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The 2014 Rhysling Anthology & Editor's Note

popelizbet Oct 21, 2014 18:34

I am so very pleased to announce that the 2014 Rhysling Anthology was released to Science Fiction Poetry Association members today and will be very shortly available for all to enjoy. There are print editions in my living room & I'm intermittently texting various yays to my wonderful associate editor, Ashley Brown ( Read more... )

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In Which John C. Wright is Wrong About Everything, Forever, World Without End, Amen: An Open Letter

popelizbet May 08, 2014 21:25

If you haven’t been following the slowly-building SF/F fandom and genre dustup for the past few months, what follows may be of limited use to you, even if you follow the links. Fair warning.

Natalie Luhrs did a really good job of explaining how John C. Wright is Lying About Everything in order to make the bigotry of those he champions appear to ( Read more... )

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2013 Rhyslings: Awesome/Not So Awesome News

popelizbet Jul 17, 2013 16:51

Peeking my head up from the practice of law with some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that my Memphis Lovecraftian poem, "Memphis Street Railway Co. v. Stratton: 1915", originally published at New Myths, was nominated for a 2013 Rhysling Award by some wonderful soul. (It also got some lovely praise from very talented poet and editor ( Read more... )

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popelizbet Jun 08, 2009 18:37

I know, I know. I still owe y'all a Wiscon writeup or three, and I have notes on five collections of short stories that I want to write up for y'all, but neither of those things are happening today.

My good friend angersson had a brilliant idea not too long ago, to use Twitter to create a #freebookclub hash tag, where people recommend, read and review ( Read more... )

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the fail that does not end: of mammoths and unicorns

popelizbet May 14, 2009 16:50

Racefail, Day 123 in a perpetual calendar:

Patricia Wrede has written a YA book, The Thirteenth Child, with an ill-advised premise. In discussions of her book pre-publication, she unintentionally underlined and capitalized how ill-advised her premise was, as follows:

The *plan* is for it to be a "settling the frontier" book, only without Indians ( Read more... )

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popelizbet May 07, 2009 08:38

Does online derailing make you nuts? Do you seethe with rage when people pull the Same Old Shit in online discussions of racism, privilege and hierarchy?

What about when it happens in real life?

As those who saw my alternate timeline of RF09 may be aware, students at the University of Minnesota's dance program have been, since early February, ( Read more... )

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popelizbet Apr 28, 2009 21:11

Things that are Pissing Me Off (or, RaceFail, Day 107):

There are communities that exist solely to better people's fanfic (and original fiction) in the area of its British-correctness. Apparently the RPS fandom needs one to correct racism and ill-informed lame-ass cultural appropriation in fic, too. (Note: the "racism" link goes to color_blue's post about ( Read more... )

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Writer's Block: The Greenest Grass

popelizbet Apr 17, 2009 14:42

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popelizbet Mar 05, 2009 09:08

I have stayed quiet about something for too long, and I am ashamed.

( Cut only for length, and never for shame. )

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