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World Building with Brent Ryan Bellamy


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In this episode we talk to Brent Ryan Bellamy, a writer, editor, and instructor of science fiction studies, American literature and culture, energy humanities at Trent University.

Brent is most fulfilled by helping students and collaborators achieve their visions in a collective way. He loves teaching a university-level course on worldbuilding, for instance. He is also the managing editor of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies and author of several scholarly articles and book chapters about science fiction, energy regimes, and how to imagine a better future.

Brent lives in Toronto, the traditional territory of many nations including 

the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the  Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. The city is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.

Check out his latest piece in Public Books Systems and Futures section called, 

How to Build a World.

If you’d like to contact Brent and/or read his work, please refer to the links below:

  • Brent on Twitter
  • Brent’s Website
  • How to Build a World
  • Solar Accumulation: The Worlds-Systems Theory of The Expanse
  • Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline
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