Digital mapping Shelley’s Last Man; Philip K. Dick “important work on an important writer” and Mingus Fingers “one of those rare stories that gets everything right.”
Scroll and click on images below to explore recent fiction, digital projects, and more….
Enter my Zines to the Future! Exhibit
I curated an Exhibit on the history of sf zines, mounted in the Atrium Gallery of the Pollak Library, October, 2020. See rare, early zines from the beginning of sf.
New novella Mingus Fingers!
Released by Fairwood Press, Mingus Fingers is about Jazz and a young boy who uses music to bend reality…part of Egyptian Motherlode, a novel about a Funk musician with strange powers named The Prophet.
(LEFT) Read my new essay, “Rambles in the Fantastic: Digital Mapping Mary Shelley’s Last Man,” in Space(s) of the Fantastic. (ABOVE) Check out the Digital Map archived online.
Philip K. Dick, Essays of the Here and Now
A collection on PKD’s rise to literary prominence, drawn from the 2016 International PKD Conference (that I Chaired), including keynotes by Jonathan Lethem and Ursula Heise.
(ABOVE) Check out an Interactive StoryMap on the Secret History of Zines for the Zines to the Future! Project. How do you tell the history of zines when zines don’t want their history told?
(LEFT) Check out stories and poems of mine, free online or available for purchase
ENTER THE NEWLY UPDATED PHILIP K DICK IN ORANGE COUNTY WEBSITE…
(ABOVE) Enter an interactive StoryMap exploring the locations and events of my novel-in-progress, The Triumph of Death, a story involving Shelley’s life after the death (or murder?) of her husband in 1822.
(RIGHT) Examine my scholarship on the history of approaches to the fantastic, the weird, and the sublime
If they’re not going to give us the future, we’re going to have to make it ourselves
