More Christopher Priest versus the Clarke Award
Yesterday’s post about the latest genre dust-up involving Christopher Priest’s very vocal criticism of this year’s Clarke Award shortlist has been linked by John Scalzi at Whatever, which has sent my...
View ArticleMore Christopher Priest, more Fifty Shades of Grey and some writing links
Yorkshire photos will follow later this week, but for now I have a couple of links on the current discussions of the day: More on Christopher Priest versus the Clarke Awards, since Mr Priest himself...
View ArticleGood Friday Links
I’m taking a day off from the photo posts, because I just spent quite a bit of time finishing the first draft of a short story. So instead of Yorkshire photos, you get a bunch of (hopefully...
View ArticleThoughts on the 2012 Hugo Awards Nominations
The nominations for the 2012 Hugo Awards have been announced just in time for Easter with lots of “What the fuck?” nominations mixed in with the good choices. First of all, the good thing is that there...
View ArticleEaster Monday Link Round-up
Here in Germany, today was a public holiday and rather slow. Nonetheless, Easter Monday is a work day in the US. Besides, there were at least two big conventions this weekend, so the internet didn’t go...
View ArticleBear on Grimdark, Burroughs on Writing and some Pretty Covers
I was going to post some photos of my daytrip to Celle on May 1st, but something’s come up, so have some links instead: Elizabeth Bear remarks upon the relentless darkness of the SFF genre and of its...
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The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin weighs in on the current debate on the impending death of genre due to the rise of e-books that was kicked off by Charles Stross. I think anybody who believes that...
View ArticleJust Cool Links
At the Guardian, Damien Walter points out that being male is not a prerequisite for writing hard SF. It’s a decent article, though IMO mentioning M. John Harrison in an article about women writing hard...
View ArticleLate August Links
I seem to have caught some kind of bug, because I haven’t been feeling well these past few days. Plus, I managed to scald myself with hot tea today, when the handle broke off my tea cup and the...
View ArticleThe 2012 Hugo Awards and remembering Dr. Sommer
Over at the Pegasus Pulp blog, I have a round-up of links about the current uproar about fake and paid for reviews. L.G. Gale has a good post about what SFF writers can learn from the romance genre....
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Hugo Nomination Reactions or Why the Fuck is this Controversial?
Odd. I’d have thought that this year’s Hugo shortlist was pretty much uncontroversial. I mean, we have a healthy representation of women and writers of colour, most of the nominations went to works and...
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Linkdump – One hundred percent Hugo and Clarke Award free
The hits on my Hugo reaction link round-up have gone through the roof thanks to links from John Scalzi, James Nicholls, Liz Bourke, Jay Lake, Radish Reviews, SF Signal and others. I’ll do another link...
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The Hugos, the Clarke Awards and what do you want, exactly?
We’re still talking about the Hugo awards and whether they are broken or not. Though as a bonus, we’re now talking about the Clarke awards and whether they are broken as well. So here are links to the...
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Award me, baby, one more time
Yes, we’re still talking about the Hugos and awards in general, though by now the discussion seems to have moved on from general complaining and whining to constructive criticism of how the Hugos could...
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Mixed Links – mostly SFF but not necessarily Hugo related
First of all, here is a signal boost. Ben Wolverton, the 16-year-old son of writer and teacher Dave Farland/Dave Wolverton, has been critically injured in a longboarding accident and is currently in a...
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The latest state of this year’s awards debate
Apparently, we’re still talking about the Hugo and Clarke Awards, so here are the latest links: At Tor.com, Niall Alexander offers a summary of the uproar surrounding this year’s all-male, all-white...
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Revenge of the Girl Cooties or Do we need a different writers organisation?
Warning! Knowing what happened to other women who dared to have opinions, be warned that trollish comments will either be deleted with extreme prejudice or held up for ridicule. In the past few days,...
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SFWA: It gets worse…
So we have been having a discussion, the umpteenth reiteration of a discussion that has been going on since the 1930s, about the marginalization of women and for that matter people of colour and GLBT...
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Attack of the Girl Cooties
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series The Girl Cooties seriesYes, we’re still having that conversation – sigh. Though by now it’s not one conversation but at least four different intertwined...
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SFWA drama comes to a conclusion
This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series The Girl Cooties seriesThe ongoing drama about racism and sexism in the SFWA (just read the other posts in the series for an overview, particularly this one)...
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