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Notes from “MaddAddam” by Margaret Atwood
There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. Then there’s what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too. Excerpts From MaddAddam Margaret Atwood
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Notes from “MaddAddam” by Margaret Atwood
She has to cut out these daydreams in which Zeb performs decisive leadership acts that she ought to have performed herself. She needs to get up, go outside, join the others. Repair what can’t be repaired, mend what can’t be mended, shoot what needs to be shot. Hold the fort. Excerpts From MaddAddam Margaret Atwood
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Kishōtenketsu in Mario
stilleatingoranges: stilleatingoranges: We provide that concept, let them develop their skills, and then the third step is something of a doozy that throws them for a loop, and makes them think of using it in a way they haven’t really before. In 2012, Nintendo’s Koichi Hayashida told Gamasutra that the kishōtenketsu plot structure informs the…
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Afrofuturism: A Reading List for Black History Month
Afrofuturism: A Reading List for Black History Month sparklebliss: This is a longer version of a list of reading recommendations generated for a poster on Afrofuturism I designed for the IIT Department of Humanities. This list was made in collaboration with Sean Cashbaugh (University of Texas), John Cline (independent scholar), and Shannon…
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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