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* Call for Papers: Essays on Hootie & the Blowfish. Call for Papers: Reappraising Stephen King. Call for Papers: International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts 41: Climate Change and the...
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* Readers in a frenzy as Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments released early. Why It Matters That Amazon Shipped Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” a Week Early. Look for my review of The Testaments in...
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* Navajos on Mars: Native Sci-fi Film Futures. * They’re renaming the Tiptree Award after all. From Julie Phillips: On Tiptree and naming. * The Tragedy of GJ237b: A Role-Playing Game for No Players. *...
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* The only writing I’ve seen on Rusty Brown so far is this rather sour review from Slate on Ware’s “miserablism.” While I do concede the book feels a little redundant to some of Ware’s earlier work,...
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* Picard trailer! Disco trailer! Short Trek! It’s truly a Golden Age. * Some new poems from Jaimee up at her website. * State DOT orders homeless to leave encampment under I-794 overpass in downtown...
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* CFP: A special issue of Science Fiction Film and Television on gaming. * Happening today at Duke: Whose Crisis? Whose University? Abolitionist Study in and beyond Global Higher Education. * You’ve...
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* CFP: Children’s Literature and Climate Change, Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn. CFP: Special Issue of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts: Expanding the Archive. CFP: Call for Papers:...
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* CFP: Climates of Crisis: Life, Power, and Planetary Justice in the Capitalocene (Binghamton, 7-8 February 2020). CFP: ASAP/Journal special issue on speculation. CFP: CFP: Caliban no. 63 “Dynamics of...
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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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* 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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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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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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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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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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