Archives

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November 2022

13:  

November Events!

August 2022

30:  

Chicon is Here!

July 2022

3:  

More Fringe Discussions!

June 2022

3:  

Chicon Fringe Book Clubs!

April 2022

25:  

Chicon Updates and More!

November 2021

9:  

Windycon Schedule

September 2021

9:  

Printers Row Lit Fest 2021

July 2021

28:  

Summer Update!

January 2021

27:  

Calendar Updates & Capricon

December 2020

1:  

In Case You Missed It/So You Don't: OBOC Finale, Pocket Con, & A Few More

November 2020

2:  

"Ring Shout" by P. Djèlí Clark

October 2020

18:  

"Waste Tide" by Chen Qiufan

16:  

Ray Bradbury Experience Museum talk

8:  

City Lit Books Closing

August 2020

16:  

Still At It!

May 2020

14:  

In Case You Missed It, So You Don't: Virtual Edition!

11:  

Reporting!

March 2020

24:  

"Japan Sinks" by Sakyo Komatsu

21:  

Covid-19 Updates

February 2020

27:  

In Case You Missed It, So You Don't

January 2020

4:  

"The Empress of Salt and Fortune" by Nghi Vo

December 2019

30:  

Notable 2019 Reads & Re-Reads

September 2019

18:  

"The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man" by Dave Hutchinson

8:  

ICYMI/SYD #14

July 2019

20:  

Review of Jo Walton's "Lent" @ the CHIRB

May 2019

3:  

ICYMI/SYD #13

April 2019

18:  

C2E2: The Future is Now

3:  

"A Memory Called Empire" by Arkady Martine

March 2019

10:  

From Dreaming to Running: Putting the Android on Screen

6:  

ICYMI/SYD #12

2:  

The Handmaid's Tale: Three Literary Perspectives

February 2019

28:  

"The City in the Middle of the Night" by Charlie Jane Anders

25:  

"Behind the Throne" by K.B. Wagers

24:  

"The Tea Master and The Detective" by Aliette de Bodard

23:  

Teresa Woodruff @ Northwestern: "History, Context, and Relevance of Reproductive Dystopias"

23:  

"The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

15:  

ICYMI/SYD #11

15:  

"Unholy Land" by Lavie Tidhar

14:  

"Friday Black" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

14:  

"Dreyer's English" by Benjamin Dreyer

10:  

"The Autobiography of Red" by Anne Carson

9:  

Nishi Shawl on Octavia Butler talk

2:  

"Surface Detail" by Iain M. Banks

January 2019

26:  

Maria Dhavana Headley talk @ North Western

22:  

"Infomocracy" by Malka Older

17:  

"Phoresis" by Greg Egan

16:  

"House of Shattered Wings" by Aliette de Bodard

11:  

"The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

1:  

2018 notable reads & re-reads

November 2018

10:  

Thoughts on "Venom" (2018)

September 2018

24:  

Updates!

May 2018

12:  

Otherworld's "Down the Rocky Road and All the Way to Bedlam"

February 2018

27:  

ICYMI/SYD #9

January 2018

31:  

ConFusion Recap: SF and Philosophy

31:  

ConFusion Recap: Nisi Shawl Interview w/Jim hines

31:  

ConFusion Recap: Using Scientific History to Enhance Fantasy Worldbuilding

31:  

ConFusion Recap: Pacifism

22:  

Casella's 2017 SFF reflections

22:  

ConFusion Recap: The Future of Portal Fantasy

14:  

Think Galactic- Iraq +100

7:  

Chicago Nerds- Lovecraft Country

November 2017

30:  

Weird & Wonderful- White Noise

20:  

Think Galactic- Everfair

20:  

Weird & Wonderful- We Have Always Lived in the Castle

20:  

Chicago Nerds- Binti

19:  

Think Galactic- Certain Dark Things

19:  

Chicago Nerds- Signal to Noise

19:  

Annalee Newitz @ Women & Children First

19:  

Weird & Wonderful- A Cure for Suicide

11:  

Think Galactic- Borders of Infinity

6:  

Chicago Nerds- Embassytown

3:  

Think Galactic- When the Moon was Ours

1:  

Weird & Wonderful- China Mountain Zhang

October 2017

31:  

Think Galactic- The Traitor Baru Cormorant

30:  

Weird & Wonderful- Altered Carbon

July 2017

19:  

