We are fast approaching our May 31st deadline for submissions for our open mic event! You can still attend and read at the event if you don't submit something, but this is a chance for you to secure your spot!

You can find more details in our CFP here:
crsfhome.home.blog/call-for-paper…

I recently wrote a piece about Netflix’s adaptation of ‘The Three-Body Problem’ for The Conversation Anna Lou Walker Despite its obvious flaws, particularly like issues with CR and how it handles Ye Wenjie’s character, it’s definitely worth watching!

What a thought-provoking panel discussion! And it was great having you join us Xueting ❤️

I have two entries in this great resource which is now available. Great work Mark Bould and Steven Shaviro! mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983091/…

I reviewed Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki ✨. Read it. 💕
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It's that time of year again! We have just uploaded our call for papers! This year CRSF will be taking place 3-5 July and our theme is growth crsfhome.home.blog/call-for-paper…

We will be hosting a film screening and panel discussion of 'The Wandering Earth 2' at the British Film Institute on the 3rd of Feb. The event is free and open to the public. Registration required (see below link). Hope to see many of you there!
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I'm happy to share that my paper, titled “Towards a Daoist Futurity: Aquatic Posthumanism in Han Song’s Red Ocean,” has been published in the latest issue of Extrapolation Read more from here if you are interested liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/extr/curre…

New in our PDX office, ARCs of Ben Ehrenreich's Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time, layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences into a stunning reckoning of our current moment.

In stores July, 2020.
bit.ly/desertnotebooks

A fantastic, well-thought out talk by Cristina C. Diamant titled You Do Not Recognise the Dangerous Bodies: Imperialist Moral Panics in Jeanette Winterson’s Technogothic Writings. Congrats, Cristina! I also got to talk her about Buffy and Charmed with her afterwards ❤️

Excited that I’m doing my Neurodiversity/Dr Who show “Bigger on the Inside” again-with a post-show discussion about the 60th anniversary Dr Who shows (which we’ll hopefully have watched!) & the future of neurodiversity!

Weds 29th November in Newcastle. Link below:

I will be presenting my paper on 'Restless Bodies in Speculative Fiction' at the 2023 NEAAS this Saturday. I'm very excited to travel to Wellesley College for the first time!

New #CFP : Anthropocene Gothic

Inviting articles that explore Anthropocenic perspectives & their multifarious presence in Gothic texts.

Proposal of 500 words, for chapters of 6-7000 words, due 30 November 2023.

More details ➡️ globalgoth.org/blog/cfp-anthr…

#Ecogothic #GothsAssemble

CFP: Screening Speculative Animals (Science Fiction Film and Television special issue, abstracts due Oct 2)

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/docu…

Soooo......we have some news 👀 Coming Feb 2024!

Our ‘Troubling Utopia’ research series continues with ‘South Asian Futurisms’, led by artist & writer Shezad Dawood 🤩☺️🫶🏼✊🏾🌏!!! Further details & registration! 👇🏼 #decolonise #anotherworldispossible #utopianow

🚀 Join our co-director Rachel Hill for tonight's screening and discussion of The Expanse!

SYMPOSIUM: Extra-terrestrial ethnographies: Fieldwork for the new space age
18 and 19 September 2023
In-person at UCL Anthropology, London
Co-hosted by ETHNO-ISS and Social Studies of Outer Space

Register and find further info below 🛰️
UCL Centre for Outer Space Studies UCL Space Domain

ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

🕸️ RE-TRACE / RE-WIRE ⛓️

🎧 Join us Monday, 28 August 2023, from 19:00 (London time) for a session moderated by our co-directors Cristina C. Diamant and Francis Gene-Rowe.
💌 Contact us for a Zoom link, as well as if you need any assistance.
📚 Reading list:
lsfrc.co.uk/reading-group/…

I’m really honored to have been awarded an Honorable Mention for the SFRA Innovative Research Award for my article, “In Vitro Meat and Science Fiction” in Extrapolation Liverpool University Press. Definitely in good company with Pawel Frelik, who was awarded the proper award! Science Fiction Research Association Review