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 […]
Crowdfunding Links of the Week: Kaleidoscope (a Diverse YA Antho) & War Stories (a MilSF Antho)
If you haven’t backed these projects yet, you must do so right away. First, my good friend Julia Rios and Twefth Planet Press ninja Alisa Krasnostein (also of Galactic Suburbia fame) are putting together an anthology of YA fantasy stories with diverse perspectives. If you know me, I love me some diversity in SF/F, so […]
The Following’s (Homo/Bi)Sexuality “Deviance” Problem
(Minor spoilers ahead. If you don’t want to have some minor details ruined for you, don’t read beyond this point.) The Following is good. Damned good. I’m almost finished with the first season of this Kevin Bacon vehicle, and I love everything from the premise (Joe Carroll, played by James Purefoy, is a charismatic, Poe-obsessed […]
Ideological Rigidity (With a Side of Genre)(Adventures in Teaching)
Several semesters ago, I experienced what I’m going to call the indoctrination of young Americans. No, I am not necessarily referring to a specific political indoctrination, though one of the examples I will describe below falls along a left/right political spectrum. Rather, I am talking about the odd absence of critical thinking skills among college-age […]
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. […]
Why I Stopped Paying Attention to Feedburner Subscriber Numbers
Readers of this blog probably haven’t noticed, but the little chicklet/button for Feedburner disappeared from my sidebar about a month ago. The Twitter one, however, has stayed fixed in place (mostly so people can easily find my account; the feeds for my blog are linked above the Twitter gizmo). There’s a good reason, too. One […]