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• Bookmark Hopepunk, grimdark, noblebright: Gautam Bhatia on new genres of storytelling - Hindustan…

  In a 2014 interview with reviews blog The Book Smugglers, the fantasy writer Katherine Addison observed that the main character of her acclaimed novel The Goblin Emperor – Maia Drazhar –…

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• Bookmark Hopepunk, grimdark, noblebright: Gautam Bhatia on new genres of storytelling - Hindustan…

  In a 2014 interview with reviews blog The Book Smugglers, the fantasy writer Katherine Addison observed that the main character of her acclaimed novel The Goblin Emperor – Maia Drazhar –…

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Bookmark N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds | The New Yorker

  Several years ago, N. K. Jemisin, the fantasy and science-fiction author, had a dream that shook her. In her sleep, she found herself standing in a surreal tableau with a massif floating…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your personal SF/F Canon? Which authors or books really defined what science fiction and fantasy is for you? What is your personal SF/F canon? And not necessarily which books do you think define science fiction and/or fantasy best, but which ones defined them for you as you grew up or developed your taste in the genre? submitted by /u/ctopherrun…

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• Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…

  Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

  September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ezra Klein interview with N.K. Jemisin

  Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the…

  January 3 2019, 6:31am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Weird Studies Episode 36: On Hyperstition

  JF and Phil talk hyperstitions, entities born in the realm of fantasy that slowly become denizens of the real. https://www.weirdstudies.com/36

  December 27 2018, 4:10pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: cities in sci-fi and fantasy novels Looking for recommendations of science fiction and fantasy books (or short stories) in which the city settings are central or at least important to the story. Utopias, dystopias, segregated or in space, am looking for all kinds of stories.

  July 2 2018, 9:24pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Exit and the Extensions of Man | transmediale

  What does a real man do when things get tough at home? Runs out to buy cigarettes. Or so goes the male fantasy, as Sarah Sharma argued in her 2017 keynote…

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• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

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• Bookmark 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

  Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it's the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal Perfume Dark & Neandertal Perfume Light Offer a Contemporary Whiff of…

  Confidential and new British fragrance label Neandertal have brought to fruition the central project they've been working on, whose aim is to recreate the possible scents that Neanderthales knew, transposed to…

  October 20 2015, 9:35am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fantasy Author H.P. Lovecraft at 125: Genius, Cult Icon, Racist -…

  American history is filled with writers whose genius was underappreciated—or altogether ignored—in their lifetime. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems weren’t discovered and published until after her death. F. Scott Fitzgerald “died…

  August 29 2015, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction - The…

  In 1968, Samuel Delany attended the third annual Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

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• Bibliography Mutation, History, and Fantasy in the Posthuman. by R.L. Rutsky

  October 10 2014, 1:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Craig Venter: 'This isn't a fantasy look at the future. We are…

  Craig Venter reclines in his chair, puts his feet up on his desk and - gently stroking his milk chocolate-coloured miniature poodle, Darwin, asleep in his arms - shares his vision…

  June 3 2014, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

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• Bookmark On the Natural History of Surveillance

  Upon hearing the phrase, we may not know exactly what a “cephalic sniffer” is, nor whether it is a real piece of technology. However, as to what such a nefarious device…

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  Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our…

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  I bring all this up because the state of the themed queue - a Disney practice if there ever was one - seems to very much be in a state of…

  December 11 2010, 2:11am | Comments

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  Perhaps you have had a nightmare in which you fell through the bottom of your known universe into a vortex of mutated children, talking animals, mental illness, freakish art, and clamoring…

  September 13 2010, 3:19am | Comments

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  Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest…

  December 23 2009, 2:24am | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Henry Darger | Wikipedia Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls,…

  January 6 2009, 5:41am | Comments

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• Bookmark Hopepunk, grimdark, noblebright: Gautam Bhatia on new genres of storytelling - Hindustan…

  In a 2014 interview with reviews blog The Book Smugglers, the fantasy writer Katherine Addison observed that the main character of her acclaimed novel The Goblin Emperor – Maia Drazhar –…

  June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Hopepunk, grimdark, noblebright: Gautam Bhatia on new genres of storytelling - Hindustan…

