Our July session was LSFRC’s first video game reading group, we discussed: How 80 Days homages Jules Verne Sci-Fi without ignoring colonialism – https://screenrant.com/80-days-game-jules-verne-colonialism-legacy-explored/Chasing the anti-colonial video game – https://uppercutcrit.com/chasing-the-anti-colonial-video-game/80 days is […]

For our May reading group session, we discussed:“By Degrees and Dilatory Time” by SL Huang“Design a Spaceship” by Andi C. Buchanan“Harvest” by Rebecca Roanhorse“The Robots of Eden” by Anil Menon“The […]

The March installment of this year’s reading group will be on Samuel R. Delany’s Tales of Nevèrÿon (1978). The session will take place online on jitsi.meet between 7 and 8.30 […]

In our December reading group session from last year, we explored Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless. Below are bibliographies from the discussions: Parable of the Sower, Novel by Octavia […]

Here is the full list of texts that we will be reading this year! As always, reading group sessions are usually held on the first Monday of the month (unless […]

Below are partial bibliographies from the discussions in our first two reading group sessions of the academic year. Unfortunately, the records from the first session were lost, hence the delay […]

On 2 November 2020, we had the second reading group for the new academic year on the theme of “Activism and Resistance”. We read the 1905 short story Sultana’s Dream […]

After a slew of excellent suggestions from our community, we have assembled a poll for people to vote for their preferred texts for this year’s reading group. You can find […]

We are proud and excited to share the theme for our 2020-21 reading groups and conference. The theme is open to be shaped by incoming new team members, but we […]

On Monday 3rd of August, we met online to discuss Binti (2016), our last text of the year for our theme of Borders. The discussion was hosted on Blackboard Collaborate […]