Science Fiction and Fantasy Quotes

Still can’t believe we finally open in two and a half weeks, let me know if you see one of our posters out in the wild!

Our #CFP for #CRSF2022!! Theme: #Communication @FantastikaPress @Modern_Folklore @SF_Quoter @BAFTSS_SFF @SFRAReview @sfranews @LitSciHub @GRACOHUM676 @OnceFantasies @study_fantastic @FantasyArtStudi @TheFantasyHive @BSFA #RT #SHARE #SSF crsfhome.home.blog/call-for-paper…

Take our reader survey of the year + prize draw to win a copy of our 2021 winner, The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay Take the survey: forms.gle/ekS8uDJqsDEZj6…

I have a new publication. My article "New ways: the pandemics of science fiction" appears in a special issue of @royalsociety journal Interface Focus as part of an #openaccess special issue on "COVID-19: science, history, culture and imagination": royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

How has science fiction engaged with pandemics? From Mary Shelley to @SarahPinsker, I look at a range of plagues as metaphor, as thought experiment, as narrative device, and suggest how such texts might be helpful in the way we think out disease, and societies.

How science fiction can inspire humanity’s response to the climate crisis – podcast theconversation.com/how-science-fi… via @ConversationUK

This is on Monday! Get a ticket either irl or online at the link #climatechange #COP26 #theDearGreenBothy

Beyond excited to be chairing this event with Kim Stanley Robinson @UofGlasgow , an event that speaks to #COP26 #COP26Glasgow. We'll be talking about Ministry for the Future, the climate crisis, literature at the end of the world...

We're delighted to announce that the winner of the 35th Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year will be revealed by @SamiraAhmedUK on BBC Radio 4's Front Row show on the evening of Monday 27th September

I need to track down a hi-res image of this Egyptian film poster for رحلة الى القمر [Rehla ilal kamar], "Journey to the Moon", (1959) directed by Hamada Abdel Wahab. Anyone with better research skills, knowledge of Egyptian cinema or Arabic SF have any leads they could share?

Do you have favourite sources for science fiction visuals? A site you keep bookmarked, or a well-thumbed book? Something that inspires your love of the genre, or challenges you to keep pushing your boundaries?

"Flash from the Future" science fiction short fiction writing competition from @World_Museum and @LivUniEnglish, great for kids in particular with those three <18 competition strands: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/flash-future

'A mirage-like arctic splendour towered all around, a weird, unearthly architecture of ice. Huge ice-battlements, rainbow turrets and pinnacles, filled the sky, lit from within by frigid mineral fires.' Ice, 1967

‘An insane impatience for death was driving mankind to a second suicide ... I was profoundly depressed, left with a sense of waiting for something frightful to happen, a sort of mass execution. I looked at the natural world, and it seemed to share my feelings ...

"Science fiction isn’t only about thinking about alternate technologies or science concepts...it’s also about re-fashioning or re-imagining our futures, and the way we live. Imagining, for instance, what if things weren’t this way?” (Vandana Singh)

What object I would bring to a space gallery? I floundered but settled on Olaf Stapledon’s hand drawn timelines from Last and First Men (1930) and Starmaker (1937) Science Fiction Foundation collection in @LivUniSCA #SMGCultureSpace libguides.liverpool.ac.uk/library/sca/st…

The future in space, painted by Ron Miller. thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/186672813…

Voting for the 2019 #HugoAwards and 1944 Retro Hugos will be closing soon! Remember to get your votes in before 8 a.m. (Irish time) on August 1 ! #Dublin2019

'I think "majority" is one of my least favorite words. It's so often used to justify bad decisions' - Emma Newman @EmApocalyptic, PLANETFALL (2015)