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I'm co-moderating a Twitter chat with @bleedingchrome on October 9th on the topic so I'd love lots of participation and suggestions. I've read some things (Scott, Cadigan, Pollack, etc.) of course, but don't think I've run across much international cyberpunk and virtually nothing by writers of color ( Read more... )

Rachel Manija Brown (rachelmanija) and Sherwood Smith (sartorias) were told by a literary agent that their Young Adult novel would be represented -- if they made a gay character straight or wrote him out altogether ( Read more... )

1. Via unusualmusic @ ecominded_poc @ dw (with three further links):

UK-based Zimbabwean author Masimba Musodza has written the first science fiction novel in ChiShona, the native language of the Shona people of Zimbabwe and Southern Zambia. And it tells the story of native beliefs clashing with corporate mad science. MunaHacha Maive Nei is also ( Read more... )

There's a review of Under an Emerald Sky by Olukemi Amala at the F-Word and it sounds magical realist or possibly even fantasy so might interest whileaway readers:

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2011/05/under_an_emerald_sky

Read "Dirty Wordies, or, The Fiendish Thingie" here! (If you're curious what she had to say about "fuck"!)

It's a speech from 1969, which I don't believe has been collected since it was printed in a zine in 1970, which I've transcribed for others to read.

Reports now say that Joanna Russ died this morning.

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/04/joanna-russ-1937-2011/

Just saw this report that Joanna Russ has been admitted to hospice after suffering a series of strokes:

http://www.sfsite.com/news/2011/04/27/joanna-russ-in-hospice/

It doesn't look good. :-(

Due to recent spam comments, I've turned on Captcha and screening for anonymous comments for the community. whileaway members, please unscreen anonymous replies from non-spammers when you get them on your entries if need be -- you can do it yourselves without help from moderators (see the LJ FAQ), but contact us as usual if you get trolls or flames that ( Read more... )

Sir Julius Vogel based his 1889 utopia on three principles, which he helpfully lays out in the epilogue:

1. there's no reason women can't do everything men can [except for a telling blind spot he has regarding participation in and leading of the armed forces];
2. there's no reason the various British colonies shouldn't form a British empire;
3. there's no ( Read more... )