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Science Fiction and Fantasy CFPs
This morning, PBS was advertising a SteamPunk documentary; below is the ad/preview: media type="youtube" key="z6-AmXihFsU" height="345" width="560"

An interview of Neil Gaiman (18 August 2011) with several interesting points in relation to our class: media type="custom" key="10331276"

Another interesting (and of interest) video from PBS about art and technology: media type="youtube" key="-b0rlJvO1BQ" height="345" width="560"

NPR show //Science Diction//: the particular episode linked here is about a work we're discussing (//R.U.R.//) which is the origin of the word "Robot" in our language. You can get to other episodes in the "Related Stories" near the bottom of the page.



In this episode of //The Simpsons//, Alan Moore plays himself (as do Art Spiegelman and Daniel Clowes) media type="custom" key="10678292"

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The Borges Google Doodle, which appeared on the search engine's site on August 24th, 2011

media type="youtube" key="OdNbocU6wKc" height="315" width="420" from the documentary //The Mindscape of Alan Moore//

==__ [|Terry Pratchett starts process to take his own life] __ == 12 Jun 2011: The fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett says he has received consent forms requesting assisted suicide but has not yet signed them Clipped on 13 November 2011