Skip to content

Leonard Crosby

  • About
  • Fiction
    • Visions from the Bitterroot
    • The Last Cops in Oakland
    • Last Day for Babies
    • Fredrick Nietzsche Ruined My Life
    • Welcome Back
    • Savage Decisions
  • Essays
    • Finding Optimism In Dystopia
    • On Staying Grounded in the Sensual
    • Seven Steps to Running a Kick-Ass Reading Series
  • Novel Excerpts
    • Chapter 1: Sight
    • Chapter 1: Thor’s Anvil
  • Podcast
    • Benny and Leonard’s Politely Analyzing Sci-fi, Show, Part 1
    • Benny and Leonard’s Politely Analyzing Sci-fi, Show, Part 2: Forbidden Futures
    • Benny and Leonard’s Politely Analyzing Sci-fi, Show, Part 3: The World Inside
  • Blog
    • Caves of Narshe–An Artifact of Nerd Culture
    • If the next U.S. civil war is an insurgency, will we consider ourselves lucky?
    • What We Could Learn from a Film Version of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
    • Reaching the Edge of Dystopia: Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei
    • Three Dreams on Losing my Father
    • 20 Years of Dune 2000: Hunting and Seeking Oblivion
    • “To Pay the Piper”
    • Top Ten Upcoming Dystopias/Utopias
    • Lecture on the Spectrum of the Imagination
    • Difficulties with Genre

Author: lnrdcrsby

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 lnrdcrsby Fiction

Lecture on the Spectrum of the Imagination

A few months ago, I met one of my wife's landscape architecture professors, Kate Smaby, at her retrospective. It turns out Kate is a huge sci-fi and speculative fiction fan, and thought that some of my lectures on how that interacts with imagined built environments might be useful for her classes. She invited me to … Continue reading Lecture on the Spectrum of the Imagination

March 24, 2018May 27, 2021 lnrdcrsby Fiction

Difficulties with Genre

I’m currently finishing my dystopian novel, tentatively titled, Sibling Rebellions. When that now-magic word “dystopian” comes up in conversation, everyone says that’s their new favorite genre, and wants to know all about it. Which is good news for me. Some people assume that I’m following trends, and that I’m writing hoping for a hit. But … Continue reading Difficulties with Genre

Posts navigation

Newer posts
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Leonard Crosby
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Leonard Crosby
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar