RoF’s Women-Only Issue: Good or Bad?
Realms of Fantasy Magazine recently announced that in August of 2011 they will be releasing a special themed issue of the magazine called “Women in Fantasy.” The idea is that every department will be dedicated to that theme in some way, and only women can submit. I have mixed feelings about this: Are they going […]
Ebooks Prices: Now I Understand
I’ve recently been trying to convert the first issue of Survival By Storytelling into a Kindle ebook, thinking it would be a fairly easy process. Technology had other ideas. Here’s what I thought was going to happen: I’d go online, pop the file into Amazon’s conversion tool, and end up with a slightly imperfect file. […]
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 […]