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Sean Guynes

critic and cultural historian of genre fantasies

Category: Other Essays

Orientalist Fantasy Novels, 1970s–1990s: A Bibliography

Posted on May 1, 2025December 18, 2025 by sonofsagan in Genre Fantasies, Other Essays

A bibliography of orientalist fantasies published in the genre fantasy market c. 1970s–1990s.

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What Was “World Science Fiction”?

Posted on October 24, 2023December 3, 2025 by sonofsagan in Genre Fantasies, Other Essays

A very thorough (and probably pedantic) answer to the question of a major Cold War-era science fiction anthology's purported global reach, and whether it could rightfully be called World's Best SF, complete with charts and quantitative data.

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Afrofuturism’s Specter: Alternate History, Racial Capitalism, and Nisi Shawl’s “Everfair”

Posted on December 1, 2019December 3, 2025 by sonofsagan in Genre Fantasies, Other Essays

This is the text of a paper about Nisi Shawl's Everfair originally presented at the Worlding SF conference in Graz, Austria in December 2018.

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Sexual Violence in Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: Toward an Interpretation

Posted on November 3, 2015December 3, 2025 by sonofsagan in Genre Fantasies, Other Essays

This is the text of a paper about Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed written in 2015 for a graduate-level academic conference. It is roughly a decade old and the work of a scholar in his first year of graduate school.

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