ICYMI/SYD #8

4:  

Think Galactic- All the Birds in the Sky

4:  

Chicago Nerds- The Prestige

June 2017

29:  

Doctorow @ Printer's Row

23:  

Podcast #5- BikeCon & Wiscon

2:  

Classic Sci-Fi- Stations of the Tide

May 2017

24:  

Podcast #4- The Hugo Novels

21:  

Otherworld's "The Rogue Aviator"

21:  

New Millennium Theatre's "The Incredible Hank"

19:  

Think Galactic- Kelly Sue DeConnick & Amal El-Mohtar

18:  

Chicago Nerds- Ninefox Gambit

13:  

Quick Thoughts on "Illyria: A Shakespearean Fantasy"

12:  

DePaulPotter notes- Defending Tom Riddle

12:  

DePaulPotter notes- The Occult Potter

12:  

DePaulPotter notes- The Banality of Evil

6:  

Podcast #3- VanderMeer and the Weird

5:  

Classic Sci-Fi- I, Robot

5:  

Jeff VanderMeer Volumes Talk

April 2017

28:  

Podcast #2- American Gods w/ While Reading and Walking's Leah von Essen

25:  

Yes, The Handmaid's Tale is Science Fiction (and that's okay)

22:  

Jeff VanderMeer @ DePaul

18:  

ICYMI/SYD #7

15:  

Think Galactic- A Taste of Honey

15:  

Weird & Wonderful- Magic for Beginners

11:  

Chicago Nerds- Agents of Dreamland

11:  

Recap: Science, Science Fiction, & Imagining Nature's Future

9:  

Classic Sci-Fi- Holy Fire

7:  

Weird & Wonderful- Wool

March 2017

28:  

Positron Podcast #1!

26:  

Chicago Nerds- A Planet for Rent

23:  

Think Galactic- Too Like The Lightning

19:  

Thoughts on Otherworld Theatre's "A Princess of Mars"

12:  

Hive Mind: Futures (and Fantasies) Worth Fighting For

February 2017

27:  

Think Galactic- Diamond Dogs Outing

24:  

ICYMY/SYD #6

23:  

Weird & Wonderful- A Taste of Honey

20:  

Phandemonium- Across the Universe

19:  

Chicago Nerds- Every Heart a Doorway

17:  

Think Galactic- Uprooted

11:  

Classic Sci-Fi- Dune

6:  

Weird & Wonderful- The Left Hand of Darkness

2:  

Sulzer- A Darker Shade of Magic

January 2017

15:  

Think Galactic- Lizard Radio

15:  

Chicago Nerds- The Left Hand of Darkness

8:  

Above-Average Space Spiders: Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time"

7:  

ICYMI/SYD #5: Ten Great Online Essays & Articles

December 2016

29:  

Weird & Wonderful- To Say Nothing of the Dog

28:  

Think Galactic- Sisters of the Revolution

17:  

Chicago Nerds- Leviathan Wakes

13:  

Weird & Wonderful- The Island of Dr. Moreau

9:  

Belated thoughts on Arrival

2:  

ICYMI/SYD #4: December & beyond

November 2016

30:  

Think Galactic: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle

29:  

Review: A Closed and Common Orbit

23:  

Chicago Nerds- The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

17:  

Secretly Crossing Invisible Lines: Hutchinson's "Fractured Europe" Trilogy

12:  

Hive Mind: Obscure Brilliance

11:  

Op-Ed: Imagination must trump despair.

1:  

ICYMI/SYD #3: November '16

1:  

Review- A Taste of Honey

October 2016

30:  

Weird & Wonderful- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

25:  

Chicago Feminism- Howl's Moving Castle

25:  

Reed's Local- The City and the City

25:  

Author Talk- Yoss @ City Lit

25:  

Think Galactic- My Soul to Keep

24:  

Overclocking Clarke's Third: Yoon Ha Lee's "Ninefox Gambit"

21:  

Chicago Nerds- Ghost Talkers

21:  

Volumes- The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

21:  

Weird & Wonderful- The Bone Clocks

20:  

Think Galactic- Buffy Season 8

September 2016

29:  

ICYMI/SYD #2- October Events Galore

28:  

Chicago Nerds- The Atrocity Archives

28:  

Classic Sci-Fi- The Drowned World

27:  

Weird & Wonderful- Vermilion

26:  

Think Galactic- Kabu Kabu