Worldbuilder's Book Club 2023 - hosted by quartzen

Literary Criticism
Bonus prompt!! Choose a book of literary criticism or reviews about the genre, subgenre, or tropes you're interested in working with in one of your projects to get a sense of how that work fits in the world.
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Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture by John G. Cawelti

Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture

John G. Cawelti

344 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Queering SF: Readings by Ritch Calvin

Queering SF: Readings

Ritch Calvin

218 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ science fiction
Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Liz Bourke

Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Liz Bourke

245 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative slow-paced
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn

Rhetorics of Fantasy

Farah Mendlesohn

306 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction fantasy adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction by

The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction

Cambridge Companions to Religion

290 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative reflective medium-paced
Ties That Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction by Francesca T. Barbini

Ties That Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction

Francesca T. Barbini

236 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy literary science science fiction
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