It’s about far more than merely the swords and sorcery that make up your favorite fictional universe. Join us for our inaugural look into the motives, tropes and ethics of various controversial speculative fictions, and the historic context of their presentation.
War: the very thought of it brings to minds untold horrors. War is unique in the history of man primarily because of its duality. At no time have so many men died for so little accomplishment.
A study of anglophile and ethnocentric narratives, given perceptions of racism in Arda, the setting of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, as seen in Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Simarillion.
A study of the degree of moral relativism in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman.
The road behind us and alternate history, the nature and usage of Nazis in fiction.
Military academy influence on parts of A Song of Ice and Fire and Wheel of Time.
A study of the usage of the future as a form of revolutionary utopian optimism through Star Trek.
A study of the contemporary politics of using Nazis in fiction, alternate history in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle.
