If you’re a fan of podcasts, there are over dozen of them dedicated to #JaneAusten and the Brontes! If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!
If you’re a fan of podcasts, there are over dozen of them dedicated to #JaneAusten and the Brontes! If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!
“[Milne’s] cryogenics story, ‘Ten Thousand Years in Ice’, in which a survivor from an ancient advanced civilisation is revived in the present, unintentionally became one of science fiction’s great literary hoaxes”
Robert Duncan Milne (1844–1899) was born #OTD, 7 June, in Cupar, Fife. He emigrated to the USA & became America’s first full-time writer of #sciencefiction
Robert Duncan Milne’s #sciencefiction pioneered themes such as climate catastrophe, cryogenics, biological engineering, personality transfer, scientific terrorism, drone warfare, & more. This 2021 talk by Dundee University’s Centre for Scottish Culture introduces Milne’s life & work
Originally published in THE ARGONAUT in 1883, Milne’s “A New Palingenesis” is, like #Frankenstein, a secular version of the resurrection myth. Adapted in 2022 in comic-book form, it’s available to download for free from Dundee University
Robert Duncan Milne’s short story “Ten Thousand Years in Ice” – published in ARGONAUT STORIES (San Francisco: Payot, Upham & Co., 1906) – is online via @gutenberg_org
If that’s whetted your appetite, a new critical edition of Robert Duncan Milne’s work, edited by Keith Williams & Ari Brin & with a foreword by Ken MacLeod, is due to be published in January 2025 by Bloomsbury
If you’re a fan of #podcasts, there are over dozen of them dedicated to #JaneAusten and the Brontes. If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!
During the Peninsular War a wounded soldier recuperates in a remote location. He falls in love with the daughter of the house, but her family hides a terrible secret…
If you’re a fan of podcasts, there are over dozen podcast dedicated to #JaneAusten and the Brontes. If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!
“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”
Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married #OTD, 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous #collaboration between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life
CFP: ‘We Are Amused’: Victorian Humour & the Digital
7–8 Nov, Université Caen Normandie
Exploring intersections between #19thcentury#humour & the digital, & investigating the migration of jokes, squibs, spoofs & parodies, verbal & visual, from the pages of #Victorian comic periodicals to 21st-century screens
If you’re a fan of podcasts, there are over dozen pBookstodonicated to #JaneAusten and the Brontes. If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!
The #JaneAusten and #Bronte Newsletter Issue 10 is out! In this issue, I list all the upcoming #virtual events happening this summer. This page is regularly updated so keep it bookmarked!