Never thought I’d say “we used to be a proper country” while specifically thinking of that summer that Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab and inventor of solid rocket fuel) and L Ron Hubbard (you know who that is) spent reciting satanic incantations and jacking each other off, only to end when Hubbard ran off with Parson’s girlfriend and all of JPL’s money.
But, when pondering the rumor that Elon Musk is making a cuckhold of Stephen Miller, I cannot forget that Jack Parsons made rockets that worked.
I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older queer science fiction book I've managed to track down, consisting of just over 200 titles with LGBT characters/themes & by LGBT authors, spanning over a century (1880-2000) 🚀
The database can be filtered by representation, subgenre, whether the book is currently in print, and more; additionally, it includes my own ratings & brief thoughts on the ones i have read, if anyone needs a suggestion on places to start! (or feel free to shoot me an ask for a more personalized recommendation)
“When I find that my writing life is becoming too myopic, too focused on the here and now and empirical matters, I turn to the stars, to their explosions and nurseries; and to botany, landscapes, and flowering trees….Science engages me with the mysteries of the world; I’ll always think it amazing that we mere mortals put a man on the moon. Such wonder allows me to return again to the very small work I hope to accomplish in my writing.”
— Jenny Boully, in this week’s Writers Recommend; read the rest at pw.org!
Complex background paintings for the science fiction film Patema Inverted, illustrated by Kill la Kill artist Kaneko Yuuji (金子雄司) and included in his self-published Kaneko Yuuji Art Work Collection.
This online event, part of Carnegie Hall’s citywide spring Afrofuturism Festival, features an evening of readings and discussion between award-winning author...
Discussion conducted in March 2022.
This online event, part of Carnegie Hall’s citywide spring Afrofuturism Festival, features an evening of readings and discussion between award-winning authors Samuel R. Delany and Namwali Serpell moderated by Smaran Dayal.
In 2016, Samuel R. Delany was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. He is the author of the award-winning novels Babel-17 and Dark Reflections, as well as Nova, Dhalgren, and the Return to Nevèrÿon series. A retired professor, he lives in Philadelphia with his partner Dennis, and his website is www.samueldelany.com.
Zambian-American writer Namwali Serpell’s novel The Old Drift (2019) received numerous awards including the Anisfield-Wolf Book prize for fiction “that confronts racism and explores diversity,” the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, the Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires Prize for Belles-Lettres, and the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. She was co-recipient of the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction (with Yiyun Li). She is a Professor of English at Harvard University. Her website is www.namwaliserpell.com.
Smaran Dayal is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University, where he is writing a dissertation on literary Afrofuturism, and a Public Humanities Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York. He recently co-edited an anthology of American literature, Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts (2020).
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