Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness

USA 2010, 330 pp., Pb, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and this is something that humans find incomprehensible. The Ekumen of Known Worlds has sent an ethnologist to study the Gethenians on their forbidding, ice-bound world. At first he finds his subjects difficult and off-putting, with their elaborate social systems and ... Weiterlesen

Joan Gordon / Veronica Hollinger / Wendy Gay Pea: Queer Universes : Sexualities in Science Fiction

UK 2010, 256 pp., brochure, € 45.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly ... Weiterlesen

Lynn Flewelling: The White Road

USA 2010, 385 pp., pb, € 9.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.  - Nightrunner Series 5
Dissolute nobles, master spies, and the unlikeliest of heroes, Alec and Seregil have survived exile, treachery, and black magic. But the road that lies ahead is the most hazardous they've ever traveled. For with enemies on all sides, they must walk a narrow path between good and evil where one misstep might be their last. Having escaped death and slavery ... Weiterlesen

Thomas A. Herrig: ... wo noch nie eine Frau zuvor gewesen ist ...

45 Jahre Star Trek und der Feminismus. D 2010, 206 S. mit S/W-Fotos, geb., € 25.60
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Star Trek ist einzigartig - in 45 Jahren mit mehr als 700 Episoden setzt sich das Phänomen mit den Problemen der jeweiligen Zeit unterhaltsam und gleichzeitig ernst auseinander. Kurioserweise spielen in der bisherigen Rezeption die Frauenrollen und die vielen weiblichen Fans der Star Trek-Serien eine nur untergeordnete Rolle. Serien-Schöpfer Gene Roddenberry brachte 1964 im Pilotfilm eine Frau in die Position ... Weiterlesen

Lynn Flewelling: Shadows Return

USA 2008, 544 pp., pb, € 9.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.  - Nightrunner Series 4
With their most treacherous mission yet behind them, heroes and lovers Seregil and Alec resume their double life as dissolute nobles and master spies. But in a world of rivals and charmers, fate has a different plan. After their victory in Aurenen, Alec and Seregil have returned home to Rhiminee. But with most of their allies dead or exiled, it ... Weiterlesen

Kyle Cicero: Commander Cody of the Interstellar Police

Tales of Sex and Adventure in the 27th Millennium. USA 2008, 160 pp., brochure, € 18.59
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In the 27th millennium, dark forces have arisen to threaten peace and freedom of the universe's intergalactic government. A crafty villain who calls himself Emperor Z'tark is planning a war of conquest in order to create his own tyrannical empire. In these uncertain times, the people of the galaxy look to their youthful champion, the brave and resourceful Commander Cody ... Weiterlesen

J.L. Langley: My Fair Captain

USA 2008, 308 pp., brochure, € 14.39
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Talk about a compromising situation! A storm of political intrigue, murderous mayhem and sexual hungers is brewing on planet Regelence. Swarthy Intergalactic Navy Captain Nathaniel Hawkins ran from a past he had no intention of ever reliving. But when his Admiral asks him to use his peerage, as an earl and the heir to a dukedom, to investigate a missing ... Weiterlesen

Jim Grimsley: Jesus Is Sending You This Message

USA 2008, 217 pp., brochure, € 12.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
An expedition into the complex nature of human existence, Jim Grimsley's elegant and dexterous stories slowly take an iron grip on his readers and offer a vision of a stark, and often unforgiving, world. The author of »Comfort & Joy«, »Dream Boy«, »Boulevard«, and »The Last Green Tree« explores the dark edges and limitations of the human soul in this ... Weiterlesen

Felix Alcala (R): Battlestar Galactica: Razor

USA 2007, OF, engl.UT, 101 min., € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
For those who can't wait for this DVD to be released with German versions - here's the British DVD (purely English versions) of this spin-off to the state-of-the-art US SciFi series »Battlestar Galactica«. This spin-off contains a lesbian subplot. On the eve of a devastating Cylon attack, career-minded officer Kendra Shaw reports for duty on the battlestar »Pegasus«. When mankind's ... Weiterlesen

Sean Abley (R): Socket

USA 2007, OF, dt.UT, 93 min., € 18.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pro-fun
Dr. Matthews wurde vom Blitz getroffen und konnte gerade noch wiederbelebt werden. Aber seitdem er im Krankenhaus aufgewacht ist, ist er nicht mehr ganz er selbst. Zwar gefällt ihm die Tatsache, dass sich der attraktive Pfleger Craig intensiv um ihn kümmert. Aber es scheint etwas nicht mit ihm zu stimmen. Da bekommt Dr. Matthews die Empfehlung, sich doch einmal an ... Weiterlesen

Laura Baumbach: Details of the Hunt

USA 2007, 360 pp., brochure, € 15.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This homoerotic science fiction tale begins in the past, then quickly intersects with the future: Talos of Oracan, a 26th century, time-traveling, bounty hunter snatches Aidan Maymon, an 18th century Earth pirate, from a watery death at the hands of his mutinous pirate crew, in an intergalactic deal to enrich the archaeological knowledge of Earth's mankind. The Oracan council has ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods

UK 2007, 209 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, ... Weiterlesen

Perry Brass: Carnal Sacraments

USA 2007, 301 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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At the end of the 21st century, Jeffrey Cooper, an executive design star living in Americanized Germany, has made a Faustian pact with the global economic system running the world. No matter what age he is, the system will secretly keep him young and razor-sharp, as long as he can stay on top of his job and keep profits high. ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Tanglewreck

UK 2006, 415 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Bloomsbury
A little way in the future, Time is distorting. Time Tornados are causing havoc. People are whirled out of their own time, never to return, and a woolly mammoth has been seen on the banks of the River Thames. Written both as a charming children's fantasy about the value of time and a science-fiction with a female main character.

Brian Kelly u.a. (R): Torchwood - Staffel eins

UK 2006/2007, OF, dt.SF, engl. UT, 4 DVDs, 650 min., € 35.99
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Die neue Science Fiction-Serie mit der schwulen Hauptfigur Captain Jack Harkness (gespielt vom ebenfalls schwulen Briten John Barrowman): ein Serienmörder treibt im walisischen Cardiff sein Unwesen. Als die Streifenpolizistin Gwen Cooper am Tatort Ermittlungen anstellt, sieht sie sich plötzlich der mysteriösen Spezialeinheit »Torchwood« gegenüber. Die Truppe geht mit Methoden vor, die die Rätsel um die Verbrechen noch undurchsichtiger erscheinen lassen. ... Weiterlesen

Jim Grimsley: The Last Green Tree

USA 2006, 400 pp., hardcover, € 24.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Jim Grimsley returns to the richly complex milieu of »The Ordinary« with a tale of magic, science, and an epic clash between godlike forces. The Great Mage rules over all of humanity, even as cybernetic links connect the varied worlds of the empire. Vast Gates allow travel from one planet to another, across unimaginable distances. The armies of the empire ... Weiterlesen

Jim Grimsley: The Ordinary

USA 2005, 368 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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The Twil Gate links two very different realms. On one side of the portal is Senal, an advanced technological civilization of some 30 billion inhabitants, all cybernetically linked and at war with machine intelligences many light-years away. On the other side is Irion, a land of myth and legend, where the world is flat and mighty wizards once ruled. Jedda ... Weiterlesen

Katherine V. Forrest: Daughters of an Emerald Dusk

USA 2005, 197 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Now the author returns to Maternas at last, where 55 years have passed. The women of the Unity who fled to Maternas have brought children into this world, the first in the history of humankind to inherit a legacy of ultimate freedom and possibility. But these children are a breed unto themselves. They have bonded and communicate with each other ... Weiterlesen