Monday, November 15, 2021

November 15, 2021

 Greetings Everyone!

My second book - Aliens, Robots & Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H.P Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson - has just been reviewed in the prestigious DePauw University journal Science Fiction Studies by E. Mariah Spencer, Vol 48, No. 3 (November 2021), pp. 600-604.

Please use the link below & then log into the JSTOR digital database to access the review. 

Professor Spencer flatters me by referring to my “masterful storytelling ability” & recognizes that, in the final analysis, the readers of my book (and of the remarkable works of Lovecraft, Asimov & Gibson) must come up with their own interpretations of what an “alien” really is- and perhaps more importantly, decide how the genuinely alien entity differs from entities linked to specific “markers of otherness” – such as ethnicity, gender, race, disability & age- all of which are, in my view, merely human-centric associations.

Best wishes to all of you!

JLS

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5621/sciefictstud.48.3.0600?refreqid=excelsior%3A435b19a8aeabd74db8011c9048c6e653

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