Hi all, I created a Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Studies starter pack. This is for the academic study of SFFH :) The list is still tiny as I don't know who is here. Please let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/TDrfKpu - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

rblemberg.bsky.social • 105 days ago

Hi all, I created a Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Studies starter pack. This is for the academic study of SFFH :) The list is still tiny as I don't know who is here. Please let me know if you'd like to be added!

https://go.bsky.app/TDrfKpu

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Comments

raimalarter.bsky.social•105 days ago

I know @tiffaniangus.bsky.social is here - she should probably be added. Also Val Nolan: @vallescurarule.bsky.social

vallescurarule.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you for thinking of us! 😀

tiffaniangus.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thanks, Raima! And @rblemberg.bsky.social, Val and I write the series Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, based on our combined 20+ years of university teaching, research & writing. Thx!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added :)

vallescurarule.bsky.social•105 days ago

Oh marvelous, thank you! 😀

tiffaniangus.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

thank you, added both! Do you do this kind of work too, should I add you as well? :))

raimalarter.bsky.social•105 days ago

No, I don't study SFF academically, but I do write it! And I'm the nonfiction editor at @utopiascifi.bsky.social -- so I read their book and really liked it. Thanks for putting this list together to make it easier to follow people like this.

writervh.bsky.social•105 days ago

Ooh me please if I may! I'm a SFF author & currently working on a PhD in equitable fantasy fiction 🙏

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Fantastic! I added you. Please refresh and double-check that you can see yourself in the pack. Last night Bsky was a bit glitchy and did not display many people I added, so I want to make sure it does not happen again.

writervh.bsky.social•105 days ago

Just checked and I'm on there! Thank you so much for doing this, and for following up (quite a big job given the size of the list, it's very good of you!) :-)

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you! I don't want to exclude people, so I am just making sure that everything works as advertised - glad you are here! :))

writervh.bsky.social•105 days ago

Aw well it's much appreciated. And thank you for having me! 🙏

azzageddi.bsky.social•105 days ago

Can I recommend a newcomer to Bluesky?
Syamsuriatina Ishak aka Tina Ishak-Dagoe
@sysrtina.bsky.social
She is a PhD Researcher on Technology Regulation using Science Fiction Literature

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Added, thank you for the rec! Can I ask you to double-check if you see her in the pack? Last night Bsky was a bit glitchy and did not display many people I added, this morning it seems to work, but it's still good to make sure.

azzageddi.bsky.social•104 days ago

Trying to check, but things are still glitchy. I’ll try again on my desktop in a few hours.

azzageddi.bsky.social•104 days ago

I was finally able to check--yes, all is well!

sysrtina.bsky.social•104 days ago

You are the bomb, @azzageddi.bsky.social 😘

gothicacademic.bsky.social•105 days ago

I'd love to be added :)

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Just added you! Please refresh and make sure you see yourself in the pack :))

sfboswell.bsky.social•105 days ago

Would love to be added!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I added you! Please refresh the pack and double-check that you can see yourself, Bluesky has been glitchy :)

sfboswell.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you!

oliverklangmead.bsky.social•105 days ago

Great idea! Lecturer at Lancaster University here, specialising in SFF writing

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I've added you, welcome! Please refresh and double-check that you can see yourself in the pack. Last night Bsky was a bit glitchy and did not display many people I added, this morning it seems to work, but it's still good to make sure.

everalkisti.bsky.social•96 days ago

I’d love to be added if possible!

rblemberg.bsky.social•95 days ago

added you!

gillianpolack.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you for doing that. It saved me hunting a bunch of people.
I suspect I also fit, because right now I'm researching worldbuilding in fairy tale retellings. Also, I have quite a few publications now of Australian SFF and related subjects.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I added you! Please refresh the pack and double-check that you can see yourself, Bluesky has been glitchy :)

gillianpolack.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you!

tristanbeiter.bsky.social•105 days ago

I'm a PhD student with interest in speculative fiction studies and poetics as well as a writer of SFF book reviews! (And I'm presenting on Dawn Lundy Martin, time, and Afrofuturist poetics at a roundtable at NeMLA in Philadelphia this coming March!)

