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The Charles Fort quote at the start of Black Helicopters possibly provides a clue to the novella’s intentions. According to Wikipedia, Fort was a researcher in anomalous phenomena. Black Helicopters is over toppling with anomalous phenomena. We’ve got secret organisations, CIA skulduggery involving psychics and drugs, a Lovecraft inspired ( Read more... )

Most of you who read this blog will know that the Tiptree Award for 2012 was announced a day or so back.

I’m super excited to see that the award has gone to The Drowning Girl - joint winner with Kiini Ibura Salaam’s collection of stories. Ancient, Ancient

Kirstyn and I, with our special guest star Jonathan Strahan, reviewed The Drowning Girl on ( Read more... )

On the latest episode of Live and Sassy*, Jonathan Strahan, in responding to a question from Alisa Krasnostein, says that a lazy default for any sort of anthology or collection should be a 30% - 70% split.  That is 30% female and 70% male.  He goes onto emphasise that this is the lazy default and that really a well read editor should get much ( Read more... )