John Scalzi's Redshirts is a sometimes smart, mostly fun, and occasionally critically interesting novel that sits rightfully, and awkwardly, at the center of recent debates about the origin, aesthetics, and political value of so-called "squeecore" genre fiction.
Tag: Genre: Science Fiction
Afrofuturism’s Specter: Alternate History, Racial Capitalism, and Nisi Shawl’s “Everfair”
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.
Sexual Violence in Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: Toward an Interpretation
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.
