A Quick Note: The Silence and Caribbean Science Fiction
Readers of the blog will have noticed my silence for the last week and a half (with the exception of a handful of posts). This is entirely intentional, and I think you all deserve an explanation. The reason: I am working on my MA Thesis at this very moment (draft #1), which is due at […]
Science Fiction and Reptiles: A Very Strange Email, Updates, and a Question
(There are two sections for this post. The first is about SF and reptiles and the second is on updates about what I’m up to and a question that I’d appreciate answers for.) I. Science Fiction and Reptiles I’m hazarding a guess that the following email is a joke, since the author’s name is Warren […]
Future Plans: A List
I’ve been thinking about things I’d like to do on this blog over the next few months (or year) and decided to write up a list for your perusal. Some of these things are pretty much set in stone, and others are flexible. If you have suggestions for things you’d like to see on this […]
A Blogger Interview from Of Blog of the Fallen
Larry over at OF Blog of the Fallen has posted a long list of questions for book bloggers. I thought they were interesting enough to post about here, so that’s what I’m doing. Larry seems interested in getting a lot of responses, so if you are a blogger, whether about books or otherwise, you should […]
Question: What do you look for in a review?
(Note: I am still working on another post on the whole New Weird/Scifi Strange thing. I’ve been busy, and those posts tend to take a lot of time that I currently don’t have. Derrida is killing me. The next post will be up this week, though.) Jeff of Genre Reader has a post up on […]
The Caribbean, Science Fiction, and Space: Initial Thoughts
As many of you already know, I’ve been working on a paper on Caribbean science fiction–specifically the work of Tobias S. Buckell and Nalo Hopkinson, since my criteria is that the authors have to write about the Caribbean and be Caribbean themselves. The one thing that has stuck out to me so far–and I’ll be […]