Today's Oz post is about The Silver Princess in Oz, the book that left me depressed, and almost put me off this project entirely.

With that said, if you read no other of my Oz posts from here on out, read this one - and the one about Merry-Go-Round in Oz, coming up last ( Read more... )

The New York Review of Science Fiction reprints an excellent article by Samuel Delany on racism and science fiction.

I admit it; one of the reasons I headed out to the movies with my parents today (Oceans, narrated by Pierce Brosman, separate blog post) was because I knew this post was coming up.

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I've spent some time trying to sum up what I feel here, and I realize I said most of it already in the post. Go. Read ( Read more... )

I adore great big fat gossipy biographies disguised as "scholarly studies" complete with pages and pages and pages of footnotes, especially when they are a) about people long dead, so no one feels inclined to hold back, b) they contain lots and lots of scandal, by which I mean, relationships, sex, gambling, drinking, and wild adventures gone bad ( Read more... )