Hi, Amanda,

I don’t know if this helps, but I recently wrote an essay about comics for publication, and I had to get permission to use them. I got lucky because one of them was creator-owned, so I could just contact her through Twitter, but the other was owned by Dynamite Comics and was unsuccessful in contacting them.

This was for the journal…[Read more]

I support this forum as well.

Joshua Begley, Full Sail University

I don’t know as much about Latin American fantastic literature as I’d like, so I’m very interested in what you had to say, Silvia. In general, it always strikes me as odd how conservative academics can be. And in a broader sense, the whole concept of “legitimate” is troublesome because of the power issues underlying who decides what is and is not,…[Read more]

I wish the United States were better at carrying translated editions of works. This sounds like a fascinating anthology. I would love to read it!

Oh dear, it looks like I accidentally posted twice. Sorry!

There are some amazing conversations going on here. Going back to the initial question, why do so many academics fail to recognize SF as a legitimate literature, part of that stems from the rise of the novel and the idea that social realism is–to paraphrase the literary critic F. R. Levis–the only subject worth writing about. This is tied into…[Read more]

There are some amazing conversations going on here. Going back to the initial question, why do so many academics fail to recognize SF as a legitimate literature, part of that stems from the rise of the novel and the idea that social realism is–to paraphrase the literary critic F. R. Levis–the only subject worth writing about. This is tied into…[Read more]