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Hugo and Nebula Anthology 2013, CD-ROM Source for New Project
I was very happy this week to receive a used copy of the Hugo and Nebula Anthology 1993 from Amazon. This early ebook technology by ClariNet is chocked full of content, including a hypertext version of...
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Notes from the State of Black Science Fiction Film Festival 2013
State of Black Science Fiction Festival Poster Tonight, it was standing room only in Georgia Tech’s Hall Building Room 102 for the 2013 State of Black Science Fiction Film Festival. Co-presented by the...
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Minister Faust, the Canadian Science Fiction Writer, Will Give Free Readings...
Minister Faust Flyer I’m looking forward to next week. Minister Faust is making a special visit to Georgia Tech for two readings. These are free events. I highly recommend science fiction folk to...
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Paul Williams, Former Literary Executor of Philip K. Dick’s estate, Has...
Philip K. Dick, Christopher Dick, and Paul Williams. Photo from Boo-Hooray Gallery http://www.boo-hooray.com/paul-williams/ I just learned via Mark Bould on Facebook that Paul Williams, author of the...
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Notes and Photos from Minister Faust’s LMC Distinguished Speaker Presentation...
Minister Faust in the Ferst Room. On Monday, April 1, Minister Faust, the Canadian science fiction writer, delivered a presentation and performed readings from his published fiction to a full audience...
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Register Now for My Science Fiction Class at Georgia Tech, LMC 3214, SS...
Hallway poster for my first Science Fiction class. Photo of the Alien xenomorph captured at Seattle’s fantastic EMP Museum. This summer, I will teach Georgia Tech’s Science Fiction class (LMC 3214). If...
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Science Fiction, LMC 3214 at Georgia Tech, Summer 2013 Begins (Syllabus...
SF vs Sci-Fi Brainstorming. Today, I began teaching my first Science Fiction class at Georgia Tech (LMC 3214 SS2). It is a short-session class, so my students and I will explore the history of SF in...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214 Continues: Frankenstein Vol 1 and Active Learning
My notes on what my students taught the class. During today’s Science Fiction class, we began discussing volume 1 of Mary Shelley’s 1831 edition of Frankenstein. After a brief lecture on Mary Shelley,...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214 Continues: Definitions of SF Active Learning...
For today’s class, I had planned on us spending about half the class on definitions of SF before continuing our discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Happily, nearly all of my students showed up...
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Science Fiction, LMC 3214: Concluding Frankenstein and Learning Exercise on...
Frames and science saturation. In today’s class, we finished discussing Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by discussing Volumes II and III and coving some major themes. To begin class, I wanted to have all...
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Science Fiction, LMC 3214: Proto-SF, Voyages Extraordinaires, and Scientific...
Today’s class was chocked full of lecture and discussion. We began by going over the final paper assignment on applying definitions of science fiction to a single work of SF or SFnal that we did not...
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Science Fiction, LMC 3214: Pulp SF, Gernsback, CL Moore, and HP Lovecraft
In today’s class, we managed a whirlwind of material! Before discussing the assigned reading: CL Moore’s “Shambleau” and HP Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space,” I gave a lecture on the origins of...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214: Early SF Film Serials, Remediation and Media...
I began today’s class by showing them the first episode of the 1936 Flash Gordon film serial episode, “The Planet of Peril.” After having a taste for what I would lecture on in today’s class, I...
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Science Fiction, LMC 3214: Exam 1 and Lecture on Golden Age SF Part 1
Today, my students bravely wielded their pens and Blue Books to endure their first exam in our Science Fiction class. The exam covered Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through the early SF film serials. The...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214: Golden Age, Part 2 and SF Film Lecture
In today’s class, I covered large swaths of background material on Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, and Tom Godwin. Then, I gave the class a rough sketch of the development of SF film through the...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214: Forbidden Planet
Today, I showed my Science Fiction students the Fred M. Wilcox classic film from 1956, Forbidden Planet. Afterwards, I lectured about the tension that I see in the film between Golden Age emphasis on...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214: New Wave Lecture and Three Story Discussion
Today’s class was like an exclamation point in two ways. First, there was the long stroke of lecture. I lectured on the origins of the New Wave in New Worlds, Judith Merril’s England Swings SF, and...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214: Concluding New Wave SF with Philip K. Dick and Star...
In today’s class, I lectured on Philip K. Dick’s life (2-3-74) and work (characteristics: ontological, epistemological, entropy, empathy, religion, and the “little man”) to conclude my discussion of...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214: Lecture on Feminist SF and Readings by Zoline,...
For today’s class, my students came prepared to discuss three readings: Pamela Zoline’s “The Heat Death of the Universe” (New Worlds, July 1967), Joanna Russ’ “When It Changed” (Again, Dangerous...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214: Alien, Aliens, Giger
Today, we began watching James Cameron’s 1986 film Aliens, and I lectured on Ridley Scott’s earlier 1979 Alien and how these figure into feminist SF via their characters, themes, and source material:...
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