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Rocky Mountain Links!
* Media Recklessness on Russia. Great list from Glenn Greenwald. * Meanwhile, MSNBC tells on itself (yet again). * Turning and turning in the widening gyre: The Syrian catastrophe. * Organizing in the...
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Monday Morning Links!
* Noah Berlatsky isn’t done talking about the Oankali. …that the Oankali represent *perfection* of the toxic ways that humans interact w/ each other + w/ nature rather than a utopian alternative. —...
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Tuesday Night Links!
* AHCA/BCRA is dead but Obamacare repeal is still alive. The past 24 hours in health care, explained. They’ve already moved past “repeal and delay” to “let make Obamacare fail.” Their problem now is...
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Closing All My Tabs Before the Nuclear War Links
* Welp. Here we go. To Launch a Nuclear Strike, Donald Trump Would Follow These Steps. Could Trump help unleash nuclear catastrophe with a single tweet? As one Republican Hill staffer said to me, “if...
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Impeach Trump Now (and Other Links)
* I haven’t done a post like this in a while, so of course you have to catch up with the horrors of America collapsing around our ears. Charlottesville. Charlottesville. Charlottesville. Russia....
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Wednesday Links!
* CFP: Embodiment in Science Fiction and Fantasy Interdisciplinary Conference, May 2018. CFP: The Future of Fandom. CFP: J. G. Ballard and the Sciences. * The Rise of Brittle Paper: The Village Square...
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Closing All My Tabs Tuesday
* CFP: Octavia Butler Companion. CFP: MOSF Journal of Science Fiction Special Issue on Afrofuturism. CFP: Shakespeare and Science Fiction. CFP: Monsters and Monstrosity, A Special Issue of The Popular...
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Thursday Night Links!
(Slight format change: with the return to teaching, increased professional responsibilities, and my kids getting older [too fast!] I’m having real trouble keeping up with the level of linkblogging I’ve...
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Last Weekend Before Classes Links!
* CFP: Granfalloon: A Kurt Vonnegut Gathering. MLA 2019 CFP: Stephen King at 45. Call for applications: The S. T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship. * A special issue of Palimpsest on The Life and Work...
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The Terrible Serenity of a Browser with Every Tab Closed
* What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. * We Reversed Our Declining English Enrollments. Here’s How. * CFP: Exhaustion: Tired Bodies, Tired Worlds....
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Monday Afternoon Links!
* A prediction: China will produce some of the world’s most interesting scholarship on American literature within a generation. A secondary effect of this production will be a boost for the humanities,...
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Massive Monday Super Mega-Links!
* Well they can’t take it back now. * SFRA 18 attendees! Apply for a travel grant, if you have a need! * Extrapolation 59.1 is here! With articles on climate fiction, Fahrenheit 451, Ballard’s Crash,...
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Just 300 or So of the Most Important Links for This Friday Morning
* SFFTV 11.2 is out, a special issue on Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and women and sf, guest-edited by up-and-comers Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint! Check it out. * CFP: Religious Practices and Ideology in...
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If You Scroll Down Far Enough on This Linkpost You May Eventually Reach...
* Call for Papers: Polygraph 28, Marxism and Climate Change. Call for Papers: Speculative Souths. * Transformative Works and Cultures 27: Tumblr and Fandom. * The Trump administration separated...
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Thursday Afternoon Links!
* Mark Z. Danielewski has written a pilot for a potential House of Leaves TV series. It’s good! The question of adapting the novel wound up being a minor subtheme in our discussion of the book in my...
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So Here’s Everything You Missed While You Were Paying Attention to the...
* It was an absolutely crazy month trying to get the final proofs locked down, but The Cambridge History of Science Fiction has an Amazon page and a publication date: November 30, 2018. Thanks to...
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Train Travel Day, Which Means A Whole Trainload of Links
* Two talks down, two to go! My Worlding SF keynote is archived at Facebook Live, but my “Superheroes vs. the Climate” talk got pulled down due to the Funny or Die video I played during my...
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Wednesday Morning Links!
* I see this kind of entrapment everywhere in the neoliberal order. In my own field of academia, I think of how we tell students that college is the only path to a liveable life, leading them to...
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Another Day of Extreme Cold, Another Link Post
* CFP: ASLE co-sponsored roundtable at MLA 2020: Indigenizing the Future: (Re)Imagining the Future of the Environment. Jan. 9-12 2020 Seattle, WA. Deadline March 1. * CFP: The State of the...
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A Million Billion Links, Forever and Ever
* I don’t think I’ve even seen anything that sums up academic labor as well as this image. * I’ve been deposed, but SFRA soldiers on: SFRA Review #327 is out, this time with a special devoted to papers...
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