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Day-Old Weekend Reading, Still Perfectly Good
* Deadline getting very close: CFP: Foundation, special issue on Science Fiction and Videogames (30 Apr 2014). * CFP on Iain M. Banks. CFP for the Journal of Ghosthumanities. * “It Continues Not To...
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Nothing Good Will Happen Any More
breaking news kids your parents and grandparents are monsters gleefully destroying your future for slight increases in quarterly profits— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 12, 2014 The collapse of...
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Tuesday Links!
* One last bit of self-promotion for my Octavia Butler series at LARoB, reviewing the forthcoming eBook Unexpected Stories and the never-to-be-a-book Parable of the Trickster. * Meanwhile, my new best...
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Wednesday Links!
* I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired...
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Happening Now: Thursday Links!
* CFP: Resistance and Dissent in America. * Another piece on Octavia Butler’s Unexpected Stories at LARoB: Noah Berlatsky on Octavia Butler’s “Unexpected Stories” and Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the...
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A Few for Friday
* All Your Nightmares Are Real: Massive Mayfly Emergence in Wisconsin. * So, I would like to suggest the following as a starting point: we should highlight the accomplishments of “high-profile” faculty...
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These Are Monday Links; There Are Many Like Them, But These Are Mine
* If you’ve been following Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, there’s a new chapter out. * A One-Item List For Tenure-Track Faculty: Do the job you were hired to do. * The next wave of...
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Thursday Links
* Call for Applications: The Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. * American SF and the Other. Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975. This tendency has been remarkably strong in American SF. The only social...
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Wednesday Links! Seriously a Lot!
* Like C.P. Snow’s two cultures of the humanities and the sciences, a new bimodal view of higher education is becoming increasingly important at the start of the twenty-first century: one that sees the...
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All the Weekend Links (100%)
* Jaimee has one of her phobia poems up at Drunken Boat’s “funny” issue: “Derrida Eats a Dorito.” * CFPs: ICFA 36: The Scientific Imagination. Joss Whedon’s Comics. Assemble! The Making and Re-Making...
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Friday Links!
* I’ve pointed out before that even as academic institutions are more and more distrusted, professors oddly retain a good deal of public respect. We have it because we’re free: free to say the...
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