Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay examines Québécois and Franco-Canadian sf through the lens of postcolonial theory. Drawing specifically on Vijay Mishra and Bob Hodge’s concept of “oppositional postcolonialism,” it argues that the extrapolated futures, other worlds, and alternate histories of “SFQ,” la science-fiction québécoise, reveal the same preoccupations found in the works of writers more commonly referred to as “postcolonial.” Using the three defining traits of oppositional postcolonialism as an organizational framework, the article examines the elements of racism, second language, and political struggle in a representative body of texts, including Jean-Pierre April’s “Le Vol de la ville” [The Flight/Theft of the City], Sylvie Bérard’s Terre des Autres [Land of the Others], Alain Bergeron’s “Le Prix” [The Prize], Jean-Louis Trudel’s “Report 323: A Quebecois Infiltration Attempt,” and Élisabeth Vonarburg’s Tyranaël series.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.039 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".