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By Anna Winter on November 19, 2010
I’m currently on the organising committee for Swancon Thirty Six, Perth’s annual SF convention, which will also be Natcon Fifty, the fiftieth annual Australian convention. The following call for papers may be of interest to LP readers. It would be [...]
Posted in Culture, Perth | Tagged conventions, natcon, retro-futurism, science fiction, speculative fiction, swancon |
By Guest Poster on October 13, 2009
The latest installment in an occasional series on speculative fiction by guest poster patrickg: Distant Suns: Nuncupatory questions. Any other writer with Jack Vance’s bibliography (well over fifty novels), and his years of activity, would be a legend in the [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing | Tagged Book review, fantasy, Jack Vance, Lyonesse, science fiction, sf, speculative fiction |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 23, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2843867562_305155f1f5_o.jpg" Sadly, J. G. Ballard has died. An enormous literature has appeared online paying tribute to his life and work. Noteable, I thought, was an article in Salon by Simon Reynolds, who treats Ballard as a fabulist of ideas, [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, International, Music, Photography, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Apocalypse, Autopsy of the new millennium, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Culture, dystopia, J. G. Ballard, literature, Music, post-punk, science fiction, Simon Reynolds, speculative fiction |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 13, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/morgan.jpg" align=left The latest entry in an occasional series on speculative fiction – Distant Suns. A little while ago, I was having a friendly disagreement on Facebook about the merits of Bruce Sterling‘s science fiction, touching on his expertise [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Imperialism, Politics, Sociology, Technology, War | Tagged Altered Carbon, Book review, Books, Writers & Writing, Broken Angels, Bruce Sterling, consciousness, corporatism, cultural studies, cyberpunk, genre fiction, identity, John Pilger, literary studies, Noam Chomsky, noir, personality, Politics, Pulp Fiction, review, Richard K. Morgan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, Sociology, speculative fiction, subjectivity, Takeshi Kovacs, transhumanism, War, Writers & Writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/doomsday460.jpg" align=left Part of the whole “death of the newspaper” narrative arc (though not the current focus on Google as a supposedly evil aggregator, driven by the commercial interests of news corporations) is the purported death of the critic. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Consumerism, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged action movies, audiences, canon, cinema, content creation, creative industries, cultural economics, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, culture industries, David and Margaret, Doomsday, dvd, Fenella Kernebone, Film, film criticism, IMDB, internet, John Howkins, marketing, Media, movies, new media, newspapers, post-apocalyptic, print, review, reviewers, reviews, rhona mitra, science fiction, Sociology, user generated content, user reviews, web |
By Kim on March 24, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/lovelace.jpg" align=left It’s Ada Lovelace Day – a day dedicated to blogging about women in science and technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Feminism, History, Science, Technology | Tagged cultural studies, Feminism, fiction, Isaac Asimov, representation, Robot novels, Science, science fiction, Susan Calvin, Technology, Women |
By Guest Poster on February 18, 2009
Distant Suns: Caveat Oriens Chen. To stand still. To gallop at full speed. Wan. A small mouth. Some say a large mouth. Ch’he. Devoid of intelligence, deficiency of wit, silly, idiotic. Also used for borrowing and returning books. Pee. A [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing | Tagged Barry Hughart, Book review, Bridge of Bridges, Chinese mythology, fantasy, mythology, science fiction, speculative fiction |
By Kim on February 8, 2009
The SFnal post of the year (so far) has to be Shannan Palma’s “How to know if you’re reading a bad book” at the Feminist SF Blog. Well worth reading! A couple of related posts – buying into the whole [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Feminism | Tagged Books, Writers & Writing, coins, criticism, cultural field, cultural studies, fantasy, feminist sf, I Ching, image, John Birmingham, literature, Philip K. Dick, photo, picture, Pierre Bourdieu, Sam Jordison, science fiction, sf, Shannan Palma, speculative fiction, Writers & Writing |
By Kim on December 3, 2008
Pirate by ~Loserbabooser on deviantART I’m not at all so sure that the connection between current crisis and future speculation (or speculative futures) is as straightforward as Felix Gilman suggests at Ecstatic Days, but I find these questions quite the [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Books, Writers & Writing, Climate change, Culture, Developing world, Disasters, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Poverty, Security, Urbanism, War | Tagged Climate change, Dickens, Felix Gilman, futures, genre fiction, global financial crisis, Jeff VanderMeer, literary imagination, literature, pirates, resource wars, science fiction, speculative fiction, steam punk, subgenres, urban fantasy, writing |
By Kim on November 23, 2008
45 years old today. Tigtog has a link rich and interesting post commemorating the anniversary at Hoyden.
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged 45th, anniversary, bbc whoverse, birthday, doctor-who, popular culture, science fiction, Television, TV |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 15, 2008
As those folks who are my friends on Facebook are no doubt aware, I successfully defended my PhD thesis at my final seminar on Thursday in the Humanities Program at QUT. That’s a milestone I’m really happy to have reached, [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Education, Life, Sociology, The Web | Tagged book reviews, Books, Writers & Writing, dissertation, fantasy, holiday reading, humanities, locus, phd, QUT, reading, science fiction, seminar, sf blogosphere, Sociology, speculative fiction, thesis, viva, Writers & Writing, zines |
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