Monthly Archives: December 2006

PhD viva examination

Last Tuesday, I passed my PhD viva examination. It was a good day, the opponents were friendly and the atmosphere was good. The text of my presentation is provided here.

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SF Movie Meme

Here’s another sf meme, this time it’s with movies instead of books. Other than that, I’ll follow the same rules as for the book meme:
Bold the ones you have seen, strike through the ones you saw and hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put a star* next to the ones you love.

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Genre and Audience

One aspect of genre that I have dealt less with, is the relationship between genre works and the genre audience. Not just as a matter of reception, but also as a matter of purpose for the audience. Why read a specific genre? What purpose does a genre fulfill for the reader, especially when we take [...]

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