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

excellent, added you!

tristanbeiter.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you!

arwainian.bsky.social•105 days ago

my (in-progress) master's paper is on sexual violence in fantasy literature, trying to cohere different feminist literature studies perspectives with what the genre is/can do
i'm also interested in gender and sexuality in sff generally

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I added you - please refresh and double-check that you can see yourself in the pack. Last night Bsky was a bit glitchy and did not display many people I added, this morning it seems to work, but I still don't want to miss anyone :)

arwainian.bsky.social•105 days ago

thanks! i can see myself on there

hpbookcraft.bsky.social•105 days ago

Would love to be added! I'm an independent researcher and have been published in Gothic Nature and beyond--mostly reviews, a few critical essays, and some more work in the pipeline on speculative fiction.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added you! :))

hpbookcraft.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you so much!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Hi, something is glitching with the system, I added you three times already but it's not showing you in the list. I will try again tomorrow - can you please double-check? I am trying very hard :))

hpbookcraft.bsky.social•105 days ago

I'm appearing in the list on this end! Thank you so much for your work and dedication on this!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I am so glad!! I think Bluesky is overloading

leekottner.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

princejvstin.com•105 days ago

maybe @shaunduke.bsky.social ?

shaunduke.net•105 days ago

Well, I have published a few things. Presented a bunch. So theoretically, I'm an SF Studies scholar nerd.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added you :)

shaunduke.net•105 days ago

Danke!

inkstainedwreck.bsky.social•105 days ago

Omg!!!

My peer review articles are still in edits but can I be thrown in here. This is absolute a network I’ve been missing the last while

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added! :)

ancillaryreview.bsky.social•105 days ago

possible adds, sorry for any repeats:
@czwrites.bsky.social @christinawurst.bsky.social @yarntheory.bsky.social @mishagw.bsky.social @leticiaasu.bsky.social @whiterxbbit.bsky.social @basicchunnel.bsky.social @chaosbogey.bsky.social @brenram.bsky.social @cwp.bsky.social @jayowens.bsky.social

ancillaryreview.bsky.social•105 days ago

@samiranadkarni.bsky.social @marmercurio.bsky.social @thelemurguy.bsky.social @dlewis.bsky.social @kkoopman.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social @danhartland.bsky.social @niallharrison.bsky.social @jgbridgergilmore.bsky.social @fabiofernandes.bsky.social @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social

ancillaryreview.bsky.social•105 days ago

@shinjinidey.bsky.social @shankcruz.bsky.social @jordanscarroll.bsky.social @gerrycanavan.bsky.social @mariakalberto.bsky.social @virginiaconn.bsky.social @larsschmeink.bsky.social @tpmoylan.bsky.social @cherylmorgan.bsky.social @amycchambers.bsky.social @effjayem.bsky.social

ancillaryreview.bsky.social•105 days ago

@megintransition.bsky.social @anaklimchy.bsky.social @epikt.bsky.social

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

everybody here should be added, please lmk of any changes/additions!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

wonderful, I'll start adding those folks!! I am so glad to see some familiar names here on bsky. Thanks so much!

megapolisomancy.bsky.social•105 days ago

megapolisomancy.bsky.social•105 days ago

(Which is to say, @rblemberg.bsky.social, as a scholar of weird fiction I’d love to be added)

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

everybody here should be added, let me know if there are any changes/additions

effjayem.bsky.social•102 days ago

Thank you.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

everybody here should have been added, let me know if there are changes/additions

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

everybody here was added :)

scarletbea.bsky.social•105 days ago

@tomunro.bsky.social would you like to be here?

tomunro.bsky.social•105 days ago

If they’d have me, yes - though I only really blog through the @thefantasyhive.bsky.social with an occasional ‘unseen academic’ post

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Of course :) You have been added. Please refresh and double-check that you can see yourself in the pack. Last night Bsky was a bit glitchy and did not display many people I added, this morning it seems to work, but it's still good to make sure.

d-b-oblivion.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

cynshin.bsky.social•102 days ago

Could I be added? I'm writing my dissertation about robots in sf & particularly interested in german/Korean sf! thanks for the work!

