DePauw University mourns the loss of Janet Prindle Seidler ’58, a Wall Street pioneer, a generous philanthropist and a ...

When Ken Liu became the second Chinese-American after Ted Chiang to win major sf awards in the United States, his fans in China were excited. 1 Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie” (2011) won the Nebula Award ...

That SF is capable of evoking in its readers "a sense of wonder" has become something of a critical cliché. 2 Another and equally characteristic side of the SF coin, however, is its role in what we ...

Jane Davis Long, a 2005 graduate of DePauw University, has been promoted to partner in the finance and administration division of WinterWyman, a talent… Sociologists and anthropologists study human ...

Discussions of the relationship between science fiction and myth usually begin to break down as soon as the question of basic definitions arises. There is little critical agreement as to the meaning ...

Since structuralism in literary studies is largely of French origin, let this attempt to ruin its reputation have as its motto the words of a Frenchman, Pierre Bertaux: At one time it was hoped that ...

J. Madison Davis. Stanislaw Lem. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1990. ix+116. $19.95 hardcover, $9.95 paper. There is a popular Polish maxim: na bezrybiu i rak ryba, which might be paraphrased as ...

In the Afterword to "The Word for World is Forest" (WWF) Le Guin remarks that writing this story was "like taking dictation from a boss with ulcers. What I wanted to write about was the forest and the ...

"Simply stating that the Management Fellows program had a "huge impact on my DePauw experience and life in the past four years" would be a massive understatement. On the surface, the Management ...

When Baudrillard writes that we live in an age of simulacra, he is not wrong. The phenomena he describes can be observed in corner video stores, supermarket aisles, and neighborhood gas stations as ...

Such a statement requires not only justification but considerable elaboration. Written science fiction is, of course, literature, although science fiction in other media (films, drama, perhaps even ...

Takayuki Tatsumi: Part of your Metamorphoses of Science Fiction has already been translated into Japanese and many critics there have been influenced by your critical system. Therefore, I think, it ...