Here's an interesting letter than Gene Roddenberry wrote to Warners after Star Trek was cancelled within which he sums up science fiction as: "science fiction, like any other story, should be mainly about people with hardware being secondary ... really you make your science fiction the same way you make any other good story and there are no ( Read more... )

This post has been bouncing around in my head for a while now and it still might not yet be fully formed ( Read more... )

Yesterday, amidst some rather unpleasant downtime for me due to a close encounter with some peanuts the night before, maelkann and I watched The Surrogates. Now, I love me any movie with Bruce Willis in it, *especially* if he is saving the world ( Read more... )

Sorry for the closeness to abstract deadline but it just came across my virtual desk ( Read more... )

So I mentioned that I am a fangirl of Awards and Lists. I've been looking forward to the Locus list for a while, just to you know, compare theirs to mine. It's one of the main perks of doing Last Short StoryIn addition to mild curiosity, I'm still working on and thinking through a lot of issues and points of discussion that were raised in the ( Read more... )

How many people does it take to say that the gender inbalance in SF outlets is a problem before it's seriously acknowledged, and accepted, as a problem ( Read more... )

F&SF has a new article online, Women Writing Science Fiction: Some Voices From the Trenches, and is inviting discussion on its message board.

(Taken from Shaken and Stirred)


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