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 […]

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 […]