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<div><span style="font-size:16px"> <b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Deletion</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">: the Open Access Online Forum in Science Fiction Studies</span></b></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation,
if we are to be saved at all.” Isaac Asimov</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Deletion</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> the open access online forum in science fiction studies will publish original 'think pieces' every month of approximately 1200-1500 words. Committed to
writing about science fiction in all its forms and modes of operation, <i>Deletion</i> will invite contributions from those writing about science fiction from a literary, philosophical, artistic, scientific, aural, televisual, games, and cinematic context.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Deletion</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> will also solicit papers from the leading scholars in science fiction studies, organise and be open to regular ‘special editions’, and will accept and encourage
non-standard submissions such as creative pieces. Submissions can also take the form of 2-3 minute podcasts or video blogs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Deletion’s</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> work will be framed around</span> the following questions; what is science fiction today; what are its social, cultural and political functions; what
forms does it take and what are the relationships in and between those forms; and how does creative practice best interpret contemporary science fiction?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Deletion</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> will be led by scholars from Deakin University, Melbourne, who will form its ‘inner’ editorial board, alongside an international advisory board, comprising
leading scholars in the field. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">The first edition of
<i>Deletion </i>will be a special invitation edition, where its key questions will be explored from an inter and cross-disciplinary perspective by renowned science fiction scholars and practitioners.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">An open <b>call for papers</b> and
<b>creative pieces</b> for publication in <i>Deletion </i>is now open. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Children in contemporary science fiction;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Environmentalism;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-US">Scientific understanding and science fiction;</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Haptic science fiction;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Robotics;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Literary dystopia;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">The suburban artwork of Gregory Crewdson;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Independent science fiction cinema;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Fictions of science in games;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Surveillance;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">4-D science fiction cinema;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Philosophy and science fiction;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">The Alien messiah;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Case studies: authors and auteurs;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Costume and design in science fiction;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Transhumanism;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Science fiction installation art;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Ethics and morals;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Whiteness in science fiction;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Music video and futurism;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Cult science fiction;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Science fiction poetry;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Special <i>a</i>ffect;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Eugenics;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Armageddon;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Romance in science fiction;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Science fiction music;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Time travel;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">The urban, the rural;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Sex in science fiction;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Papers (of 1200-1500 words in length) should be emailed as a word attachment to the following addresses: Sean Redmond:
<a href="mailto:s.redmond@deakin.edu.au" target="_blank">s.redmond@deakin.edu.au</a> and Chris Moore:
<a href="mailto:c.moore@deakin.edu.au" target="_blank">c.moore@deakin.edu.au</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Submissions for creative work will be dealt with on a case by case basis; please contact Sean Redmond:
<a href="mailto:s.redmond@deakin.edu.au" target="_blank">s.redmond@deakin.edu.au</a> and Chris Moore:
<a href="mailto:c.moore@deakin.edu.au" target="_blank">c.moore@deakin.edu.au</a> with your initial expression of interest.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Deletion</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> will go live at 1 minute past 1am on the 1<sup>st</sup> October 2013 (EST). Details of its URL will follow in September.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Sean Redmond</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Leon Marvell</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Chris Moore</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Elizabeth Braithwaite</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:14px"><span lang="EN-GB">Trent Griffiths</span></p>
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