What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the August installment of this column. The Power of the List. I adore lists. I’ve compiled lists of science fiction stories on my site about generation ship stories, immortality (abandoned), overpopulation (abandoned), and sports and games (abandoned). I religiously update my SF Novel and … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVI| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Rough instrumentation, trash horn and a big burly Swedish delivery push Slutavverkning’s Skräp EP to its most chaotic outer bounds. The post Stockholm’s Jazz-Punk Rebels: Slutavverkning Drops Skräp EP appeared first on Discipline Mag.| Discipline Mag
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the July installment of this column. One of my favorite forms of SF scholarship is careful identification of a intellectual genealogy–tracing what an author read and engaged in dialogue with. Authors are readers. They also can’t escape references and textual traces of what … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXV| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Margo Herr’s cover for the 1st edition 3.75/5 (collated rating: Good) Alien sex dolls. Carpet stain entities constructing love-nests. Underground retirement community entertainment. Jack Dann…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Recent years have brought significant developments in the research on the neo-avant-garde beginnings of environmental art in Poland.(Among them is an upcoming book by Magdalena Worłowska on the beginnings of environmentally engaged art in Poland. See: Magdalena Worłowska, Początki sztuki ekologicznie zaangażowanej w Polsce (Warsaw: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, 2025).) The scholarly interest in the rise of ecological awareness in the country ...| ARTMargins Online
Today I’m joined again by Rachel S. Cordasco, the creator of the indispensable website and resource Speculative Fiction in Translation, for the fifth installment of our series exploring non-English language SF worlds. Last time we covered Kathinka Lannoy’s strange (and unsuccessful) Dutch language story “Drugs’ll Do You” (1978, trans. 1981). Please note that Rachel and … Continue reading Short Story Review: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, tra...| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Furry art beyond figure drawing 264 pages, softcover, available for US$35 from the Collegeville store Review by Jack Newhorse (Tom Geller) of a graphic novel by TUVVIN (Clyde Kopernik, who granted …| Dogpatch Press
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the June installment of this column. I adore teaching American History for college credit. Every summer I ponder what to change and improve. And this year, I want to integrate a few science fiction stories! My 1950s unit in the spring semester could be … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIV| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Note: My read but “waiting to be reviewed pile” is growing. Short rumination/tangents/impressions are a way to get through the stack before my memory and will fades. My website partially serve…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Interview with James George Thirlwell, known as JG Thirlwell, Clint Ruin and Foetus, is an Australian multi-instrumentalist ...| Retrofuturista
Will Blythe at Esquire asks, “In the golden age of magazines, short stories reigned supreme. Has the digital revolution killed their cultural relevance?” Wearily, I started his essay expecting more of the same, and lo, finding it: Computers and the Internet, he contends, has done much to destroy literary fiction. By this point, I’m surprised […]| Jim Nelson
East European art scenes have long invited mostly negative comparisons with their West European counterparts. During the Cold War era, external perceptions often blurred the many differences between state socialisms and their related cultural fields. For their part, local artists and art historians in the countries of Eastern Europe criticized such homogenizing accounts, pointing instead to the many, and wide-ranging, Western connections of individual artists or artist groups with the West, a...| ARTMargins