  In a 2014 interview with reviews blog The Book Smugglers, the fantasy writer Katherine Addison observed that the main character of her acclaimed novel The Goblin Emperor – Maia Drazhar –…

  June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments

• Bookmark N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds | The New Yorker

  Several years ago, N. K. Jemisin, the fantasy and science-fiction author, had a dream that shook her. In her sleep, she found herself standing in a surreal tableau with a massif floating…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your personal SF/F Canon? Which authors or books really defined what science fiction and fantasy is for you? What is your personal SF/F canon? And not necessarily which books do you think define science fiction and/or fantasy best, but which ones defined them for you as you grew up or developed your taste in the genre? submitted by /u/ctopherrun…

  August 11 2020, 2:27pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Links and Resources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers |…

  Useful Resources for F&SF; Writers: Awards Posts for F&SF; Writers Book Recommendations for F&SF; Writers: Craft Essays for F&SF; Writers Career-focused Essays for F&SF; Writers Story Prompts for F&SF; Writers #sfwapro

  September 2 2019, 7:59am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ezra Klein interview with N.K. Jemisin

  Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the…

  January 3 2019, 6:31am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Weird Studies Episode 36: On Hyperstition

  JF and Phil talk hyperstitions, entities born in the realm of fantasy that slowly become denizens of the real. https://www.weirdstudies.com/36

  December 27 2018, 4:10pm | Comments

• Metafilter Ask MeFi: cities in sci-fi and fantasy novels Looking for recommendations of science fiction and fantasy books (or short stories) in which the city settings are central or at least important to the story. Utopias, dystopias, segregated or in space, am looking for all kinds of stories.

  July 2 2018, 9:24pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon

  The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

  March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Exit and the Extensions of Man | transmediale

  What does a real man do when things get tough at home? Runs out to buy cigarettes. Or so goes the male fantasy, as Sarah Sharma argued in her 2017 keynote…

  July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 12 2016, 12:23am | Comments

• Tumblr samueldelany:Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie,...

  December 16 2015, 10:52pm | Comments

• Bookmark 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

  Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it's the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Bookmark Neandertal Perfume Dark & Neandertal Perfume Light Offer a Contemporary Whiff of…

  Confidential and new British fragrance label Neandertal have brought to fruition the central project they've been working on, whose aim is to recreate the possible scents that Neanderthales knew, transposed to…

  October 20 2015, 9:35am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fantasy Author H.P. Lovecraft at 125: Genius, Cult Icon, Racist -…

  American history is filled with writers whose genius was underappreciated—or altogether ignored—in their lifetime. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems weren’t discovered and published until after her death. F. Scott Fitzgerald “died…

  August 29 2015, 3:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction - The…

  In 1968, Samuel Delany attended the third annual Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

  August 4 2015, 7:30am | Comments

• Bibliography Mutation, History, and Fantasy in the Posthuman. by R.L. Rutsky

  October 10 2014, 1:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Craig Venter: 'This isn't a fantasy look at the future. We are…

  Craig Venter reclines in his chair, puts his feet up on his desk and - gently stroking his milk chocolate-coloured miniature poodle, Darwin, asleep in his arms - shares his vision…

  June 3 2014, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 28 2013, 4:17am | Comments

• Bookmark On the Natural History of Surveillance

  Upon hearing the phrase, we may not know exactly what a “cephalic sniffer” is, nor whether it is a real piece of technology. However, as to what such a nefarious device…

  June 15 2012, 5:21am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 31 2011, 6:40am | Comments

• Bookmark Technology Provides an Alternative to Love

  Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our…

  May 30 2011, 2:03am | Comments

• Bookmark The Third Queue

  I bring all this up because the state of the themed queue - a Disney practice if there ever was one - seems to very much be in a state of…

  December 11 2010, 2:11am | Comments

• Bookmark What is Posthumanism?

  Perhaps you have had a nightmare in which you fell through the bottom of your known universe into a vortex of mutated children, talking animals, mental illness, freakish art, and clamoring…

  September 13 2010, 3:19am | Comments

• Bookmark When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?

  Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest…

  December 23 2009, 2:24am | Comments

• Bibliography Critical Play

  August 6 2009, 1:28pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Henry Darger | Wikipedia Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls,…

  January 6 2009, 5:41am | Comments

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