{"id":3563,"date":"2024-08-30T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T19:58:41","guid":{"rendered":".\/\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2024-08-30T20:58:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T19:58:42","slug":"jack-fennell-in-person-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":".\/\/jack-fennell-in-person-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Fennell \u2013 In-Person Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jack Fennell is a writer, editor, translator and researcher whose academic publications include pieces on science fiction, utopian and dystopian literature, monsters, Irish literature, and the legal philosophy of comic books. He is the author of Irish Science Fiction (2014), a contributing translator for The Short Fiction of Flann O\u2019Brien (2013), editor of A Brilliant Void (2018), and a former Visiting Fellow at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. 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