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 * Booktalk Annotations: **Satirical Fiction and Science Fiction/Steampunk Webcomic


 * ANNOTATION #1 **


 * AUTHOR: **Carol Shields


 * TITLE: **Swann (Alternate titles: Mary Swann and Swann: A Mystery)


 * PUBLICATION DATE: ** 1996 (Vintage Canada edition). Originally published 1987.


 * NUMBER OF PAGES: **397


 * GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING: ** Several cities and towns in Canada and the United States


 * TIME PERIOD: ** Contemporary/Present day


 * PLOT SUMMARY: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> The life of obscure (and deceased) Canadian poet Mary Swann is researched, revised, and rewritten by several people with a vested interest in doing so. At this happens, the sparse evidence of Swann's real life history is also mysteriously disappearing. This satirical literary mystery is a humourous and critical examination of literary biography and scholarship that is told from the perspective of multiple characters including a literary scholar, a librarian, a literary biographer, and a newspaper publisher.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">SUBJECT HEADINGS: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">fiction, satire, mystery, literary biography, literary criticism, multiple protagonists.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">APPEAL: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Witty, comical, engaging, whodunit, experimental, inspired by true events.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">SIMILAR AUTHORS: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">ANNOTATION #2 **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">CREATORS :**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Warren Ellis (Author) and Paul Duffield (Illustrator)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">TITLE :**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> FreakAngels (2008-2011)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">BRIEF SUMMARY :**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">This steampunk-laden, science fiction webcomic offers a tense, thrilling, humourous and emotional tale set in a post-apocalyptic version of present-day London where a group of young adults with mysterious powers try to care for the survivors, maintain order, and figure out their own lives. Originally published serially in six-page installments, //FreakAngels// is now complete and freely available online at @http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 630px; width: 1px;">AUTHORS: Ellis, Warren (Author) and Duffield, Paul (Illustrator)