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Bookmark AI is the Scariest Beast Ever Created, Says Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling
I've seen a lot of computer crazes in my day, but this one is sheer Mardi Gras. It's not proper to get stern and judgmental when the people are costumed and…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | 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
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 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
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
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
Syllabus Cache A Theory-Fiction Reading List
A Theory-Fiction Reading List:

June 12 2018, 10:09am | Comments
Bookmark What the Sphinx and Alien Have in Common
I was 13 years old when the movie Alien was released. It scared me into a month-long spell of anxiety. The hair on the back of my neck was perpetually up…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | 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
Instagram The Noise of Being: available at sonicacts.com!

September 8 2017, 5:37am | Comments
Ask Metafilter 'The hole' in theory and thought I am interested in 'the hole' in its conceptual, metaphorical, and literal crossovers. Who has written about holes? In the ground? In theory? In myth and fiction? I'd be super keen to read theory that cites specific holes found in myth and fiction,…

August 28 2017, 10:44am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Singularities and Sisyphean Spikes in literature and film Looking for literary/filmic examples of singularities, infinite pits, wormholes, whirlpools, bore holes, large spacetimes in tiny crevices. But also... Peaks too high to navigate, infinite ascents, Sisyphean feats of endurance, energy spikes set to break reality, very tall towers.

July 2 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark Space and myth in a body horror - Mythogeography
It might seem strange that a mythogeographer would be very interested in an action-horror movie from 1982, panned at the time of its release and largely ignored by audiences.

June 27 2017, 3:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Mythic Function of the Zombie Apocalypse - disinformation
From Modern Mythology: Our standard movie monsters deviate from their early folkloric roots in a number of major ways, but the most notable might be the general move from bewitchment to…

June 26 2017, 5:50am | 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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May 20 2017, 4:11pm | Comments
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April 29 2017, 12:02pm | Comments
Bookmark Cyberpunk Through A Woman's Mirrored Lens | Neon Dystopia
Science fiction, cyberpunk included, has always been a bit of a boys club. Think of the names that we most readily associate with the genre. William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson,…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Queer Horror Is Stepping Out of the Shadows | WIRED
Horror movies don’t have the best track record when it comes to depicting queer characters. Often there are no LGBT characters at all, and when they do appear they’re likely to…

March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments
Bookmark A is for Afrofuturism — Cyberfeminism vs. Afrofuturistfeminism
There are differences and sameness on some accounts within cyberfeminism versus afrofuturistfeminism, I’ll quickly list the basics.

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark Writers of Color Continue to Wrestle With Lovecraft’s Racist Legacy | WIRED
H.P. Lovecraft is universally acknowledged as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, and references to his Cthulhu Mythos abound in contemporary culture. But Lovecraft was also…

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Ask Metafilter 'Zones' in science and weird fiction Looking for examples of science/weird fictions that deal with 'zones': intermediate or parallel realms - often forbidden - beyond the normal sphere of law or reason. ...of course there's 'Stalker' or 'Roadside Picnic' & echoes in the 2010 film 'Monsters' and Jeff VanderMeer's…

September 21 2016, 6:22am | Comments
Bookmark The Future According to Stanisław Lem
In his 1971 novella The Futurological Congress, the Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem describes a group of futurologists who have gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica to stave off…

September 14 2016, 7:50am | Comments
Bookmark Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century? | Books…
It’s not science fiction, it’s not realism, but hovers in the unsettling zone in between. From Philip K Dick to Stephen King, Damien Walter takes a tour through transrealism, the emerging…

July 17 2016, 4:33am | Comments
Bookmark Africa Has Always Been Sci-Fi | Literary Hub
Whence the “Afro” in “Afrofuturism”? In the 1994 interview with Samuel R.

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark Is Resistance Futile? Are we already Borg?
From the days of the Acheulean hand-axe on, humans have always had a symbiotic relationship with technology. How far will that relationship go? One haunting vision of the future is provided…

January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments
Bookmark The Dialogical Avatar: a presentation with Donna Haraway&&& Journal
as the central speaker and facilitator. Aside from the Cyborg Manifesto, it constitutes one of Haraway’s most extended engagements with science fiction, and with a specific work of science fiction cinema…

January 14 2016, 5:42am | Comments
Bookmark A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist | Literary Hub
I love books that exist almost as much as I love books that don’t exist. So I have written some books, The Seas, The Invention of Everything Else and Mr. Splitfoot,…

January 9 2016, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark Ferguson is the Future | Nassau Weekly
On September 14, I spent the day in the Chancellor Green Rotunda at the “Ferguson is the Future” Symposium, and I have spent every day since then trying to process the magnitude…

October 24 2015, 3:35am | 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

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