James Gunn’s Ad Astra announces Call for Submissions! The theme for our premiere issue is: Communication and Information We are looking for submissions that express the idea of gathering knowledge and sharing it with others as a central element of the story or article. Telling stories, and understanding what is being shared, are what defines …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Release – Announcing James Gunn’s Ad Astra The Center for the Study of Science Fiction (CSSF), in association with the University of Kansas, announces the launch of James Gunn’s Ad Astra, an online resource for authors, scholars and all those who are interested in speculative fiction at http://adastra.ku.edu/. CSSF is known …
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Welcome to James Gunn’s Ad Astra We are launching with lots of room to grow. Which is a polite way of saying: “We’re Under Construction!” But here’s the exciting part: We want to hear from you! Leave your hopes, dreams, and aspirations in our comments box. Let us know what you’d like to see from …
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Have you ever wondered what an alien song might sound like? Would it even need to be transmitted by sound waves? What if the song is telepathic or carried by a bacterium directly to the audience member’s central processing unit? Here we go with the “what if” questions again. Something tells me that will be …
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What do we mean when we talk about “Communication and Information?” That’s quite a broad topic, don’t you think? After all, everything we say and write is information, and every act of sharing constitutes communication. How can we center the theme of Ad Astra around such a nebulous concept? The idea is to focus on …
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James Gunn’s Ad Astra is an online resource for authors, scholars, and anyone interested in speculative fiction to share their ideas on how the genre has developed into its current forms, what’s happening in speculative fiction right now, and what might happen next. It can sometimes be difficult to locate serious, academically sound studies or …
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What do we mean when we talk about “Communication and Information?” That’s quite a broad topic, don’t you think? After all, everything we say and write is information, and every act of sharing constitutes communication. How can we center the theme of Ad Astra around such a nebulous concept? The idea is to focus on …
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Permanent link to this article: http://adastra.ku.edu/what-does-communication-and-information-mean-anyway
Have you ever wondered what an alien song might sound like? Would it even need to be transmitted by sound waves? What if the song is telepathic or carried by a bacterium directly to the audience member’s central processing unit? Here we go with the “what if” questions again. Something tells me that will be …
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Welcome to James Gunn’s Ad Astra We are launching with lots of room to grow. Which is a polite way of saying: “We’re Under Construction!” But here’s the exciting part: We want to hear from you! Leave your hopes, dreams, and aspirations in our comments box. Let us know what you’d like to see from …
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To begin with, the fact that my position is called “Outreach Manager” instead of “Marketing” speaks to why I love this project so much. Those of us who are beginning this site are advocates of speculative fiction. This purely selfish endeavor gives us a venue to join the literary conversation, share our passions, and hang …
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The Editorial Influence Every venue for publishing speculative fiction, in all of its forms, is inevitably limited in an important way: the tastes of the editor. At one time, the opinions of a few people shaped science fiction as a whole. John W. Campbell, for example, created the Golden Age of Science Fiction by choosing …
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