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Really must clear out some browser windows. Squirrels: Y'all know about Crasher Squirrel? This couple was on vacation in Banff,...
Archive for Speculative Fiction
Short story discussions
I recently speculated that people generally don't seem to have a lot to say in online discussions about individual short...
Is recent YA producing new sf readers?
In recent years, there's been a great deal of discussion (and angst) about the graying of science fiction and the...
Justine L on protagonists of color and book covers
Justine Larbalestier recently posted two excellent blog entries on topics related to protagonists of color: First: "Why My Protags Aren't...
A wiki about people of color in and around speculative fiction
One of the things you personally can do to help work against racism in the speculative fiction world is to...
Tempest and Ellison
(This is another one of those entries that will probably make no sense to people not involved in the speculative-fiction...
Cthulhu online
The search engine man was not meant to know: Cthuugle. And for more Internet Cthulhu goodness: LOLTHULHU. Some of my...
Space travel, sense of wonder, and engineering feats
Interesting pair of articles: "Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be?", by Ted Anthony, for AP, discusses...
R.I.P., Charles Brown
I'm sorry to hear that Charles N. Brown, publisher of Locus for the past forty years, has died. For some...
What I’ve been up to
It's been a couple of weeks since my last life-update post. I don't feel like much has been going on,...
Free online anthology: Thoughtcrime Experiments
I've been meaning for weeks now to link to Thoughtcrime Experiments. It's a science fiction anthology, edited by Sumana Harihareswara...
Best Trekfic EVER: litcrit slash
I wasn't going to post any more tonight, but this is way too good not to share: The idea of...