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Gender balance in some old anthologies

Interim report on my father's sf anthologies: 25 sf anthologies recorded in my spreadsheet so far, published from 1953 through...

Jed

August 31, 2016
Filed under: Gender, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction
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Addiction, adult children of alcoholics, etc

I recently had occasion to stop by Addiction is..., a collection of about fifteen nonfiction pieces that, individually and together,...

Jed

August 28, 2016
Filed under: Favorite/Important Entries, Parents/Children/Family
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Some things nobody knows about me

I was talking on the phone the other day, and it occurred to me that it's possible that nobody knows...

Jed

August 27, 2016
Filed under: Personal
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Nonfiction that’s stuck with me

When I saw Amy Sundberg's post listing ten nonfiction books that had stuck with her, my first thought was: Have...

Jed

August 27, 2016
Filed under: Books
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Reading update

Yesterday, I finished the anthology I'd been reading and skimming for the past few days: Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction...

Jed

August 27, 2016
Filed under: Books, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction
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Trope: The Singular Woman

I seem to be focused on tropes today. I just read a 1972 science fiction story, by a male author,...

Jed

August 26, 2016
Filed under: Bechdel Test, Gender, Writing
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Polyamory and friendship

I have several half-written posts about polyamory and what it means to me, but those aren't likely to be in...

Jed

August 26, 2016
Filed under: Friendship, Relationships
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Truth-tellers in sf

I encounter this idea regularly in stories, both submissions and published: A character is bound (by a vow, by brain...

Jed

August 26, 2016
Filed under: Speculative Fiction, Writing
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Control over communications in Vinge’s Zones of Thought books

(Quasi-spoilers here for all three Zones books, in that if you've got this idea in your head as you read,...

Jed

August 26, 2016
Filed under: Books, Communication, Speculative Fiction, Technology
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“I want to hear it in your own words”

Another writing trope that bugs me, this time one I've seen as often in published fiction (and on TV shows)...

Jed

August 26, 2016
Filed under: Writing
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Dragon Award deadline impending

Dragon Con is running an award this year, the Dragon Award. They had a nominations phase that's now over; voting...

Jed

August 25, 2016
Filed under: Awards, Conventions
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Pournelle on ebooks, from 1980

Late in 2015, I read an issue of Destinies (a “paperback magazine”) from 1980; it included a piece by Jerry...

Jed

August 25, 2016
Filed under: Computers, Gadgets, Telecommunications
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