Category: Nonfiction Essays

• The Many Americas of ’90s Sci-Fi: Babylon 5 as SF of the Present

  

  I recently re-watched Babylon 5 as a precursor to diving back into SF&F story-writing (after taking a month off to work on humanist essays and podcast prep for a project launching in November). The following is a reflection on what our SF legacies can teach us not just about the genre and its histories, but […]

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  M L Clark

  August 31, 2021

  Nonfiction Essays, writing craft, Writing Culture

  reviews, science fiction, storytelling

• On an Insect, a Rock, and Maybe a Human Being

  

  1 Half a cockroach lies twitching at one side of the shower. A season of thunderstorms has sweetened the building’s pipes, driving her kind inward and up. Periplaneta americana seems more elegant somehow in Colombia: an outcome, perhaps, of the more evenly temperate weather shaping its behaviour, cultivating stately indolence. On the rare occasion when […]

  M L Clark

  May 19, 2021

  M L Clark, Nonfiction Essays, Politics

  Colombia, essay, immigration, justice, nonfiction