Round-ups:
Academic articles:
- Lone Wolf Bioterrorists and the Trajectory of Apocalyptic Narratives
- Afro- versus African futurism in Nnedi Okorafor’s “The Magical Negro” and “Mother of Invention”
- Superhero_ines: Rebooted Comics and Trans* Identity
- Digital Humanity: Collaborative Capital Resistance in Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway
- Science Friction
- Surveillance Capitalism and the Data/Flesh Worker in Malka Older’s Infomocracy
- Vibranium, Nigerium, and the Elements of a Pessimistic Afrofuturism
- Afrofuturism in clipping.’s Splendor & Misery
Art, theatre, film, and fashion:
- Haroon Mirza/HRM199
- Saul Williams
- Callisto – a queer epic
- Fashion and SF
- Larissa Sansour
- Juliana Huxtable
Other articles:
- Nisi Shawl, ‘Fantastic Fiction by African Descended Authors’
- Judith Berman, ‘Some considerations when mining other cultures for source materials’
- Niall Harrison, ‘How to Start a Review’
- Niall Harrison collects some views on Ted Chiang’s ‘Exhalation’
Interviews:
- Anne Charnock interviewed by Glyn Morgan
- Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar interviewed by Powder Scofield
- Stewart Hotston interviewed by Robert S. Malan
- Dave Hutchinson interview
- Juliana Huxtable interview
- Juliet Kemp interviewed by Alison Baker
- Emma Newman interview
- Sandra Newman interview
- Jeff Noon interviewed by Matthew de Abaitua
- Florence Okoye interview
- Hod Lipson interviewed by Fiona Moore
- Laurie Penny interview
- Adam Roberts and Jeff Noon interviewed by Glyn Morgan
- Larissa Sansour interview
- Wole Talabi interviewed by Louisa Egbunike
- Adrian Tchaikovsky interviewed by Ian Whates
- Lavie Tidhar interviewed by Konrad Walewski
- Valerie Valdes interviewed by Liz Lutgendorff
- Saul Williams interviewed by Richard Howard
- Gareth Worthington and Stu Jones interview
- Ping Zheng interview
- All interviews
Non-fiction reviews:
- Speculate to innovate: A review of Economic Science Fictions (ed. Will Davies)
- Reciprocal Babymaking is the Future: A review of Sophie Lewis’s Full Surrogacy Now
- Political pragmatism and utopian anticipation: A review of Aaron Bastani’s Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Fiction reviews:
- Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo
- Air by Geoff Ryman
- Lagos_2060 ed. Ayodele Arigbadu
- That Bastard Wonderland by Lee Harrison
- Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman
Conference, convention, and event reports:
- Conference Report: Sublime Cognition 2018
- Conference Report: Utopian Acts 2018
- Organic Systems: Environments, Bodies and Cultures in Science Fiction
- Nommo Awards 2017
- Worldcon 75 in Helsinki
- Worldcon 77 in Dublin
