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Nicole’s top 5 Cyberpunk Animes
In honor of Asia Pacific American Heritage Month,  I’m going to list my favorite Japanese (or Japanese-influenced) cyberpunk animes. Nicole’s top 5 Cyberpunk Animes In honor of Asia Pacific American Heritage Month, I’m going to list my favorite Japanese (or Japanese-influenced) cyberpunk animes. 1. Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C.– This is the GOAT (greatest of all time) anime…
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AfroFuturism, Blerds, and Black Twitter-A Brief Reference Guide
While at illogicon this weekend, one of the panels I’ve participated in was AfroFuturism, Blerds, and BlackTwitter. We also provided a brief overview of the cinematic history of African-Americans in speculative fiction. Below is the list of references that provide a brief introduction AfroFuturistm, Blerds, and Black Twitter. Please note, this isn’t a complete list.…
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Redux: Saturday Night Scifi: Running Man and Total Recall
I had the extreme pleasure of participating in a live tweet last night with @GeekSoulBrother’s SaturdayNightSciFi event. This Saturday’s double feature movie was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Running Man and Total Recall. Both movies are set in the 80s/90s vision of the future. Watching both movies back to back, I found some common similarities, not surprising as…
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How the Weird West Won Me Over
Weird Westerns are a sub-genre of speculative fiction. I was first introduced to this sub-genre when I lived in the Southwest and attended MilehiCon. While there, I met David B. Riley and his publishing company, Science Fiction Trails. He and Laura Givens were working on an anthology of weird westerns. Excited by the idea of…
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My Attraction to the Tragic Hero…
Originally published 2008. Being the cyberpunk girl I am at heart, it was with wild enthusiasm I dove into the third installment in the Tasheki Kovacs novel, Woken Furies, written by Richard K. Morgan. Part detective series, part science fiction, and total superior writing, Morgan has hit a stride with Kovacs I had initially thought…
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Nicole Givens Kurtz is an author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. She is also known for writing weird westerns as well as non-fiction work.
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