• finish first draft of crux
• work on short stories; practice
• outline crux
• start crux second draft

currently reading:

• the grand design by stephen hawking & leonard mlodinow
• on writing by stephen kingo

to read:

• never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
• a wizard of earthsea by ursula k. le guin (audiobook)
• a stitch in time by andrew robinson
• the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson
• dhalgren by samuel delany

finished (12/50):

• the stand by stephen king
• _life on mars) by tracy k. smith
• the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin (audiobook)
• doctor sleep by stephen king
• lightspeed magazine issue june 2015
• the shining by stephen king (audiobook)
• how forests think by eduardo kohn
• the souls of black folk by w.e.b. du bois
• salem's lot by stephen king (audiobook)

watched:

• get out
• contact

to watch/rewatch:

• lotr
• the handmaiden
• animated rotk
• interstellar
• terminator
• thor: ragnarok
• logan
• the shape of water
• black panther
• a wrinkle in time

• job hunt
• journal regularly
• read: more theory, fiction
• work consistently
• write

to read:

• metamorphoses of science fiction by darko suvin
• the protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism by max weber
• the wretched of the earth by frantz fanon
• "the stranger" by georg simmel

to explore:

• racism in the u.s.
• migration theory
• development of capitalism / proposed alternatives
• lgbt stuff
• writing genre theory / science fiction theory

how to do this:

• books
• online articles
• go through sources from school

tba/under construction

Read 2024

• https://time.com/6551999/the-sopranos-da...
• https://time.com/6553708/gaza-end-of-wes...
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
• https://www.thenation.com/article/archiv...

Read 2023

• https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/...
• https://www.thenation.com/article/world/...
• https://www.thenation.com/article/archiv...
• https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-ca...
• https://therealnews.com/the-atlantic-mag...
• https://www.thenation.com/article/world/...
• https://clementinemorrigan.substack.com/...

read 2022

• https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/people-...
• https://www.gq.com/story/bryan-cranston-...
• https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-tic...
• http://fair-use.org/lucinda-cisler/abort...(sort-of)

• "the amorphous fictional spaces of ursula k. le guin," gabrielle bellot link
• "the popular tradition of science fiction criticism, 1926-1980," westfahl (.pdf)
• "the fantastic ursula k. le guin," julie phillips link
• "science fiction and empire," csicsery-ronay (.pdf)
• "introduction: a history of social science fiction," gerlach, hamilton (.pdf)
• "connections, links, and extended networks: patterns in octavia butler's science fiction," govan (.pdf)
• "towards an aesthetic of science fiction," russ (.pdf)
• "the forest as a metaphor for mind: 'the word for world is forest' and 'vaster than empires and more slow,'" watson (.pdf)
• "ambiguity in utopia: 'the dispossessed,'" bierman (.pdf)
• "public and private imperatives in le gui...

• my accumulated resources on google drive...