Alex

Alex

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I am and have been many things.

163 Followers 51 Following 1,402 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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The Wife of Seisaku — Cinema Reborn THE WIFE OF SEISAKU (YASUZŌ MASUMURA, 1965) SEISAKU NO TSUMA Randwick Ritz, Sydney: 7:00 PM Wednesday 06 May Lido Cinemas, Melbourne: 4:30...

If you're in Melbourne on Saturday 16 May, I will be introducing a 4K remaster of Masumura's The Wife of Seisaku at the Lido Cinemas for the Cinema Reborn Film Festival.

The film is on in Sydney on 6 May at Randwick Ritz, introduced by noted academic Jane Mills.
cinemareborn.com.au/The-Wife-of-...

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He would not blink at Jay-Dem’s fashion sense. He would keep trying to get Sam into combat. He might try to pat Genessis on the head…

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OH YES

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Yes, and yes.

The boring answer is unarmed combat. The interesting answer is being made a teaching assistant to whoever has too many rowdy students that semester.

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a hyperactive Miles on that campus would... be something to experience.

Jett would love it. From a distance. With popcorn. And Klingon/French fusion for dinner whenever it was required.

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(to be clear this is not assuming your response was negative! But I also have funeral-related Feelings to the titular song, so my own response is, uh, skewed.)

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Do you know something I don't??

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... oh my.

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The Library of Fates by Margot Harrison: Review by Alexandra Pierce locusmag.com/review/...

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Purple background, white text, which says This essay and its sequel trace 120 years... of how women have wielded science fiction to dismantle patriarchy, caste hierarchy, colonial legacies, and capitalist exploitation, often simultaneously, and how they've asked the questions that needed to be asked. "Indian Feminist Science Fiction: A History (Part 1)" -- Amritesh Mukherjee

Amritesh Mukherjee's two-part history of Indian science fiction makes sharp observations about the themes covered in that fiction, and what impact it can have. Warning: you're likely to come away with a significant reading list...

Read it now for free! www.speculativeinsight.com

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OMG. That’s extreme.

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Nice!

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My husband loves all things train. I have been there more often than I would go by myself!

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Purple background, white text, which says This essay and its sequel trace 120 years... of how women have wielded science fiction to dismantle patriarchy, caste hierarchy, colonial legacies, and capitalist exploitation, often simultaneously, and how they've asked the questions that needed to be asked. "Indian Feminist Science Fiction: A History (Part 1)" -- Amritesh Mukherjee

Amritesh Mukherjee's two-part history of Indian science fiction makes sharp observations about the themes covered in that fiction, and what impact it can have. Warning: you're likely to come away with a significant reading list...

Read it now for free! www.speculativeinsight.com

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York?

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Mid-2028 is going to be EPIIIIIIIC.

(I will travel to see the eclipse either way, but would LOVE to combine it with Brisbane WorldCon. Consider voting so you can do the same!!)

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Purple background, white text, which says If the foundational question of Indian feminist SF was about power - who has it, who wields it - the question that has obsessed the genre since the 1990s is about bodies. Whose body is it? Who controls what happens to it? "Indian  Feminist Science Fiction: A History (Part 1)" -- Amritesh Mukherjee

This two-part essay from Amritesh Mukherjee is a powerful examination of the themes and preoccupations of Indian feminist science fiction: power, caste, bodies...

The first part is out now - free to read - and the second will be out in June.
www.speculativeinsight.com

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I don't feel like I need to see it, but I love your overview. It really does sound like a magnificently odd movie.

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Purple background, white text, which says If the foundational question of Indian feminist SF was about power - who has it, who wields it - the question that has obsessed the genre since the 1990s is about bodies. Whose body is it? Who controls what happens to it? "Indian  Feminist Science Fiction: A History (Part 1)" -- Amritesh Mukherjee

This two-part essay from Amritesh Mukherjee is a powerful examination of the themes and preoccupations of Indian feminist science fiction: power, caste, bodies...

The first part is out now - free to read - and the second will be out in June.
www.speculativeinsight.com

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Thanks Charles. Hope yours will go very well!

