From Yvonne Howell: For all of you who are interested in the intersections of literature and science (but don’t happen to speak Russian), our anthology of never-before-translated Russian and Soviet science fiction stories is out and easily available/affordable! Please see http://www.russianlife.com/books/fiction/red-star-tales-a-century-of-russian-and-soviet-science-fiction/ The book (with an introduction) should appeal fans and scholars alike.
From 284 Publishers: Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson´s book You Must Carry Me Now–The Cultural Lives of Endangered Species was released at the annual SLSA conference After Biopolitics, Saturday the 14th of November. “The project investigates tensions and cooperation among scientific, public, and corporate stakeholders in how we have managed the wilds and the public lands. Continue Reading »
From David Ciccoricco: I’m announcing the publication of my book, Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media (U. Nebraska Press), and thanking SLSA, which has been a great intellectual resource for me over the years. http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Refiguring-Minds-in-Narrative-Media,676387.aspx
From Kirsten Shepherd-Barr: I have just published the following book and hope it will be of interest to members. Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett Kirsten Shepherd-Barr “Shepherd-Barr is the perfect person to write a book on theater and evolution, a long-overdue topic.” – Martin Puchner, Harvard University “This is a distinctive and significant contribution Continue Reading »
From Peter J. Capuano: Please allow me to introduce the publication of my book, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body (University of Michigan Press; hardcover; paperback; ebook; 340 pages). The book may be of interest to those studying the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, industry, and evolutionary theory. The book is Continue Reading »
Via Susan Squier: Penn State University Press is thrilled to announce publication of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto, co authored by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Squier, Michael Green, Kimberley Myers, and Scott Smith. “Something remarkable and game changing is being sparked by the alliance between comics and medicine. It’s becoming clear that these graphic narratives can Continue Reading »
From Joanna Zylinska: PHOTOMEDIATIONS: AN OPEN BOOK http://photomediationsopenbook.net/ Trailer: https://vimeo.com/124738389 We are pleased to announce the launch of Photomediations: An Open Book. The project redesigns a coffee-table book as an online experience to produce a creative resource that explores the dynamic relationship between photography and other media. Photomediations: An Open Book uses open (libre) content, Continue Reading »
My article “Emotion, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics,” in Beyond Artificial Intelligence: The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide, eds. Jan Ramportl, Eva Zackova and Jozef Kelemen (Springer, 2014), pp.97-109, is now available for free at Academia.edu. My book, Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Artificial Slaves, which was awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Continue Reading »
Dr. Shane Denson writes: My book, Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface, has recently been made available through Columbia UP: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/postnaturalism/9783837628173 The book includes a foreword by Mark B. N. Hansen, which you can read along with the introductory chapter in a free PDF excerpt here: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/34ad464ffd532cd430be6202239151cd.pdf About the book: Postnaturalism offers an original account of Continue Reading »
From Wayne Miller: Now available free online (with a Creative Commons license) and as paperback. Here’s the full blurb… or start with the blue text half way down… The things chronicled here are, and are not, what they seem. For one, the language is all wrong: The titular dung balls are actually made of hallucinogenic mold, Continue Reading »
