Anne McCaffrey may have said some weird things in interviews, and her books may have included some weird implications (we have very different ideas about how much sexual assault a hero can commit before he starts to look rather less heroic), but she was the first woman to win a Hugo or a Nebula or to get a science-fiction book onto the New York ( Read more... )

Everyone seems to be writing the fascinating and hilarious little informative capsules of kadrin’s invention on their original universes, and it looks rather like fun but I cannot join in on account of not having any original universes of my own, alas. I am just not an innovative person, which is sad. It’s why I don’t write original fiction and why I ( Read more... )

The Broccoli Test is a meme that was going around a while ago, and that I’ve only decided to do just now, because I’m slow like that. It is a Test of Compatibility.

The rules are these:

One half of a couple is standing in the fresh vegetable aisle of a large supermarket. The other half is on the other side of the shop. The two can see each other ( Read more... )

Well, it's been over a year since I last looked at my only successful attempt at the National Novel Writing Month challenge, and so now I naturally have to summarise it sarcastically. BECAUSE I CAN.

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