My #HugoAwards Final Ballot (To Be Submitted in the Future)
Over the weekend, I explained why I intended to use No Award and Blank Spacing as a response to the Sad Puppies / Rabid Puppies campaign to manipulate and take over the Hugo Awards. Since I am fundamentally opposed to slate-based voting measures, I can’t in good conscience support works which appear on this year’s […]
10 Reasons I’m a Feminist
What’s that? I’m a feminist?! Yup. A wicked awesome feminist who wears Feminist Cannons on his shoulders and shoots Holy Feminist Balls at sexism. Or something like that. Something I’ve never done before is provide some kind of explanation for why I am a feminist. Hence this post. Here are the ten reasons I am […]
“No Award” and “Blank Spacing” the #HugoAwards — The Only Response I Can Make to What is to Come
The Hugo Award ballot has been announced, and if you’ve been paying attention to Twitter, it’s certainly controversial. Not controversial because a novel everybody loved didn’t make it. Not controversial because a novel a whole lot of people didn’t love did make it. Controversial because some people have taken it upon themselves to game the […]
A Story Out of Time and Place and the Escape Hatch of Fantasy: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) — Retro Nostalgia
With the monumental success of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (dir. Chris Columbus; 2001), Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (dir. Peter Jackson; 2001), and their immediate sequels, Hollywood perhaps hoped to capitalize on the epic fantasy feel of Tolkien’s narrative and the young adult/children’s audience that so fervently devoured the […]
Movie Review: Hot Tub Time Machine (dir. Steve Pink; 2010)(A SFF Film Odyssey)
The first time I saw Hot Tub Time Machine (dir. Steve Pink; 2010), I wasn’t sure how to take it. So much of the film made me uncomfortable because the characters seemed, for the most part, painfully unlikable. That fact became clearer as I began comparing HTTM to other films of its type, leaving me […]
The Fictioning: I actually wrote something! Ahaha!
If you missed it on Twitter, I actually wrote some new fiction last night for the first time in months. I’ve been fiddling with the idea for a YA space opera featuring a wheelchair bound combat expert and his tech-savvy sibling. I won’t ruin the plot, but I will say this: there will be a […]