It seems that the feminism issue rears its head on the speculative fiction blogosphere about once every six months, maybe more frequently if you follow specific blogs in question. I'd been meaning, with certain trepidation, to throw my hat in, and now seems an opportune time as I have found myself unwittingly participating in one editor's salvo in ( Read more... )

I wasn't actually intending to post tonight, but I received a sign from above. Specifically about six inches over my head and climbing. In the shower ( Read more... )

The more I work in the areas where I work (which frequently feel more like play, and the more they feel like play, the better the results I tend to get), the more I think that my entire profession, or series of professions, can be distilled into a single concept of the science of choice ( Read more... )

With Naomi Novik's recent announcement about the Organization for Transformative Works there's been a renewed energy in discussion of fanfiction and its impact on the specluative fiction community. I'm not really going to comment on the OTW -- I tend to concur with John Scalzi on its feasibility and potential danger to the fanfiction community ( Read more... )

Or "Let's give 'em something to talk about".

It's lately been in vogue to trash World of Warcraft, and it's no new thing that something popular should be heavily criticized. When you reach a certain level of visibility you draw fire from people who like to rage against The Man and from people who don't dig the trend and therefore get irritated by ( Read more... )

And that is about as far as my French gets!

Like most, I don't quite know what to think of this second sale of livejournal, but this discussion of the specifics on Slashdot was quite interesting. The future of Russia on the Internet is not something that has figured largely into projections for the cyber-future, but it certainly contains some most ( Read more... )

(This post is syndicated to the Homeless Moon, and with that comes my gentle request that comments and links be pointed over there! Long ramble on genre magazines follows!)

There's been a lot of discussion on the state of short fiction magazines recently in the specfic community. Warren Ellis seems to have started it with a post on subscription ( Read more... )

The other Homeless Moon folk have wildly outstripped me in posting lately, so I am going for the TKO this evening and catching up on some things I've been meaning to post here. Apologies to those on my LJ who will get it all at once.

Jay Lake's recent post on writer ages reminded me of something I was discussing with pantlessjohnny at last ReaderCon, and later ( Read more... )

Well, since it's official now, I can mention here that I won the Open Storyboard section of the Games for Health '06-'07 Competition for my entry titled Food Finder and the Quest for the Golden Walnut. The section was called "storyboard" but what I submitted was more properly a pitch or concept document for a Nintendo DS game to teach nutrition to ( Read more... )

...and your desk gets invaded by Wookiees.