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  1. When Cyber was Punk - Imaginary Worlds podcast episode 244 takes a look at how William Gibson’s groundbreaking 1984 novel Neuromancer changed Sci-fi and why some authors and game designers are moving the genres back to its roots.
    #ImaginaryWorlds #Cyberpunk #SciFi #Podcast

    imaginaryworldspodcast.org/epi

  2. TIL the first scifi book was (1) written by a woman in 1666 (2) an isekai wish-fulfillment story (3) full of furries (4) includes a zombie army and synthetic drugs.

    Imaginary Worlds: The Blazing World

    Episode webpage: imaginaryworldspodcast.org/epi

    Media file: pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/18859/

    #ImaginaryWorlds #Scifi #femaleauthors

  3. Reading about Emily Bronte, found cool new word: "paracosm." AKA "worldplay." A paracosm is an imaginary world—usually dreamed up by kids or teens, sometimes continued into adulthood—with its own detailed geography, history, & often language.

    Notable paracosmists: S. T. Coleridge, Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Henry Darger, Terry Pratchett.

    What an amusing childish thing, say we inhabitants of Mastodonia.

    #words #WordOfTheDay #Literature #ImaginaryWorlds

  4. "Fiction writer Ada Hoffmann, writer and professor Dora Raymaker, YouTube presenter Quinn Dexter, and author and professor Nick Walker, who also co-runs the publishing company Autonomous Press have each given this subject a lot of thought. Their experiences and perspectives as autistic sci-fi fans and creators overlapped in many ways ..."

    imaginaryworldspodcast.org/epi

    #podcast #ImaginaryWorlds #SciFi #autistic

    #AdaHoffmann #DoraRaymaker #QuinnDexter #NickWalker