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

One of the great early socialists said that the status of women in a society is a pretty reliable index of the degree of civilization of that society. If this is true, then the very low status of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...