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O'connor, Robert
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929
(2025)
‘“There weren’t many Google hits for ‘telepathic octopus’”: The ‘realism’ of the non-human in Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life”, Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon and Doug Johnstone’s The Space Between Us.’.
In: Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment – UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) Online Seminar, “The Animal and the Other”, 9 April 2025 [online], 9 April 2025, Online.
(Unpublished)
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O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929
(2019)
More Human Than Humans.
In: Bunce, Robin and McCrossin, Trip, (eds.)
Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy: This Breaks the World.
& Philosophy series
(127).
Open Court Publishing, pp. 51-59
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O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929
(2020)
“The Navel Between Cities”: Copula Hall and the representation of Borders and Liminal Space in China Mieville’s The City & The City.
In: Walls and Barriers: Science Fiction in the Age of Brexit, 12 September 2020, Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy.
(Unpublished)
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O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929
(2016)
‘Weird Pictures, Monster Mansions and Time Pockets: Gothic Obscurities and Temporal Displacement in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’.
In: Temporal Discombobulations conference, 22-24 August 2016, University of Surrey.
(Unpublished)
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O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929
(2018)
‘Ted Chiang and the Deferred Effect: “Afterwardsness” in the Science Fiction Worlds of “Exhalation” and “Story of Your Life”'.
In: After Fantastika Conference, 6 to 7 July 2018, Lancaster University.
(Unpublished)
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O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929
(2019)
Going Home.
In:
Science Fiction for Survival: An Archive for Mars. Terra Two Anthology: Volume One.
Valley Press, pp. 13-22
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O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929
(2021)
Storm.
In:
Over Yonder: An Anthology.
Greenteeth Press, pp. 14-18
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O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929
(2015)
A Novel In Every Genre: China Miéville and the problems of genre classification in the twenty-first century.
Vector (282).
pp. 10-16.
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O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929
(2020)
A Miéville Bestiary: Monsters as Commentary on the Hybridity of Real and Conceptual Landscapes in the Work of China Miéville.
Doctoral thesis, University of Leeds.
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O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929
(2016)
“A Tourist Guide to Besźel and Ul Qoma”:
Unseeing, the Brutality of Borders and the Re-interpretation
of Psychogeography in China Miéville’s The City and the City.
The Luminary, 7 (1).
pp. 75-87.
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