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Mitch R. Murray

Mitch R. Murray lives in Atlanta and is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of English at Emory University. He teaches utopian and speculative fiction and coedited William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture (University of Iowa Press, 2021). icon

“Everything Possible with Everything Given”

By Mitch R. Murray

There are so many utopias. Could one be a small collective of nuns, performing their chores, far from the disasters of the 12th century?

The Worst of All Possible Worlds?

By Mitch R. Murray

The most interesting science fiction is not about the future at all but about the present.

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