Shaun Duke
Shaun Duke is an aspiring writer, a reviewer, and an academic. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Writing at Bemidji State University. He received his PhD in English from the University of Florida and studies science fiction, postcolonialism, digital fan cultures, and digital rhetoric.
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Crowd-funding Update of Doom (New Perks)
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For those following my progress on G+, this will not be news to you. If you’re not, then lots of news to come. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then you should probably read this.
There are only two rules: 1) the film must be SF/F (broadly defined), and 2) it must be something we haven’t reviewed yet. You can find the list of previous Tortures here: http://skiffyandfanty.com/torture-cinema/
Perk #2: I’m giving away a small collection of short stories for donations $10 and up (whether direct to me or through John Ward’s zombie painting auction). The stories will include:
–“Burned by Sol’s Rain” (high-octane military SF involving time dilation and human/machine hybrids, among other things)
–“Irlgem” (sword and sorcery story about a female knight and a murder and a dangerous magic item)
–“Dear [Redacted]” (a humorous letter explaining why a planet as been marked for extermination, more or less)
–“Interstellar Realty” (a humorous far future tale about customer service, real estate, mortgage payments, and robotic dogs)
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Book Review: Start Finishing by Charlie Gilkey (2022)
Sometime near the end of the Spring semester, I decided it was time to take another crack and reorganizing my life. I’ve gone through years of on again / off again burnout, some of it my own fault (I’m disorganized and try to do too much) and some of it a consequence of things about which I have no control (my former university essentially bankrupted itself, forcing me to find a new job in my field, and I’ve since moved twice — the short version). All that burnout and overfilled plate-ism has made it harder to keep up with grading and find the energy to complete tasks on time. So it seemed only logical to use my university library privileges to borrow a variety of recommend productivity and project management books to see what advice, systems, etc. are out there.
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A Reading List of Dystopian Fiction and Relevant Texts (Apropos of Nothing in Particular)
Why would someone make a list of important and interesting works of dystopian fiction? Or a suggested reading list of works that are relevant to those dystopian works? There is absolutely no reason other than raw interest. There’s nothing going on to compel this. There is nothing in particular one making such a list would hope you’d learn. The lists below are not an exhaustive list. There are bound to be texts I have forgotten or texts you think folks should read that are not listed. Feel free to make your own list and tell me about it OR leave a comment. I’ll add things I’ve missed! Anywhoodles. Here goes:
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Duke’s Best EDM Tracks of 2024
And so it came to pass that I finished up my annual Best of EDM [Insert Year Here] lists. I used to do these on Spotify before switching to Tidal, and I continued doing them on Tidal because I listen to an absurd amount of EDM and like keeping track of the tunes I love the most. Below, you will find a Tidal playlist that should be public. You can listen to the first 50 tracks right here, but the full playlist is available on Tidal proper (which has a free version just like Spotify does). For whatever reason, the embedded playlist breaks the page, and so I’ve opted to link to it here and at the bottom of this post. Embeds are weird. Or you can pull songs into your preferred listening app. It’s up to you. Some caveats before we begin:
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