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I May Have Committed A Little Light Treason Links

* thisisfine.jpg: An iceberg the size of Delaware has broken off Antarctica. My kids are three and five. Just 90. And you’re a little late. * Blogger completely debunks claim Amelia Earhart was a...

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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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Finely Curated May Fifth Links (Aged to Perfection)

* I’ve had a couple of short pieces of writing go up in the last few weeks: a piece on the often overlooked epilogue to The Handmaid’s Tale at LARB and a followup piece on Infinity War and franchise...

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Tuesday Links!

* Eric Schneiderman will probably have resigned by the time this post goes up. (UPDATE: He did!) * She likened the National Collegiate Athletic Association to overseers of a system similar to slavery...

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Thursday Links!

* Call for papers: Auscultations | Occultations, Listening to the Occult * On the Architecture of the Folk Game: The Case of ‘The Floor is Lava.’ * Antifascism and the left. * There were like 15...

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Thursday Links!

* The gritty reality of this world: Marquette University student commencement address from Ben Zellmer, MU Health Sciences ’18. * The people who buy into the idea of eugenics and racial supremacy—the...

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Tuesday Afternoon Links!

* CFP: ASLE 2019: Paradise on Fire. CFP: Trans Futures. CFP: Superheroes and Disability: Unmasking Ableism in the Media. * The return of the MA in SF at Liverpool. * American Literature 90.2: “Queer...

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Saturday Morning Post-SFRA Links! All! Tabs! Closed!

* SFRA is over, but ICFA season has only just begun! The theme for ICFA 2019 is “Politics and Conflicts” and the special guests are Mark Bould and G. Willow Wilson. * And keep saving your pennies for...

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612 Frozen Hellscape Links for All Your Frozen Hellscape Needs

* In case you missed it, I posted my syllabi for the spring last week: Classics of Science Fiction, Game Studies, and Methods of Inquiry: The Mind. And just in time for my games course: Marquette...

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Thursday Night Links!

* CFP: Essays on SyFy Channel Original Films. * How Milwaukee became so segregated and why it matters when it comes to crime. Busing for Integration Worked in Milwaukee—Until It Didn’t. It’s not just...

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Monday Morning Links!

* Now this I’d watch. * Extrapolation 60.2 is up, with articles on Wonder Woman and feminism, rape culture and fantasy, the various versions of The Three-Body Problem, and a symposium on the state of...

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Wednesday Night Links!

* Readers in a frenzy as Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments released early. Why It Matters That Amazon Shipped Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” a Week Early. Look for my review of The Testaments in...

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Friday Night Links!

* I have two SF reviews coming out in LARB the next few weekends, the first on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and the other on Cixin Liu’s Supernova Era. Keep an eye out! * In the meantime: Margaret...

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Friday Night Links!

* All is proceeding as I have foreseen: Virginia Declares State of Emergency After Armed Militias Threaten to Storm the Capitol. * How Science Fiction Imagined the 2020s. * Watchmen’s future unsure at...

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Thursday Doesn’t Even Start Links

* Free issues of Extrapolation and Science Fiction Film and Television at LUP include the suburbs, the superheroes, utopia, dystopia, Octavia Butler, my piece on the Lorax and apocalypse as children’s...

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Monday Morning Links!

* CFP: Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics, Cappadocia University, Thu, Jan 14, 2021 – Fri, Jan 15, 2021. CFP: Science Fictions, Popular Cultures. * I have made...

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