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Systems Fail

Systems Fail offers a selection of work by Hiromi Goto and N.K. Jemisin, WisCon 38's Guests of Honor. Goto's poignant "What Isn't Remembered" imagines a mother, holding out against technological pressures in a future in which secretes are considered…

The Campridge Companion to Asian American literature

The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant…

The best American science fiction and fantasy 2018

Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experimentation and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read…

Techno-Orientalism

What will the future look like? Many speculative fictions films and books from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, render the future as full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and populated by cold, unfeeling robot-like citizens.…

Jikji, light from the East

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