Should men lactate? Discuss.
For the last couple of years, I’ve set Marge Piercy’s feminist SF novel, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), to my Honours Science Fiction class. The novel’s protagonist, Connie Ramos, has been telepathically...
Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
Announcing Our Creative Writing Guest Judge, Adam Roberts
We are very pleased to announce that award-winning science fiction author, Adam Roberts, will be the guest judge for our creative writing competition. Adam’s 2012 novel, Jack Glass, was the winner of the John W....
Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities Research Assistant, Anna McFarlane
Today our new research assistant, Anna McFarlane, introduces herself. You may see Anna tweeting about the project from our account, @scifimedhums, or as herself (@mariettarosetta). She’ll also be visible on our Facebook group, and on this...
Goodhealth, fellow Patients of the World Medarchy
‘Goodhealth and good to know you’ – so one might greet a fellow Patient in Ward Moore‘s 1978 dystopian SF novel, Caduceus Wild (based on an earlier 1959 short story). Following a biological war,...
To writers of new-fangled scientifiction
Now that the journal call has been promoted, it’s time to give a push to the project’s creative-writing competition for science-fiction stories (including novel excerpts) that deal with themes of medicine, health, and illness....
Science Fiction & Medical Humanities Research Assistant job (p/t)
Another milestone: we’re now advertising for a part-time research assistant to work on Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities for a year. The R.A. will be working on a number of our project activities,...
Why science fiction and the medical humanities?
I’m Gavin Miller, the leader of this project, which is among the Wellcome Trust’s new, exploratory Seed Awards in the medical humanities. For several years, I’ve been building a research profile in the critical...