The spectre of the dead father haunts Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II (2020), which garnered praise for its progressive gender representation. In the game’s prologue, the beloved protagonist of t...

Two months ago, we launched our Robin Hood poster as a call to reimagine scholarly communication beyond commercial control. The campaign encourages libraries to redirect even a small proportion of …

Dates: June 11-12th 2026 Location: Percy Building, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU Contact: sciencefictionfantasyncl@gmail.com Organisers: Abi Hockaday & Aparna Sivsankar Science Fiction & Fantasy (SF...

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Due to advancements in technology, capital-intensive videogames now often include rich semiotic detail in their simulated spaces. In The Last of Us, specifically, much of the playable space is stylise...

American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction by Robert Yeates  212 pages, Hardcover Published November 2021 by UCL Press  This revi...

PKD Hangouts Tuesday nights(9 PM EST/ 6 PM PST )on Zoom. This week we are talking about urban decay in the Blade Runner universe! 2/17 Robert Yeates on Urban decay in the transmedia universe of...

In the opening moments of the video game The Last of Us Part I, players are introduced to an emerging pandemic via Austin’s Texas Herald newspaper. Below a headline warning of mass hospitalizations fr...

Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza) In 1987 Tom LeClair formulated the concept of the “systems novel,” a generic category that included highly erudite works that “master the …

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Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary magazine established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews ab

Utopian Studies Special Issue  Video Game Utopianism: Form, Narrative, Representation Guest Editors: Stacy Gillis and Jon Quayle,  Newcastle University (U.K.)Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2025...

Against the game: Sid Meier’s Civilization and vernacular theories of language

Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary magazine established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews ab

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publica...

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R.E.M. once sang: “It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” For buzzy bunker-based

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*Call for papers for CRSF 2025 now OPEN* Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2025 15th Annual Conference 3rd & 4th July 2025 University of Liverpool (Hybrid) Theme: Boundaries: transgressio…

Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary magazine established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews ab

In this special collection, we aim to explore the generative potential of gaming for the humanities. Since the 1990s, scholarly traditions of videogame analysis have emerged, effectively underwriting ...

The various genres under the umbrella of speculative fiction – including but not limited to science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history – have long been popular across diverse read...

We are excited to announce a new issue of Startwords, a research periodical irregularly published by the CDH and a forum for experimental research in the humanities.

Welcome to the Anti-Colonial Research Library This Library holds a collection of open-access articles and books, websites, and YouTube…