Download or read book Suburban Fantasy written by Michele Seminara and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startlingly frank take on modern femininity, Michele Seminara's Suburban Fantasy combines finely crafted narratives with lyrical artistry and sure-footed eloquence. This is raw, fiery, firebrand feminist writing that manages to artfully co-exist with giddying intimacy and poignant soul-bearing.
Download or read book Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight written by Eric Avila and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, Eric Avila offers a unique argument about the restructuring of urban space in the two decades following World War II and the role played by new suburban spaces in dramatically transforming the political culture of the United States. Avila's work helps us see how and why the postwar suburb produced the political culture of 'balanced budget conservatism' that is now the dominant force in politics, how the eclipse of the New Deal since the 1970s represents not only a change of views but also an alteration of spaces."—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Download or read book Magic Street written by Orson Scott Card and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A modern suburban fantasy . . . There are quests and complications, conflicts and charms. . . . Card’s back in top form, doing as well as or better than any of his fantasy work so far.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune In a prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, infant Mack Street is found abandoned in an overgrown park and taken in by a blunt-speaking single woman. Growing up, Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange powers. Yet he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he discovers, beyond a mysterious narrow house no one else can see, an entryway into a magical world. Passing through, Mack is plunged into a realm where time and reality are skewed, a place where his actions seem to have disturbing effects in the “real world.” Whether he likes it or not, Mack has become a player in an epic drama. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is . . . but why he exists. Praise for Magic Street “A great read . . . Card’s take on his characters [is] as sure as ever, his narrative rock solid, his dialogue crackling and authentic.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “[Card] is a master at creating a sense of urgency that keeps you turning pages.”—The Charlotte Observer “Mind-bending . . . Card’s clever tale comes with sharp writing and crisp dialogue.”—The Tampa Tribune “Compelling . . . By the time the ultimate conflict comes into focus, the novel is propelling the reader forward like a bullet.”—Deseret Morning News “A suspenseful fantasy thriller that, during the race to the last page, has one mulling over myth, morals, salvation, and will.”—Booklist
Download or read book A Suburban Fantasy written by Andrew Geczy and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Lin Smith is a shy geeky teenage girl who gets turned into a vampire against her will by a much older serial killing monster. Her friends help her cope with her changes, and adapt to modern life as a vampire, then help her find and stop her sire from killing again. They also have to deal with a time traveling mayor, a modern day wizard (Really more of a magical artifacts collector), and the protagonist finds herself in the center of a bisexual love triangle between her nerdy best friend and the most popular girl in school.COMING SOON: Subscribe for a dollar a month to receive every chapter of my future novels as I write them, as well as access to my entire back catalogue. Go to www.patreon.com/99geekURBAN FANTASY (Writing now, prologue available for free, and Chapter 1 available for subscribers at www.patreon.com/99geek)Rachel Lin Smith is only just getting used to being a vampire, and things couldn't be better. She has a boyfriend, and a girlfriend, and playing them both for affection, and blood. But is she getting more aggressive? Is she even still acting as herself, or is her rising confidence also a sign of the vampire taking control? With children going missing all around town, she better figure herself out fast. There's people that rely on her, like Jon Mason and his unstable Synesthesia. Or Tanya and her time traveling father being threatened by a time-traveler worshiping cult who think his death will bring the return of all magic in the world (a force long ago extinct). She'll be so busy, she might not even have time for the time traveling wizard from previously mentioned ancient era of magic who has come to present day with all his magic intact. Can she stop him from turning the CN Tower into his own personal Wizard's Tower, and the entire city into a hellish nightmarescape of monsters.Dakotah Slade (Script Written, Comic in production)I Wrote a script for a story that takes place within the same world as Urban Fantasy, following a love sick damaged alcoholic woman named Dakotah Slade, who learns that magic is real when one of her best friend Spontaneously Combusts. Teaming up with a jaded detective, they have to find out the truth behind a tainted drug that is spreading amaongst the sleepy Canadian community. Can they stop it before everything is in place for the endgame?ADRIFT (Script written, comic in production)A comic I've written and is currently being produced. Follows kids who wake up alone and scared on a derelict junk vessel not so slowly falling into a sun. Can they get free and find the pirates who took their parents, pirates who are using all the slave labour they can get to build the largest fleet to ever fly under a single flag. My artist has been working at it for a while, In a shared universe with my next novel after Urban Fantasy.ADRIFT: HOMELESS (In conception)A sci-fi novel about a doctor named David Stanfield living on a dying desert world with a dwindling populace. He's recruited by a secret government program to build a large colony ship to take their people to find a new home in the stars. Things won't be simple, however, with a growing resistance planetside fighting against what they feel is a waste of resources. Just when "The Rebirth" is finally ready to set off, things get worse as their captain is killed and Dr. Stanfield is forced to take command of their crew against an alien with technology far more advanced than theirs. One side has lasers and large energy shields that make them seemingly invincible. Stanfield's crew has technology only pejoratively more advanced than our own. They have infinite numbers. Stanfield has one ship.The Aldonn Chronicles (In development)My third novel series that I hope to start after finishing Urban Fantasy and Adrift Homeless. With those three novel series, I hope to jump back and forth between the settings, one medieval, on modern, and one in the future. I want to create a "channel" of book chapters or "episode
Download or read book Suburban Fantasy written by Lorie Calkins and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's said that if you give a dragon an inch, he'll hog the bathroom. Quite true, but that's really the least of April's troubles. April March is a teenager who is angry with her father after her parents' divorce. Family life is further disrupted when Mom (Stormy), loses her job, and can't make payments on their new house in the suburbs. "The Turnip," April's little sister, hears things scratching inside the walls, but no one else can hear it, and Stormy insists it's just Junie's way of dealing with the divorce. Fortunately, a dragon tunnels up through their basement floor to lay claim to the house, charbroil their appliances, spend hours in the bathroom, and take over the computer, making their other problems seem minor.
