Friday Night Links!
* All is proceeding as I have foreseen: Virginia Declares State of Emergency After Armed Militias Threaten to Storm the Capitol. * How Science Fiction Imagined the 2020s. * Watchmen’s future unsure at...
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* I had another short book review at Los Angeles Review of Books the other week, on Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown, a book of this arbitrary amount of time if ever there was one: “Does Chris Ware Still Hate...
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* The EdgeEffects year in review includes my interview with Kim Stanley Robinson from last spring. Check it out if you missed it then! * Well, the reviews are in! Jaimee’s latest published poem, “The...
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* I have another review at LARB this week, this time on Cixin Liu’s Supernova Era. Check it out! Now, the humans in Liu’s fictions are not saints: there are always dire moments of backlash, too,...
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* CFP: Paradoxa 32, Comics and/or Graphic Novels. * CFP: Energy Pasts and Futures in American Studies. * The Museum of the Moving Image Announces a Series on Latin American Science Fiction Cinema of...
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* My chances have never been better. * One of the highlights of my trip to ICFA this year was my exposure to some truly bonkers viral digital horror texts, like Doki Doki Literature Club! and Normal...
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* There’s a kind of “deleted scene” from my book out in the new issue of Women’s Studies: “Eden, Just Not Ours Yet: On Parable of the Trickster and Utopia.” It’s in the second half of a special...
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* 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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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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* A prediction: China will produce some of the world’s most interesting scholarship on American literature within a generation. A secondary effect of this production will be a boost for the humanities,...
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* There are no links now. There is only the Orb. it’s too late, he’s ascending pic.twitter.com/GRWVRoY7z0 — Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 21, 2017 HANNITY: Trump orders everyone to kneel before the...
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* FiveThirtyEight has been doing a great series on Mars colonization. Today’s entries are all about space sex. Also: Everything About Mars Is The Worst. * Also at FiveThirtyEight: The Odds You’ll Fill...
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* Contemporary African literature as taught in today’s classrooms is pathetically 20th century. The keepers of those gates overwhelmingly think of contemporary African literature as the three A’s:...
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* Some of my own stuff from the weekend: Making America Great Again with Octavia Butler and the formal, official, can’t-take-it-back-now release of Octavia E. Butler in Kindle, hardback, and paperback....
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*record scratch**freeze frame*"Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got in this situation…" pic.twitter.com/ATInPq8AGL — Emma Roller (@emmaroller) October 19, 2016 Happy birthday to Ursula...
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There Is A Small But Real Possibility That Brexit Will Never Happen. Brexit as Nostalgia for Empire. Six Implications for Brexit (Through the Eyes of a Foreign Resident). Britain Just Killed...
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* accessiblesyllabus.tulane.edu. * Global Markets in Chaos After UK Votes to Leave EU. Five terrifying immediate reactions to Brexit from the markets. Results Map. All this and the vote wasn’t even...
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* Sadly always relevant: How the Media Inspires Mass Shooters. So There’s Just Been a Mass Shooting. I bought an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in Philly in 7 minutes. * Since, in fact, we lack the ability...
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* Hey look! LARoB reviewed Green Planets. * Another science fiction studies research opportunity: The 2016-2017 Le Guin Fellowship. * Notes from ICFA roundtable on The Force Awakens, on cast,...
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* Penn Gillette on three-card monty and graduate school in the humanities. * Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera. * “Use Tatooine sparingly” and other rules from the Star Wars style guide. io9...
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