SFRG, Graduate Speculative Fiction Reading Group

02/25/2024

Come join us on Friday! 😊

The Marxist Reading Group (MRG) and the Speculative Fiction Reading Group (SFRG) are holding a joint meeting on Friday, March 1st at 5 pm at The Bull (18 SW 1st Ave).

We will be reading M.E. O'Brien's "Communizing Care" in P***o Magazine and an interview with M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi in Truthout about their co-written utopian fiction novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072. M.E. O'Brien will be one of the keynotes for our conference in April.

-- Link to Reading #1: https://pinko.online/pinko-1/communizing-care

-- Link to Reading #2: https://truthout.org/articles/feel-like-everything-is-crumbling-this-oral-history-of-the-future-offers-hope/?amp

Please let us know if you have any questions. We hope to see you there!

01/12/2024

Join the SFRG next Friday for our discussion of Gibson's "The Gernsback Continuum"! 🚀

Reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20070217183337/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1988/1/1988_1_34.shtml

04/01/2023

Just a quick reminder that the SFRG will be meeting tonight to discuss Thomas Ligotti's short story "Teatro Grottesco". Come join us!! 🚀👽

- Location: The Bull
- Day & Time: Sat, April 1st at 6:30 PM

09/14/2022

The SFRG will be hosting its first Fall meeting next Friday (the 23rd) at 6pm! We will be discussing two short stories by Samuel R. Delany. Come join us! 🪐👽

Feel free to contact me for details and/or questions! -- [email protected]

02/22/2022

Rachel Greenwald Smith is Professor of English at Saint Louis University and the author of On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal (Graywolf Press, 2021) and Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Rachel’s work has app...

02/12/2022

The SFRG had so much fun this weekend discussing Le Guin! Thanks to everyone who made it to the meeting on Friday, and I can't wait to see you all next time!! 😊💕👽🛸

01/31/2022

Join us for our next in-person SFRG meeting!!

When: Friday, February 11th at 5:30 PM
Where: The Bull (18 SW 1st Ave)

01/14/2022

UF's MRG Conference 2022! Let's go!!!

12/14/2021

Our first in-person SFRG meeting was a big hit! Huge thanks to those of you who were able to attend this past weekend. This movie screening was definitely the perfect way to celebrate the end of the Fall 2021 semester! 💕🎬👽

Be sure to join us next time if you couldn't make it on Saturday!!

12/06/2021

The second Speculative Fiction Reading Group (SFRG) meeting will be taking place this coming Saturday, December 11th at 6PM. We will be meeting to watch the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (directed by Don Siegal).

While this “watch party” will be primarily hosted on an (easily accessible) website (https://twoseven.xyz), I would also like to allow us the opportunity to meet in-person as well. So, depending on your individual preference, you may choose to either join us virtually on Saturday or in-person (at my apartment, right near campus) for this film screening!

If you are interested in joining us for this watch party on Saturday, please either…

-- a) Sign up for a (free) account on TwoSeven (https://twoseven.xyz/home) and send me your chosen username/”nickname” (so that I can add you into the chatroom).

--OR--

-- b) Send over an email letting me know that you’re interested in meeting in-person on Saturday. I’ll then get back to you with my address and any/all related details before we meet for the event.

If you are unable to create a TwoSeven account before Saturday, you should still be able to access the watch party, provided you have both a TwoSeven account and a weblink to our page: https://twoseven.xyz/d6c37745-1d11-45b7-86c3-ccebb8316484?referral=grQYmtnTr3

Looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday!

Amanda Rose
([email protected])

11/12/2021

I encourage anyone/everyone in the UF community to check out Phil Wegner's most recent blog post, "Compromise and the Fall of a University" (https://phillipewegner.org/blog/)

Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar

10/19/2021

Join us on Thursday (10/21) at 4PM as we discuss short stories by H.P. Lovecraft and Vandana Singh! 👽👾📖

Link to SFRG readings: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OYeHkYjR5L0KkpYr726O7f0_EM67uUxt?usp=sharing

Zoom Link:
https://ufl.zoom.us/j/96494748043?pwd=YW84by9PMmpaUndsb1ZDUDJtKzVGdz09