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Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently. Samuel R.…
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shadowstookshape: Extract from the excellent 1992 documentary, Black Sci-Fi, produced and directed by Terrence Francis for Moonlight Films and broadcast on BBC2 as part of the Birthrights series. The documentary focuses on Black science fiction in literature, film and television and features interviews with Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Mike Sergeant, Steven Barnes and Nichelle…
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The central fact in Black Science Fiction – self-consciously so named or not – is an acknowledgement that Apocalypse already happened: that (in PE’s phrase) Armageddon been in effect. Black SF writers – Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler – write about worlds after catastrophic disaster; about the modalities of identity without hope of resolution, where race…
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raymondboisjoly: heddabee: wtfbadfantasycovers: I just don’t know. I do! Cover by Russell FitzGerald
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24 Hours of Vine by Conor McGarrigle on view at Counterpath. @_stunned
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The other night…
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sciencefictiongallery: The Ship Who Sang, 1972. Unknow artist.
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Notes from “The Penelopiad” by Margaret Atwood
On his behalf, of course. Always for him. How his face would shine with pleasure! How pleased he would be with me! ‘You’re worth a thousand Helens,’ he would say. Wouldn’t he? And then he’d clasp me tenderly in his arms. Excerpts From The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood
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I don’t think that “this” equals “that”; I don’t think in that kind of mode, that way of thinking. That kind of thinking, “this” equals or means “that,” is identity thinking, thinking concerned with meaning as closure. Let’s look at this problem another way: I don’t work in any way that is pure. Either, as…