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May 28, 2023
Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier
I had the privilege of interviewing @dramyhsturgis about a new book she co-edited with Emily Strand about Star Trek. Pick up a copy, request it at your local library, read essays from some of the sharpest minds in Trek fandom, and listen to this episode of We Are Starfleet.
May 27, 2023
Podcast Interview re: Book
I had a fantastic time talking with brilliant hosts Ashley Thomas and Mike Slamer of the WE ARE STARFLEET podcast about the new anthology STAR TREK: ESSAYS EXPLORING THE FINAL FRONTIER, which I co-edited with Emily Strand. Thanks so much for a wonderful chat! 🖖
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Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final FrontierGreat podcast interview with @dramyhsturgis about Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier, a collection of academic essays to which I wrote the introduction! (There’s a discount code on that page too.)
I had a fantastic time talking with brilliant hosts Ashle...
I had a fantastic time talking with brilliant hosts Ashley Thomas and Mike Slamer of the WE ARE STARFLEET podcast about the new anthology STAR TREK: ESSAYS EXPLORING THE FINAL FRONTIER, which I co-edited with Emily Strand. Thanks so much for a wonderful chat! 🖖
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May 25, 2023
Happy Towel Day!
Happy Towel Day!
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
“More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost.” What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.“
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
May 17, 2023
In my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on t...
In my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast, I discuss Guardians of the Whills, Andor, and local resistance in Star Wars.
StarShipSofa 712 Laird Barron | StarShipSofa
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May 13, 2023
Happy Birthday, Daphne du Maurier!
And happy birthday to Daphne du Maurier (13 May, 1907 – 19 April, 1989)!
“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (1938)
May 4, 2023
dramyhsturgis:
May the 4th be with you.
Happy Star Wars D...
May the 4th be with you.
Happy Star Wars Day!
April 30, 2023
STAR TREK: ESSAYS EXPLORING THE FINAL FRONTIER is here!
I’m so excited to share this with the universe!
This anthology includes contributions from Emily Strand, Una McCormack, Daniel Unruh, Edward Guimont, Brunella Tedesco-Barlocco, Kristina Šekrst, Javier Francisco, Erin Bell, Martine Gjermundsen Ræstad, Andrew Higgins, John Jackson Miller, and me. The cover art is by Emily Austin.
More information, including the full Table of Contents, is at the link below. The book can be requested via libraries as a hardcover or ebook, and the coupon code CFC10822213C4 provides a 24% “new release!” discount at the Vernon Press website: https://vernonpress.com/book/1672
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April 27, 2023
unamccormack:
Oxford portals
Oxford portals
