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Blogging to the Stars

Welcome to our blog! We post most actively on AdAstra-SF.tumblr.com, the most-recent page of which is replicated here (if you don't see it below, turn on Javascript or go directly to our Tumblr). If you're on a phone, some of these posts (reblogs) read more easily in the Tumblr app.

We've posted a couple of our "Science into Fiction" inspirational talks to our YouTube channel, where you'll also find hundreds (and more all the time) of recommended videos in our Playlists, and we plan to share lots more in the coming months, possibly even some regular spec-fic and writing vlogs. We also occasionally post to Facebook and Xitter (aka X / Twitter).

For participants in and alums of our workshops and other courses, we maintain a rich Discord server with several channels, plus multiple mailing lists - drop us a line if you'd like to participate!

Hundreds more posts on our Tumblr blog here! Looking for something specific? Try these tags:

 

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We believe strongly in the free sharing of information, so you'll find a lot of content - including course syllabi and many materials from our classes - on this and related sites and social networks as educational outreach. Feel free to use this content for independent study, or to adapt it for your own educational and nonprofit purposes; just please credit us and link back to this website. We'd also love to hear from you if you used our materials!

This site is associated with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), AboutSF, and other organizations, and its contents are copyright 1992-present Christopher McKitterick except where noted, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License: Feel free to use and adapt for non-profit purposes, with attribution. For publication or profit purposes, please contact McKitterick or other creators as noted.

This site does not use cookies and is free from tracking, though this page uses Java to import our Tumblr blog. We do not use or condone the use of machine-generated text or images for educational or creative purposes (except as satire), and do not accept student or teacher work manufactured by algorithms.

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