The Transcultural Fantastic

Our colleagues at @Theory_UoB are guest editing the next Alluvium special issue with a thematic focus on "Futurity in Crisis". Full CfP here: alluvium-journal.org/2021/02/09/cal… Please share widely! @BACLS_official @ccl_bbk @C21Research @MoCoLitTCD @contempstudies @contemp_studies

So unbelievably excited about our Jan 30th event: 💫 KIM STANLEY ROBINSON 💫 reading with @micaheveperks, @badaude, @wellhellojoan, Margot Machado, Matthew Polzin and Shane Tivenan facebook.com/events/2130455…

EVENT FLASH Launching our bilingual edition of Elena Aldunate's 'Juana y la cibernética' (1963) «A proto-cyberfeminist, proleterian, machine-loving work of solitary confinement» ...preceded by short readings by @badaude and Shane Tivenan.. FRIDAY 13th 20h (CEST)

My #TTRPG The Shrike, inspired by medieval travel narratives, utopian and dystopian fiction, Avery Alder's The Quiet Year, and the works of Italo Calvino & Ursula Le Guin. & skyships. sadpress.itch.io/the-shrike

Announcing the inauguration of #CyRN - the Cyberpunk Culture Research Network ... in the wake of #cpcc20 and its success, the community of scholars will keep the conversation of #cyberpunk as cultural formation going. More to come in the future and on cyberpunkculture.com

Want some post-apocalyptic Norwegian #SFinTranslation from the 70s? Of course you do! sfintranslation.com/?p=8522 #NordicSFT #Norwegian

The #CfP deadline for our special issue based on #EmbodyingFantastika is AUGUST 1ST. 5000-7000 word articles to be sent at editors@fantastikajournal.com. Conference delegates wishing to expand their presentations are welcome to submit but we welcome all submissions!

Great to hear a #TransculturalFantastic talk by @Richard93519611 yesterday on the Ekphrastic Fantastic, featuring the work of J.G. Ballard, Ali Smith, China Miéville and William Gibson's The Gernsback Continuum! @LeedsAHRI

Hooray! Our program is out! The CyberPunk Culture Conference now officially has a timetable of cool presentations. Check it out and come be a part of this. cyberpunkculture.com/cyberpunk-cult… #cyberpunk #sf #sciencefiction #conference #cpcc20

Registration is now open for Productive Futures: The Political Economy of Science Fiction! 12th-14th September. 43 Gordon Square, London. It's going to be a really exciting event filled with fabulous speakers. Get your ticket now! buytickets.at/lsfrc/283804

Just over a week until our Embodying Fantastika conference! Over 40 speakers, including keynotes from Prof. Sherryl Vint and Dr. Sara Wasson! FREE to attend and open to all, register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodying-fa… Full schedule available here: embodyingfantastika.com

Our new issue is up! Read on for dangerous dreaming, a spider's curse and blessing, and a poet contemplating memory and abyss: samovar.strangehorizons.com/issue/june-24-…

Zombies, Robots & Time Machines: Improbable Histories of the World Wide Web. Megan Ankerson (@megsapank) on changing temporalities of web archives. #thewebthatwas

#EmbodyingFantastika is less than two months away and Kerry and Mike have been hard at work putting the programme together! You can now view the full schedule at our (shiny and new) conference website here: embodyingfantastika.com Make good (panel) choices!

Here's a blog post from @noelchidwick on the challenges of editing an SFF magazine in the 21st century. Another fine entry in the Glasgow Symposium on Fantasy and the Fantastic series! @Dr_Dimitra_Fimi fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/from-zero-to-i…

Submit your proposals today for Productive Futures: Political Economy of SF. With guests of honour @aliettedb, @tadethompson & @zenaldehyde, and keynote speakers @the_blochian & @joanharan. Open to things other than academic papers too!

!DEADLINE EXTENSION! We have extended our deadline for #embodyingfantastika for a further week as we've received a few requests for short extensions. Our extended deadline is 8th May. Thank you for all the wonderful and exciting abstracts we've received so far!

*The #GIFCon2019 Programme is now available!* This year's theme of #MappingtheMythosphere produced papers on topics as wide-ranging as 'Mapping the City Fantastic' to 'Fantasy On Screen'. For more details of this year's programme, head to gifcon.org/programme-2019/.