Delighted as always to have a piece up at Overland. Today, A short history of the dangers of travel writing, a brief look at the history of travelogues, and some criticisms about the clueless, dangerous whiteness of Western travelogues today.

Delighted to have an article up at Overland following the release of the Ghost in the Machine trailer featuring Scarlett Johansson as Motoko Kusanagi. Space racism: on Hollywood actors & their whitewashing, 2200 words on racism, science fiction, and the Other as Future.

I was delighted to write a rebuttal article for Overland – my first Overland piece! Science fiction saves the world – again!

Illustrated most excellently using an image of Nichelle Nichols as Uhura, talking about how SF has always offered answers (as well as horrors); modern SF isn’t new in telling us how horribly we’re going to die.

A Look at Australia’s Coming Climate Change Dystopia is up now at The Toast! I love dystopias in my SFF, but I find it’s often SUPER unrealistic. So here, have some broken roads, expensive food, gated communities and drop bears, based on the CSIRO’s climate projections.

A pair of articles on ABC TV’s Serangoon Road: ABC TV’s Serangoon Road and Australia in the Asian Century; Australians in Singapore and the legacy of colonialism on Serangoon Road. [Peril, February 2014] Looking at the representation of Singapore and Australia in a highly publicised ABC-TV production.

In this pair of posts I will be looking at Australia within its regional and historical context, and Asia within Australian media. The White Paper Australia in the Asian Century may have found itself archived to Trove well before its time, but Serangoon Road was commissioned and produced within its moment. It is a reflection of where Australia has found itself for over half a century now; here, separated from its Colonial Masters by the great Asian Monolith.