Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Running Pre
Keywords: beginning, complete, arthurian, sourcebook, legend, reality, book, king, arthur, mammoth
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2005-04-10
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0786715669
ISBN-13: 9780786715664

In this truly mammoth guide, Mike Ashley analyzes and explicates the line between the real Arthurian world and the legends that surround it. Ashley gives us a firm identity not only for King Arthur, but also for Merlin, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table—as well as identifying all the major Arthurian sites. He traces the development of each of the legends and shows how they were related to events happening at the time, bringing a new dimension of realism to the magical Arthurian world. Ashley also offers new and little known information on Arthur—including a fascinating

Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Liverpool University Pre
Keywords: liverpool, fiction, science, studies, press, texts, university, magazine, volume, history, transformations
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 2005-05-30
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0853237794
ISBN-13: 9780853237792

When we think of science fiction, we think primarily of movies and television shows, but this assumption belies the fact that the genre’s initial rise to prominence came in pulp magazines. With lurid covers and titles like Galaxy, If, and Thrilling Wonder Stories, the science fiction pulp magazines created the visual and thematic vocabulary that continues to animate today’s science fiction blockbusters. In Transformations, the second volume in his acclaimed three-volume history of science fiction magazines, science fiction historian Mike Ashley brings his unparalleled knowledge to

Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Running Pre
Keywords: history, brief, british, present, alfred, kings, queens, royal
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2002-12-23
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0786711043
ISBN-13: 9780786711048

In one portable volume, A Brief History of British Kings and Queens offers a royal biographical A–Z, its pages lavish in details on all the rulers of the kingdoms within the British Isles, together with their wives or consorts, pretenders, usurpers, and regents, from Queen Boadicea of the early Britons to today’s Elizabeth II. This complete record of Britain’s kings and queens contains more than 1,000 monarchs and 2,000 years of fascinating history.

Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Running Press
Keywords: fiction, science, book, mammoth
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2002-05-10
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0786710047
ISBN-13: 9780786710041

Twenty leading science fiction authors, including Stephen Baxter, Brian W. Aldiss, Philip K. Dick, and Connie Willis, chronicle the changes and surprises that might befall humanity in the centuries to come. Is the ultimate Utopia heaven or hell? asks Robert Sheckley in his “A Ticket to Tranai.” In “The Infinite Assassin,” Greg Egan polices the multiverse for murderers of their alternate selves. Geoffrey A. Landis plumbs the depths of a black hole in “Approaching Perimelasma.” These and other stories by James White, Eric Frank Russell, Robert Reed, H. Beam Piper, H. Chandler Elliott

Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: liverpool, fiction, science, studies, texts, amp, press, magazines, forever, story, gateways, university
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2007-06-07
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1846310024
ISBN-13: 9781846310027

In the 1970s science fiction exploded into the popular consciousness, appearing everywhere along the cultural spectrum—from David Bowie’s alien stage persona to the massively successful global juggernaut that was Star Wars. With the American involvement in Vietnam reaching its bitter conclusion, the Apollo moon program ending, and awareness of humanity’s destructive impact on the environment increasing, our planet began to seem a smaller, lonelier, more fragile place—and the escapist appeal of science fiction grew.Corresponding with these tumultuous events was a period of significant A

Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Robinson Publishing
Keywords: mammoth, books, fiction, modern, encyclopedia, crime
Number of Pages: 620
Published: 2002-06-27
List price: $15.81
ISBN-10: 1841192872
ISBN-13: 9781841192871

A reference and overview of the genre of crime fiction, primarily covering the 1950s onwards, although major earlier writers, such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, also have entries. The general introduction discusses the purpose of the book and also includes a glossary which explains some of the common terms and expressions used, such as "hard boiled", "impossible crime" and "police procedural". A historical introduction relates the background and development of crime fiction from the earliest days through to the modern exponents of the craft. The author A-to-Z covers 500 entries on t

Authors:Mike Ashley, William G Cantento,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: horror, supernatural, fantasy, fiction, science, indexes, bibliographies, weird, index, listing, occult, anthologies
Number of Pages: 952
Published: 1995-05-30
List price: $288.95
ISBN-10: 0313240302
ISBN-13: 9780313240300

The Supernatural Index is the first index to all known anthologies of supernatural, fantasy, and weird fiction. It covers over 2,100 such books, indexing each volume by contents, author, and title. Books range from 1813 to date and therefore provide a complete history of the horror fiction field. Birth and death dates, along with pseudonyms, are provided for more than 7,700 authors; and for all the rougly 21,300 stories, every attempt has been made to provide original publication details.