{"id":265,"date":"2021-05-25T16:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=265"},"modified":"2021-05-25T18:01:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:01:23","slug":"a-fantastikal-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/05\/25\/a-fantastikal-voyage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fantastikal Voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been out a little while already, but I only just got around to checking out the latest edition of Fantastika<\/em> journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fantastika<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s especially gratifying to see oneself mentioned, not only in Chiara Crosignani’s conference report about “Fantastic Religions and Where to Find Them”, from Genzano a couple of years ago, but also in Derek Thiess’s imaginative and very current article about preppers and the apocalypse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, there’s a bumper smorgasbord of non-realist writing to be enjoyed, from the Gothic to SF, from Britain’s haunted forests to Stanislaw Lem. Over 280 pages in fact!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m personally saving up, like a child hoarding his easter egg, their review of the Korean SF anthology Readymade Bodhisattva <\/em>for after I finish reading the collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fantastika <\/em>is always an excellent read, and in these days of outrageous access charges for academic research, it’s delightfully free to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So go read it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been out a little while already, but I only just got around to checking out the latest edition of Fantastika journal. It’s especially gratifying to see oneself mentioned, not only in Chiara Crosignani’s conference report about “Fantastic Religions and Where to Find Them”, from Genzano a couple of years ago, but also in Derek … <\/p>\n

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