Matthew Leggatt

So delighted to share that BETWEEN WORLDS: THE IF ANTHOLOGY OF NEW INDIAN SFF, is now available for pre-order - and will be in bookshops on 18 August!

Pre-order here, or from your local bookshop: www.amazon.in/Between-Worl...

Has anyone else noted an increase in the number of common typographical errors in mainstream media output recently? I rarely read an article on the BBC these days without spotting at least two errors. Have I become more pedantic, or is something happening?

Symposium: The UK Tabletop Role-Playing Game Scene – Histories, Cultures, and Legacies

DEADLINE TOMORROW

Symposium Details
Date: September 16, 2025
Location: Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Participation: On-site or online

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Just finished recording an interview with the super smart @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social fame on the relationship between bureaucracy and utopia/dystopia! Lots of great insight and a really fun chat. Looking forward to the episode making its appearance.

Thanks for this Andrew... something I should have done in the first place.

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

*proper even

Our majestic doggo had to have a vaccination today and she was very sad. Took this lovely picture of her though. She's a very popper lady!

Utopia in the Factory This open access book critiques techno-utopias, arguing that human creativity and tacit knowledge remain vital to work and radical organization.

My new book is out. Utopia in the Factory: Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics. It's open access you can read it free here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Congratulations Rhiannon... this looks very timely!

From yesterday's game. A cottage in the forest... what could possibly go wrong? #D&D

Turns out we're a month ahead of schedule and this now has a publication date of 28th August... this month! Can't wait to receive my copies and take that awkward selfie!

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Started weaning our 6 month old and he loves avocado... we've created a middle-class monster!

Thrice said it pretty well: "Finally, when will it be enough, to find there's no them, there is only us?"

Screw that 'Open to Work' banner they now have on LinkedIn... I need one that says 'Closed to Work'!

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Looks like I'll be writing a piece on Lovecraft and the city for a collection titled "Haunted Cities: Spaces, Spectres, and Urban Hauntologies"... a chance to revisit some research I did for an American Gothic module a few years ago.

Science Fiction Film and Television | Call for Co-Editors Science Fiction Film and Television, internationally recognized as a leader in the scholarly study of science fiction visual media, invites applications for the position of co-editor.

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And so begins two weeks of annual leave!

I knew I was funny and that I just had to find an audience. Well, finally I have. And it turns out that audience is a baby!

Episode 13: andré carrington, Speculative Blackness and The Black Fantastic Utopian and Dystopian Fictions · Episode

The latest episode of Utopian and Dystopian Fictions is here. It features an interview with the fantastic @andrecarrington.bsky.social. We discuss his books Speculative Blackness and The Black Fantastic. You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube: open.spotify.com/episode/32dG...

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Stay tuned... our latest episode will drop later this afternoon!

Daughters of the Dust: Rephrasing the African American Experience in Julie Dash’s Film and Novel of the Same Name While Julie Dash’s landmark 1991 film, Daughters of the Dust, has received extensive attention as the first by an African American woman director to receive a wide-scale theatrical release in the U...

Publication day! If you're interested in reading my piece on Julie Dash's brilliant "Daughters of the Dust" (film and novel), co-authored with the wonderful Betty Knight, you can read it here. It's Open Access. doi.org/10.1080/0195...

Managed to get it so I've got only 3 tabs open on my phone and no pages open on the laptop. This feels like a MAJOR achievement!

There's definitely no rush on it!

Strange Horizons 2026 A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

The Strange Horizons fund-drive has been a little stuck between the 14K and 15K mark for the last week; and with 11 days to go, we could use some help — whether it is through donations or amplification. And a lot of excellent rewards still available!

To donate: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

If you only 'think' it Kate then you're not working hard enough! 😉

Thanks Aoife. Glad you enjoyed it. I'm definitely no Trek expert but I ended up writing a fair bit about TNG in my upcoming monograph mostly because I was rewatching it as I was writing and finding so many episodes had resonance. I'm not familiar with Ibelin. Is making me think about Avatar...

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This managed to pass me by, but my article on Star Trek and the Holodeck has been published by Eludamos! It's open access you can read it here: eludamos.org/index.php/el...

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