<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">A fun mention of UCR on Lost LA on PBS - see below.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">andré carrington via Sfts-faculty <sfts-faculty@lists.ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>[Sfts-faculty] Science Fiction is in its TV era</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">January 14, 2026 at 10:31:57 AM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students SFTS <sfts-students@lists.ucr.edu>, Faculty SFTS <sfts-faculty@lists.ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">andré carrington <andre.carrington@ucr.edu><br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings, everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Sharing this link to the latest episode of Lost L.A. on PBS:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/sci-fi-origins-dz8dvt/">https://www.pbs.org/video/sci-fi-origins-dz8dvt/</a></div><div><br></div><div>You'll see Klein Librarian Phoenix Alexander presenting resources from the Eaton Collection, our colleagues from the ONE Archives at USC, members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and Dr Ayana Jamieson of the Octavia E Butler Legacy Network.</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>andré m. carrington <br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Associate Professor of English</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, </span><a href="https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science</a><br></div><div>--</div><div>Editor, <a href="https://www.loa.org/books/the-black-fantastic-20-afrofuturist-stories-paperback/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>The Black Fantastic</i></a>, Library of America, 2025</div><div><a href="https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html" target="_blank"><i>Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic Imagination</i></a></div><div><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction</i></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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