Smart Pop Preview 2015: Standalone Pieces on Zombies, Gilmore Girls, The Hunger Games, Mad Men, Star Wars, Munchkin, Game of Thrones, Reacher, and More

Get a sneak peak at Smart Pop's upcoming 2015 titles, as well as some of our favorite backlist titles, with this preview volume of standalone essays, excerpts, and recipes!

Volume Includes:

“I Remember Star Trek”—D.C. Fontana
From Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles, And the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek

“Whimsy Goes with Everything”—Heather Swain
From Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest

“Men and Monsters”—Alyssa Rosenberg
From Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, From A Game of Thrones to A Dance with Dragons

“From Factions to Fire Signs”—Rosemary Clement-Moore
From Divergent Thinking: YA Authors on Veronica Roth's Divergent Trilogy

“Team Katniss”—Jennifer Lynn Barnes
From Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy

“Charge 6: Star Wars Pretends to Be Science Fiction, but Is Really Fantasy”— Ken Wharton with David Brin and Matthew Wooding Stover
From Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time

“Existentialism Meets Feminism”—C. Albert Bardi and Sherry Hamby
From The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly

Plus, enjoy excerpts from Reacher: An Unofficial Companion to Lee Child’s Reacher Novels, The Munchkin Book, and YA trilogy, The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant and delicious recipes from The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook: Inside the Kitchens, Bars, and Restaurants of Mad Men and The Art of Eating Through the Zombie Apocalypse: A Cookbook and Culinary Survival Guide.