Download or read book The Suburban Strange written by Nathan Kotecki and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supernatural coming-of-age novelNthe first book in a dynamic and dramatic new seriesNabout the shy Celia Balaustine and a mysterious group of misfits at her new high school, Suburban High.
Download or read book Suburban Fantastic Cinema written by Angus McFadzean and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural figures of the fantastic—aliens, ghosts, vampires, demons, and more. Beginning in the 1980s with Poltergeist and E.T. (both 1982) and a cycle of films made by Amblin Entertainment, the suburban fantastic established itself as a popular commercial model combining coming-of-age melodramas with elements drawn from science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The films that exemplify the subgenre generally focus on a young male protagonist who, at the outset, chafes at his stifling suburban milieu, wherein power is invested in whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality. A fantastic occurrence intervenes - the arrival of an alien, a ghost, or some other magical or otherworldly force - threatening this familiar order, thrusting the young man - at first unwittingly - into the role of defender and upholder of the social order. He is able to rescue the suburban social order, and in doing so normalizes (for himself and for the primarily white, male, adolescent audience) its values. This study discusses some of the key instances of this subgenre, such as Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Jumanji (1995), and Small Soldiers (1998), as well as its more recent resurgence in Stranger Things (2016–) and IT (2017). Exploring the importance of suburbia as a setting and the questionable ideological blindness of its heroes, this book reveals these underappreciated Hollywood films as the primary cinematic representation of late-twentieth-century American childhood.
Download or read book Fantasy Life written by Matthew Berry and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at the world of fantasy sports from America's most trusted name in the industry. Berry explores the increasingly ubiquitious world of fantasy sports. Every year, millions of people spend their time assembling, managing and obsessing over fantasy teams.
Download or read book The Sprawl written by Jason Diamond and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.
Download or read book Witch Way to the Mall written by Esther Friesner and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move over, urban fantasy¾here comes suburban fantasy. What self-respecting witch, vampire, or werewolf would be caught dead¾or undead¾anywhere but the Big City, you may ask Look, let's give the uncanny crew a little credit for intelligence: If they had the smarts to see the advantage in packing up and moving into the cities, why wouldn't they have the smarts to move out of said cities if it looked like they could get a better quality-of-life/death elsewhere (Tough enough going about your otherworldly business and evading the occasional mob wielding halogen torches and designer pitchforks, but have you ever seen city real estate prices ) So let's welcome our first group of supernatural suburbanites, the witches. Their powers are awesome, their methods of coping with the lumps, bumps, and idiosyncrasies of Suburbia are ingenious, and they always bring the loveliest gingerbread to the PTA bake sale. But whatever you do, don't try telling them that life in a non-city setting is bland, banal and boring, or you might get turned into . . . ribbit! Stories of suburban sorcery by Harry Turtledove, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jan and S.M. Stirling, K. D. Wentworth, and more¾including Esther Friesner herself. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Download or read book Magic in Suburbia written by Elisabeth Waters and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of eight short stories that can best be called suburban fantasy. They span the country from New York to San Francisco, but there's magic of one sort or another everywhere. The stories in this collection are: Tell Me a Story; Golden Vanity; Connecticat (with Raul S. Reyes); Blood Calls to Blood; Ice Princess; Weather Witch; Things That Go Grump in the Night; and A Prince Among Frogs. The last three have overlapping characters and form sort of a casual mini-series. These stories were originally published between 1983 and 1996 in various anthologies and magazines, edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Esther M. Friesner, Martin H. Greenberg, Andre Norton, and Jane Yolen.
