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astridastrolabe: dramyhsturgis: Free Online Star Trek and Star Wars Book Events! Everyone is welcome! I’m delighted to announce a weekend of free online events celebrating two anthologies from Vernon Press, Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier and Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away, edited by Emily Strand and Yours Truly. We hope you’ll join us! Register for Sept. 9 event here. Register for Sept. 10 event here. See more about the books here. ALT Congratulations, @dramyhsturgis!! Thank you so much, @astridastrolabe! View the full post.

Free Online Star Trek and Star Wars Book Events! Everyone is welcome! I’m delighted to announce a weekend of free online events celebrating two anthologies from Vernon Press, Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier and Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away, edited by Emily Strand and Yours Truly. We hope you’ll join us! Register for Sept. 9 event here. Register for Sept. 10 event here. See more about the books here. ALT View the full post.

Everyone is invited on September 9 at noon Eastern for this free online event hosted by the The Digital Cultural Studies Cooperative! Join us for a Book Talk with the editors of the new anthology STAR WARS: ESSAYS EXPLORING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY. We’ll be joined by the co-editors and contributors to discuss this exciting collection of essays that offer a compelling new take on the familiar and not-so-familiar corners of the Star Wars universe and media megatext. Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away | Book Launch View the full post.

Everyone is welcome! The Mythgard Institute at Signum University will be dedicating its upcoming “Mythgard Miscellany” Pub Night to a celebration of our two Vernon Press anthologies, Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier and Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away. You’re invited to this free and informal event, live on Zoom at 6pm Eastern on Sunday, September 10. Register here (it’s free)! ALT View the full post.

It’s time for my periodic “Thank you!” to those in the Star Trek and Science Fiction communities who have helped us get the word out about our new anthology, Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier, thus far. More details about our book (including the table of contents, reviews, etc.) are here on the Vernon Press website. (Note: The coupon code CFC10822213C4 provides a 24% “new release!” discount at the Vernon Press website. In addition, the book is also available from all major booksellers and for request via libraries as an ebook or hardcover. Library requests help us a great deal!) If you work with a periodical, podcast, blog, or website and might be interested in reviewing our book or talking to us or our contributors, please get in contact with me. I may be able to arrange a digital review copy for you! The easiest way to reach me is through this contact form on my website. Many thanks to @ashleywritesstuff and Mike Slamer of We Are Starfleet (hear the episode here), Brandi Jackola of Boldly Go (hear the episode here), Jarrah Hodge of Women At Warp (read the review here), and The Honorable Kavura of StarPodLog (read the review here) for their wonderful conversations, reviews, and support! ALT View the full post.

Star Trek and the Final Frontier of Essays Many thanks to The Honorable Kavura for this wonderful review of our new book STAR TREK: ESSAYS EXPLORING THE FINAL FRONTIER! View the full post.

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Book Review - Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier Thanks to Jarrah Hodge and Women at Warp for this in-depth review of our new book Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier! View the full post.

I’m delighted to share that both of my co-edited academic anthologies with Vernon Press are now available: STAR TREK: ESSAYS EXPLORING THE FINAL FRONTIER and STAR WARS: ESSAYS EXPLORING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY. They are both available at major bookstores and can be requested via libraries in hardcover or ebook formats. The coupon code CFC10822213C4 provides a 24% “new release!” discount for both at the Vernon Press website. ALTALT Vernon Press - Authors View the full post.

ashleywritesstuff: 15. The Wal-Mart of Secret Lairs by Boldly Go - A Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Podcast This episode of Boldly Go is chockful of info, brought to you by the brilliant Brandi Jackola and the astounding @dramyhsturgis! Don’t sleep on their discussion of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds 2x03 “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.” View the full post.

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Sign the Petition Save Star Trek: Prodigy! View the full post.

ashleywritesstuff: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ 2×02 Review: “Ad Astra per Aspera” We’ve got our day in court today in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! Read my review of episode 2x02 “Ad Astra per Aspera” on @fangirlishsite. View the full post.

I’ve been contributing my “Looking Back on Genre History” segments to the StarShipSofa podcast for 15 years now. All of my past segments are listed (with their topics and links!) on the “Podcasting” page of my website. (Scroll down to the “Looking Back on Genre History” section.) ALTALT View the full post.

StarShipSofa 714 William Meikle | StarShipSofa In my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast, I discuss Library of America’s recent “Back to The Future Is Female!” event and some of the works of science fiction related to it. ALT ALT ALT View the full post.

ALTALT Soon, very soon, Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier (2023) will have a sibling: Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away (2023). View the full post.

ALT It was a joy to narrate the powerful “More Real Than Real” by Greta Hayer for the Cast of Wonders podcast. Cast of Wonders 537: More Real Than Real | Cast of Wonders View the full post.

Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier: ashleywritesstuff: I had the privilege of interviewing @dramyhsturgis about a new book she co-edited with Emily Strand about Star Trek. Pick up a copy, request it at your local library, read essays from some of the sharpest minds in Trek fandom, and listen to this episode of We Are Starfleet. View the full post.

unamccormack: Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier Great podcast interview with @dramyhsturgis about Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier, a collection of academic essays to which I wrote the introduction! (There’s a discount code on that page too.) View the full post.

I had a fantastic time talking with brilliant hosts Ashley Thomas and Mike Slamer of the WE ARE STARFLEET podcast about the new anthology STAR TREK: ESSAYS EXPLORING THE FINAL FRONTIER, which I co-edited with Emily Strand. Thanks so much for a wonderful chat! ? Listen to the episode here. ALT View the full post.

dramyhsturgis: Happy Towel Day! “A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. “More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost.” What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.“ — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy View the full post.

In my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast, I discuss Guardians of the Whills, Andor, and local resistance in Star Wars. StarShipSofa 712 Laird Barron | StarShipSofa ALTALT ALTALT View the full post.

dramyhsturgis: And happy birthday to Daphne du Maurier (13 May, 1907 – 19 April, 1989)! “I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.” ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (1938) View the full post.

dramyhsturgis: May the 4th be with you. Happy Star Wars Day! View the full post.

I’m so excited to share this with the universe! This anthology includes contributions from Emily Strand, Una McCormack, Daniel Unruh, Edward Guimont, Brunella Tedesco-Barlocco, Kristina Šekrst, Javier Francisco, Erin Bell, Martine Gjermundsen Ræstad, Andrew Higgins, John Jackson Miller, and me. The cover art is by Emily Austin. More information, including the full Table of Contents, is at the link below. The book can be requested via libraries as a hardcover or ebook, and the coupon code CFC10822213C4 provides a 24% “new release!” discount at the Vernon Press website: https://vernonpress.com/book/1672 ALT View the full post.