SF Nexus

The SF Nexus is a collaborative, multi-institutional project to digitize special collections and other holdings of speculative fiction, inclusive of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related subgenres, curating an extensive corpus using a collections as data approach to make books and magazines available as images and texts primarily for non-consumptive forms of research. These materials will be made available for analysis using distant reading and other quantitative methods to flag stories for more traditional close reading, bringing into relief previously dismissed, overlooked, or forgotten authors. Performing genre analysis at scale using quantitative methods enhanced with computational tools for textual and cultural analytics will offer a more inclusive approach to the study of speculative fiction.

This website (sfnexus.org) was originally intended to be a hub for information about the project and host for iterative prototypes of the dashboard and UIs of the project.

For more information, please contact Alex Wermer-Colan, Digital Scholarship Coordinator in the Temple University Libraries' Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio.