A mystery novel possibly involving immortals.

DAEMONS INC: Eye of the Daemon; Eyes of the Empress

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Bacon-Smith,Camille

Fantasy

Sfbc

Kevin Bradley and his partners are uniquely qualified to handle cases involving the occult —he and Evan Davis are far more than the mere mortals they appear to be. Kevin is a powerful daemon lord, and Evan is his half-daemon, half-human son. Solving mortal crimes should be a cinch for them. But somehow, they never get the easy, open-and-shut cases.

Daemon Eyes

Literature & Fiction

United States

DAW Books

Third in the paranormal detective series Evan Davis and his partners, Brad and Lily, attract the jobs no other detective can handle-cases with a dangerous, otherworldly slant. But no one is better equipped for this because Lily and Brad are powerful daemon lords, and Evan is Brad's half-daemon son. Now, however, the trio face a real challenge---involving armies of daemons, and wealthy mortals who have delved far too deeply into the dark arts...

A Legacy of Daemons

Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth (Contemporary Ethnography)

A study of the worldwide community of fans of Star Trek and other genre television series who create and distribute fiction and art based on their favorite series. This community includes people from all walks of life—housewives, librarians, secretaries, and professors of medieval literature. Ninety percent of its members are women.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Pennsylvania Press

In a century that has taken us from the horse and buggy to the world wide web, science fiction has established itself as the literature to explore the ways in which technology transforms society while its counterpart, genre fantasy, insistently reminds us of the magical transformations of the individual in response to the demands of the social. So it should come as no surprise that the fans and producers of these genres come together to create the culture of the future around the ideal that tales of wonder about the future and the imaginary past can be shared as both symbolic communication and social capital. 
In Science Fiction Culture, Camille Bacon-Smith explores the science fiction community and its relationships with the industries that sustain it, including the publishing, computer, and hotel/convention industries, and explores the issue of power in those relationships: Who seems to have it? Who does have it? How do they use it? What are the results of that use? In the process, Bacon-Smith rejects the two major theoretical perspectives on mass culture reception. Consumers are not passive receivers of popular culture produced by the hegemonic ideology machine that is the mass media industry, nor are they rebels valiantly resisting that machine by reading against the grain of the interpretation designed into the products they consume. 
Bacon-Smith argues that the relationship between consumers of science fiction and producers is much more complex than either of these theories suggests. Using a wide range of theoretical perspectives, she shows that this relationship is based on a series of continuing negotiations across a broad spectrum of cultural interests.

Science Fiction Culture

Genre Fiction

"Enterprising Women" is a study of the world-wide community of fans of "Star Trek" and other genre television series who create and distribute fiction and art based on their favourite series. This community includes people from all walks of life - housewives, librarians, secretaries and professors of medieval literature. They take settings, plots and characters from "Star Trek", "Blake's 7", "Miami Vice" and other science fiction and action-adventure series and modify the settings, rework the plots, create new characters and invent new interactions among old characters. The fiction and art that result from this recreation are published in magazines called "fanzines" and sold through an intricate network of conventions, word of mouth, cross-advertising and catalogues. All of the community's publications are underground and are not sold for profit. Using a theoretical framework drawn from ethnolinguistics, mass communications studies, literary theory, the sociology of play and feminist studies, and calling upon knowledge gained from years of observation and participation in the fan community, the author demonstrates how members of the community use their fiction and art to help them cope with real-life problems and to find support and comfort in the community.

Bacon-Smith explores the science fiction community and its relationships with the industries that sustain it, and explores the issue of power in those relationships, he rejects the two major theoretical perspectives on mass culture reception.'

Science Fiction Culture (Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture)

Responding to a private investigator's ad when her half brother disappears, wealthy Marnie Simpson never suspects that the Philadelphia partnership consists of immortals on a campaign of multidimensional conquest. Original.

Eye of the Daemon

Two Scotland Yard detectives on the trail of a serial killer face a conspiracy of silence among the townsfolk of Thorgill, where unholy rituals threaten to raise an even more formidable enemy. Original.

The Face of Time

When someone begins stealing the crystal balls which had belonged to the Dowager Empress of China, the unique detective agency of Bradley, Ryan, and Davis, whose partners are powerful demons, begins to investigate

Eyes of the Empress

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DAEMONS INC: Eye of the Daemon; Eyes of the Empress

Daemon Eyes

A Legacy of Daemons

Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth (Contemporary Ethnography)

Science Fiction Culture

Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth (Contemporary Ethnography)

Science Fiction Culture (Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture)

Eye of the Daemon

The Face of Time

Eyes of the Empress