#sciencefictionstudies — Public Fediverse posts

VendrediLecture de vacances en direct du hamac :

Wong Kin Yuen - Blade Runner, Ghost in The Shell et le paysage urbain de Hong Kong (ReS Futurae n°5 , 2015)
(Poke @iLangle )

#VendrediLecture
#ScienceFiction
#ScienceFictionStudies
#Université
#3615MaLife

Gary Westfahl, l'un des spécialistes les plus renommés des #sciencefictionstudies, ecrit qu'il est temps d'annuler ou deplacer les Conventions Mondiales de Science-fiction qui ont lieu [en Amérique du Nord - non, corrigé] aux USA

"The time has come to cancel or move the 2025 Seattle Worldcon.
And to cancel or move the 2026 Los Angeles Worldcon."

https://file770.com/no-more-worldcons-in-the-united-states/

#CallForPapers: The #Solarpunk Conference 2025: Collective Care, Collective Power: Call for Conference Presentations

#CFP #SFF #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionStudies #OnlineConference #OnlineEvent

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/09/the-solarpunk-conference-2025-collective-care-collective-power-call-for-conference

I am very happy to share that my essay "‘Lifting Old Curses’: The mirror dance of The Flowers of Vashnoi and The Mountains of Mourning" has been published in Short But Concentrated #2: a second essay symposium on the works of #LoisMcMasterBujold, edited by the brilliant @UnaMcCormack.

The ebook version is free for download here:
https://unamccormack.co.uk/?books=short-but-concentrated-2

#ScienceFiction #SFF #VorkosiganSaga #ScienceFictionStudies #Books #Bookstodon

#CallForPapers: “I canna’ change the laws of physics”: Depictions of #Science in #PopularCulture

#PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a free virtual symposium exploring science in popular culture. To be held online on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th of October 2024.

#CFP #OnlineEvent #OnlineConference #PopularCultureStudies #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionStudies #StarTrek

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/10/04/%E2%80%9Ci-canna%E2%80%99-change-the-laws-of-physics%E2%80%9D-depictions-of-science-in-popular-culture

New discounts for new paperbacks! 🖖🪐

To celebrate the fact that my co-edited anthologies Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier and Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away are now available in paperback, Vernon Press is offering a limited-time 30% discount on both books. Use this coupon code at checkout from Vernon's site: WSSN30.

https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#StarTrek #StarWars #StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #ScienceFiction #SFF #ScienceFictionStudies #PopularCultureStudies #FilmStudies #FandomStudies #FanStudies #Books #Bookstodon #BookSale

Now in paperback!!! 🖖🪐

I'm delighted to share that both of my co-edited academic anthologies with Vernon Press are now available in hardback, ebook, and (new!) paperback format: STAR TREK: ESSAYS EXPLORING THE FINAL FRONTIER and STAR WARS: ESSAYS EXPLORING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY.

https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#StarTrek #StarWars #StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #ScienceFiction #SFF #ScienceFictionStudies #PopularCultureStudies #FilmStudies #FandomStudies #FanStudies #Books #Bookstodon #Academics

#CallForPapers: #Apocalyptic #Ageing: Representations of #OldAge at the End of the World (as we know it) in #Literature and #PopularCulture

#PostApocalyptic #ScienceFiction #Aging #ScienceFictionStudies #PopularCultureStudies #CFP #SFF

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/02/28/apocalyptic-ageing-representations-of-old-age-at-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it

#CallForPapers: #ScienceFiction at the End of #History

“Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet.”
- Captain Kirk, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

#CFP #OnlineConference #OnlineEvent #ScienceFictionStudies #PopularCulture #PopularCultureStudies

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/02/12/science-fiction-at-the-end-of-history-conference

#CallForPapers: “I canna’ change the laws of physics”: Depictions of #Science in #PopularCulture

#PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a free virtual symposium exploring science in popular culture. To be held online on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th of October 2024.

