Chipmunks & StarWars. Fan art. Brilliant.

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I really want to see the movie Moon. Directed by David Bowie's son! And for under $5M! Science fiction for under $5M? Count me in. It sounds amazing. I loved the trailer.

Check out this artist's series called Fallen Princesses. Tweaking the Disney mythos. Rapunzel is haunting me.

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From Nalo Hopkins, an essay on race and SF. A fantastic read, and one I HIGHLY recommend.

Because by the thousandth time, "I didn't mean to do it" starts to look a whole lot like, "I don't care enough about you to pay attention". It's even more infuriating to be told, "You must be nuts. I didn't step on your foot, and you need to apologise to me ( Read more... )

via holzman"In the past few months, minorities have been denigrated by bigoted authors and publishers who have also asserted that Fen of Color are rare and piratically non-existent. Despite numerous discussions and attempts to enlighten on the fact that POCs are fans, writers, artists and just as integral to this genre as our white counterparts, we are ( Read more... )

Rather than just sit around bitching that there aren't enough POC and GBLTs in SF, and that the publishing houses that already exist are stacked against POC & GBLT authors, and stories about POC and GBLTs... verb_noire is doing something about it. Starting up a publishing house that will feature our stories. Yes, if you are white and het you can submit - but ( Read more... )

My copy of Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" arrived today. I can't wait for work to be over so I can start reading it!

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"OMG! Race mixing! HOW HORRIBLE!!! We'll all end up looking the same, even though whenever I (the author) describe someone they LOOK TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ELSE. Race mixing, culture mixing is BAD BAD BAD. The only thing left is to go to the STARZ. This cute white dude and he'll find REAL DIVERSITY THERE ( Read more... )

The Boston Globe's article called "Race: THe Final Frontier" which talks about race and SF and a lot of things that I've been handwaving about for a number of years now. So good to see it coming up ( Read more... )

He's only two now ( Read more... )