Posts Tagged ‘sci-fi means science fiction’
Through the grapevine, I wanted to contribute my post of a very happy 80th birthday to Ursula K LeGuin, wicked important SFF writer and commentator, as well as inventor of the handy ansible! Your books are truly inspiring and life-changing, and I wish you many happy returns. If you haven’t picked up a book by […]
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Throwing Pasta at the Wall
So Chally was doing that interview meme, and because I enjoy talking about myself, I decided to go for it. (Chally, btw, had a great post on Octavia Butler linked at io9 recently–some feminist redemption for them, ne?) If you would like five questions from me, please leave a comment and I’d be glad to ask. […]
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There are few things I loathe more in this world than being patronized, but unfortunately it’s either been happening a lot lately or I just read it as happening a lot lately. The global reaction to the Obama win has been…frustrating. While I know plenty of people internationally who have been following with interest and […]
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Where Women Have Gone Before
As you’ve probably guessed, I’m a big fan of Bitch magazine, having a degree in pop culture studies, but obviously I don’t take it as the be-all-end-all of feminist pop culture thought. Which is good, because then I read articles like Tammy Oler’s ”Keep On Trekkin’” and can get slightly irritated. I mean, I’m totally down […]
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Tags: reading list, sci-fi means science fiction, women on screen
Drops of Jupiter
I can’t decide whether I love or hate Charles Stross’ Saturn’s Children. All right, that’s a bit OTT, as I definitely don’t hate it. I just can’t pin down my feelings on the matter, because on one hand it’s a fantastic double bird to space opera and any preconceived notions we may have about sex-bots, […]
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Too far from Denver…
On the Hugo winners, in brief. Much as I love Steven Moffat, and much as I recognize the massive shitload of problematicness therein, Human Nature/Family of Blood was just better than Blink, and the Hugo committee needs a priority check. As they do for choosing bleeding Chabon over the rest of the pack. Halting State […]
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Like Mick Jagger, in a way.
Sorry about the delay, friends. RL things have been all consuming of late, so blogging’s been kept to a low around Camp Bene. Unlike apparently everyone else ever, I did NOT watch Dr. Horrible, and I don’t particularly care about it or about stereotyping women or whatever, because it is Joss ‘I Swear I Really […]
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Tags: oh no you didn't, sci-fi means science fiction, the bechdel test
Come on in, the water’s fine.
The good people at NOVA have decided to inform me of another way in which we are all going to potentially die thanks to natural disaster. I know I shouldn’t watch these things, but I’m a sucker for public television, and we don’t have cable. (Yes, no cable; we’re in the friggin’ media Dark Ages […]
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