Chinese science fiction dates back to Qing dynasty Mention Chinese science fiction and many will think of The Three-Body Problem (2006), the first novel in Liu Cixin’s trilogy about aliens which gained legions of fans worldwide – and scooped up a Hugo Award – after it was translated into English.. Read more at straitstimes.com. https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/chinese-science-fiction-dates-back-to-qing-dynasty

How Science Fiction Can Re-Envision Justice Our justice movements desperately need science fiction. https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/rewriting-the-future-prison-abolition-science-fiction

Get Out of My Head: SFF Stories About Sharing Brain-Space With Somebody Else I have a modest dream. I hope one day to live in an isolated skull-shaped mountain guarded by carnivorous birds. My lair would be surrounded by a fearsome fence, adorned with the heads of uninvited… https://www.tor.com/2018/11/08/get-out-of-my-head-sff-stories-about-sharing-brain-space-with-somebody-else/?utm_source=%5B%27exacttarget%27%5D&utm_medium=%5B%27newsletter%27%5D&utm_term=%5B%27tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter%27%5D&utm_content=%5B%27na-readblog-blogpost%27%5D&utm_campaign=%5B%27tor%27%5D

Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements Whenever we envision a world without war, prisons, or capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first anthology of short storie… https://www.amazon.com/Octavias-Brood-Science-Fiction-Movements/dp/1849352097/

How women were airbrushed from the Golden Age of sci-fi Today’s science fiction literature is a diverse landscape, says David Barnett, but it wasn’t always like that. A new book looks at the origins of the genre’s Golden Age… and the women who were airbrushed from history https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/science-fiction-golden-age-comics-astounding-jemisin-le-guin-john-w-campbell-a8612931.html

13 Stories About Surviving a Nuclear War — At Least Briefly Most people now living are too young to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was a fun time when the Americans and the Russians (who at that time were not good buddies but rivals), toyed with seei… https://www.tor.com/2018/11/01/13-stories-about-surviving-a-nuclear-war-at-least-briefly/?utm_source=%5B%27exacttarget%27%5D&utm_medium=%5B%27newsletter%27%5D&utm_term=%5B%27tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter%27%5D&utm_content=%5B%27na-readblog-blogpost%27%5D&utm_campaign=%5B%27tor%27%5D

The Wandering Earth could be China’s breakout sci-fi blockbuster film An adaptation of Cixin Liu’s The Wandering Earth could be China’s first breakout science fiction film. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/31/18047346/the-wandering-earth-trailer-cixin-liu-chinese-science-fiction

Science Fiction and Communism Conference The American University in Bulgaria is pleased to announce a call for papers for its first conference on “Science Fict https://www.aubg.edu/science-fiction-and-communism-conference-2019

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Can Science Fiction Save the World? James Gunn, the last surviving author of the genre’s Golden Age, believes it can help, anyway https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/can-science-fiction-save-the-world/