Timothy S. Miller

@timothysmiller.bsky.social

480 followers 890 following 70 posts

fantasy, science fiction, medieval studies, plants
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unicorn book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
Earthsea book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24640-1

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Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · 21d

I missed that the latest book in the series of critical companions I edit for Palgrave has already reached print, Joseph Rex Young on George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... .

Feel free to pitch us on a potential project if you'd like to write one of your own!

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

This book offers insightful analysis of A Game of Thrones, enhancing your understanding of its narrative tension and worldbuilding techniques.

link.springer.com

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · 26d

Really interesting stuff: I have an MA thesis student writing on Muir, and this will be helpful.

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · 27d

Favorite finding doing the research: a short-lived gay bar from the 80s named "The Last Unicorn."

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · 28d

I'm really thrilled to share an article that I co-wrote with one of my students, Arwen Paredes: "The First Queer Unicorn?: Reading Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn as Trans Narrative."

www.mdpi.com/2410-9789/6/...

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D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social · 29d

EXTRAPOLATION seeks a reviewer for Mayurika Chakravorty’s FANTASY AND THE POLITICS OF SUBVERSION: SPECULATIVE WRITING IN COLONIAL INDIA. Please send queries to david.wilson@wright.edu.

www.bloomsbury.com/us/fantasy-a...

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · Dec 19

A bio of Charles R. Saunders, an important but sadly too often forgotten Black writer of sword and sorcery fantasy (which he called sword and soul), early critic of racism in fantasy, and journalist is coming out in January.

The author, Jon Tattrie, will be on @mealofthorns.bsky.social, too!

The Bio of a Fantasy Giant: To Leave a Warrior Behind: The Life and Stories of Charles R. Saunders, the Man Who Rewrote Fantasy, by Jon Tattrie – Black Gate

www.blackgate.com

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Dec 16

When we asked ChatGPT to grade it ourselves in the same way, and then repeat the grading a second time, it produced two different scores, and invented new issues not in the actual writing it was claiming to be analyzing and evaluating.

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Dec 16

So delighted to learn that my middle schooler's English teacher has started using ChatGPT to grade writing assignments. She received a near failing grade based in part on a diagnosis of specific grammatical errors that were not in fact in the assignment.

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Dec 9

Here's a new one from graduate school recommendation systems: rating the "Clarity of career goals" of the applicant, and on a percentile basis. How do you distinguish applicants of the top 2% versus top 5% career goal clarity?

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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · Dec 9

New issue of Science Fiction Film and Television ⬇️⬇️⬇️

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18/3

Contents | Science Fiction Film & Television 18, 3

In her book The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (2019), Ebony Elizabeth Thomas explains that privileging marginalized characters in her examination of the fantastic illustrates how “race and the imagination ...

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Science Fiction Foundation @sffoundation.bsky.social · Dec 2

Quick reminder that, not only is Christmas around the corner, the deadline for this year's Peter Nicholls Essay Prize is only six weeks away - 11 January. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

cfp | call for papers

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Dec 1

Surreal experience: a quarter century or so after I'd always be asking my parents to buy me more Magic: The Gathering cards all the time, here I am saying "No, I'm not buying you more Magic: The Gathering cards" to my own twelve-year-old...

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Nov 27

Somehow back down in the unicorn hole once again

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Nov 20

The Earthsea one oddly costs more in print than it did upon publication, but the ebook price has dropped in the same way: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Ursula K. Le Guin’s

This introduction to Ursula K. LeGuin's

link.springer.com

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Nov 20

I have no idea what governs the price changes for my books even though I now co-edit the series they're published in, but for whatever reason the Beagle book is sitting at a much more affordable price at the moment: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn”

This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn.

link.springer.com

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Science Fiction Foundation @sffoundation.bsky.social · Nov 20

Proud to be sponsoring this event next summer.

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Nov 15

Those Starmont volumes are often really great sources, but, yes, can be incredibly rare. I can usually find them held by one library or another when I use Interlibrary Loan, but often the number of libraries is in the single digits.

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Oct 22

Very disturbing to see that Grammarly itself now offers an "AI Humanizer" as one of its core services. Our university provides Grammarly subscriptions to students...

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Oct 5

"Anyone with perfect posture was faking it, overcompensating for entrenched trauma."

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Sep 29

There was a time when JSTOR even sold merch: hats, mugs, and whatever else.

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Sep 17

Did kids these days still know about CliffsNotes? When I say "It's like the Cliffsnotes version of X," should I be saying something like "It's like the AI summary version of X"?

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Sep 15

This is such a huge problem: I'm googling a quotation to find a page number, and the AI overview confidently produces total nonsense that would mislead students and others. (This is of course a quotation from noted Jung distiller China Miéville speaking to the subject of "Marxism and Fantasy.")

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Sep 2

It was possibly a mistake to assign the entire Tales of Nevèrÿon, because now I just want to spend the entire semester talking about the series.

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Aug 22

(An advertisement I was served for a different, better way to cheat.)

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Aug 22

What is going on in the world?

Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Jun 8

I would give a copy of this book to everyone in my neighborhood but I think they already hate us enough:

www.bloomsbury.com/us/lawn-9798...

Lawn

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landsc…

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Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social · Jun 5

Very cool!!

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · May 13

A new experience: an undergraduate sending me a request for an article I never wrote based off a fake AI citation.

Reposted by Timothy S. Miller, Carolyne Larrington

James Paz @jamespaz.bsky.social · May 7

Beautiful new medieval-themed issue of our UoM undergrad English Literature journal, with a foreword by me (doing my best to explain why medieval literature is worth studying): www.polyphonyjournal.com

Home | Polyphony

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