Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research

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Michael Farnsworth is a researcher at the University of Sheffield working on artificial intelligence, robotics, and biologically inspired optimisation. His research explores applications in industry and manufacturing, aiming to improve efficiency, cost, and supply chain resilience.

Dann Mitchell @climatedann.bsky.social is Professor of Climate Change at the University of Bristol. His research examines the impacts of climate change on extreme weather and human health, including heatwaves and floods. He also works to communicate climate science to the public and policymakers.

He is a Lead Author of the latest IPCC Assessment Report and an Affiliate Scientist at NCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social .

Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social Dan Lunt is Professor of Climate Science at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on paleoclimate modelling to understand Earth’s past climates and improve projections of future climate change.

Alexander Farnsworth is a climate scientist at the University of Bristol, specializing in paleoclimate research. His work focuses on investigating past climate changes and how they can inform our understanding of future climate scenarios through climate modeling and analysis of historical data.

He founded the website Skeptical Science @skepticalscience.bsky.social and developed the Cranky Uncle game, which combines critical thinking, cartoons, and gamification to teach people.

John Cook @johnfocook.bsky.social is a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, University of Melbourne. His work focuses on communicating climate change and countering misinformation using creative methods such as fiction, humour, cartoons & gamification.

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Michael Farnsworth is a researcher at the University of Sheffield working on artificial intelligence, robotics, and biologically inspired optimisation. His research explores applications in industry and manufacturing, aiming to improve efficiency, cost, and supply chain resilience.

Dann Mitchell @climatedann.bsky.social is Professor of Climate Change at the University of Bristol. His research examines the impacts of climate change on extreme weather and human health, including heatwaves and floods. He also works to communicate climate science to the public and policymakers.

He was a Lead Author on the latest IPCC Assessment Report and is an Affiliate Scientist at NCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.

Dan Lunt @climatesamwell.bsky.social is a Professor of Climate Science at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on paleoclimate modeling, both from a blue-skies perspective and from a perspective of investigating Earth's past climates to better understand future climate change.

Alexander Farnsworth is a climate scientist at the University of Bristol specializing in paleoclimate research. His work focuses on investigating past climate changes and how they can inform our understanding of future climate scenarios, through climate modeling & analysis of historical data.

He founded the website Skeptical Science @skepticalscience.bsky.social and developed the Cranky Uncle game, which combines critical thinking, cartoons, and gamification to teach people.

In "Climate Models as a Retroactive and Exploratory World-building Tool," John Cook et al examine the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin & Robert Jordan, as well as one built by Cook, as speculative climate models on a global scale.

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He is the author of the book Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature: Stylistic Explorations (Routledge, 2024) and co-editor of Reading Fictional Languages (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

He holds a PhD in Language and Literature from the Federal University of Piauí, Brazil, and was a CAPES fellow at the University of Nottingham (2021–2022).

Israel A.C. Noletto is professor of English language and literature at the Federal Institute of Piauí (IFPI), lecturer in stylistics and science fiction at the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil, and a language inventor (conlanger).

In "The Search for the Perfect Era: Speculative Fiction and Eutopian Imagination," @israelnoletto.bsky.social examines eutopia in contemporary SF, drawing attention to solarpunk & hopepunk whilst looking back to the influences of “Golden Age” SF.

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🎉✨NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨

Fafnir's latest issue features a prefatory by Israel A. C. Noletto on SF and Eutopian Imagination, two essays on Norwegian SF & climate modeling as a worldbuilding tool, a lectio praecursoria and seven book reviews! 🐉

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In “The Cultural Work of Fantasy in the Anthropocene" Marek Oziewicz celebrates the potential of fantasy to provide new models & patterns of thinking to counter the ecocidal status quo and underlines the genre's importance in educating citizens.

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In 2024, he presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association on “Theorizing Forbidden Planet as a Science Fiction Adaptation of Shakespeare.” His current research interest is studying how speculative fiction creators incorporate historical figures from scientific revolutions into their works.

Noah Slowik (he/him) is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and a second-year English PhD student at the University of Delaware. He has previously reviewed Sarah Annes Brown’s Shakespeare and Science Fiction for Fafnir (vol. 10, no 1).

Noah Slowik reviews Ross Clare’s Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity @livunipress.bsky.social, which examines the legacy of classical thought in popular culture by analyzing the use of stories & figures from antiquity in modern SF.

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He also serves as Director of the Center for Climate Literacy, coordinating international efforts to establish universal climate literacy education as a foundation for ushering in an ecological civilization.

Marek Oziewicz is Professor of Literacy Education and Department Chair of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. A scholar of comparative literature, Dr. Oziewicz holds the Marguerite Henry Professorship of Children’s and Young Adult Literature.