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Chipping at Wonder Woman

  • Bryan Washington
  • September 8, 2014
Samuel “Chip” Delany’s penned the landmark 800 page science fiction tri-sexual space novel, any number of short stories set through all corners of the galaxy, and a craft book Junot…
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Straight out of Kafka

  • Casey Dayan
  • September 5, 2014
All for a novel? Eighth grade school teacher Patrick McLaw was placed on leave by the Dorchester County Board of Education and is currently being investigated by the County’s Sheriff,…
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Delving Head-First into Wonder

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 21, 2014
Often times readers dismiss graphic novels as too unrealistic to posses literary merit. That would be a mistake, argues Stefan A. Slater at The Airship, because reality isn’t inherently part…
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Digital Age Fuels Sci-Fi Short Stories

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 13, 2014
The digital era has brought on a new golden age of science fiction. Electronic books, self-driving cars, and video phones may not seem too fictional these days, but technology like…
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“Black to the Future”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 27, 2014
Black to the future was/is a radical, dangerous, and daring dream—an impossibility. Science fiction and fantasy (sf&f) is a rehearsal of the impossible, an ideal realm for redefinition and reinvention.…
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How Accurate Is Chang-Rae Lee’s New Novel?

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 13, 2014
Perhaps American sci-fi is made to tell immigrant stories. And maybe there’s a reason why, during a 24-hour travel back to Taipei, I felt welcomed home by the collective voice…
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Orphans by Ben Tanzer

  • Brian Gresko
  • November 4, 2013
Brian Gresko reviews Ben Tanzer's ORPHANS today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Buy Robert Heinlein’s Bed

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 9, 2013
“How would you like to own Heinlein’s ‘second-best bed’?” asks this eBay listing, which is apparently legitimate. The bed was designed and built by the sci-fi writer himself, who built…
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The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To

  • M. Rebekah Otto
  • July 29, 2010
D. C. Pierson’s adolescent heroes hope for a future in which “‘existence engineer’ and ‘clone wrangler’ will be viable career paths.”
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

  • Seth Fischer
  • July 11, 2010
“How to write sci-fi erotica: Imagine what Mary Shelley would write after fucking Pris from Blade Runner.” At PANK, Kirsty Logan wants to tell you how to write genre. What are…
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Using Genre As A Tool

  • Michael Berger
  • February 4, 2010
“But the idea that genre is a tool, not a prophecy goes beyond combating genre snobbery, I think — it’s actually helpful for writers to think about when crafting their…
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