'WINNER 2016 LAMBDA BEST TRANS FICTION LITERARY AWARD' In the 1980s, poet and activist Roz Kaveney wrote a novel, 'Tiny Pieces of Skull', about trans street life and bar life in London and Chicago in the late 1970s. Much admired in manuscript by writers from Kathy Acker to Neil Gaiman, it has never seen print until now...Funny and terrifying by turns, and full of glimpses of other lives, it is the story of how beautiful Natasha persuades clever Annabelle to run away from her life and have adventures, more adventures than either of them quite meant her to have... 'A certain classic, a definitive portrait of trans outside the niceties of middle class daydreams. Brava, sister mine.' - Kate Bornstein, writer and activist 'Even now I find it hard to put into words quite how moving and marvellous I found it. It's an astonishing, troubling book; scalpel-sharp; brittle; bleak and brave. I feel sure it will upset a great number of people in all the right ways. In fact, I hope it does: literature should be a call to arms, not a sleeping-pill. Congratulations on bringing this story out of the dark.' - Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat and The Gospel of Loki

Tiny Pieces of Skull

Literature & Fiction

Kaveney, Roz

Literary

Team Angelica Publishing

The worst days of their lives... Mara, immortal huntress of murderous gods, has told Aleister Crowley many stories. Now he persuades her to tell the stories she does not want to tell - of Josh and Judas, the charming clever boys she and her sister/lover Sof protected and taught in Alexandria, and of Hypatia, Sof's last incarnation before madness took her. Mara cannot save everyone and these are the tales of her worst failures... Emma is in danger. Lucifer has carried her beloved Caroline off to Hell and Jehovah wants Emma dead and his servant. She and her mysterious employer Josette journey to Hell to rescue Caroline, but what they have to deal with there is beyond Emma's ready wit and Josette's powers of intrigue... The third volume of Roz Kaveney's four-part novel of the fantastic RHAPSODY OF BLOOD, RESURRECTIONS is her darkest and most daring book yet.

Resurrections - Rhapsody of Blood, Volume Three

Contemporary

Plus One Press

The Rhapsody of Blood series follows two women, Mara and Emma, in their struggle against the mysterious enemy Berin who taught men how to become gods through slaughter - the Rituals of Blood. Mara, immortal Huntress, destroys the Aztec gods, Robespierre and Jack the Ripper. She witnesses the flooding of Atlantis and the Crucifixion. She searches across the for her murdered sisters Sof and Lillit, cursed by wishes all three made before time From the forests of Europe to the deserts of Asia and Africa Jerusalem to Alexandria, Paris and past, present and future London, Mara is up against conquistadors, zombies and primordial fungus with allies that range from Jehovah to Montezuma, Voltaire to HG Wells and cockney spymistress Polly. An ogre eats her lover Caroline, whose ghost recruits modern Emma to the fight. Originally with no powers save wit and intelligence, Emma faces down angels, elves, vampires, a mad monstrous Britartist and invading mathematical entities and becomes the new ruler of Hell... Formidable apart, unstoppable as allies, Mara and Emma are the world's last hope against the wily Berlin and his prophesy of doom. The Ring of Flesh will Burst, the Sleepers Will Awake and All Will be Undone

Revelations - Rhapsody of Blood, Volume Five: A Novel of the Fantastic

Genre Fiction

Jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, goths and stoners - the American teen movie is peopled with types and tribes yet manages to speak interestingly about hopes and dreams that do not have just to do with skipping detention or going to the prom. In her new book, Roz Kaveney charts the development of the teen movie from a marketing category to a full-blown genre obsessed with smart answers to its own past. Starting with the groundbreaking John Hughes movies of the 1980s, and with Lehman and Waters' sardonic comedy "Heathers", Kaveney discusses the evolution of themes like the Mean Girl and the loss of virginity. She examines the metamorphosis of Jane Austen's novel "Emma" into the Beverly Hills comedy "Clueless" and the way the "American Pie" trilogy has subverted the gross-out sex comedy into a lesson in sexual manners. She looks at the link between these films and some of the most innovative teen television of the last two decades, including "Popular", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the teen detective show "Veronica Mars". In the process, she demonstrates, with characteristic wit and intelligence, how teen films and TV series deal with the tragic and comic undersides of the American dream.