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

added you! terrific :)

cynshin.bsky.social•102 days ago

thank you!

alyssaaskani.bsky.social•105 days ago

I decided to go for it and followed everyone!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

hurray! I am adding folks now :)

paulbadams.com•105 days ago

Many thanks for this @rblemberg.bsky.social ! I'm looking forward to getting back into academic SF conversations.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Would you like to be added to the pack? :)

paulbadams.com•105 days ago

Oh, goodness no! I’m a lurker - not done anything serious for many years, but hoping for inspiration to change that!

edfortune.bsky.social•103 days ago

Could I be added please?

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

Hi Ed, just double-checking that you do scholarship/academic study of SFF :)

edfortune.bsky.social•102 days ago

I do. Though I mostly write for a science fiction magazine, I am in the process of using that experience in a more specialised academic context.

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

and done, you should see yourself in it, but lmk if you don't - bluesky has been glitching lately due to influx of new users, and this has affected starter packs.

edfortune.bsky.social•102 days ago

Thank you.

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

you're welcome! Best of luck with your research.

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

perfect! adding you now

dezmiller.bsky.social•102 days ago

Would love to be added. I work on climate fiction, sci fi and non sci varieties!

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

Added you! Exciting research :))

scwkorsgaard.bsky.social•105 days ago

Add me, if you would be so kind.

princeofdorne.bsky.social•105 days ago

I love this follow a list feature

pootsidoodle.bsky.social•103 days ago

Would love to be added to this if that’s ok. Doing a PhD in creative writing with a focus on Revolution in Fantasy

rblemberg.bsky.social•103 days ago

Added you! Please double-check (make sure to refresh) - Bsky has been glitching due to overload.

pootsidoodle.bsky.social•103 days ago

Thanks!

evmaroon.bsky.social•105 days ago

I’d love to be added, please! Thank you.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I added you! :))

jasonhaslam.ca•100 days ago

I’d be thrilled to be added!

rblemberg.bsky.social•100 days ago

And done! 😀

jasonhaslam.ca•100 days ago

Thanks! Fast work, LOL!

rblemberg.bsky.social•100 days ago

In-between various classes, meetings, and events :))

smcarroll.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thanks for doing this! Could I get my name in the pack?

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added!

theogray.bsky.social•100 days ago

It would be great to be added - I’m a PhD candidate working on a dissertation on spec fic/sff!

rblemberg.bsky.social•100 days ago

Done!

theogray.bsky.social•100 days ago

Thank you!

mrsmoore.bsky.social•103 days ago

Cool, thanks!

mruthrobinson.bsky.social•105 days ago

Oh, this is awesome! Would love to be added if it makes sense - I'm an academic who mostly works on pre-modern fantastical works, but I have a few upcoming things on contemporary speculative fiction and am often yapping about academic things online!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

fantastic, added you!!

mruthrobinson.bsky.social•105 days ago

Wonderful, thank you! (Big fan of your work!) Excited to connect with more people in this group!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

hurray!! Thank you for your kind words :)

bibliorefuses.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

janeijking.com•105 days ago

Would love to be added, thanks for setting this up!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Added you - please refresh and double-check that you can see yourself in the pack. Last night Bsky was a bit glitchy and did not display many people I added, this morning it seems to work, but I still don't want to miss anyone

janeijking.com•105 days ago

Thanks, appreciate it! I checked and seems to have worked :)

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Perfect!

tobiogundiran.com•103 days ago

Add me please!

