Video Found: Battlestar Rhapsody (BSG + Queen)
Discovered this via SF Signal and had to share, because it’s hilarious and brilliant at the same time. What do you get when you take Battlestar Galactica, mix in some Queen (the band), and put it in a YouTube video? You get this:
Book Review Up: Sisters of Misery by Megan Kelley Hall
A really suspenseful read, this one. I wish there was more to the ending, but I was glued to the page despite Sisters of Misery having very little in the way of fantastic elements (they were there, but not well define for good reasons). Read my review.
Newton Talks: What makes a good book blogger?
Mark Charan Newton recently had an curious post about what makes a good book blogger. Being a book blogger myself (sorta), I thought it would be interesting to give my two cents on his proposed guidelines. 1) There are bloggers who use the right tools, and those who are tools (i.e. reasonable vs. unreasonable expectations) […]
A New SF Manifesto of Bologna: Jetse de Vries and the Literature of Change (Part Three)
Now for the final post in my response to Jetse de Vries’ post. You can read the previous two parts by clicking the following links: part one; part two. Here goes: Point Five – SF dismisses actual science This one is easy to deal with: what consumers want is what they get. You want more […]
A New SF Manifesto of Bologna: Jetse de Vries and the Literature of Change (Part Two)
I started this series of posts the other day and will now continue. You can read part one here and part three here. Point Three – SF is WASP-ish By that, de Vries means that SF allows for the perpetuation of white-privilege, which is true on some level, but also somewhat ignorant of what WASP […]
A New SF Manifesto of Bologna: Jetse de Vries and the Literature of Change (Part One)
(You can read parts two and three at the following links: part two; part three.) I struggled for hours on how to respond to Jetse de Vries’ post on whether science fiction should die. Part of the problem with the post is that it’s just another re-hash of several tired, inaccurate, and as-yet-properly-researched arguments we’ve […]