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Purple background, white text, which says You see, imagining alternatives to oppression isn't escapism. Power structures, after all, are human constructions. When humans can build, they can also rebuild. "Indian Feminist Science Fiction: A History (Part 1)" -- Amritesh Mukherjee

Amritesh Mukherjee makes a powerful argument about what Indian feminist science fiction is doing, and how it - sometimes , anyway - imagines a better future...

Read now! Free! www.speculativeinsight.com

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Three covers of my novel MASSIF. The UK and Australian ones have a photo-realistic approach, the US one is illustrative. All feature a seated figure looking up at a mountain range ascending into space. US cover illustration by Matt Griffon. UK cover by blacksheep.

Cover reveal time!
An adult science fiction novel tinged with horror, about the crew of a small warship in a relatively near future where humans hitch rides to the stars on sentient star-faring mountain ranges called Massifs.
Can be pre-ordered at the usual places, *please* do so. Thank you.

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The Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth 3 edited by Allan Kaster: Review by Alexandra Pierce The Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth 3, Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox, 978-1-88461-288-6, 262pp, $19.99 pb). November 2025. Cover by Maurizio Manzieri. Allan Kaster’s third volume of science fic…

Alexandra Pierce reviews THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION ON EARTH 3 edited by Allan Kaster: “Allan Kaster’s third volume of science fiction set on Earth might be the best best-of I’ve read in years”

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This delightful trailer from Amritesh Mukherjee gives a great overview of his two-part essay discussion of Indian feminist science fiction. The first part is free to read right now! (The sequel comes out in June.)

www.speculativeinsight.com

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Purple background, white text, which says You see, imagining alternatives to oppression isn't escapism. Power structures, after all, are human constructions. When humans can build, they can also rebuild. "Indian Feminist Science Fiction: A History (Part 1)" -- Amritesh Mukherjee

Amritesh Mukherjee makes a powerful argument about what Indian feminist science fiction is doing, and how it - sometimes , anyway - imagines a better future...

Read now! Free! www.speculativeinsight.com

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Yiiiiiikes

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Woo hoo! We are ready to go! Please share far and wide. Read our bid documents! Think about voting for us!

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Video thumbnail

This delightful trailer from Amritesh Mukherjee gives a great overview of his two-part essay discussion of Indian feminist science fiction. The first part is free to read right now! (The sequel comes out in June.)

www.speculativeinsight.com

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Purple background, white text, which says Indian feminist science fiction grapples with female foeticide, caste erasure, honour killings, sex-ratio crises - concerns that emerge from refusing to separate gender from caste, class, environment, geography. "Indian Feminist Science Fiction: A History (Part 1)" -- Amritesh Mukherjee

In this first of two essays, Amritesh Mukherjee gives an overview of Indian feminist SF - starting in 1905, with _Sultana's Dream_, then jumping to the 1980s, and following several themes over the next three decades...

Read now! It's free ! www.speculativeinsight.com

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Logo for Meanjin In 2028 Brisbane, each letter showing a picture of a speculative fiction-related image. The letter M contains an image of an Indigenous adventurer with a snake and a wooden walking stick, viewing a futuristic city with flying transport vehicles. The letters EAN contain an image of an Indigenous woman with long, curly hair, viewing the planets, stars, and constellations. The letters JIN contain an image of an Indigenous Elder in a canvas jacket wearing an Outback hat accompanied by three stylistic dingoes in a lush green Australian bush / forest. The snake's multi-coloured body weaves through the images from the M to the last N. The letter B is a dark purple swirl with many orange beast eyes, the letter R is a hovering UFO sending a beam of light down to the ground below, the letter I is a rocket blasting off, the letter S is an android, the letter B is an astronaut with a moon in the background sky, the letters A and N are of a spaceship flying over a red planet with another large orange planet in the sky behind it, and the letter E is a green Australian frog.

The Brisbane in 28 Worldcon Bid is now Officially on the LAcon V Site Selection Ballot!

www.brisbane28.org/the-brisbane...

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