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Monday Night Links!
* Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ Will Be R-Rated: ‘The Revenant’s Mark L. Smith Frontrunner Scribe. Patrick Stewart would play Picard again, but only for Tarantino. Still pretty firmly on board. *...
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Monday Morning Links!
* Discovery vs. the canon. All of these so-called violations can be solved with creative thinking, you cowards! * The day Star Trek: The Next Generation was truly invented. * This is not the dystopia...
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Weekend Links!
* I’m heading to Zurich later tonight for the From Human to Posthuman? Ethical Inquiry workshop to be held at the Collegium Helveticum. I’ll be talking about the Anthropocene and various versions of...
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Sunday Morning After ICFA Links!
* Two poems from the great Jaimee Hills: “Frosted Palm” and “The Books in the Bushes.” * ICYMI: My #ICFA39 talk, “Star Trek after Discovery.” Building on my AUFS post from last week, and it’s already...
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Sunday! Morning! Links!
* CFP: “Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory,” Special Feature in The New Americanist. * CFP: Historical Fictions Research Network, “Radical Fictions.” * We are almost certainly...
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If You Scroll Down Far Enough on This Linkpost You May Eventually Reach...
* Call for Papers: Polygraph 28, Marxism and Climate Change. Call for Papers: Speculative Souths. * Transformative Works and Cultures 27: Tumblr and Fandom. * The Trump administration separated...
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Spooooooooky Friday the 13th Links!
* Exciting new anthology alert! A People’s Future of the United States. New anthology project free to announce widely at last: A PEOPLE'S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES, edited by me and @victorlavalle!...
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Closed Some Tabs Today Links
* Some kinda life. * The evolving English major. * The Humanities as Contradiction: Against the New Enclosures. * Colleges Can’t — or Won’t — Track Where Ph.D.s Land Jobs. Should Disciplinary...
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Thursday Morning Links!
There is not a single part of me that doubts that ALF could be a viable contender in the next Presidential election. I’m not saying he’d win…but I do think it’d be close. — billy eichner...
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Return of the Son of Linkblogging: The Return!
With some new responsibilities post-tenure, a new work-childcare schedule that I’m still getting used to, and some intense end-of-the-summer deadline crunches, I haven’t had the time to do a link post...
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* Essay prize for graduate students and early-career, pre-TT science fiction studies scholars: The Foundation Essay Prize 2019. * The call for papers for the 2019 conference at Chaminade University,...
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So Here’s Everything You Missed While You Were Paying Attention to the...
* It was an absolutely crazy month trying to get the final proofs locked down, but The Cambridge History of Science Fiction has an Amazon page and a publication date: November 30, 2018. Thanks to...
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(Yesterday’s post here, including a bunch of “personal news” updates about recent projects. Get your library to buy The Cambridge History of Science Fiction!) * Your Stan Lee obituaries. Excelsior. And...
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Train Travel Day, Which Means A Whole Trainload of Links
* Two talks down, two to go! My Worlding SF keynote is archived at Facebook Live, but my “Superheroes vs. the Climate” talk got pulled down due to the Funny or Die video I played during my...
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Just 363 Shopping Days Till Christmas Links
* Call for Papers: Literature and Extraction. Call for Papers: The Romantic Fantastic. * A new Black Mirror is dropping tomorrow. From doing some recent workshops with Black Mirror as a focus I think...
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Sunday Reading, A Great Idea Whose Time Has Come
* SFFTV Special Issue CFP: Global Utopian Film and TV in the Age of Dystopia. * CFP: The Sixth Annual David Foster Wallace Conference, June 27-29, 2019. * CFP: 20th International Conference of the...
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July 3 Links! Maybe Our Biggest July 3 Post EVER!!!
* I have a new review up at LARB: We Are Going on an Adventure: On Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin. Read these novels! * Marquette gets some very good press: it has one of the top ten highest...
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Friday Morning Links GUARANTEED* Not to Send You Into a Tailspin of Misery...
* In effect, more than a third of all cinema tickets bought in North America are for a Disney movie. * UAA students, staff respond to impending, unprecedented budget cuts. * “It’s not enough to accept...
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Saturday Night Links! Apologies to Anyone Who Actually Tries to Read This Post!
* CFP: “New Worlds of Speculation.” CFP: Star Trek Novel Worlds. CFP: Slowness. CFP: SFRA News associate editors. And in case you missed it: SFFTV is finally looking for book, DVD, and video game...
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Once Upon a Time in… Tuesday Links
* Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, is about male friendships as they evolve or don’t, fall apart or stay the same. It’s his kindest film, the one freest of his ego and...
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