• SF

    First Non-Contact?

    by  • July 28, 2011 • SF • 7 Comments

    I don’t know if this is the first case of attempted first contact, but it might well be: In 1913, David Todd made a flamboyant and well-publicized attempt to establish radio contact with Martians. “Assuming that there is life on Mars,” he told the New York Times, echoing the views of his old friend...

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    Lovecraft Stories I’ve Loved

    by  • June 29, 2011 • BOOKS & AUTHORS, SF • 6 Comments

    UPDATE NOTE (3 July 2011): Not really an update, I just ended the final paragraph, as it was incomplete somehow. ORIGINAL POST: My friend Chris still hasn’t read HPL, though he is an excellent writer working in genre fiction and really, I imagined he would have somehow, for some reason, just because Lovecraft’s influence...

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    Vampires, Confucianism, Christianity’s Latent Monarchism, and the Translation of Sociohorror

    by  • May 19, 2011 • FILMS&TV, KOREA, SF • 0 Comments

    (Note: I’m filing this under Korean SF, though it only fits there if we define SF as “speculative fiction”: still, I think this post does appeal to a crucial question at the heart of the reception of SF and other fantastical genres in cultures foreign to the culture of a given work’s original production....

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