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First up in the final #IASPR18 session: @DonnaMHanson on science fiction romance.
Hanson argues that science fiction romance is romance with the "what if?" element of science fiction. #IASPR18
Hanson has one synopsis for both her books: a woman from a technologically advanced culture lands on an alien world and forms a relationship with an alien warrior/barbarian. #IASPR18
Next up: Maria Ramos-Garcia on race and otherness in paranormal romance, feat. JR Ward and Nalini Singh. #IASPR18
Ramos-Garcia: othering can be both metaphorical and literal in paranormal romance. #IASPR18
Next up: @AthenaBellas on the tactile caress and multisensory romance of Outlander. #IASPR18
Bellas: Outlander has a luscious tactility - Claire doesn't just look at Jamie, she touches him. She is doing a textural, rather than a textual, analysis, handling rather than reading. #IASPR18
Bellas: there is a mimetic contact between the screen body and the spectatorial body. #IASPR18
Final paper of #IASPR18: @KristinNoone on the queer medievalist virtual romance of Alexis Hall's Looking For Group. #IASPR18
Noone: this is an in-between text, where the distinction between the medieval and the modern collapses (post-medieval rather than pre-modern). #IASPR18
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First up in the final Romance session at #PopCAANZ18: Eric Selinger on disenchantment, modern love, and romance fiction.
Selinger: what makes modern love problematic? Illouz borrows from Weber and says it is a "disenchanted thing". #popcaanz18
Selinger notes the role of "technologies of choice" in happy endings (eg. marriage can be a happy ending if divorce is possible). #PopCAANZ18
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First up at #popcaanz18 this morning: @MTRamosGarcia, talking about Jane the Virgin, metafiction and bilingualism.
Ramos-Garcia: one of the more original features of Jane the Virgin is the omniscient meta-fictional narrator, playing into the tropes of the telenovela. #PopCAANZ18
Ramos-Garcia: the script calls him the "ubiquitous Latin lover narrator". #PopCAANZ18
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First #popcaanz18 Romance panel post-lunch begins with Ellen Carter, comparing hero/ine's names in M/F vs M/M romance fiction.
Carter's corpus contains 2536 contemporary romance novels, about one third M/M, two thirds M/F, where she studied the phonology of hero/ine names.
Carter: male names in both corpora are more likely to be monosyllabic, especially in M/F romance. #popcaanz18
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The thing I notice about Richard is that he has stolen my appetite. When we meet for the first time at that Ethiopian restaurant downtown, I am staring first at his thin mustache and brown eyes. And then I am staring at my noodles and brimming with doubt.
When he talks, I am disgraced by the realization that I do not know where my bathroom scale is. Did my ex husband take it? When Richard asks me a question about my work, I am looking down at the waist of my jeans shorts, furious with them for cutting into my flesh.
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Light tweeting today: mostly about Starburst, the British magazine of science fantasy...
So what's the difference between science fiction and science fantasy? , Rod Serling claimed that the former was "the improbable made possible" while the latter was "the impossible made probable."
Brian Aldiss believed that "Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post-Gothic mode."
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Celebrating 49 years of @isro, in this special take on #SpaceInAMinute, we take a look at what the future holds for our nation's space program.
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First up is Chandrayaan-2. Launching early next year, the mission consists of a lunar orbiter, a soft-landing close to the south pole, and a six-wheeled rover. If successful, India will establish itself as Earth's 4th nation to achieve a soft-landing on the #Moon.
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The finalists of the 14th SWEEP Innovation and Excellence Awards will give their last best pitch today to prove that they deserve to win the biggest prize tonight. #SWEEPAwards
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Here we have some of important theories nd reserch done by important organisation.
One of our very intelligent after a years of hard work in his lab with his Braille book found out dat natural calamities can b prevented by reading hanuman chalisa.

Another important member of our research team.after working yr on theory of evolution,he concluded dat theory is false. few of illiterate were unhappy about his remark.

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