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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
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 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 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 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
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“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 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 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 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
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
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
Syllabus Cache Summer intensive science fiction course

July 8 2019, 11:35am | Comments
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February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments
Bookmark The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker
The science-fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Lem was well acquainted with the way that fictional worlds can sometimes encroach upon reality.

January 26 2019, 6:56pm | Comments
Bookmark Science Fiction and Alterity – the poesy
Through abjection and “Otherness” theory, Brydie Kosima explores Science Fiction and its status as a genre able to narrate alternate modes of reality.

November 25 2018, 4:45am | Comments
Bookmark Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction | Literary…
Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling)…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Children Are Easily Peer Pressured by Robots, Study Finds - Motherboard
The eerie possibility of robots manipulating humans crops up in science fiction tales like Ex Machina or Battlestar Galactica.

August 28 2018, 5:33am | 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.

July 7 2018, 8:32am | 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 Utopian Topographies | Dr Caroline Edwards
Utopian Topographies Posted on May 18, 2018 in Talks | 0 comments I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary…

May 18 2018, 4:09am | Comments
Bookmark Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science…
Star Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in…

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Future is Fungal – Mask Magazine
The future as shown to us by science fictions is almost always shiny. Whether in aspirational daydreams or depictions of dystopia, the vision continues to be one of gleaming metal, stark…

August 17 2017, 6:50am | Comments
Bookmark Please Prove You’re Not a Robot - The New York Times
When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or…

July 16 2017, 8:15am | Comments
Bookmark Radicalism Begins in the Body | Boston Review
Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.” Junot Díaz: Chip, “Ash…

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments

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