Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Last lecture, 2017

A memory of the future.

The shape of things to come.


The world is amazing.

Modern tech helps people.

Modern tech could kill us all.

Modern experimental science helps us understand ourselves.

Modern tech creates beauty.

Modern tech hurts us all.


Kate Elliott is right.

One governing metaphor for sf in general.

One complement to that metaphor.

New worlds, far-future or otherwise.



Fabula and syuzet: a refresher.

One subgenre of sf.

Another subgenre of sf.

What happens to time?

A detailed but outdated nonacademic Ted Chiang fan site.

An interview with Ted Chiang from 2010 (at Boing Boing).

A more recent interview with Chiang (Asian American Writers Workshop). Another interview (Clarion Writers' Workshop).

Nnedi Okorafor clarifies some sources.
Nnedi Okorafor generally.
A good essay on "Binti" and its contexts.

The Clarion Workshop and the associated Clarion Foundation.

Want more book-oriented SF? Go here. Or, closer to home, here.

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