Thomas Connolly

Thomas Connolly is an academic and reviewer from Louth in northeast Ireland. He has published reviews and articles in numerous venues, including Foundation, RTÉ Brainstorm and SFRA Review, and is the convenor of the Irish Speculative Fiction Reading Group.
Joanna Russ, the First Minister of Feminist Science Fiction
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Joanna Russ, the First Minister of Feminist Science Fiction

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 / 11 September 2019

Gwyneth Jones's masterly account of the life and times of Joanna Russ serves as a timely reminder of the strides made in visibility and diversity in science fiction literature —and the distance still left to traverse.

Reviews/Television

The Pulpy Origins of Netflix’s ‘Typewriter’

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 / 29 July 2019
Not Where But When: Past and Future in Netflix’s ‘Dark’
Reviews/Television

Not Where But When: Past and Future in Netflix’s ‘Dark’

By
 / 11 July 2019

The German-language sci-fi thriller Dark perfectly captures the unsettling experience of being trapped by history.