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Science Fiction Ladies Night in Wuppertal
The first reallife event of the World Culture Hub is fixed: the Science Fiction Ladies Night in Wuppertal/Germany on Wednesday, July 4th, a group reading of three contemporary German female…
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The Orwellian Age of Phantomology
by ROLF GIESEN The Infinite Blob of the Mysterious Avengers The first science fiction movie I ever saw in my life was either The Blob: Indescribable! Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop…
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The True Invisible. On William S. Burroughs‘ Life and Work
by HORST PUKALLUS During his time in Tanger (Morocco), where he lived from 1954 to 1958 and wrote Naked Lunch, William Seward Burroughs, born in St. Louis in 1914, became…
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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 – 2018)
When on January 22nd Ursula K. Le Guin’s family announced that she has passed away in her sleep at the age of 88 years, it was generally agreed that the…
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Latest Content
It may have seemed rather quiet at the World Culture Hub for some weeks but work has been going on continuously. We’re still at the beginning and hope to accelerate…
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Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century
On occasion of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair 1998 in Harare the Kenyan scholar and political writer Ali Al’amin Mazrui initiated the compilation of a list of the best African…
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Why I Don’t Like Kafka
by Michael K. Iwoleit There are writers who have spawned a whole industry of interpreters. The volume of interpretative literature not uncommonly surpasses the work of the respective writer many…
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My Top Ten Science Fiction Stories
by MICHAEL K. IWOLEIT With the following article I started a while ago a blog on short fiction the content of which is now transfered to this new repository. It…