#CFP #OnlineEvent #OnlineConference #PopularCultureStudies #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionStudies #StarTrek

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/10/04/%E2%80%9Ci-canna%E2%80%99-change-the-laws-of-physics%E2%80%9D-depictions-of-science-in-popular-culture

Parasta päästä tänään juhlimaan huippututkijaystävän kirjajulkkareita (Tiedekulma klo 17!). Kaisa Kortekallion tuore teos "Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement" on kunnianhimoista tutkimusta parhaimmillaan. Sneaky peeky saatavilla kustantajan sivuilla: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mutant-narratives-in-ecological-science-fiction-9781350296770/ #FeministPosthumanism, #CognitiveNarratology #ScienceFictionStudies #SFStudies #LiteraryStudies

#CallForPapers: Current Research in #SpeculativeFiction

Whether it is #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, or #Horror, speculative fiction allows us to imagine new worlds, for authors and readers to fully engage their imaginations with what is beyond our current capabilities or comprehension. We build up Earth in beauty and destruction. We think of distant new planets or dimensions, radical and fantastical species, and find that even in the darkest dystopias there is something to learn. For CRSF’s 14th year, this #hybrid offline/ #OnlineEvent seeks to generate interdisciplinary discussions of growth in speculative fiction, exploring the theme in its many different guises.

#SFF #CFP #Academics #ScienceFictionStudies #FantasyStudies #HorrorStudies

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/01/22/current-research-in-speculative-fiction-conference-2024

#CallForPapers for edited anthology: #ClassConflict in 21st Century #ScienceFictionFilm

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/11/27/book-chapters-class-conflict-in-21st-century-science-fiction-film

#ScienceFictionStudies #ScienceFiction #FilmStudies #Film #Academics #CFP

2023 in Review: Books!

This year, with my wonderful co-editor #EmilyStrand, I published two scholarly anthologies with #VernonPress.

🖖 #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier

🪐 #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away

https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#2023InReview #StarTrek #StarWars #StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #ScienceFiction #SFF
#ScienceFictionStudies
#PopularCultureStudies
#FilmStudies #FandomStudies
#FanStudies #Books #Bookstodon #Academics

I'm preparing the next, more theoretically ambitious version of similar ideas, so thought I'd share my good old Pants Science & Cyberpunk essay: https://sfrareview.org/2020/12/13/50-4-15/ #Cyberpunk #LiteraryStudies #ScienceFictionStudies #PantsScience #DeusEx #Acronym #Outlier #DiscoElysium #Mirrorshades

The article in _The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction_ about itself (last modified October 2021).

https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/encyclopedia_of_science_fiction_the

#ScienceFiction
#ScienceFictionStudies
#SFStudies
#SFEncyclopedia

#CallForPapers: Dark Reflections: Edited Collection

The editors of this important volume are putting together a collection of essays on #Dark (2017-2020) for publication. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Netflix's groundbreaking German original series, Dark, premiered in 2017, and spanned three thought-provoking seasons.

More information is here: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/12/07/reminder-call-for-chapters-dark-reflections-edited-collection

#ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionStudies #Gothic #GothicStudies #PopularCulture #TVAndFilm #Netflix #GermanSF #SFF #CFP

My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is the second of a two-part review of the anthology AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines, edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. It's now up on Episode 720 of the #StarShipSofa #podcast. (The first part of this two-parter is on Episode 718.)

#Books #Bookstodon #AI #ScienceFiction #SFF #ScienceFictionStudies #History #ArtificialIntelligence

Here is the link!

http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2023/11/22/starshipsofa-720-dominica-phetteplace/

#CallForPapers: A Billion and Fifty Year Spree: #ScienceFiction, and its Histories, ‘after’ Aldiss 🚀 🤖

University of Liverpool & Online, 23 January 2024

To celebrate the fact that 2023 was the fiftieth year since publication of Brian Aldiss’s Billion Year Spree in 1973, the University of Liverpool’s #OlafStapledonCentre for #SpeculativeFutures and the #ScienceFictionFoundation are hosting a one-day conference on the #history (or histories) of #SF.

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/10/27/a-billion-and-fifty-year-spree-science-fiction-and-its-histories-%E2%80%98after%E2%80%99-aldiss

#ScienceFictionStudies #OnlineEvent #OnlineConference #SFF #Academics

My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is the first of a two-part review of the anthology AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines, edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. It's now up on the new episode of the #StarShipSofa #podcast.

#Books #Bookstodon #AI #ScienceFiction #SFF #ScienceFictionStudies #History

Here is the link!

http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2023/10/25/starshipsofa-718-lincoln-michel/

This looks fantastic!

