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#OEBStudies for All Your #OEBStudies Needs
* I’m at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, presenting as part of the Octavia Butler studies conference here. Here’s a great writeup from the organizers, Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey. Hashtag...
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Trapped Inside of LAX with the MKE Blues Again
* A great Storify from the great @moyabz of the great Octavia Butler conference at the Huntington this weekend. By universal acclamation, one of the best-loved moments. Check out the exhibit of her...
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Monday Links!
* Academic freedom in Wisconsin. * This is silly, but I confess I found it an interesting wrinkle: Wonder Woman Actor Says Chief Is Actually a Demi-God. * People shouldn’t live in Arizona. *...
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Wednesday Links!
* People are figuring out that the “anthology” era of Star Wars was a bad idea. And a chilling report from the set of Han Solo: Ron Howard Once Defended Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Calling It “Truly...
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Rocky Mountain Links!
* Media Recklessness on Russia. Great list from Glenn Greenwald. * Meanwhile, MSNBC tells on itself (yet again). * Turning and turning in the widening gyre: The Syrian catastrophe. * Organizing in the...
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#SFRA2017-turday Links!
* Keep watching #SFRA2017! It’s been a great conference. And it contains gems like this. Two other little theoretical highlights from my scattered live-tweeting: Great from @katherinebuse: as soon as...
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July the 5th Be With You Links
* Coming attractions. Today I finally put to bed the upcoming special issue of @sfftvLUP on the Mad Max franchise. pic.twitter.com/Y0EPwnAA1x — Dan Hassler-Forest (@DanHF) July 3, 2017 * I have spent...
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Friday Links!
* Deadline this weekend! Suvin Today?, A Roundtable Discussion, The Society for Utopian Studies (November 9-12, 2017 in Memphis, TN). * People Are Sharing Photos of Real-Life Places That Belong in a...
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I May Have Committed A Little Light Treason Links
* thisisfine.jpg: An iceberg the size of Delaware has broken off Antarctica. My kids are three and five. Just 90. And you’re a little late. * Blogger completely debunks claim Amelia Earhart was a...
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Monday Morning Links!
* Noah Berlatsky isn’t done talking about the Oankali. …that the Oankali represent *perfection* of the toxic ways that humans interact w/ each other + w/ nature rather than a utopian alternative. —...
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Monday Jr. Links!
* Who knew my politics has a name? the best minor faction of the Russian Revolution is the dissident interplanetary left pic.twitter.com/7MdsrXDFjP — Mark J. Nelson (@mjntendency) July 16, 2017 * How...
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Weekend Links! Tabs Bankruptcy! All Links Must Go!
* Podcast: What is Irish Science Fiction? I’d also recommend a few new podcasts, Off Book (weekly improvised musical) and What Trump Can Teach Us about Con Law. * Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision of a...
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Impeach Trump Now (and Other Links)
* I haven’t done a post like this in a while, so of course you have to catch up with the horrors of America collapsing around our ears. Charlottesville. Charlottesville. Charlottesville. Russia....
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Thursday Morning Links!
* At the age of 15, she was given a smartphone for the first time. Her first move, she says, was to go online and search for her family. * If you got a call offering a free cruise, you might be...
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Wednesday Links!
* CFP: Embodiment in Science Fiction and Fantasy Interdisciplinary Conference, May 2018. CFP: The Future of Fandom. CFP: J. G. Ballard and the Sciences. * The Rise of Brittle Paper: The Village Square...
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First Week of School Links!
* Harvey. Hell and High Water. Houston has been hit with a 100-year flood — a rainstorm that, going by previous records, has a 1 percent chance of happening in one year — in 2015 and in 2016. Now in...
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Closing All My Tabs Tuesday
* CFP: Octavia Butler Companion. CFP: MOSF Journal of Science Fiction Special Issue on Afrofuturism. CFP: Shakespeare and Science Fiction. CFP: Monsters and Monstrosity, A Special Issue of The Popular...
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Thursday Night Links!
(Slight format change: with the return to teaching, increased professional responsibilities, and my kids getting older [too fast!] I’m having real trouble keeping up with the level of linkblogging I’ve...
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Fall Break Links! Every Tab I Had Open Is Closed!
* New open-access scholarship: Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling. My contribution is on Rogue One and the crisis of authority that seems to have plagued all the post-Lucas Star Wars...
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Happy Day after My Birthday to Me Links
* I’ve had a few pieces come out in the last couple weeks, including a short rumination on memory in the Anthropocene (and Richard McGuire’s Here) for the online journal Deletion. I’m also batting...
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