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

Added you :) please lmk if you don't see yourself, Bluesky starter packs have been glitching due to influx of new users. I double-checked and I see you on it, but it does not hurt to make sure :)

tobiogundiran.com•102 days ago

Thank you!

chronicleflask.katday.com•103 days ago

One for you, @pootsidoodle.bsky.social?

pootsidoodle.bsky.social•103 days ago

Oh definitely! Thank you

fabiofernandes.bsky.social•105 days ago

I think I'm already there? If not, would love to be added.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

you're in it :))

marklewandoski.bsky.social•95 days ago

Please add me

rblemberg.bsky.social•95 days ago

done!

jonathanthornton.bsky.social•105 days ago

I’d like to be added please!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I added you! Please refresh and double-check that you can see yourself in the pack. Last night Bsky was a bit glitchy and did not display many people I added, this morning it seems to work, but it's still good to make sure.

jonathanthornton.bsky.social•105 days ago

Yep I can see myself there! Thank you

mjrsangster.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thanks for doing this - would be great to be added if you have space. Could also add my Glasgow colleagues @dimitrafimi.bsky.social and @tattersdill.bsky.social?

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Added all three of you, please double-check that you show up in the pack - there's been some glitches lately :)

mjrsangster.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thanks - will do!

cwp.bsky.social•103 days ago

I’d love to be added, thank you!

rblemberg.bsky.social•103 days ago

You are already in there! :)) please double-check that you can see yourself, Bluesky has been glitching - too many new people joining, I think...

alexmoranbooks.bsky.social•105 days ago

I'd love to be added to this! 💜

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added! :))

lizawemakor.bsky.social•103 days ago

@acathemic.bsky.social might be interested in getting added to this! Very cool work on SFF and critical outer-space studies

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

Hi @acathemic, I added you - your research sounds cool. @lizawemakor.bsky.social thanks for the suggestion :)))

acathemic.bsky.social•98 days ago

thank you so much!

grmorgan.bsky.social•105 days ago

I had the same idea. I don't know if there's any easy way to compare and merge these things but here: https://bsky.app/profile/grmorgan.bsky.social/post/3lauahcf3fk2e

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I added you to mine! Can you please add me to yours as well?

grmorgan.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thanks! You're already in there somewhere in the middle of the pack 😄

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

ah perfect :D

valeriefrankel.bsky.social•103 days ago

Do add me. I've been looking for one like this!

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

You've been in it since day 1 :) I added you in when I created the Pack :)) do let me know if you don't see yourself there, Bluesky has been glitching due to influx of new users.

ausir.bsky.social•105 days ago

My academic work on that is somewhat in hiatus now but I'd love to be added (and I do want to publish about some of the obscure stuff I discovered while working on my aborted PhD someday)

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Added you!

ausir.bsky.social•105 days ago

hm, I don't see myself on the list, do I show up there for you?

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

really weird. Tried again - please let me know if this worked?

ausir.bsky.social•105 days ago

worked this time, thanks! maybe the servers are choking on the increased traffic in the last few days

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I think so. But this is frustrating - I now need to go back and recheck every single person

n-e-webb.bsky.social•56 days ago

Hi, after several years of procrastination and research and rewrites I’ve finally published my debut novel and would be very grateful to be included on your list. https://amzn.eu/d/0lK9vfV

somtoihezue.bsky.social•105 days ago

Me! Currently getting my MFA in creative writing, and 100% centered on Spec Fiction.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added you :)))

darthj.uno•105 days ago

I would recommend @yenooi.bsky.social - she runs the London SF Research Community

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added, thank you!

klnoone.bsky.social•105 days ago

I might count? The academic book on Star Trek tie-in novels came out in June… 🙂

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I added you! Please refresh the pack and double-check that you can see yourself, Bluesky has been glitchy :)

brcongdon.bsky.social•97 days ago

Could I get added? Currently working on a volume on the Weird; previously published on Huxley and Robert E Howard. Thanks!

rblemberg.bsky.social•95 days ago

added you :)

noamj.bsky.social•102 days ago

Would love to be included. Awesome mission!

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

Hi just making sure: you do scholarship/academic study of SFF, is that correct?

nickpheas.bsky.social•105 days ago

@effjayem.bsky.social perhaps?

