Bill urges addition of science fiction to state reading curricula
The assistant minority whip of the West Virginia House of Delegates has proposed a bill calling for the addition of science fiction literature to middle and hig
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Science Fiction TV Dinner: Doctor Who
Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination presents a discussion of Doctor Who, time travel, the Elizabethan era, TARDIS, Time Lords, and how we can’t save the world without good stories…
Science Fiction TV Dinner: The Twilight Zone
Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination presents a discussion of The Twilight Zone, biotechnology, ethics, and the connections between visions of human perfection…
Top authors contribute to the Shared Worlds hand-in-hand webpage of writerly advice
Shared Worlds SF/Fantasy Teen Writing Camp Launches 2013 Registration and Donation Drive…
Battlestar Galactica Documentary this Thursday
Join filmmaker Ilana Rein on March 7 for a presentation and screening of her film We Are All Cylons, a visionary take on Battlestar Galactica…
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Valentine’s Day with the Bionic Woman
Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination presents a discussion of The Bionic Woman, science fiction, cyborgs, design, and the future of humanity…
Baltimore Science Fiction Society continues writing workshops in 2013
Jonathan Maberry, Morgan Keyes, and Catherine Asaro will be teaching writing workshops over the coming months under the aegis of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society…
Science Fiction TV Dinner Series: X-Files Edition
Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination presents a discussion of The X-Files, science fiction, and the search for truth, as part of the free ‘TV Dinner’ series…
Odyssey Writing Workshop Announces Its 18th Summer Session
Guest lecturers for the 2013 Odyssey Writing Workshop will include Nancy Holder, Holly Black, Patricia Bray, Adam-Troy Castro, and Jack Ketchum…
NASA offers high school girls a chance to jump-start their future
NASA’s new program gives female high school students a shot at advanced training including a summer program at Johnson Space Center…
The Jetsons: Eat, Watch, Digest, Discuss
Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imaginations presents a discussion of the 50-year-old iconic animated television series The Jetson, interpreting what it tells us about robotics, the nuclear family, and relationships between humans and technology…
Keeping the Wheels Turning: registration open for 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race
The twentieth annual iteration of NASA competition to design and develop a craft capable of working on the surface of the Moon is once again open for registration…
Concrete Park creators bring comic book skills, media savvy to Belize as part of Concrete Park Earth Tour
Screenwriter Tony Puryear, TV star Erika Alexander and her brother, sci-fi writer Robert Alexander, the creators of the hit Dark Horse Comics series Concrete Park, conducted a series of comic book clinics for high school and college students in Belize…
Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust announces Winter 2012 online classes
Residential writing workshop Odyssey is once again offering online courses. The three offered this winter have imminent application deadlines…
Sally Wiener Grotta offering small group master classes in photography
Sally Wiener Grotta is offering limited-attendance master classes in photography at her studio, starting in late October…
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