Max Dosser
@madosser.bsky.social
Editor of Flash Point SF, Senior Lecturer at Vanderbilt University, Lover of Buffalo Chicken Dip, he/him
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Author of Nostalgic Futures: The Reactionary Fantasies of Speculative Fiction Fandoms (Rutgers University Press, 2026)
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Author of Nostalgic Futures: The Reactionary Fantasies of Speculative Fiction Fandoms (Rutgers University Press, 2026)
From PuppyGate to hashtag campaigns against The Last Jedi to boycotts of Mass Effect and The Last of Us, Nostalgic Futures asks how nostalgia can become a political weapon shaping the past fans long for and the future they fear.
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Nostalgic Futures - Rutgers University Press
Speculative fiction imagines impossible futures and alternative pasts, alien species and angelic monsters, technological marvels and magical solutions. In re...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
From PuppyGate to hashtag campaigns against The Last Jedi to boycotts of Mass Effect and The Last of Us, Nostalgic Futures asks how nostalgia can become a political weapon shaping the past fans long for and the future they fear.
Check it out here: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/nostalgic-fu...
Check it out here: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/nostalgic-fu...
SF imagines impossible futures, but recent controversies reveal how some fans resist those futures when they drift from their preferred pasts.
Nostalgic Futures explores how fan attachments to SF media relate to the logics of violence/exclusion in reactionary movements.
Nostalgic Futures explores how fan attachments to SF media relate to the logics of violence/exclusion in reactionary movements.
November 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
SF imagines impossible futures, but recent controversies reveal how some fans resist those futures when they drift from their preferred pasts.
Nostalgic Futures explores how fan attachments to SF media relate to the logics of violence/exclusion in reactionary movements.
Nostalgic Futures explores how fan attachments to SF media relate to the logics of violence/exclusion in reactionary movements.
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Tipping Point
A man sealed inside a fallout bunker questions whether survival is the same as living. A married couple, separated by unbearable heat, dreams of reuniting as temperatures continue to rise. A salesman ...
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If the eprints of "When Puppies Start to Hate: The Revanchist Nostalgia of the Hugo Awards’ PuppyGate Controversy" run out, DM me. I'll hook you up. Or you can access a free preprint version of the article on my website (direct link to the preprint here: drive.google.com/file/d/1JFeV...)
When Puppies Start to Hate (preprint).pdf
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December 1, 2023 at 1:09 AM
If the eprints of "When Puppies Start to Hate: The Revanchist Nostalgia of the Hugo Awards’ PuppyGate Controversy" run out, DM me. I'll hook you up. Or you can access a free preprint version of the article on my website (direct link to the preprint here: drive.google.com/file/d/1JFeV...)
Lastly, along with Thomas J. Griffin, I co-edited the year two anthology for @flashpointsf.bsky.social. If you’re looking for some of the best flash fiction published in 2022 all in one tidy, wonderfully illustrated package, you can’t do much better than this anthology. t.co/WCfV75a4RA
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Flash Point Science Fiction: Volume Two by Thomas J. Griffin, M.A. Dosser
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November 20, 2023 at 5:07 PM
Lastly, along with Thomas J. Griffin, I co-edited the year two anthology for @flashpointsf.bsky.social. If you’re looking for some of the best flash fiction published in 2022 all in one tidy, wonderfully illustrated package, you can’t do much better than this anthology. t.co/WCfV75a4RA
I also published “According to the Narrator, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Styles of Narration-as-Advocation in True-Crime Documentary Series.” It asks how true crime documentary narrators construct the series while advocating for their narrative truth. doi.org/10.5406/1934...
According to the Narrator, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Styles of Narration-as-Advocation in True...
on october 3, 2014, the world was introduced to the largely unknown story of Adnan Syed, a young man who had been convicted and jailed for over a decade for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Through th...
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November 20, 2023 at 5:07 PM
I also published “According to the Narrator, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Styles of Narration-as-Advocation in True-Crime Documentary Series.” It asks how true crime documentary narrators construct the series while advocating for their narrative truth. doi.org/10.5406/1934...
