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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Guest Post: Dan Koboldt on Magic Versus Technology in SF/F
It’s always bothered me that fantasy and science fiction get lumped together into a single category. The two genres seem very different, at least on the surface. Fantasy usually features some kind of magic as a core speculative element. It often takes place in a secondary world at a pre-industrial state of technology. Science fiction, in contrast, usually takes us to the future in which some as-yet-nonexistent technology underlies the plot. Granted, there’s a huge overlap between fantasy and science fiction fandoms. Maybe that means we live for escapism, whether to a fantasy world or outer space.
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Two Seattle Memorials to Ursula K. Le Guin
We’ve got two coming up in the next couple of weeks and I’ll be at both. Tuesday, February 20, 2018 7:00 PM $10 at the door $8 for Folio Members, SFWA Members, and Town Hall Members Complimentary wine reception to … Continue reading
More on The First Chapters Project
If you don’t know what the SFWA First Chapters project is, it’s an effort to collect first chapters from F&SF novels published throughout the year in a single compendium. This should help with reading for awards in that you have … Continue reading
