Ad Astra SF brings writers, readers, educators, and fans of speculative fiction together to learn about and create work that changes the world.
Lawrence, Kansas
Joined November 2021
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New Ad Astra Institute class: Horror Cinema - starts Sunday!
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A great new workshop - for teen writers - starts this weekend! Info and registration on the Ad Astra website:
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Great new class on offer next week! Info and registration on the Ad Astra website:
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Celebrate creativity! Our annual SF/F Writing Workshop (June 15-28) & "Repeat Offenders" Workshop for alums still have spots open (geopolitical nonsense led to overseas participants having to bow out).
Full info:
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Scholarships still available, too!
Insightful and useful thread about living on space stations and the absurdity of billionaires escaping Earthly disaster in space. Also why NASA is best-suited to do space stuff, and why they ought to be better-funded.
"How do you become a writer? Answer: you write."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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"Dystopian fiction is what happens when you take what happens to marginalized people and apply it to everyone."
More on the subject:
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Looking for a writing workshop to elevate your short fiction (or know someone who is)? We're taking applications for this summer's Spec-Fic Writing Workshop (June 16-29).
More info:
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Please help spread the word, and Write On!
We'll be at ConStellation in Lincoln, NE, this weekend. Our own Kij Johnson is Guest of Honor!
We'll host panels & have a table where you can browse rare books & check out Hugo, Nebula, & World Fantasy award trophies. Come say hi!
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Looking for a writing workshop to ramp up your spec-fic skills? Award-winning authors Kij Johnson & Chris McKitterick are taking applications for SF Summer now! Full info:
adastra-sf.com/Workshop-stuf…
kijjohnson.com/teacher
Please help spread the word!
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Great thread on quasi-moons, and how it turns out that not only does Venus have one, Earth has several!
Radiolab just ran a piece about quasi-moon Zoozve (the subject of this thread):
radiolab.org/podcast/breakin…
Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.
ALT The moon with a rocket landed in its eye. The most iconic shot of 1902 sci-fi film Le Voyage Dans La Lune.
Cheers from our home to yours!
Here's to reading a great book today - it's a national holiday (sorta) & Isaac Asimov's birthday!
About National SF Day:
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(photo is a set of bookshelves in Ad Astra HQ, with part of our SF award & memorabilia collection)
Amazon hides (censors) book about how queer books get hidden and censored. Great job, folks, hit the showers.
New blog post! "The Wizard of AI."
We're just concluding our fall "Writing in (& about) the Age of AI" workshop, & a participant shared this in our Discord.
Artist & critic Alan Warburton's documentary about evolution & state of AI & impact on creators:
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Our resource page has links and resources to relevant, illuminating, or otherwise interesting material in the field of speculative fiction.
SF writer resources, SF teacher resources, important anthologies and scholarly work, and more.
adastrasf.ku.edu/links-and-r…
We've moved websites since expanding into a nonprofit Institute! Find this resources page here:
adastra-sf.com/resources.htm
Join us next Wednesday for our first event!
"The Higgs Boson in This Particular Universe: Facts, Speculation, and the Story of a Little Ripple with a Big Bang" features a talk with KU physicist Dr. Phil Baringer.
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We've moved websites since expanding into a nonprofit Institute! Find info about our first "Science into Fiction" workshop here:
adastra-sf.com/Workshop-stuf…
Tonight! Our first event.
"The Higgs Boson in This Particular Universe: Facts, Speculation, and the Story of a Little Ripple with a Big Bang" features a talk with KU physicist Dr. Phil Baringer.
adastrasf.ku.edu/ad-astra-pr…
We've moved websites since expanding into a nonprofit Institute! Find info about our first "Science into Fiction" workshop here:
adastra-sf.com/Workshop-stuf…
With the AdAstranaut Spec-Fic Writing Workshop Series, we're offering an ongoing, year-round series of interdisciplinary bi-monthly workshops, seminars, talks, write-ins, and more, following our talks. Sliding scale pricing for participants.
christopher-mckitterick.com/…
Writing workshops begin with idea and story-development sessions the weekend of September 17-18, continue through AdAstranaut write groups each week, and culminate with story-critique sessions on the weekend of October 15-16. Learn more and apply here:
christopher-mckitterick.com/…
We've moved websites since expanding into a nonprofit Institute! Find info about our "Science into Fiction" workshops here:
adastra-sf.com/Workshop-stuf…