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Great news about Queer Universes! 1 May 2010 | 01:52 pm
Short and sweet: Liverpool UP is bringing out a paperback edition of Queer Universes. It will be available in the UK in Fall 2010 and in the US in Spring 2011. Hooray!
Science Fiction Studies, November 2009 20 Jan 2010 | 05:34 pm
by Sylvie Bérard If you haven't already, check this Science Fiction Studies Symposium on Sexuality in Science Fiction (a few of us have contributed).
Feminization of Science Fiction and Fantasy? 20 Oct 2009 | 09:30 am
by Sylvie Bérard I just came across this link, that made me jump: The Feminization of Science Fictiom (and Fantasy). According to Whiskey, author of the article, women have been changing science fict...
Polymorph perversity (call for papers) (in French) 30 Sep 2009 | 02:56 am
by Sylvie Bérard Below, please find a call for papers for a session that I will be chairing at the CIEF (Conseil international d'études francophones) conference in June 2010. It is in French, but the...
How to dream science fiction 11 Aug 2009 | 09:59 am
by Sylvie Bérard At the end of July, while everybody was heading to Montreal for Worldcon, I was leaving in the opposite direction, heading to Cerisy-la-Salle, France, for a ten-day conference on sci...
Summer of the Caricature? 8 Jul 2009 | 03:37 am
It will take a moment to explain what this has to do with sexuality and science fiction, but I've been struck by the extent to which new work in sf and fantasy media looks like caricature. First there...
Recommendations? 16 Jun 2009 | 12:36 pm
Ok, I've worn out all the familiar choices. I need new reading recommendations. Any suggestions for good queer, lgbt, trans, genderfuck and so on sf books? Or almost sf books? I'm not averse to slipst...
Not a top 10, but yet a list 29 Apr 2009 | 07:47 am
More than 12 years ago, for my Ph.D. dissertation in semiotics, I built my own list of women's queer SF. Not really a top 10, but a list of 9 narratives based on what I had read back then, and what I ...
queer movie medievalisms 18 Apr 2009 | 11:16 am
Anyone know anything about this book?? Nicola Griffith
We've been Amazon Ranked ... and then some! 13 Apr 2009 | 03:36 pm
With all the buzz about Amazon sales rankings being removed from lesbian and gay books in the name of avoiding "adult" content, I thought I had better check out QU. Typed in "queer universes" in the s...
