@GunnCSSF

Founded by esteemed author and educator James Gunn, KU's Center for the Study of SF is dedicated to the research & teaching of global speculative literatures.

 Lawrence, KS
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Joined April 2013
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One week to read up and join @GunnCSSF for their March book club next Friday! #JayhawksRead
CSSF@GunnCSSF27 Feb 2024
Join us Friday, March 29th at 12pm CT for our virtual book club! This months selections are the stories "Darkrose and Diamond" and "On the High Marsh" from Ursula Le Guin's "Tales from Earthsea". Register for March's bookclub through the linktree in our bio.
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The Spencer Museum of Art is hosting a marathon reading of this year's common book, “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler. This event will take place in the HBW “Black Writing Exhibit” on 11/29, & 11/30: Sign up for this event via the link: buff.ly/40ur5iK
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Join us Friday, November 17th at 12pm CT for our virtual book club! This months selection is "Son of a Trickster" by Eden Robinson. You can register through the Linktree in our bio or by visiting our website sfcenter.ku.edu/.
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This @DavidsonCollege prof Angela Acosta is one to watch! I heard her give such a moving interview for the @GunnCSSF Sturgeon Symposium's virtual programming last month. This 2-3 minute read will have you looking at images from your own life differently...
Russ López@LatineLit17 Oct 2023
When you've left earth to live elsewhere, how might you communicate to your children what you've left behind? Read Angela Acosta's hauntingly beautiful story, Photographic Memories in the Fall 2023 issue of LatineLit. latinelit.com/2023fall/photg…
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Next week—free and open to all! Visit linktr.ee/gunncssf for the schedule.

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CSSF@GunnCSSF1 Sep 2023
The Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction is excited to announce our 2nd Annual Sturgeon Symposium (Wed. 9/20 – Fri. 9/22/2023), celebrating the 30th anniversary of Octavia Butler's groundbreaking novel, The Parable of the Sower.
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This Tuesday (9/12) will be one for the books as local writer @RB_Lemberg presents their new poetry collection EVERYTHING THAWS! (Plus, it's the perfect time to celebrate that their book, GEOMETRIES OF BELONGING, is a finalist for the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize 🤯🥳
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The book launch will feature a poetry reading, followed by a conversation with Lemberg and Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky (@globalrhizome) discussing immigration, identity, language, and queerness. Masks are strongly recommended for this event! 😷
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Replying to @GunnCSSF @bogiperson
Correction: Maria Galina, although she has written many books in Russian and lived in Russia for many years, now lives in Ukraine, identifies with Ukraine, and writes in both Ukrainian and Russian.
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ICYMI! Writers! @UncannyMagazine will be reopening to short story and poetry submissions on October 1!!! We don't know when we're closing, so the sooner you submit, the better! uncannymagazine.com/submissi…
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We're looking for science fiction submissions for our podcast Simultaneous Times. 500 to 2500 words, 2 cents a word. Feel free to DM if interested.
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Tonight! Our first event. "The Higgs Boson in This Particular Universe: Facts, Speculation, and the Story of a Little Ripple with a Big Bang" features a talk with KU physicist Dr. Phil Baringer. adastrasf.ku.edu/ad-astra-pr…
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Announcing the 2022 World Fantasy Award Finalists tor.com/2022/07/20/announcin…
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ANOUNCEMENT: Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is raising its pay from 1 cent per word to 4 cents per word! 🚀
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Please RT!!! @UncannyMagazine will be opening to Short Story Submissions (750-6000 words) from May 16 to May 30!!! uncannymagazine.com/submissi…
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Six days! Theme: unexpected encounters in isolated places 8 cents USD/word 1250 words max Get weird and wild. #writingcommunity spacefantasymag.com/submissi… p.s. we're in PST, but as long as it's May 1 or May 30 somewhere in the world, our inbox is open 💚
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Get ready for the official launch of our Virtual Book Club! We'll be starting things off with P. Djeli Clark's award-winning novella, Ring Shout. Full details at the link below. We hope to see you there! fb.me/e/2YoVbhlkm
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'The diverse essays gathered here demonstrate many possible directions for plants studies in the fantastic' Plants in Science Fiction explores how we understand ourselves in relation to the complex world of flora🌺 🌳uwp.co.uk/book/plants-in-sci…
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Here are some AI generated nude portraits I've been working on🍑 Usually the machine just paints people as blobs of flesh with tendrils and limbs randomly growing out - I think it's really surreal. I wonder if that's how machines see us...
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I’m seeing spots! Check out #Jupiter’s #GreatRedSpot in these stunning citizen scientist-processed #JunoCam images missionjuno.swri.edu/news/ju…
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Gunn Receives Lifetime Teaching Award tinyurl.com/hx9unj9
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