Category Archives: Journalism
Arab SF
See article: Arab Science Fiction
What will the world look like in 2030?
New York Times, Dec. 26, 2019
Cassette Futurism, Decopunk, Dieselpunk, Raypunk, and other lesser-know retrosf’s
https://25yearslatersite.com/2019/12/20/retropunk-the-strange-sci-fi-subgenre/
Good Fiction, Questionable Science: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Very cool column for those who love thinking about alien languages, future languages, and other forms of conlang. Works like “Arrival” and “Embassytown” go straight to the heart of this topic.
The science-fiction literature that shaped the mind of Jimi Hendrix
Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online
Smart thing to do for huge taxonomies, like those used for tagging sf, fantasy, fanfiction, etc. — “tag wrangling”
Archive of Our Own, the fanfiction database recently nominated for a Hugo, has perfected a system of tagging that the rest of the web could emulate. WIRED
The Climate Crisis Is Mind-Boggling. That’s Why We Need Science Fiction.
The Next Big Privacy Hurdle? Teaching AI to Forget.
Opinion: The inability to forget doesn’t only impact personal privacy—it could also lead to real problems for our global security. WIRED
Live from Atlantic Avenue: It’s sci-fi radio
For nearly 50 years, Jim Freund has hosted a two-hour radio show in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Brooklyn Daily Eagle