O'connor, Robert

• Lecturer in Creative Writing and Creative Industries
• Lecturer in Creative Writing

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Article

O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929 (2022) A Tentacular Teratology: The Abcanny Monstrous. Fantastika Journal, 6 (1). pp. 56-72.

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.

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.

Book Section

O'Connor, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-5929 (2021) Storm. In: Over Yonder: An Anthology. Greenteeth Press, pp. 14-18

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

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

Conference or Workshop Item

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 (Unpublished)

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 (Unpublished)

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)

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)

Thesis

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.