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January 2020

January 18, 2020

#CFP Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies on Hybridity and Star Trek

A call for papers about Star Trek: Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of...

January 15, 2020

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

I recently rewatched Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. There is a running joke throughout the movie...

January 06, 2020

Doctor Who: Spyfall

I decided to wait until the second part aired before blogging about this episode, since...

January 03, 2020

Ad Astra

For the early part of the movie Ad Astra, I felt like it was stunning...

December 2019

December 28, 2019

The Ethics of the Completed Star Wars Skywalker Saga

As I said in my review of The Rise of Skywalker, I've long seen the...

December 20, 2019

The Rise of Skywalker: Review

I went with my son to see the latest Star Wars film and the last...

December 18, 2019

#CFP Reading Black Mirror (and Black Mirror and Theology)

I'm excited that there's a project related to theology and Black Mirror in the works....

December 14, 2019

Call for Applications for the 2020 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship

Applications are now being taken for the 2020 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship to...

December 11, 2019

This Is The Way (and Emails Instead of Meetings: #StarWars Edition)

I'm sure I'm not the only religion professor who is a Star Wars fan whose...

December 05, 2019

Call for Names, Editors, and Contributors: Journal/Magazine of Fiction by Academics #CFP

I really shouldn't start new projects. But I've had so many conversations recently with academics...

November 2019

November 24, 2019

Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden

Time to get back into blogging through classic Doctor Who episodes. Apologies for the long...

November 17, 2019

Transgressive Women in Speculative Fiction #CFP

The editors are currently soliciting abstract submissions for an edited volume focusing on Transgressive Women...

October 2019

October 16, 2019

Emergency Clerical Hologram

I was delighted to have the chance to make a guest appearance in Steven Schweitzer's class...

October 07, 2019

Music on Doctor Who

There is a lot that one can write about the music composed especially for Doctor...

October 04, 2019

#CFP Extrapolating Nostalgia: Special issue of Science Fiction Studies

Extrapolating Nostalgia: Special issue of Science Fiction Studies We invite papers on the role of nostalgia...

September 2019

September 28, 2019

James 4:13 and Whovian Marcionism

Seth Price had me as a guest on his podcast last year. We've talked about...

September 20, 2019

Real Gods

Even before I finished listening to the audiobook of Orson Scott Card's novel Xenocide, I knew I...

September 12, 2019

International Congress of Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies #CFP

Here's an interesting call for papers from an organization in Spain, the International Congress of Fantastic...

September 11, 2019

The Borg, the United Federation of Planets, and the Paradox of Tolerance

Bob Cargill shared this meme that illustrates the problem with the so-called paradox of tolerance...

September 10, 2019

#CFP Strange Novel Worlds? Star Trek Novels and Fiction Collections in Popular Culture

Call for proposals for Strange Novel Worlds? Star Trek Novels and Fiction Collections in Popular Culture...

September 06, 2019

ΘeoCon 2019: Cards for Divinity

Here's information about another upcoming speaking event related to the intersection of popular culture and...

September 05, 2019

This Year at Starbase Indy: Gods of Star Trek

It is apparently official now: I'll be presenting a session called "Gods on Star Trek"...

September 02, 2019

Inside The Black Hole

David Kyle Johnson writes in the Sci Phy Journal: Ironically, The Black Hole may have been more...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award

I was excited to see this science fiction writing contest. The closest I have to...

August 21, 2019

Teaching Talmud through Science Fiction and Classics through Comics

I know, I know. The title of the piece was "Using Star Trek to Teach...

August 18, 2019

Phildickeanism

From the article in Salon about Dick's turn to Christianity (famously of not just a vague...

August 07, 2019

Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit

Time to get back to (and hopefully wrap up) blogging through the classic series of...

August 03, 2019

#CFP : Essays on SyFy Channel Original Films

Prehistoric Monsters, Environmental Disasters, and Shark Weather: Interdisciplinary Interrogations of the SyFy Original Films Edited...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

CFP: An Astounding 90 Years of Analog Science Fiction and Fact: The Fourth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, December 12, 2019

Another call for papers that I knew you'd agree is worth sharing. I'm unlikely to...

July 20, 2019

Fire All Canons!

Having recently finished a draft of a book chapter about canon in Star Wars (both...

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