The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction: An Experience of the Impossible by Eleanor Drage

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003398103/planetary-humanism-european-women-science-fiction-eleanor-drage

#OpenAccess #SFF #ScienceFictionStudies #WomensSF #Utopianism #Scholarship #Books #Bookstodon #Feminism #Humanism

Today on my Patreon: I posted my Sturgeon Symposium presentation (there will be an article version later for everyone, G-d willing; but this is a fun bonus for backers :) )

It's titled "Transcendent Sharing" - Early Counter-Imaginaries of Gendered Magical Power in American Speculation.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/89693153

#ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionStudies #TheodoreSturgeon #SturgeonSymposium #ZennaHenderson #CharlesFort #Forteana #Humanities #LiteraryStudies

#CallForPapers: Adapting #Fantasy and #ScienceFiction in the Age of #Streaming

Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, #OpenAccess journal, offering #academic articles and reviews and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by science fiction and fantasy. The 2023 issue will be dedicated to the following theme: Adapting Fantasy and Sci-Fi in the Age of Streaming

#Adaptation #ScienceFictionStudies #FantasyStudies #MediaStudies #AdaptationStudies #Journal #CFP

https://shar.es/ag1iVb

ICYMI, these events are this weekend, and everyone is invited! These #free #OnlineEvents celebrate two anthologies, one on #StarTrek and one on #StarWars, from #VernonPress, edited by #EmilyStrand and me. We hope you'll join us!

Register for Sept. 9 event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/star-wars-essays-exploring-a-galaxy-far-far-away-book-launch-tickets-697433320837?aff=oddtdtcreator

Register for Sept. 10 event: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqc-qqqz8iH92gRS5oaFlOFdkuDMMNgjpa#/registration

See more about the books: https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #ScienceFiction #PopularCultureStudies #ScienceFictionStudies #FilmStudies #MediaStudies #FanStudies #BookLaunch #BookEvents

Reminder: These events are this upcoming weekend. Everyone is invited! These #free #OnlineEvents celebrate two anthologies, one on #StarTrek and one on #StarWars, from #VernonPress, edited by #EmilyStrand and me. We hope you'll join us!

Register for Sept. 9 event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/star-wars-essays-exploring-a-galaxy-far-far-away-book-launch-tickets-697433320837?aff=oddtdtcreator

Register for Sept. 10 event: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqc-qqqz8iH92gRS5oaFlOFdkuDMMNgjpa#/registration

See more about the books: https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #ScienceFiction #PopularCultureStudies #ScienceFictionStudies #FilmStudies #MediaStudies #FanStudies #BookLaunch #BookEvents

Many thanks to #JournalsOfTheWhills for this wonderful review of our new anthology STAR WARS: ESSAYS EXPLORING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY!

#StarWars #StarWarsBooks #Books #BookReview #ScienceFictionStudies #PopularCultureStudies #MediaStudies #FanStudies #Bookstodon

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwbJEpxKJB4/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Announcing a weekend of free #OnlineEvents celebrating two anthologies, one on #StarTrek and one on #StarWars, from #VernonPress, edited by #EmilyStrand and me. We hope you'll join us!

Register for Sept. 9 event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/star-wars-essays-exploring-a-galaxy-far-far-away-book-launch-tickets-697433320837?aff=oddtdtcreator

Register for Sept. 10 event: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqc-qqqz8iH92gRS5oaFlOFdkuDMMNgjpa#/registration

See more about the books: https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #ScienceFiction #PopularCultureStudies #ScienceFictionStudies #FilmStudies #FanStudies #BookEvents

#OnlineEvent: Everyone is welcome on September 9 at noon Eastern for this free event hosted by the #DigitalCulturalStudiesCooperative!

Join us for a #BookTalk with the editors of the new anthology STAR WARS: ESSAYS EXPLORING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY. We'll be joined by the co-editors and contributors to discuss this exciting collection of essays that offer a compelling new take on the familiar and not-so-familiar corners of the #StarWars universe and media megatext.

#StarWarsBooks #Books #Bookstodon #SFF #ScienceFiction #PopularCultureStudies #ScienceFictionStudies #FanStudies #BookEvents

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/star-wars-essays-exploring-a-galaxy-far-far-away-book-launch-tickets-697433320837