Download or read book Are We There Yet written by Kathleen West and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A breezy yet affecting read filled with struggle and hope."—People A Good Day LA Pick Among fake Instagram pages, long-buried family secrets, and the horrors of middle school, one suburban mom searches to find herself. Alice Sullivan feels like she’s finally found her groove in middle age, but it only takes one moment for her perfectly curated life to unravel. On the same day she learns her daughter is struggling in second grade, a call from her son’s school accusing him of bullying throws Alice into a tailspin. When it comes to light that the incident is part of a new behavior pattern for her son, one complete with fake social media profiles with a lot of questionable content, Alice’s social standing is quickly eroded to one of “those moms” who can’t control her kids. Soon she’s facing the very judgement she was all too happy to dole out when she thought no one was looking (or when she thought her house wasn’t made of glass). Then her mother unloads a family secret she’s kept for more than thirty years, and Alice’s entire perception of herself is shattered. As her son’s new reputation polarizes her friendships and her family buzzes with the ramification of her mother’s choices, Alice realizes that she’s been too focused on measuring her success and happiness by everyone else's standards. Now, with all her shortcomings laid bare, she’ll have to figure out to whom to turn for help and decide who she really wants to be.
Download or read book Urban Fantasy Part One New Kids on the Block written by Andrew Geczy and published by Urban Fantasy. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Fantasy Season 2 Act 1 "New Kids on the Block"Season 1 published on Amazon as "A Suburban Fantasy"Rachel Lin Smith was just a shy geeky teenage girl until she was turned into a vampire against her will by a serial killing monster. She successfully stopped his murderous rampage through history and has been pasings as human ever since, with the help of her geeky friends. It was only with the support of the two people she loved, overweight geek Ian Fletcher and popular school president Tanya Daytton (secretly the mayor's daughter Shawna Dixon) that she was able to hold onto her humanity as long as she has. Meanwhile, her dead sire left a nasty surprise for her, as his influence continues to be felt across Oakville, Ontario, Canada. A child vampire, no older than 4, can't control her urges like Rachel can, and she's been turning other children and building a pack of child vampires. Can Rachel stop the pack from growing before they turn every child in the suburb?
Download or read book Fantasy City written by John Hannigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy City analyses the post-industrialist city as a site of entertainment. By discussing examples from a wide variety of venues, including casinos, malls, heritage developments and theme parks, Hannigan questions urban entertainments economic foundations and historical background. He asks whether such areas of fantasy destroy communities or instead create new groupings of shared identities and experiences. The book is written in a student friendly way with boxed case studies for class discussion.
Download or read book White Rabbit written by Caleb Roehrig and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caleb Roehrig, author of Last Seen Leaving, delivers another spellbinding YA murder mystery in White Rabbit. Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian—the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Just as Rufus is getting ready to move on, Sebastian turns up out of the blue, saying they need to "talk." Things couldn’t get worse, right? Then Rufus gets a call from his sister April, begging for help. He and Sebastian find her, drenched in blood and holding a knife beside the dead body of her boyfriend, Fox Whitney. April swears she didn’t kill Fox. Rufus knows her too well to believe she’s telling him the whole truth, but April has something he needs. Her price is his help. Now, with no one to trust but the boy he wants to hate yet can’t stop loving, Rufus has one night to clear his sister’s name . . . or die trying.
Download or read book The New Voices of Fantasy written by Eugene Fisher and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if a tornado wanted you to be its Valentine? Or if a haunted spacesuit banged on your door? When is the ideal time to turn into a tiger? Would you post a supernatural portal on Craigslist? In these nineteen stories, the enfants terribles of fantasy have arrived. The New Voices of Fantasy captures some of the fastest-rising talents of the last five years, including Sofia Samatar, Maria Dahvana Headley, Max Gladstone, Alyssa Wong, Usman T. Malik, Brooke Bolander, E. Lily Yu, Ben Loory, Ursula Vernon, and more. Their tales were hand-picked by the legendary Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) and genre expert Jacob Weisman (The Treasury of the Fantastic). So go ahead and join the Communist revolution of the honeybees. The new kids got your back.
Download or read book Night Roll written by Michael J. DeLuca and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-nominated novella about motherhood, caring for the future, and a resurgent city's links to the past.
