For your papers:

a link about citing blog posts and comments.

March 27 class cancelled

I am canceling class on March 27th because of the demonstration against the “one-size-fits-all” changes to the education system at the provincial legislature in Fredericton. I hope buses will be organized; if not, there will be cars going up.

I posted a pile o’ links to my other blog, and there is a ton of activity on Facebook around the issue.

We will discuss the readings on imperialism the following week, and both Simon’s presentation and the due date for the final paper have been postponed one week as well (thank you Simon!).

Some more links:

• Pulp Italian sf magazine covers (via BoingBoing)
• Philip K. Dick covers (via SF Signal)
• Raymond F. Jones (no relation. Via SF Signal)
• Science Fiction Paperback Covers
• The Pulp Zone
• The Best (Worst) Fantasy & Science Fiction Book Covers

Hello

and welcome to the weblog for English 3722: Topics in Speculative Fiction, Winter 2008. Here you will find the schedule, assignments, updates, and discussion. To start you off, however, here is an interesting article by Bryan Appleyard in the Sunday Times online, “Why don’t we love science fiction? The British are sniffy about sci-fi, but there is nothing artificial in its ability to convey apprehension about the universe and ourselves” (Dec 2/07), which talks about how we are now living in a science fiction scenario.

Hence the title of this blog.