRAJIT

“…The present essay seeks to analyze Scottish science fiction writer Ken MacLeod’s The Corporation Wars trilogy (2016-2017) as an amalgam of politico-philosophical ideas set against the background of posthumanism. …”
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Creative Expression of Existentialism in Kaghazi Ghat by Sara Majeed, Azra Parveen

“…Khalida Hussain was an eminent Urdu fiction writer. She introduced a new trend in fiction writing. …”
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Editorial: Tools for research (and to predetermine) the world by Renato Bernasconi

“…Along with this, they urge us to redefine research and publication practices and to question the boundaries between dualistic catego­ries like subject/object, truth/fiction, writer/reader, user/producer, culture/nature and collaboration/ competition, calling for correspondence, inclusion, care, fiction, political soundness, collaboration, post-production, readiness to be affected, pro­to-politics, and the relational dimension of data. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF MULTIPLE IDENTITY IN TRANSHUMANIST LITERATURE (THE CASE STUDY OF D. BRIN’S VISION) by Yulia V. Khvastunova

“…As an example, the paper considers a position of a famous science fiction writer and supporter of transhumanism David Brin, presented in the work “Kiln People”. …”
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Pre-Christ Wisdom and Civilization in Aag Ka Darya by Muhammad Adnan Iqbal, Dr Tariq Mehmood Hashmi

“…<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Qurratulain Hayder is a renowned fiction writer of the twentieth century. Her novel <em>Aag ka Darya</em> (also translated as <em>River of Fire</em>) is considered to be a classic in the tradition of Urdu fiction writing. …”
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ENGLISH-REPRESENTATION OF ISLAMIC FAITH IN PAKISTANI FICTION: SOCIALISATION OF HABITUS IN BAPSI SIDHWA’S NOVELS ICE CANDY MAN AND THE BRIDE by Ume Kulsoom, Khaleeque Zaman Mahesar

“… Present research aims to study the representation of Islamic faith as portrayed in a Pakistani female fiction writer Bapsi Sidhwa’s two novels: Ice Candy Man and The Bride. …”
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Serial Murder, Serial Consummerism: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (1991) by Sonia Baelo Allué

“… Bret Easton Ellis is a representative blank fiction writer whose novels deal with violence, indulgence, sexual excess, decadence, consumerism and commerce. …”
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Strategies of Cognitive Estrangement in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 by Klata Michał

“…This paper seeks to analyse the strategies of cognitive estrangement employed by the science fiction writer and literary scholar Kim Stanley Robinson in his New York 2140 (2017). …”
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Editorial: Tools for research (and to predetermine) the world by Renato Bernasconi

“…Along with this, they urge us to redefine research and publication practices and to question the boundaries between dualistic catego­ries like subject/object, truth/fiction, writer/reader, user/producer, culture/nature and collaboration/ competition, calling for correspondence, inclusion, care, fiction, political soundness, collaboration, post-production, readiness to be affected, pro­to-politics, and the relational dimension of data. …”
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Editorial: Tools for research (and to predetermine) the world by Renato Bernasconi

“…Along with this, they urge us to redefine research and publication practices and to question the boundaries between dualistic catego­ries like subject/object, truth/fiction, writer/reader, user/producer, culture/nature and collaboration/ competition, calling for correspondence, inclusion, care, fiction, political soundness, collaboration, post-production, readiness to be affected, pro­to-politics, and the relational dimension of data. …”
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Envisioning Posthuman Existence in Han Song's 'Subway': An Ecocritical Approach by Ni Fan

“…Chinese science fiction writer Han Song (韩松) is frequently compared with Can Xue, Lu Xun, and Franz Kafka in the literary style of his unnerving stories, which traverse magical realism, dystopian science fiction, and allegories of post-human existence. …”
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Editorial: Tools for research (and to predetermine) the world by Renato Bernasconi

“…Along with this, they urge us to redefine research and publication practices and to question the boundaries between dualistic catego­ries like subject/object, truth/fiction, writer/reader, user/producer, culture/nature and collaboration/ competition, calling for correspondence, inclusion, care, fiction, political soundness, collaboration, post-production, readiness to be affected, pro­to-politics, and the relational dimension of data. …”
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Editorial: Tools for research (and to predetermine) the world by Renato Bernasconi

“…Along with this, they urge us to redefine research and publication practices and to question the boundaries between dualistic catego­ries like subject/object, truth/fiction, writer/reader, user/producer, culture/nature and collaboration/ competition, calling for correspondence, inclusion, care, fiction, political soundness, collaboration, post-production, readiness to be affected, pro­to-politics, and the relational dimension of data. …”
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