Author: Alan N. Shapiro
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Comments About “Venice in Las Vegas”
Here I will post comments about “Venice in Las Vegas” as they come in.
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Two Keynote Lectures in Turkey
On October 31, 2025, I was a keynote speaker at the conference on “Media and Communication” at the University of Sakarya, Turkey. On November 4, 2025, I was a keynote speaker at the conference on Turkish cinema at the same university.
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Venice in Las Vegas
My memoir book “Venice in Las Vegas: An American and European Auto-Socio-Biography, 1960s to 1980s” has been published in the Counterpoints Studies in Criticality series, edited by Shirley Steinberg, of the Peter Lang Publishing House.
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Alan N. Shapiro racconta “Star Trek” (RAI4 Italian TV interview)
This is the transcript of an interview about Star Trek which I did on Italian TV (RAI4) in 2013. There exist also transcripts of interviews which I did on Italian TV about Lost and The Prisoner.
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Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Election
I am currently a candidate for President of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA). Anyone who wishes to discuss my candidacy with me is encouraged to contact me to engage in dialogue. You can write me an e-mail.
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Four Reviews of “Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction”
Here are short excerpts from four reviews of my book “Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Post-Humanism,” and some other quotations about the book.