CFP: German Fantastic Conference by Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, 30 Sept-03 Oct, 2010

Read on for the announcement for the first conference for the newly formed Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung or GFF (Association for Research in the Fantastic) at the University of Hamburg, Germany. German SF studies has been had the turbopumps running for a number of years, but I believe a conference like this will really light that …

Sonja Fritzsche’s Science Fiction Literature in East Germany

I finished reading Sonja Fritzsche’s Science Fiction Literature in East Germany (2006) for a review that I’m writing for The German Quarterly.  Before writing the review, I do want to share some of my first impressions as I organize my thoughts for the official review.  This is a fantastic synthesis of history and cultural analysis of Deutsche Demokratische …