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Sunday Reading!
* CFP: Folk Horror. CFP: Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2022.* Four Tiny Essays on SF/F.* The Future Is Black, Not Bleak: On Afrofuturist Poetry. most of SF is https://t.co/uK9A4ZatBD— Gerry...
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* Out now: Extrapolation Volume 62.3 explores the representation of cyborgs in Pat Cadigan’s Synners, care in Gen Urobuchi’s science-fiction, and the critique of Western technoscience in Welcome to...
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Wednesday Night Links!
* Somehow, Grad School Vonnegut has returned. * I’ll be giving a talk at UCSB next Tuesday as part of my ongoing Aurora project. Email me for details if you want them! UCSB Lit and Environment...
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Monday Morning Links!
* Paradoxa 32 has a cover. * Boys don’t read enough. * The era of high fertility is ending. Every child on their own trampoline. Police-Free Childhoods. The Seismic Generational Shift in Worldview:...
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Thursday Night Links!
The local AAUP’s fundraiser for an independent audit at Marquette funded so quickly I barely even had a chance to promote it.Meanwhile, Marquette in the news! Demographic Realism and the Crisis of...
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Ceremonial End of the Semester Tab Purge and Semi-Annual Apology for Being So...
this one hits a bit too close to home https://t.co/qhnjuEB5CQ— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 24, 2021 Between my research, service obligations, Zoom teaching, the kids’ virtual schooling, and...
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Friday Links!
Great looking one-day symposium: Queer Utopias.CFP: Camps, (In)justice, and Solidarity in the Americas – Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camps. CFP: Kinship in...
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March Links!
pic.twitter.com/rSVy8EDzeq— Manish (@ManishEarth) March 1, 2021 SFRA Review 51.1 is out! SFFTV 14.1 is out!Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Science...
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Emergency Tab Closure Post – 2.9.21
My Butler research has had a little bit of a comeback in recent months with the publication of the first Library of America book; it’s been profiled in both the New York Times and Harper’s recently. I...
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It’s Been a Minute: Links!
There’s a new episode of SFRA Review!I did this, on The Fifth Season, about a month ago. It was super fun! This just came out, and I was co-editor on it. It’s enormous!Elsevier looking into “very...
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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 6, 2020 Discharges, Demographics and...
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UPDATE: oof. * ICYMI: Grad School Vonnegut #14: Happy Birthday, Wanda June! This one is Aaron’s “Vonnegut and Africa” episode. * CFP: Utopia and Tabletop Games. CFP: NeMLA 2021 Creative Session,...
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Sunday Morning Links!
* Released yesterday: Grad School Vonnegut #11, Cat’s Cradle with Patrick Iber! We had some minor but annoying audio problems with this one, so the editing took a bit longer than usual — so please...
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Accidentally Closed a Bunch of Tabs and Can’t Get Them Back But Regardless...
* Coming soon! Paradoxa 31: Climate Fictions. There’s a ton in this gigantic issue; my contribution is called “The Legend of Zelda in the Anthropocene,” based off the presentation on Breath of the Wild...
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Wednesday Links!
* SFFTV 13.2 is out! It’s a great issue with some really great essays on wast and District 9, monster theory and Monsters, race and Arrival, and feminism and Ex Machina, but I want to put a special...
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Lockdown Megapost Part Two, Just the Bad News for Everyone Else
* The coronavirus is rewriting our imaginations. Kim Stanley Robinson on His Next Novel, The Ministry for the Future. Ten Minutes with Kim Stanley Robinson. * I’ve been too busy to post, but...
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Thursday Links!
* 15 scenarios for the fall semester. The COVID Caveat. Why We’re Exhausted By Zoom. Better Late Than Zoom. Here’s a thread of all the statements I’ve seen from colleges about what they’re planning for...
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Precisely 10,000 Friday Night Links
* The 2020 Hugos! * CFP: Call for Papers – Cyberpunk Culture Cyberconference (July 9-10, 2020). * “In The Ministry for the Future I tried to describe the next thirty years going as well as I could...
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Thursday Doesn’t Even Start Links
* Free issues of Extrapolation and Science Fiction Film and Television at LUP include the suburbs, the superheroes, utopia, dystopia, Octavia Butler, my piece on the Lorax and apocalypse as children’s...
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End of February Mega-Links!
* I had a little deleted scene on a recent episode of The Gribcast, cut out from the earlier episode I was on where I talked about Parable of the Talents. * The Cambridge History of Science Fiction...
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