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Bookmark The Case for Speculative Fiction, According to Author N.K. Jemisin
To my own shame, I have become a jaded reader in recent years. By this I mean that my enthusiasm and curiosity, my drive to experience new worlds, have all been…

July 25 2024, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark “There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New…
THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark M John Harrison: ‘I want to be the first human to imitate…
M John Harrison, 77, is the author of seven story collections and 12 novels, including Nova Swing, which won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction in 2007, and The…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The best nonfiction tech books of all time
Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

June 29 2023, 7:34am | Comments
Bookmark Solutionism is rampant in artificial intelligence hype.
I won’t watch House of the Dragon, despite its high ratings. The HBO show is a prequel to Game of Thrones, and that series ended so badly I don’t want anything more to…

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark Solutionism is rampant in artificial intelligence hype.
I won’t watch House of the Dragon, despite its high ratings. The HBO show is a prequel to Game of Thrones, and that series ended so badly I don’t want anything more to…

April 18 2023, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark The expanding orbit of Seattle science fiction writer Octavia Butler
Knowing that an author who wrote unsparingly about humanity’s capacity for violence and oppression dwelled amid such picturesque Pacific Northwest ordinariness is comforting. This quiet, unremarkable place would suit a diligent…

December 12 2022, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net
I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net
I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED
The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment…

June 20 2022, 7:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED
The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment…

June 20 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Elvia Wilk on ecosystemic fiction - Artforum International
IN THE FIRST MONTHS OF QUARANTINE, my apartment became my personal ecosystem. The idiosyncrasies of daily life in isolation—the peculiar sleep hours, the midnight meals on the fire escape, the evening…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
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November 26 2021, 2:06am | Comments
Bookmark Octavia Estelle Butler: Notetaking as Science Fiction - Forte Labs
Octavia Estelle Butler was born in 1947 in Pasadena, CA. Known in her early years as “Estelle,” she was raised by a single, widowed mother who worked domestic jobs to make…

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark How Octavia E. Butler Became a Legend | JSTOR Daily
Octavia Estelle Butler was inspired to write science fiction after watching a schlocky B-movie, Devil Girl from Mars. She was twelve years old and thought: “Geez, I can write a better…

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Writing fiction as scholarly work | Impact of Social Sciences
Writing for academic publication is highly stylised and formalised. In this post Rob Kitchin describes how writing fiction has shaped his own academic praxis and can provide scholars with an expanded range of…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction…
Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

May 31 2021, 1:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Case for Stanislaw Lem, One of Science Fiction’s Unsung Giants |…
Since his death in 2006, the work of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem has slowly slid from view.

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | 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
Bookmark psychcentral.com
“When Kurzweil first started talking about the “singularity”, a conceit he borrowed from the science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge, he was dismissed as a fantasist.

April 8 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark Is Westernisation fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US…
In 1860, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a young Japanese student still learning English himself, accompanied the first ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States as its English interpreter.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales in Unearthed 2005…
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. To mark Black History Month once again, as well as the 25th anniversary of Democracy Now!, we turn now…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Reddit Have you read any scifi that you found overly disturbing? I like weird scifi, and sometimes I am in the mood for scifi that makes me uncomfortable. I don't necessarily mean horror or weird Lovecraftian fiction (not a fan) but just really dark scifi. So what are the weirdest, most unsettling scifi books…

December 23 2020, 10:31am | 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
Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…
Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…
Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark How big tech hijacked its sharpest, funniest critics - MIT Technology Review
Bruce Sterling wasn’t originally meant to be part of the discussion. It was March 13, 2010, in Austin, Texas, and a small group of designers were on stage at the South…

February 22 2020, 8:46am | Comments
Bookmark The Labyrinth and the Plague | The Current | The Criterion Collection
Of all the weird scenes that populate seventies science-fiction cinema, the most bizarre might be in 1971’s The Omega Man.

January 25 2020, 6:31am | Comments
Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List – The Wasted World
What even is theory-fiction? In short, it is the intersection of theory and fiction, and also the “dissolution of the opposition itself” (Fisher 1999, p 156).

November 7 2019, 8:54am | Comments
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November 6 2019, 4:00am | Comments
Bookmark Science Fiction and Posthumanism – Critical Posthumanism Network
Donna Haraway famously pronounced, “the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion” in her influential A Cyborg Manifesto.

October 14 2019, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’…
Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling…

September 11 2019, 4:28am | Comments

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