Hello Arthurian Forum Members!

We are hoping to make our MLA Commons site as vibrant and interactive as our face-to-face conversations at MLA and other venues, so we’ll be starting some new threads over the next couple of days. We invite your participation in these conversations, and we would (of course!) love to see some new ones pop up.

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The Speculative Fiction Forum’s own Gerry Canavan, Assistant Prof. of 20th and 21st Century Literature at Marquette University, was a guest on the NPR show “On Point” on Friday Dec. 18th to discuss science fiction and film.  Check it out:

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point-with-tom-ashbrook

Hello everyone,

We are excited to announce that Karim Mattar and Shaden Tageldin will be joining the executive committee of the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!

Please help us give them a big welcome by posting your congratulations here on our Commons page!

Enter ASU’s Climate Fiction Short Story Contest

First prize: $1,000
Judged by science fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson
Submit your story!
Climate change is a creeping calamity, ever-present but so gradual and pervasive that it can be tough to grasp. Climate fiction, an emerging subgenre of speculative storytelling, can help us imagine human…[Read more]