And if you enjoy that, you'll certainly enjoy the forthcoming online conference from the Science Fiction Foundation on "Women in the Black Fantastic":
#ScienceFiction #FeministScienceFiction
https://www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about
Come along to Backlisted Live at Foyles, where we will be discussing "Parable of the Sower" by #OctaviaEButler! #ScienceFiction #FeministScienceFiction
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler ✓
Mission Child by Maureen F. McHugh ✓
#BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #FeministScienceFiction #FeministSpeculativeFiction
#worldbuilding
#Dystopia #sf #00s
Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own @arielkroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.
It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?
*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.
#solarpunk #solarpunkpresentspodcast #fiction #scienceFiction #apocalypse #Postapocalypse #academia #SFscholarship #SciFi #SciFiScholarship #SFStories #FeministScienceFiction #storytelling #SolarpunkStorytelling #Utopia #FutureFiction #PositiveFutures
https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=9h6QeKJ8Ghf0k6G-
Have a sneak peek at what's coming from Gold SF! @GoldsmithsPress #ScienceFiction #FeministScienceFiction
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GP4/goldsmiths-press--gold-sf/
Other things that keep me busy: I'm on the editorial board of Gold SF, an imprint of @GoldsmithsPress which aims to publish new voices in intersectional #FeministScienceFiction. We have four titles out right now, with a fifth coming in September: http://mitpress.mit.edu/series/goldsmiths-press-gold-sf/
You can find submission guidelines here:
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/submissions/
Gold SF is a new imprint of Goldsmiths Press, dedicated to discovering and publishing new intersectional feminist science fiction. Science fiction looks to the future and tries to imagine new ways of being in the world. Goldsmiths Press is a natural home for speculative fiction, and this new imprint promotes voices answering to the unprecedented times in which we find ourselves now living.
Beautiful new books coming soon from #GoldSF… and the whole set together!
#WhatDougsReading : Today Hugless Douglas is enjoying some top-notch feminist #ScienceFiction with the paperback of Laura Lam and Elizabeth May's Seven Mercies from Gollancz
#Books #ChooseBookshops #SevenDevils #FeministScienceFiction #bookshops #HuglessDouglas #NewReleases #NewBooks ##librairie #Edinburgh ~Edimbourg #livres
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