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...
R.I.P., John Hughes
Just happened across the news that John Hughes has died of a heart attack at age 59. I never saw...
Withdrawing stories
In the past year or so, we've received a surprising number of notes from authors that say something like this:...
Not leaving the house
Two days after that Shakespeare Santa Cruz performance, I flew to Chicago for a long weekend. Helped Mary Anne &...
Midsummer afternoon’s “Dream”
Last time I wrote a life-update entry, I mentioned the Shakespeare Santa Cruz offsite, but didn't go into detail. Not...
July submission report
In July, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 488 valid submissions, making July the 7th-highest-volume month ever. (And only a...
Happy birthday, Mary Anne!
Amid my flurry of posts last night, I completely forgot to post this: Today is Mary Anne's birthday. Happy birthday,...
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...
Speaking self-interest to power
Another interesting article from TIME: "Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days," By Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf. But the specific...
Some interesting abortion articles
The other day, happened across an interesting article in TIME: "Finding Common Ground on an Abortion Bill," by Amy Sullivan....