Terraforming the Imagination: How to Build a Convincing Fictional Universe
By Emma Louise Backe Fantasy and science fiction writers do it all the time—build a world, sometimes an entire universe,…
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The Devil in Disguise: Modern Monsters and their Metaphors
By Emma Louise Backe Throughout the past decade or so, we’ve had a resurgence of monsters. Werewolves, vampires and zombies…
Review / 2: Sexual Generations: “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and Gender by Robin Roberts
While deep down an internet rabbit hole one day I came across a catalog listing for a book that sounded…
Fantasy and the Female Body
By Emma Louise Backe Tamora Pierce has assumed a canonical place in fantasy literature, especially for younger readers. Pierce’s stories…
Scholarly Hipsters, Scholarly Geeks Part 3: The Baker Street Ethnographers
(Part 3 of a series on what it might look like to think of “geek” as a mode in which scholarly…
The Geek Anthropologist 