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University of Iowa Libraries Preserving Badly Mimeographed Spec Fic Fanzines For All Time

July 24, 2015 by Tara Jenson 2 Comments

Maybe you’re antsy for the next installation of the terrible Maze Runner series. Or maybe you were into spec fic before spec fic was Hunger Games cool. Maybe you read Heinlein before 20/20 cultural hindsight made you realize how aneurism-inducingly sexist he (and well, you know the whole 50s/60s sci fi scene) was.1 Whether your…

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My Year Of Speculative Fiction: An Introduction

March 9, 2015 by Lyda Morehouse 2 Comments

This seems to be the year of the reading challenge. In February, parts of the Internet exploded over K. Tempest Bradford’s suggestion that people try to stop reading straight, white, cis, male writers for a year. I got involved in this dust-up because I really don’t think it should be hard to read science fiction…

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