TRAVIS McGEE - Deep Blue Good By; Quick Red Fox; Nightmare in Pink; Purple Place for Dying; Deadly Shade of Gold; Bright Orange for the Shroud; Darker than Amber; One Fearful Yellow Eye; Pale Grey for Guilt; Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper; Dress Her...
by John Lennard
Category: Drama

Taking up where Of Modern Dragons (2007) left off, these essays continue Lennard's investigation of the praxis of serial reading and the best genre fi ction of recent decades, including work by Bill James, Walter Mosley, Lois Mcmaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin. There are groundbreaking studies of contemporary paranormal romance, and of Hornblower's transition to space, while the fi nal essay deals with the phenomenon and explosive growth of fanfi ction, and with the increasingly empowered status of the reader in a digital world. There is an extensive bibliography of genre and critical work, with eight illustrations.