https://pompandintertext.com/2017/02/11/book-review-octavia-butlers-bloodchild-and-other-stories/
http://aaaaarg.fail/upload/ursula-k-le-guin-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas.pdf
Why Time Travel? An article about La Jetee poses the question Chris Marker's La Jetee is timeless. Article here
Dystopian Dreams; How science fiction predicted the future
Feminist – or let’s say gender-questioning – science fiction asks insistently, through careful construction of different societies, how much of what we think now, today, in generic western culture about men and women is innate in the human species and how much is just invented. And if we’ve invented it then could we, for better or worse, invent it differently?
Queer Theory without Antinormativity
https://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/page/3/?s
Speculative or Science Fiction
Cue the shot heard round the genre — Atwood’s appalling claim on BBC Breakfast that science fiction is no more than “talking squids in outer space,” a betrayal viewed by fans as second only to the 1986 SNL skit in which William Shatner told a convention’s worth of Trekkies to “get a life!” Atwood’s attempts at damage control channeled the resulting outrage into a question of semantics — the difference between “science fiction”, which “has monsters and spaceships” and “speculative fiction”, which “could really happen”.
Perhaps Atwood was attempting to align herself with the “mundane SF” movement, a group of writers who vowed in their 2004 manifesto to produce a “no interstellar travel, no Martians” brand of science fiction. But her choice of term — “speculative fiction,” a charged phrase historically used by science fiction avant-gardists to elevate their plausible, “serious” science fiction above what they considered trashy space-opera pulps — only engendered further controversy.
https://mediaecologiesresonate.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/politics-of-affect/ Dr. Amit S. Rai I support a pluralistic, anti-xenophobic, democratic, socialist politics. Why is it then that I find this naming more a blockage in method rather than a strategy toward radical transformation?
Let us be clear: if we agree with Lauren Berlant and her interlocutors at Variant, we do well to have some clarity about the feeling of disgust that animates radical, experimental politics today.
Shall we call this politics affective autonomista-ism? I don’t much care what we call it. I think the way we practice it is confused, bound up as it is with forms of “progressive” ressentiment and representational critique. Mixing social constructivism with psychoanalysis and slapping on the label of affect falls prey to what Spinoza called a “confused idea”—a notion that is not adequate to its active and potential capacities.
Amitav Ghosh. Writing the Unimaginable
Also a video: Ghosh writes about how fiction that is about environment is inevitably classified as science fiction.
Technology- Rudy Rucker- Mundane SF
Rudy Rucker, Mundane SF response
The basic idea of Mundane SF is to avoid the more unrealistic of the classic SF tropes—or power chords, as I like to call them. Geoff feels that faster than light travel, human-alien encounters, time travel, alternate universes, and telepathy are absolutely impossible. He feels that if we draw on these unlikely power chords, we are feeding people wish-fulfillment pap.
235 A novel online (interactive)
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