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Joe Haldeman Interview: Celebrating 50 Years of 'The Forever War' Bestselling author Joe Haldeman sat down with The Portalist to talk about the experience of writing 'The Forever War' and what hopes he still has for the enduring science fiction classic.

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This Sunday at 2:30 pm in our Kaiser Classroom! Join us for a free talk by Ute Mountain Ute, Tribal Elder Donald Whyte as he details his personal journey of learning, speaking, and teaching his ancestral language. Former Chief Ranger of Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Donald will chart his lifelong process of embracing his heritage from his childhood and public school on the reservation through his career and retirement. The presentation will serve as the culmination of his work to obtain a Ute Language Certificate through the Southwest Indigenous Language Development Institute, a collaboration between the Southern Ute, Northern Ute, Ute Mountain Ute and Fort Lewis College School of Education. No reservations required.

Themes : Pandemic : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia Welcome to the third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms.

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Science Fiction’s big digital pivot Over the past month or so, the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) has been hosting a series of livestream readings from SFF authors in the UK and beyond. We’re calling them the Lockdo…

18,000 Entries! 18,000 Entries! 21 February 2020 There's always something irrationally exciting about big round numbers, and today we are unreasonably thrilled that the Encyclopedia's entry count has reached and passed eighteen thousand. Our 18,000th entry is for the only one of the just-announced Nebula Award nove...

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Books by Black Authors You Need to Read It may be Black History Month, but these black science fiction & fantasy authors deserve to be read all year round. Their work has transformed the genre we love.

The Word “Robot” Originated in a Czech Play in 1921: Discover Karel Čapek’s Sci-Fi Play R.U.R. (a.k.a. Rossum’s Universal Robots) When I hear the word robot, I like to imagine Isaac Asimov’s delightfully Yiddish-inflected Brooklynese pronunciation of the word: “ro-butt,” with heavy stress on the first syllable. (A quirk shared by Futurama’s crustacean Doctor Zoidberg.) Asimov warned us that robots could be dangerous an...

Authors : Grant, John : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia Welcome to the third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms.