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Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction

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The Gunn Center for the Study of SF is dedicated to research and education in science fiction and other speculative forms 🚀🤖👻🦄✨

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Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction @sfcenter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join us tomorrow—Friday, October 30—for our October CSSF Virtual Book Club us at noon Central Time on Teams: teams.microsoft.com/meet/2211864... Meeting ID: 221 186 479 036 046 Passcode: 7zw9DB9t

Black background with graphics of spiderwebs at the top and lit candles at the bottom, and a small planet in the top-right corner that is branded Gunn CSSF. October CSSF Virtual Book Club. “The Old Nurse’s Story” by Elizabeth Gaskell. “The Signal-Man” by Charles Dickens. “0900 to 1700” by Charlie B. Lorch. Join us on Friday, October 30 at noon Central Time via the Teams link in the caption.

Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction @sfcenter.bsky.social · 2w ago

KU Theatre's upcoming show, The Emperor of the Moon, is a restoration comedy that contains elements of proto-science fiction, with characters who imagine an advanced alien society on the moon. Materials from the Gunn Center collection will be featured as part of the show's lobby display.

Blue background with a graphic of three people standing underneath and in front of the moon: one stands on the top of a chair and supports the moon with their hands, and the second stands beneath the moon, holding it up, and the third person stands on the shoulders of the second person. The third wears a crown and holds a scepter. The Emperor of the Moon: A Farce. By Aphra Behn. Directed by Gillian Genardo. October 30, 31, and November 3, 4, and 5 at 7pm. November 1 at 2pm. William Inge Memorial Theatre, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive. kutheatre.com. KU. Theatre & Dance.

Alex T Singer, Arbiter of Bagels @moonsheen.bsky.social · 4w ago

The @sfcenter.bsky.social had some great programming for this year's Sturgeon Symposium but especially loved the session on Eastern European SFF resistance fiction-- sff was famously a genre for Eastern European writers to express criticism of the ruling regime with more plausible deniability.

Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction @sfcenter.bsky.social · 4w ago

Greetings, Bluesky! Tomorrow is the first day of the fifth annual Sturgeon Symposium, featuring a combination of virtual and in-person panels on this year's theme, "Changing Words, Changing Worlds: SF as a Literature of Resistance." Follow this link to register: sfcenter.ku.edu/2026-sturgeo...

Black background with a graphic of a glowing man falling down a blue and purple spiral. The spiral is made up of words from the Theodore Sturgeon short story, "Mr. Costello, Hero." 2026 Sturgeon Symposium. Changing Words, Changing Worlds: SF as a Literature of Resistance. October 15-16, Hall Center for the Humanities.