New Starboard Vineyard Tours! We read “Toward a Science-Fictional Interpretational Method: Reading Three Borges Stories” by Michael O'Krent and boy, were we on our bullshit on this one. Listen here!
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New Starboard Vineyard Tours is up! People are still obsessed with Dune, right? Well, climate scientists certainly are, as we learned from Katherine Buse's "The Working Planetologist: Speculative Worlds and the Practice of Climate Science". Listen here!
Starboard Vineyard Tours is out! We covered recent book The World Is Born From Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games, by Cameron Kunzelman. What do video games and science fiction have in common, and what is a mechanic of speculation? Learn more here!
Starboard Vineyard Tours! It's out! We talked about Seo-Young Chu's Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation, undoubtedly the most evocative title of a book we've covered. Discover the power of lyric mimesis here!