Browse: Home / speculative fiction
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 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 Guest Poster on January 10, 2009
A while back, I wrote a series of posts on speculative fiction – Distant Suns. Commenter patrickg liked the posts and wanted to try his own hand at one. So I’m happy to host the first of his continuation of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged blogs, Book review, Books, Writers & Writing, cultural studies, fantasy, online games, popular culture, Robert E. Howard, speculative fiction, sword and sorcery, The Complete Chronicles of Conan, Writers & Writing, 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 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 |
Recent Comments