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Vague SF themes to most if not all of these, so fair game!
- Professor Weigo’s Lab: particularly funny for science students, I would imagine.
- The Adventures of Dr. MacNinja
- Married to the Sea
- Dinosaur Comics: all-time favourite
- Alien Loves Predator: “In New York, no-one can hear you scream” (not updated too often but read the archives)
- Kukuburi: really nice (thanks, Adair).
- xkcd: “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”
Drop links to your own favourites in the comments.
you can find stories online, though this week the only one I could turn up was “High Weir” by Samual Delany.
the New Yorker out there? Here is an article about the rise and fall of speculative fiction in that magazine, by Charlie Anders at Gawker. Not surprisingly, the pieces they do publish tend heavily towards the literary and the parodic. Some stories are linked from the article.
“Relax, honey—everybody gets buyer’s remorse.”
Darko Suvin defines sf thus:
a literary genre or verbal construct whose necessary and sufficient conditions are the presence and interaction of estrangement and cognition, and whose main device is an imaginative framework alternative to the author’s empirical environment. (Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: on the history and poetics of a literary genre, Yale UP, 1995. 37)
(Cover from 1st UK edition)
- The University of Liverpool has an archive of materials relating to John Wyndham
- A collection of John Wyndham book covers
- Bibliography
- Bio. notes from the Guardian, the BBC, Books and Writers
- Wyndham on Fantastic Fiction
(Manuscript page)
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