Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone
We’ve been talking about some of the ways one can start discovering and interacting with the speculative heart of these poems. Let’s keep going by using another question-metric one can apply while reading: What is the poem speculating about?
Ask anyone who was the first trans person to win a Hugo Award and they will probably say “Charlie Jane Anders”, back in 2012. I think my 2009 win is probably the first by an out trans person, but I wasn’t the first trans winner, not by a long shot.
Discovering Seattle’s nautical history through this hands-on museum on Lake Union.
Seattle Worldcon 2025 is delighted to announce that nominations are now open for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer.
Following up with our wonderful chat with Science Fiction Poetry Association Grand Master Mary Soon Lee a fortnight ago, today we’re chatting with current SFPA President Colleen Anderson!
Before the first human spaceflight, Ham the astrochimp flew the sub-orbital MR-2 mission in January 1961 as a test of NASA’s Mercury-Redstone system. Discover the story of the pioneering primates who helped take human spaceflight out of the realm of science fiction and into reality and how Ham became one of America’s early space celebrities.
Located in the Pike Place Market since 1911, MarketSpice lends a lovely smell to the air outside its shop, which is great for everyone in the Market, as MarketSpice’s next-door neighbor is the Pike Place Fish Market.
Today, let’s chat about (my probably controversial thoughts on) symbolic intensity and how even the most challenging poem can clearly reveal a speculative core.
Most of the magical realism and surrealism that has come into English literature from the Japanese is from Kōbō Abe (1924–1993). His slipstream novels and collections, which easily move among the various subgenres of science fiction, surrealism, and magical realism, are focused on the absurd and bewildering.
Discover Wallingford’s innovative Woodland Park Zoo, enjoy peaceful strolls and picnics in Woodland Park, and explore unique antiques and quirky finds at the charming Vintage Mall.