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ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

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• 'Machine Learning in Contemporary Science Fiction,' in SFRA Review 54(1). Article.

• ‘Bitcoin and Stone Money: Anglophone Uses of Yapese Economic Cultures, 1900-2020’ in Finance and Society, 2022, 8(1). Article.

• 'Speculative Fiction and Post-Capitalism' in The Cambridge Companion to Economics and Literature ed. Nicky Marsh and Paul Crosthwaite (CUP, 2022). Chapter.

• 'Shoshana Zuboff' in Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture, ed. Anna McFarlane, Graham J. Murphy and Lars Schmeink (Routledge, 2022). Chapter.

• With Ian Davidson: ‘Political Poetry’: The Blackwell Companion to British and Irish Poetry, ed. David Malcom and Wolfgang Görtschacher (2020). Chapter.

• With Liz Stainforth: ‘Computing Utopia: the Horizons of Computational Economies in History and Science Fiction’ in Science Fiction Studies 46(3) (2019). Peer-reviewed article.

• ‘Estranged Entrepreneurs and the Meaning of Money in Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.' Foundation 49(3) (2020). Peer-reviewed article. Longlisted for the BSFA Award.

• With Polina Levontin and Jana Kleineberg, Visualizing Uncertainty: A Brief Introduction (Analysis Under Uncertainty for Decision-Makers Network, 2020). Mini-monograph.

• ‘Away Day: Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Utopia of Merit' (Big Echo, 2019). Working paper. Shortlisted for BSFA Award.​

• With Ed Luker: 'Poetry and Secrecy,' Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 10(1) (2018). Editorial essay.

• 'Cockayne Blues: Economics as Speculative Fiction,' in Strange Economics, ed. David Schulz (Toronto SFFW, 2018). Afterword. 

• 'All in a Day’s Play: Fuzzy and Forceful Gamification in the Work of Iain M. Banks' in The Science Fiction of Iain M. Banks, ed. Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Nick Hubble, and Joseph Norman (Glyphi, 2018). Chapter.

• 'Public Money and Democracy' in Economic Science Fictions ed. Will Davies (Goldsmiths Press, 2018). Chapter.

• With Polina Levontin, John Mumford, and Nasir Warfa: ‘Lone Wolf Bioterrorists and the Trajectory of Apocalyptic Narratives' (Vector Online, Winter 2017). Working paper.

• 'Chaoplexity: The Science and Science Fiction of Contemporary Warfare' (Vector, Winter 2010). Working paper.

• 'The eBook Nova: Collaboration, Cohesion, Copyright,' (Openned Zine #3, 2010). Working paper.

• 'Concrete: Brutalism and Marxism in J.G. Ballard's High Rise and Concrete Island' (Vector, Winter 2009). Working paper.

EDITORIAL

• Utopia on the Tabletop (Ping Press, 2024).

• With Polina Levontin: Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association (2017-). Themed issues include 'Speculative Economics,' 'SFF and Contemporary Art,' 'African and Afrodiasporic SFF,' 'Chinese and Sinodiasporic SFF.' 

• With Ed Luker: Poetry and Work: Work in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry (Palgrave, 2019)

• With Ed Luker: special issue of The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry on the theme of secrecy (Glyphi, June 2018)

• With Samantha Walton: special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism on ecology and crime fiction (ASLE-UK, September 2018)

• With Joe Luna: On the Late Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Hi Zero 2015)

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Peer review

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Journal of General Artificial Intelligence, Textual Pratice; Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research; Fishes; MOSF Journal of Science Fiction; Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.

CREATIVE

• Kampala Yénkya, with Dilman Dila, Polina Levontin, Maurice Ssebisubi, and Jana Kleineberg. Climate futures storytelling game and more.

• Wildlaw Judgment Generator, with Bonnie Holligan and Elias Youssef.

• 'An Eternal Amanuensis,' in Criptörök (Grand Union). Short fiction.

• 'Oh God, the Dogs!' in Juana y La Cibernética (edición bilingüe) (Desperate Literature, 2020). Short fiction.

• Heterotopia Hooks (Sad Press, 2020). TTRPG sourcebook.

• 'Please Don't Let Go' in Fireside Fiction (2020). Short fiction. 

• 'In Arms' in Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow's Architecture  (The Architecture Foundation, 2019). Short fiction. 

• Connections (Sad Press, 2018). Storytelling game / scenario exploration tool.

• 'It's OK To Say If You Went Back In Time And Killed Baby Hitler' (Big Echo, 2018). Short fiction.

• 'Cat, I Must Work!' (Big Echo, 2017). Short fiction.

• 'Froggy Goes Piggy' (Nesta / Long+Short, 2017). Short fiction. 

• 'The Internet of Things Your Mother Never Told You' (MIT Technology Review / Twelve Tomorrows, 2016). Short fiction.

• Skycrawl (2016). A story-game fragment, written in Twine.

• The Sputnik Awards. 2015-2016. Functional participatory artwork.

• Invocation (Critical Documents, 2013). Novel / digital artwork.

• As Francis Crot: Hax (Punch Press, 2011). Mixed media novella.

• With Samantha Walton, as Lorqi Blinks: 'Cowards Are Great!' (Cambridge Literary Review, 2009). Short fiction.

• Poetry with Justin Katko, James Harvey, Samantha Walton, Nour Mobarak, and others, under various names.