Serdar GüneşScience Fiction, Utopia, Futurism, Fantasy
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One of the Earliest Science Fiction Utopias Was a Protest Against Patriarchy
Over a century ago, Bengali Muslim writer Rokeya Hossain wrote a short story about a world run by women, fueled by solar power
Tanya Agathocleous
#scifi #sciencefiction #utopia
https://electricliterature.com/one-of-the-earliest-science-fiction-utopias-was-a-protest-against-patriarchy/
Illustrating the Future Imaginary
We asked artists to illustrate themselves or their indigenous communities seven, ten or twenty generations from now.
#scifi #sciencefiction #utopia
https://indigenousfutures.net/other/illustrating-the-future-imaginary/
Indigenous Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors You Should Be Checking For
A whole list of Indigenous Science Fiction and Fantasy writers!
https://blackgirlnerds.com/indigenous-sci-fi-and-fantasy-authors-you-should-be-checking-for/
Indigenous Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors You Should Be Checking For
From Comic Years written by Emily O'Donnell This past week as Columbus Day has been rebranded and restored by many communities as Indigenous People's Day — it's time to reflect on a list of indigenous sci-fi and fantasy authors to look for. Take a look at some of the prominent Native
The Islamic Roots Of Science Fiction
By Charlie Jane Anders
#islam #scifi #sciencefiction
#muslimfuturism
https://gizmodo.com/the-islamic-roots-of-science-fiction-1632693067
The Islamic Roots Of Science Fiction
You probably already knew that Islam was having a scientific golden age during Europe's middle ages, and making tons of scientific and medical discoveries. (Which is why we use words like "algebra.") But you might not know that some of the earliest proto-science fiction came from the Islamic world.
The Ruins of the Future: Speculative Fiction in Arabic
"#SOAS shifted the conversation around Arabic #scifi from lamenting the supposed lack of #Arabic texts in the genre to exploring nuanced ideas of dystopia and alternate temporalities."
https://arablit.org/2019/08/29/science-fiction-in-conversation-with-al-atlal/
This is the Muslim tradition of sci-fi and speculative fiction
Sci-fi is often thought a product of ‘Western imagination’ but the Muslim world imagines utopias and dystopias too.
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
#islam #futurism #sciencefiction
#scifi #muslimfuturism
https://aeon.co/ideas/think-sci-fi-doesnt-belong-in-the-muslim-world-think-again
Feminist Visions of Science and Utopia in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s ‘Sultana’s Dream’
Thomas Lewton
Imagine a World Without Prisons: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Superheroes, and Prison Abolition
by Walidah Imarisha
https://revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/2014/12/imagine-a-world-without-prisons/
Imagine a World Without Prisons: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Superheroes, and Prison Abolition | Revolution by the Book
Walidah Imarisha is the co-editor (along with adrienne maree brown) of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, a book we're publishing in April in collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. The project is a fascinating and exciting one, and we're looking forward to holding the final product in our hands (as are
Alternate History: A Muslim Al-Hajj Vladimir Lenin
"Thus I give you the life of the wandering sufi Al-Hajj Vladimir Lenin as imagined by the Russian artist Rinat Voligamsi from Ufa, Bashkiria. In this version of history Lenin gets tired of politics converts to Islam and becomes a sufi"
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
Exploring Black Feminist Futurism and Womanism with Suzi Analogue
How One 1920s Feminist Imagined Our Futuristic High-Tech World
"More electricity! More radium! More atoms!" Feminist futurism & the deceptive link between prosperity & emancipation
By Matt Novak
#feminism #futurism #sciencefiction #emancipation
https://gizmodo.com/how-one-1920s-feminist-imagined-our-futuristic-high-tec-1620153807
How One 1920s Feminist Imagined Our Futuristic High-Tech World
Josephine Daskam Bacon was an author known for her adventure serials that featured female protagonists. But in 1929, she took a break from her regular fiction writing and slipped on her futurist goggles for an article in Century magazine titled "In Nineteen Seventy-Nine." Bacon imagined just how much progress women…
Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant
Images of Empowerment in the Literary Cyborg
By Samantha Edmonds
https://lithub.com/reading-feminist-futurism-in-the-age-of-the-female-virtual-assistant/
Sultana’s Dream And Its Conception Of A Feminist Utopia
Rokeya Sakhawat Begum's work Sultana's Dream is a feminist attempt at imagining a feminist utopia, named Ladyland.
"Did you know that the first ever feminist science fiction story in India was written as early as 1905?"
By Deeksha Sharma
#feminism #utopia #sciencefiction
https://feminisminindia.com/2017/10/04/sultanas-dream-feminist-utopia/
Glimpse: Utopian Fiction Could Help Us Unlock the Bright Future We Never Imagined
We're drawn to narratives like Handmaid's Tale and Black Mirror. But they're not helping us create a better world.
by Luke Kingma
#sciencefiction #utopia #dystopia #futurism
https://futurism.com/glimpse-utopia-dystopia-science-fiction
Are we living in a Blade Runner world?
"Set in Los Angeles, November 2019, Blade Runner is no longer science fiction. It’s contemporary thriller."
by David M. Barnett about Blade Runner's (now contemporary) dystopia.
#BladeRunner #SciFi #Dystopia #Futurism #sciencefiction
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20191111-are-we-living-in-a-blade-runner-world
N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds
The sci-fi writer’s inventive, intricate novels have defied convention and sold millions of copies.
“Science fiction reaches into the future, the past, the human mind. It reaches out to other worlds... Is it really so limited, then, that it cannot reach into the lives of ordinary everyday humans who happen not to be white?”
By Raffi Khatchadourian
#sciencefiction #scifi
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/nk-jemisins-dream-worlds
This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch
There's Even a Word For Emotional Labor!
By Rebecca Romney
#Futurism #sciencefiction #scifi #feminism
https://lithub.com/this-science-fiction-novelist-created-a-feminist-language-from-scratch/
How ‘Blade Runner’ and Sci-Fi Made Everything Dystopian
"Science fiction, especially Blade Runner, has spawned so many dystopias that dystopia itself has become banal. We need a new utopianism that embraces the city"
By Manu Saadia @manusaadia
#sciencefiction #Dystopia #utopia #bladerunner #scifi
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-01/in-our-dystopian-times-why-not-strive-for-utopia
Fantasy And Sci-fi Are Leading The Way In More Racially-Diverse Casting
"In a world where there’s an elf doing magic at the next table, who’s going to care about your skin colour?"
Christian Harimanow
We should all be reading more Ursula Le Guin
Her novels imagine other worlds, but her theory of fiction can help us better live in this one.
by Siobhan Leddy
#sciencefiction #utopia #futurism #UrsulaLeGuin
https://theoutline.com/post/7886/ursula-le-guin-carrier-bag-theory
There's a massive free catalogue of Indigenous films online — here are 5 picks to get you started
"Indigenous filmmakers and curators share their must-see recommendations from the NFB's catalogue"
This story was originally published April 18th, 2018. Last Updated: June 21, 2022
Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto
…This is a transmission from a future that will not happen. From a people who do not exist…
“The end is near. Or has it come and gone before?”
– An ancestor
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism?
#indigenous #futurism #colonialism #utopia #liberation
https://www.indigenousaction.org/rethinking-the-apocalypse-an-indigenous-anti-futurist-manifesto/
Imagining an Indigenous science-fiction festival for the stay-home era
by Drew Hayden Taylor
Das@serdargunes Sadly a broken list and many/most are not listed in the link (including pictured Rebecca Roanhorse. The link in the article to read more on the list is not right. But I'm glad to see more lists like this!