Clik here to view.
Talking Science Fiction with Neil deGrasse Tyson on StarTalk Radio
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jason Ellis in Dr. Tyson’s Office at the AMNH Planetarium. I had the distinct honor to join the conversation about science fiction and society on Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Special Issue on Star Wars: The Force Awakens Published in NANO: New American...
Special Issue Co-Editors Jason W. Ellis and Sean Scanlan are pleased to announce the publication of NANO: New American Notes Online issue 12 on Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Narrative, Characters,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2nd Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium Was a Great Success
With nearly 100 registered attendees and more unregistered, the 2nd Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on Extrapolation, Interdisciplinarity, and Learning on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 was a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My City Tech Nucleus Article, “Multimodal Writing and Sci-Fi” with OpenLab
I wrote a brief article titled “Multimodal Writing and Sci-Fi” published in the Winter 2017 issue of Nucleus about how I use City Tech’s homegrown, open-publishing platform called OpenLab in my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video Tour of the City Tech Science Fiction Collection
Over the weekend, I put together a short video highlighting the size and arrangement of the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. Check it out embedded below. Filed under: City Tech, Science Fiction...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Engagement, Learning and Inspiration in SF: Use Cases for the City Tech...
I delivered this presentation at the James Madison University Pulp Studies Symposium on October 7, 2016. The video above shows my presentation’s images, and the script of my talk is included below....
View ArticleClik here to view.
CFP: Symposium on Amazing Stories: Inspiration, Learning, and Adventure in...
Symposium on Amazing Stories: Inspiration, Learning, and Adventure in Science Fiction Date: Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, 9:00AM-5:00PM Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 9:00AM-5:00PM Location: New York City...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CFP: NANO Special Issue: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Narrative, Characters,...
I’m co-editing (with my colleagues Alan Lovegreen and Sean Scanlan) a special issue of NANO New American Notes Online that explores Star Wars: The Force Awakens as narrative, character, media, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Customized LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon 75105 from The Force Awakens
Introduction After watching Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens for the first of four times (so far), I purchased the new LEGO Millennium Falcon 75105 (LEGO website page and Brickset model page)....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Before Cyberpunk: Science Fiction and Early Personal Computing (for the 13th...
For the New York City College of Technology, CUNY’s 13th Annual Research Poster Session, I created the poster embedded above to illustrate my current research on pre-cyberpunk science fiction (SF)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Site Update: Course Syllabi and Assignments Added Under Teaching Section
Over the weekend, I added new pages under the Teaching menu option for the courses that I have taught, am teaching, and will teach. Each course page includes descriptions, syllabi, and assignments...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Living in the Present with Vintage Computers, and Reading the Past as a...
Having just finished William Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties (1999) and thus concluding his Bridge Trilogy, I cannot say with anything resembling certainty that I have read or not read these novels...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Do We Call Their Union: On Reading William Gibson’s Idoru
Continuing with William Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy, I read Idoru (1996) this past Sunday. My sense of deja vu was as pronounced as when I read Virtual Light, but I still cannot bring myself to say with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Déjà vu or Reality: On Reading William Gibson’s Virtual Light
Over the weekend, I began reading William Gibson’s “Bridge Trilogy” beginning with his novel, Virtual Light (1993). Reading the novel, I had a tremendous sense of déjà vu that was impossible to shake....
View ArticleClik here to view.
2015 Science Fiction Research Association Conference Wrap-Up
Stony Brook University, Charles Wang Center The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) held its forty-sixth annual conference on June 25-28, 2015 at Stony Brook University in the Charles B. Wang...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Science Fiction, LMC3214, Summer 2014: Exploring Cultural Connections Through...
The Millennium Falcon circles Tech Tower. Before closing out the last class that I would teach at Georgia Tech as a Brittain Fellow, I brought a great big container of LEGO bricks to class for my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Minireview: The Reconcilers Graphic Novel Volume 1
The Reconcilers Vol. 1. While Y and I were sitting for several hours in an airplane–on the ground, I had the pleasure of meeting the writer, actor, and director Erik Jensen. After I mentioned to him...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Atlanta Science Fiction Society Talk on Teaching SF at Georgia Tech, Tomorrow
Atlanta Science Fiction Society logo. If you’re in the area tomorrow, you can catch my talk on teaching science fiction at Georgia Tech at the Atlanta Science Fiction Society meeting at the Sandy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Recovered Writing, Unpublished Essay, Michael Bay’s Transformers and the New...
This is the sixty-first post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Recovered Writing, PhD in English, Comprehensive Exam 3 of 3, Fiction of...
This is the sixtieth post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
View Article
![ONEW – KAKERA -Unmei no Piece- – EP [iTunes Plus M4A]](http://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music221/v4/d0/fb/86/d0fb86a5-ba60-4bea-41fb-7f54c125f518/VEATP-45908.jpg/296x296bb.webp)