Teen Dreams: Reading Teen Film and Television from 'Heathers' to 'Veronica Mars'

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

I.B.Tauris

Modern myths, cheap trash or the objects of fetishist desire? Most people know something about Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Wonder Woman, even if what they know is heavily filtered through film and television versions, rather than the comics in which they first appeared. Yet, even though the continuity of the DC and Marvel Comics universes rival or surpass in size almost anything else in Western culture, surprisingly little attention has been paid to comics, which we were supposed to grow out of. In "Superheroes!", acclaimed cultural commentator Roz Kaveney argues that this is a mistake, that, at their best, superhero comics are a form in which some writers and artists are doing fascinating work, not in spite of their chosen form, but because of it. "Superheroes!" discusses the slow accretion of comics universes from the thirties to the present day, the ongoing debate within the conventions of the superhero comic about whether superheroes are a good thing and the discussion within the comics fan community of the extent to which superhero comics are disfigured by misogyny and sexism. Roz Kaveney attempts to explain the differences between Marvel and DC, the notion of the floating present (or why Spider-Man, fifteen when he adopted the costume, is still only in his early thirties), and the various attempts by both companies to re-invent and re-boot individual characters and their entire continuity universes. She also looks at the influence of comics on the group of film and television screenwriters she calls 'the fanboy creators', all of whom moonlight as comics script writers, using Joss Whedon as her case study, and examines the adaptation of well-known comics into large-budget feature films, not always to the advantage of the material.

Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

From Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film

Roz Kaveney, an expert in science fiction literature and film, has written an entertaining and enlightening new read on the genre. She explores the history of science fiction film and literature, the recurring themes and characters across the genre, development of special effects technology and the advent of CGI, the business and culture of movie franchises, and the legitimization of ""geek culture"" through the blockbuster successes of sci-fi movies. Films discussed include Dark City, Strange Days, the Star Wars series, the Terminator films, the Alien quartet, and Galaxy Quest.

From Alien to The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film

Written by a world expert in Science Fiction, From Alien to The Matrix is a hugely entertaining and enlightening read and a new critical approach to SF films that considers them as autonomous creations and contributions to the genre and to the broader culture. Kaveney looks at the movies of alien invasion and movie franchises, and offers a celebration of Galaxy Quest; deep readings of the Alien quartet, of Dark City, Starship Troopers and Strange Days; extended consideration of the Star Wars series and the Terminator films, and much more.

Tales From the Forbidden Planet

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Titan Books, Ltd.

Original anthology of fifteen stories: new stories by Terry Pratchett, Rachel Pollack, John Sladek, Colin Greenland, Ann Nocenti, Storm Constantine, Larry Niven, Dave Langford, John Clute, Mary Gentle, Ian Watson, Mick Farren, Jamie Delano, R. M. Lamming and Neil Gaiman. Each story illustrated by a different artist.

More Tales From the Forbidden Planet

Titan Books

This anthology, the follow-up to "Tales from the Forbidden Planet" contains 15 original stories of the outrageous, the terrifying and the bizarre, each accompanied by an illustration from a comics or fantasy artist.

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Tiny Pieces of Skull

Resurrections - Rhapsody of Blood, Volume Three

Revelations - Rhapsody of Blood, Volume Five: A Novel of the Fantastic

Teen Dreams: Reading Teen Film and Television from 'Heathers' to 'Veronica Mars'

Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films

From Alien to The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film

From Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film

Tales From the Forbidden Planet

More Tales From the Forbidden Planet

More Tales From the Forbidden Planet