Archive for April, 2011

on SF and “realism”

Posted: 11th April 2011 by Adam in Uncategorized

We’ve been talking a lot recently about how to understand science fiction as in some ways a “realistic” discourse, even though it seems by definition to be something else; in what ways is SF more real than what we normally think of as realism?  What kinds of real-world phenomena (race, immigration, interminable wars, the East, […]

links and miscellany

Posted: 11th April 2011 by Adam in Uncategorized

The essay I mentioned and read from in class a week or two ago, Samuel Delany’s “Racism and Science Fiction,” is available online.  It’s very much worth a read, as an attempt to think through the science fiction community’s troubled relationship to race, the odd blinders SF seems to have about some kinds of otherness […]

Because it’s too good not to post, here‘s Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Star Wars.  It’s worth the two and a half minutes, I promise.  CollegeHumor’s TROOPERS is also worth a shot.  “Did the forcefield just stop for a breath?” It’s all okay, though, because Han Solo was in Firefly (kind of).