Exploring literary visions of greener, fairer ways of being
This week I saw that the Science Fiction collection at the University of Liverpool has been awarded ‘Designated Status’ by Arts Council England. I’m very happy for them because visiting the archive was one of the highlights of my trip to Liverpool for the Current Research in Speculative Fiction conference earlier this year.
Continue reading “Big Love for the University of Liverpool’s Science Fiction Collection”A word at the outset of this report to note there will be spoilers for the Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin. Also, this report is not comprehensive. Conversely, it is highly subjective and reflects what I personally found exciting and pertinent to my own areas of interest. This means mostly Jemisin, Nisi Shawl and Rivers Solomon, utopia, visionary fiction and decolonisation. As you’re reading the Just Utopias blog you’re hopefully here for this, so let’s crack on.
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