Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

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Top 10 Blog Posts for February 2014

And here they are: 10. Why I Haven’t Babbled About the Hugo Awards…Yet 9. Book Review: Tarnished by Rhiannon Held 8. Top 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy Anime Movies 7. Censorship is what people say when they don’t want to address the actual issue…for reasons 6. How to Destroy the SFWA…err, no, I’m not going to talk about […]

Top 10 Blog Posts for January 2014

And here they are: The Vigilante in American Mythology (Brief Thoughts) #monthofjoy Movie Review: Riddick (2013) (or, I’m Going to Mega Rant Now) Guest Post: The Polarization of Genre Fiction by David Chandler Movie Review Rant : Catching Fire (2013) Silly Reader Questions: Super Powers, Magic, Bathrooms, and Poetry Top 10 Most Ridiculous Moments in […]

Top 10 Blog Posts for December 2013

Happy New Year! Here’s the list: 10.  Why I Stopped Paying Attention to Feedburner Subscriber Numbers 9.  The Diversity Pledge:  Crunching My Numbers for 2013 8.  Draft Post Bingo:  What should I finish?  You Decide! 7.  Draft Post Bingo Winners:  What I’ll Be Finishing Next 6.  Crowdfunding Links of the Week:  Kaleidoscope (a Diverse YA […]

Top 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy Anime Movies

I’ve been sitting on this list for months because I didn’t think I’d seen enough anime movies to warrant the creation of a list.  Turns out I was wrong.  When I did a bit of searching, I discovered I’d seen quite a lot of anime films, many of them viewed at 1 AM on some […]

Top 10 Posts for October 2013

Here you go: 10.  Crowfunding Links of the Week:  Kaleidoscope (a Diverse YA Antho) & War Stories (a MilSF Antho) 9.  Draft Post Bingo:  What should I finish?  You Decide! 8.  Top 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies Since 2010 (Thus Far) 7.  Ideological Rigidity (With a Side of Genre)(Adventures in Teaching) 6.  Top 10 […]

Top 10 Blog Posts for September 2013

And here they are: 10.  Why I Stopped Paying Attention to Feedburner Subscriber Numbers 9.  That Readers vs. Writers Thing on Strange Horizons (or, Some Disconnected Nonsense From Me) 8.  Link of the Week:  “Conventions and Authors” by Tobias S. Buckell 7.  Literary Fiction Does Not Exist (or, Please Shut Up About Literary Fiction) 6. […]