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Stephanie Burt has an interesting piece in The New Yorker about the multiverses, fiction, and popular culture. If Borges were alive today, he could call his garden a multiverse and be done with it. An idea that seemed fantastical in the forties—that our universe is one of many, and that these parallel worlds might share […]

Cuban Sci-Fi

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On September 20, 2014

I dislike science fiction as a genre. While there are a couple of science fiction films I do like, they are not of the norm of the genre (Solaris, La Jetée) and I simply don’t have time for rea

It titillates your angry parts.

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In General
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On February 16, 2012
One of y’all sent me an email asking why I didn’t argue with Jeff Goldstein anymore. I replied that I just haven’t thought about him in a long time, but that maybe I should take a look around his site … which immediately reminded me exactly why I haven’t thought about him in a long […]

Galactica Actual?

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In Charli Carpenter
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On February 25, 2010
The best event I attended at ISA this year wasn’t the panel on pirates, nor the panel on war law, nor the panel on blogging, nor the gender and security discussion group, but Saturday morning’s panel entitled “Galactica Actual: How Battlestar Galactica Explains World Politics.” A series of fascinating and witty papers detailed representations of […]
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