"Inside Outer Space : Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft" – edited by Sharon Jarvis (1985)
"For decades, science fiction readers and writers had been regarded by the academic/literary nexus and the media as a bizarre group, aficionados of the subliterate obsessed by the arcane" – Sharon Jarvis
Science fiction in 1985 was a nervous adolescent: brilliant, awkward, self‑conscious, desperate to be taken seriously, and...
The history of literature is, among other things, the history of its infections.
Ideas migrate, genres mutate, borders dissolve, and what once seemed pure becomes hybrid, recombinant, gloriously contaminated.
Science fiction, long treated as a commercial ghetto of ray guns and rocket ships, has quietly infiltrated the bloodstream of world literature. Or perhaps it is literature that has infiltrated science fiction, bending its tropes into instruments...
"The latest documentary from Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen (Into Eternity) is technically science fact, only it speculatively concerns things that haven’t happened yet. The...
Fantasticon is an annual festival in Denmark for the fantastic genres (science fiction, fantasy, horror etc.), where you can meet authors, filmmakers, artists, scientists,...
With only 5,5 million inhabitants, speaking their own language, and with a long history of maintaining a mono-ethnic culture, Danish science fiction literature is...