The definitive collection of the twentieth century’s most characteristic genre-from H.G. Wells’s prophetic vision of technological warfare to contemporary cyberspace and up-to-the-minute myths of genetic engineering.

The theory of Northern Courage was Tolkien's designation for the heroic ethos found in 'Germanic' or Northern heroic lays and epics. He admired the old heroes, but wrestled with the…

Studies in Medievalism is devoted to modern re-creations of the middle ages: a field of central importance not only to scholarship but to the whole contemporary cultural world.

Law and government are aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works that have not received much scholarly attention. However, they are present in many facets of his sub-creation. In describing the various…