I also published “According to the Narrator, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Styles of Narration-as-Advocation in True-Crime Documentary Series.” It asks how true crime documentary narrators construct the series while advocating for their narrative truth. doi.org/10.5406/1934...
According to the Narrator, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Styles of Narration-as-Advocation in True...
on october 3, 2014, the world was introduced to the largely unknown story of Adnan Syed, a young man who had been convicted and jailed for over a decade for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Through th...
doi.org
November 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM
I also published “According to the Narrator, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Styles of Narration-as-Advocation in True-Crime Documentary Series.” It asks how true crime documentary narrators construct the series while advocating for their narrative truth. doi.org/10.5406/1934...
“Etched in the Bones” is another romantic drabble about love after death, but this one is inspired directly by the @flashpointsf.bsky.social art director and his wife (whose wedding is happening on quite the dank palindrome next year). t.co/6Y4Dwf91jP
Love Me, Love Me Not - Black Hare Press
Love, lust, and lunacy.
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November 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM
“Etched in the Bones” is another romantic drabble about love after death, but this one is inspired directly by the @flashpointsf.bsky.social art director and his wife (whose wedding is happening on quite the dank palindrome next year). t.co/6Y4Dwf91jP
"Rebuilding” is a science fiction drabble about the lengths people will go to in order to stay with the ones they love. @flashpointsf.bsky.social coeditor Thomas J. Griffin may have given it a rave review, but I won’t repeat that here. It would make me blush. themartianmagazine.com/2023/06/19/r...
Rebuilding by M.A. Dosser
I flipped the switch, and her eyes glowed hazel. You could never truly replicate someone’s eyes, but these were close. Given how long she’d been in a coma, some of her memories seemed to have de...
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November 20, 2023 at 5:05 PM
"Rebuilding” is a science fiction drabble about the lengths people will go to in order to stay with the ones they love. @flashpointsf.bsky.social coeditor Thomas J. Griffin may have given it a rave review, but I won’t repeat that here. It would make me blush. themartianmagazine.com/2023/06/19/r...
“The Bad Box” is a story of a dog who finds a box on his walk and finds it (and the nearby rabbits) highly objectionable. It's inspired by Zelazny’s “A Night in the Lonesome October” and a black lab mix who loves walks but hates random boxes in fields. t.co/I0EWHnkavA
The Bad Box by M.A. Dosser - The Stygian Lepus
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November 20, 2023 at 5:04 PM
“The Bad Box” is a story of a dog who finds a box on his walk and finds it (and the nearby rabbits) highly objectionable. It's inspired by Zelazny’s “A Night in the Lonesome October” and a black lab mix who loves walks but hates random boxes in fields. t.co/I0EWHnkavA
“Peer-Reviewed Spellcasting” is my take on the academic publishing process. I’ve had seven peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication and the process is… well, the story conveys my feelings on the process more fully than I can here. t.co/zjYXDPuMvM
Rhapsody of the Spheres (Third Flatiron... by Rew, Juliana
Rhapsody of the Spheres (Third Flatiron Anthologies) [Rew, Juliana, Perry, Jenny, Trent, Brian, Reynolds, Jeff, Hankins, David, Gammon, Jendia, Golden, Bruce, Bowden, Maureen, King, Sharon, Vincent, B...
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November 20, 2023 at 5:04 PM
“Peer-Reviewed Spellcasting” is my take on the academic publishing process. I’ve had seven peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication and the process is… well, the story conveys my feelings on the process more fully than I can here. t.co/zjYXDPuMvM
“A Raven’s Request” is about Sophie (no connection to my month-old daughter. At least, I hope not!), who dreams of adventure, magic, and romance. When the person who offers her everything asks the unthinkable, Sophie has to decide what she truly wants. www.penumbric.com/archives/Aug...
Penumbric August 2k23, A Raven's Request
Edgy speculative fiction magazine
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November 20, 2023 at 5:03 PM
“A Raven’s Request” is about Sophie (no connection to my month-old daughter. At least, I hope not!), who dreams of adventure, magic, and romance. When the person who offers her everything asks the unthinkable, Sophie has to decide what she truly wants. www.penumbric.com/archives/Aug...