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

oh of course!! Added

nickpheas.bsky.social•105 days ago

Also do you have @adamroberts.bsky.social

nickpheas.bsky.social•105 days ago

And @drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy

bogiperson.bsky.social•105 days ago

Possible additions -

@folukeifejola.bsky.social
@corinnekathryn.bsky.social
@casella.bsky.social
@akasylvia.bsky.social
@azzageddi.bsky.social

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added these folks!

azzageddi.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you very much!

azzageddi.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

bogiperson.bsky.social•105 days ago

More additions -

@judithrauscher.bsky.social
@ancillaryreview.bsky.social
@sfrareview.bsky.social
@lizawemakor.bsky.social

adjacent - @speculativeinsight.bsky.social

older.bsky.social•105 days ago

maybe @mythopoetica.bsky.social‬, or might be able to suggest others...

older.bsky.social•105 days ago

maybe me? most of my academic work is on other things but I have written some ac stuff on sff

older.bsky.social•105 days ago

ahaha I'm half-asleep, had to write an email to @duncanbell.bsky.social to remember he should be in here. Also possibly @asociologist.bsky.social, who's written about sff for teaching sociology?

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

oooh JUDITH is here!! Hi @judithrauscher.bsky.social !!

sfrareview.bsky.social•100 days ago

Thank you for sharing !

bogiperson.bsky.social•105 days ago

And also @jesbattis.bsky.social (whose book is literally in front of me on the table right now!)

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added

bilboyaga.bsky.social•103 days ago

📌

ranylt.bsky.social•105 days ago

I am so sad Julien Wacquez isn't on Bluesky. Guy's a mensch, brilliant, and devoted to the sociology of SF in his academic research.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

maybe he will join? :)

ranylt.bsky.social•105 days ago

🤞

shgmclicious.bsky.social•105 days ago

hi my dissertation is on YA fantasy!

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

great, I added you!

chefstentor.bsky.social•105 days ago

I think I fit the definition -- I've published on fantasy cartography and SFF ecocriticism

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

You should be in now - please double-check

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Will add you! It's glitching rn so will try in a while :)

alonlevy.bsky.social•105 days ago

Will endorse, please put Stentor in the pack.

stevewestenra.bsky.social•105 days ago

Ooo! Definitely me! Steve Westenra is my pseudonym, but I write academically on SFFH, particularly as it intersects with the monstrous and marginality. (:

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Done! Please refresh and double-check that you can see yourself in the pack. Last night Bsky was a bit glitchy and did not display many people I added, this morning it seems to work, but it's still good to make sure.

stevewestenra.bsky.social•104 days ago

Thanks so much!

I'm there, so it seems to be working now at least. (:

annaoleszczuk.bsky.social•103 days ago

Just joined, pls add me :)

rblemberg.bsky.social•102 days ago

added, welcome to Bluesky :))

deanleetal.bsky.social•105 days ago

I'd love to be added <3<3

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

Added you :) please refresh and double-check that you can see yourself in the pack. Last night Bsky was a bit glitchy and did not display many people I added, this morning it seems to work, but I still don't want to miss anyone

deanleetal.bsky.social•105 days ago

Thank you so much! :)
I checked and I am indeed included :)

faithfalkner.com•105 days ago

My degree was Film and Media studies — you're telling me it could have been Sci-Fi and Fantasy Studies?!

This might be my first real Follow All

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

hurray! It could be SFF studies! :)) do you do academic work in this area, should I add you?

faithfalkner.com•105 days ago

No, I don't, so don't add me. But I wish I had the funding to do so! I quite enjoyed my academic studies.

alana-m-vincent.net•105 days ago

Ooooooh add me?

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

added :))

alana-m-vincent.net•105 days ago

Thank you!

purserhallard.com•105 days ago

It's a bit specialised, but @blackarchive.bsky.social, which I co-edit, is a series of critical monographs on Doctor Who.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

I added the Black Archive! would you like to be added as well?

purserhallard.com•105 days ago

Probably just the Archive for now, thanks...

calleinthesky.bsky.social•105 days ago

I would love to be added! One of my favorite courses to teach was Other Worlds in Scandinavian literature and culture.

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

YESSSS let me add you

rblemberg.bsky.social•105 days ago

done!