And did I say, happy holidays?

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Just found:

All you need to know about Gulliver's Travels, from Marie Paccou on Vimeo.

Be warned!

The British Apostrophe Protection society may have closed its doors, but its spirit lives on in your professors as they mark your papers.

Article on Mary Shelley

"Does it matter if Mary Shelley was bisexual?" Fern Riddell, The Guardian (7 Nov. 2019): some more insight into Shelley and her importance as an artist.

What’s on the slab?

Jeanne Dorin McDowell, "The Science Behind Hollywood’s Movie Monsters," smithsonian.com (October 28, 2019). The laboratory where Frankenstein's monster is created in the 1931 film. (Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC)

Writers’ maps

Apropos to our discussion last class, here is a short article, with images, about a book about maps of worlds in fantasy books: Sarah Laskow, "How writers map their imaginary worlds," Atlas Obscura (Oct. 22, 2018).

History and definitions

Here is Ward Shelley's fabulous and somewhat queasy-making infographic, The History of Science Fiction: [click for larger image] And here are the definitions we talked about Thursday, and more: [Caveat from Patrick Parrinder: "Definitions of science fiction are not so much a series of logical approximations to an elusive ideal, as a small, parasitic subgenre in …

Perhaps consider

As you prepare for the coming term, you might consider adding some notebooks and writing implements to your list. There has been considerable research to indicate that the human brain processes information differently depending on whether we type it or write (or print) it by hand: Taking notes on laptops rather than in longhand is …