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by John Clute

20 May 2013

It is not easy—it should really no longer be feasible—to write a tale set in the twentieth century that is not a tale about the twentieth century.

Movements: So what do you think of my story where I made use of another person’s culture?

by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

6 May 2013

I’ve recently spent a lot of time listening to conversations and engaging in discussions about, among other things, non-western SF and how SF is so white.

Loving the Alien: David Bowie's History of Science Fiction Film

by Genevieve Valentine

22 April 2013

In David Bowie's most recent music video for "The Stars Are Out Tonight," directed by Floria Sigismondi, he and Tilda Swinton play outwardly content suburban marrieds whose darker sides emerge in the fantastical faces of their rock-star mirror-selves, undergoing a mutation from the conventional to the alien, and confronting the transformative trap (and trappings) of fame.

REG and Alter Leave The Couch

by Mark Plummer

15 April 2013

Richard E. Geis died on 4 February in Portland, Oregon. He was 85.

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