Gerry Canavan
@gerrycanavan
Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.
my face when my entire feed is suddenly people taking Francesca Hong to the woodshed
Upcoming publication! TEACHING SCIENCE FICTION from MLA Press. www.mla.org/Publications...
SFFTV 19.2 is up, with articles on Dune, The Peripheral, Predator, Quatermass and the Pit, and Cyberpunk 2077! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/19/2
Christopher Nolan whenever it's time to make a billion dollars off an idea for a movie that you wouldn't think would make a billion dollars
#3 in the Mass Markets series is in the world! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791956...
Great review of REACTIONARY WORLDBUILDING at LARB, with a really key last paragraph: lareviewofbooks.org/article/reac...
The great Ted Chiang on LLMs as speculative fictions. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Suddenly reminded of my essay from the LUMINESCENT THREADS book, "Disrespecting Octavia"...
hey did you guys know there's actually a 25th amendment to the constitution? it's true!