I got an email from Professor Sarah Annes Brown that I’ve been accepted to present at the SF and the Canon Conference at Anglia Ruskin University on March 24 in Cambridge. I’ll be presenting my paper on Steampunk and H.G. Wells. I’m really excited! This afternoon, I met Andrea at The Foundation Building for coffee …
Category Archives: Liverpool
Email Woes and Sandy Soles
It seems that I’ve been having a two-fold problem with my .mac email, and I apologize to all of my friends if they’ve had trouble reaching me in the past week. One issue seems to be with the .mac incoming mail servers. I know for a fact that web.de has received connection errors while trying …
Making Connections
Today was a day of making connections and generating ideas. I finished reading Suvin’s Metamorphoses of Science Fiction. He has some interesting ideas about the ways in which SF is a literature of history. I can think of ways this further connects SF to the history of science and technology, which is what my Senior …
Pan’s Labyrinth
Last night, Ardy and I went to see Pan’s Labyrinth at the FACT. Pan’s Labyrinth is a beautifully touching and well made movie. I would go so far as to say that it’s the best movie that I’ve seen in the past year. It’s the story of a young girl, Ofelia, caught in the violence …
Mortimer
I’ve felt like I could use some extra O2 in my room, so I picked up a ficus from Marks & Spencer today. On the way back to the flat, I decided it should have a name. Thus, his name is Mortimer. I thought name implied its latent bookishness combined with a scratch-bark tenacity. Also …
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