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The papers focus on the theme of love and relationships in fantasy and science fiction, in all their forms, in different media. Featuring papers from Josephine Maria Yanasak- Leszczynski, Cheryl Wollner, Cheryl Morgan, AJ Dalton, Tatiana Fajardo, Christina Lake, Lynn O'Connacht, Steph P. Bianchini, Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Barbara Stevenson, Dr. Ester Torredelforth.

Les monstres ont toujours existé, et on les représente au moins depuis l'Antiquité. Pourtant, ce terme qui était populaire il y a quelques décennies à peine est rarement énoncé de nos jours, sauf — essentiellement — dans une perspective morale (ou moralisatrice). On peut néanmoins trouver un sens à la monstruosité; mais comment la définir de la manière la plus neutre possible ? On pourrait avancer, prudemment, qu'il s'agit d'un écart...

One hundred years ago Freud's definition of the uncanny was 'not the strange, but the familiar become strange'. In this anthology of new work from a range of writers and academics, the uncanny is a place where you feel at home – until home turns against you. It's a city where the streets can't join up. The uncanny alienates your own body from you through medical advances, such as prosthetic limbs or cardiac defibrillators. The 'uncanny valley' is...

"The most enjoyable work on Tolkien I have read in many years" Christina Scull Aragorn. Strider. King. Ranger. He is one of the most famous and celebrated characters in the history of popular literature. But, how much do you really know about the man? This book is a biographical study of Aragorn, covering his ancestry, pre-birth prophecies, the various stages of his life, and his death early in the Fourth Age. There is particular emphasis on the struggles...

Poetry and Song in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien: proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar 2017. J.R.R. Tolkien regarded himself 'chiefly as a poet' (Carpenter, The Inklings, p. 29) and the importance of poetic diction and its most potent form, song, provides a powerful leitmotif to his mythological universe. Following the publication of Tolkien's two verse works: The Lay of Atrou and Itroun (2016) and Beren, and Luthien (2017), the Tolkien Society...

The future depends on reconnecting to our past... Do you have the courage to hit the reset button in your life? Does humanity as a whole? Madeleine White's sci-fi-meets-fantasy novel Mother of Floods immerses the reader in the brave new world of 24/7 self-sustaining algorithms, showing how individual choices can lead to powerful ripple effects-if we are bold enough to collectively remake ourselves and the world around us. Underpinned by strands...

Some people believe that fate is predestined. That our futures are already laid out before us and we just follow it blindly, never disrupting the pre-destined path of our lives. They are wrong. There are two. And Darren can see both.

They have a shared fate... A combined destiny... A mutual goal... Will they reach it? Who will die trying? Their Destiny has been written, their paths, rigid. Their separate fates interwoven into one. How did they get to The Crystal Planet? What perils did they face, friends did they loose and paths did they cross? Finally, the answer we are all waiting for... What brought them to their definitive conclusion? He is a teller of the past, not a prophet...

Written in near-diary format, this is probably one of the greatest epic adventures ever told. Adapting to life in the more advanced human world of Vluvidium, Tony shares it all with the Reader, "as he lives it", while relentlessly rising through its social ranks; propelled by fate, circumstances, and some of his "attributes" ... But more than Power and Wealth, he seeks to understand the ultimate Why of it all, without betraying his roots or allegiances. With...

Climate change is here. Charles Peters, a low-level nobody in what's left of the UN, is sent on an unexplained mission to save humanity. Madé, an Indonesian child refugee, must endure the powerlessness of 'people-processing' in an era of displacement and disease. Marie-Claude Bertillon must take responsibility for the lives of these, and many millions more, as she seeks to implement a radical solution. All are victims of the terrible choices made...