{"product_id":"novels-by-aliens-kate-marshall-9780226827827","title":"Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century's fascination with the weird.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Twenty-first-century fiction and theory have taken a decidedly \u003ci\u003eweird \u003c\/i\u003eturn. They both show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in the preternatural moods that the nonhuman often evokes. Writers of fiction and criticism are avidly experimenting with strange, even alien perspectives and protagonists. Kate Marshall's \u003ci\u003eNovels by Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e explores this development broadly while focusing on problems of genre fiction. She identifies three key generic hybrids that harness a longing for the nonhuman: the old weird, an alternative tradition within naturalism and modernism for the twenty-first century's cowboys and aliens; cosmic realism, the reach for words legible only from space in otherwise terrestrial narratives; and pseudoscience fiction, which imagines speculative futures beyond human life on earth. Offering sharp and surprising insights about a breathtaking range of authors, from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Kazuo Ishiguro, Willa Cather to Maggie Nelson, \u003ci\u003eNovels by Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how genre became mood in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Marshall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226827828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226827827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Kate Marshall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44450379825407,"sku":"9780226827827","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ad720352-7855-4af3-a714-721a92069c74.jpg?v=1698504467","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/novels-by-aliens-kate-marshall-9780226827827","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}