By Carter Kaplan Wave IX J.G. Ballard’s story “Studio 5, The Stars” appeared in Science Fantasy magazine in 1961. The story is set in “Vermilion Sands”, a desert art colony suggesting the post-war “hothouse” desert compounds created in the American Southwest by painters like Max Ernst and Georgia O’Keefe. In Ballard’s Vermillion Sands, art, artists, … Continue reading Wave IX: a compressed essay-review by Carter Kaplan→|
ISSN 2662-8562 ISSN 2662-8570 (electronic) Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon ISBN 978-3-031-71566-2 ISBN 978-3-031-71567-9 (eBook) With his latest work, Paul Kincaid looks criticall…| vector-bsfa.com
By Lynne Lumsden Green Astounding Science Fiction, January 1955 – She blinded me with science, And hit me with technology. Excerpt from ‘She Blinded Me With Science’ by Thomas Dolby – The concept of a ‘Spinster Scientist’ is an artefact of Western Society during the twentieth century. Women, historically, had to fight for the right … Continue reading The Stereotype of the Spinster Scientist→|
“Scavengers reign” (2023) Vector 302 is guest-edited by Yen Ooi and Stephen Oram, with Phoenix Alexander as the editor-in-chief. Zoefuturism takes its name from the Greek word for life,…| vector-bsfa.com
Tara Campbell is an award-winning writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse, and graduate of American University’s MFA in Creative Writing. Publication credits includ…| vector-bsfa.com
Published in Foundation 149 (winter 2024) edited by Paul March-Russell. Republished with permission. By Jo Lindsay Walton and Polina Levontin This article explores cultural and design dimensions of non-governmental voting systems, focusing on science fiction and fantasy (SFF) literary awards voted for by fans, with a focus on the British Science Fiction Awards. The design … Continue reading Gender, Democracy, and SF/F Literary Awards→|
A lo-fi, low-key critique of solarpunk By Jo Lindsay Walton Joyce Ch’ng’s ‘The Barricade’ (2024) is a solarpunk short story in which nothing much happens. The lack of incident is probably deliberat…| vector-bsfa.com
Dr. Marta F. Suarez Disco Elysium is a CRPG (Computer Role-Playing Game) developed by the Estonian game studio and publisher ZA/UM. Originally released in 2019, the game was re-released in 2021 as a “Final Cut” version with new voice acting and quests. The game’s main premise is to investigate a murder in the imagined city … Continue reading Review: Disco Elysium (2019), ZA/UM→|
By Eugen Bacon Undugu—it’s a Swahili term for kindredship. It’s not far off from “ujamaa,” a premise of sharing and togetherness that was President Julius Kambarage Nyerere’s socialist experiment when the United Republic of Tanzania first gained colonial independence. Ideally, ujamaa should have worked—it’s a beautiful and generous concept. In practice, it wasn’t quite the … Continue reading Undugu→|
By Ibtisam Ahmed Science fiction narratives all engage in an element of world-building, even if the descriptions are minimal. By their very nature, the settings are fictitious and, more often than…| vector-bsfa.com
By Nichole Nomura and Quinn Dombrowski From our print edition, Vector 298 Introduction “Computer, count some words” “The computer” – a character unnamed save its technological form – is one of the …| vector-bsfa.com