Acknowledgements

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. Introduction: ‘Changing the Story’ – Popular Fiction Today 1
5. Chapter 1 Larry McMurtry’s Vanishing Breeds 9
6. Chapter 2 ‘Time to Open the Door’: Stephen King’s Legacy 20
7. Chapter 3 Terry Pratchett: Mostly Human 31
8. Chapter 4 From Westeros to HBO: George R. R. Martin and the Mainstreaming of Fantasy 41
9. Chapter 5 Nora Roberts: The Power of Love 53
10. Chapter 6 The King of Stories: Neil Gaiman’s Twenty-First- Century Fiction 66
11. Chapter 7 Jo Nesbø: Murder in the Folkhemmet 77
12. Chapter 8 ‘It’s a Trap! Don’t Turn the Page’: Metafiction and the Multiverse in the Comics of Grant Morrison 88
13. Chapter 9 Panoptic and Synoptic Surveillance in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Series 101
14. Chapter 10 E. L. James and the Fifty Shades Phenomenon 112
15. Chapter 11 Fact, Fiction, Fabrication: The Popular Appeal of Dan Brown’s Global Bestsellers 125
16. Chapter 12 ‘I Need to Disillusion You’: J. K. Rowling and Twenty-First- Century Young Adult Fantasy 136
17. Chapter 13 Jodi Picoult: Good Grief 147
18. Chapter 14 ‘We Will Have a Happy Marriage If It Kills Him’: Gillian Flynn and the Rise of Domestic Noir 158
19. Chapter 15 ‘The Bastard Zone’: China Miéville, Perdido Street Station and the New Weird 170
20. Chapter 16 Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephenie Meyer 182
21. Chapter 17 ‘We Needed to Get a Lot of White Collars Dirty’: Apocalypse as Opportunity in Max Brooks’s World War Z 193
22. Chapter 18 Genre and Uncertainty in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad Mysteries 205
23. Chapter 19 ‘You Get What You Ask For’: Hugh Howey, Science Fiction and Authorial Agency 216
24. Chapter 20 Cherie Priest: At the Intersection of History and Technology 227
25. About the Contributors 237
26. Index 241