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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Writer Interview: Veronica Scott (Romance & Adventure from the Ancient Nile to the Deeps of Space!)
Veronica Scott’s work ranges from paranormal romances set in ancient Egypt to action-adventure space operas (Mission to Mahjundar, Wreck of the Nebula Dream, Escape from Zulaire). I first met her on Six Sentence Sunday; we have continued our acquaintance on … Continue reading
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Tagged Excerpt, Romance, Science Fiction, Veronica Scott, Weekend Writing Warriors, Writer Interviews
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Love in the Time of Starships: Quiet Ones to Watch Out For, or the New Hard SF (Polenth Blake, Yoon Ha Lee)
Polenth Blake. Rainbow Lights Yoon Ha Lee. Conservation of Shadows Additional stories: Polenth Blake’s bibliography, on-line fiction by Yoon Ha Lee. The usual disclaimer: books above come from my personal collection, funded by the readaholic who is writing the review. … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Love in the Time of Starships, Polenth Blake, Yoon Ha Lee
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 22 February 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)
Until we meet the wider world, we think “our ways” are “the way.” You learn the geography of each of the Inhabited Worlds, and the spatio-temporal fabric of Ordinary Space and the Jumps, but in spite of the mathematics of … Continue reading
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Tagged Excerpt, publication, Science Fiction, Tales from the Inhabited Worlds, Weekend Writing Warriors
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Writer Interview: Thelonius Legend (#BlackWritersChat, #BlackComicsChat), Novelist & Superhero Dad!
On February 3, 2015 I had the privilege of interviewing my colleague Thelonius Legend, one of my writing world’s Twitter organizers (#BlackWritersChat, #BlackComicsChat) and keen proponent of the Twitter book club @BlerdBookClub, which most recently hosted Tananarive Due. Thelonius is … Continue reading
Love in the Time of Starships: The Long Look Back and the Promise of the New (Kate Elliott, E. E. Ottoman)
Note: This review is based on pre-publication review copies from the publishers via NetGalley. Publishers linked below are thanked for these free review copies. Additional process notes : This was my first time reviewing pre-publication copies, which was interesting in itself … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, E. E. Ottoman, Kate Elliott, Love in the Time of Starships, NetGalley
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 15 February 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)
I don’t remember being born the first time, nor do I remember the First Song they sang to encourage my gene-mother Sita in her labors. There were three of them leading that chorus, Matar and Estrel and Altair. My gene-father … Continue reading
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Tagged Excerpt, publication, Science Fiction, Tales from the Inhabited Worlds, Weekend Writing Warriors
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Saturday night and we’re doing the beta bop (well, and reviews)
Today in Minneapolis we had brilliant sun that cast icy-blue shadows on the snowy roofs, and that pale blue sky that tells you it’s colder than cold outside. So I hung out on my couch, chatted with folks on Twitter, … Continue reading
Writer Interview: Silvia Moreno-Garcia (novel ‘Signal to Noise’ is released today!)
I first encountered the short stories of Silvia Moreno Garcia in the Canadian superhero anthology Masked Mosaic and the post-colonial SF collection We See a Different Frontier. I went on to enjoy her luminous short story collection Love and Other … Continue reading
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Tagged Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Writer Interviews, Writing
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Love in the Time of Starships: Grit, Struggle, and Fierce Love (Koyanagi’s ‘Ascension,’ anthology ‘Fierce Families’)
A few years ago, I saw a student performance of Fierce Love, created by the groundbreaking performance group PoMo Afro Homos (one of whom, Djola Branner, was my Father in the Art). These performance vignettes tell a story of love … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 8 February 2015 (Tales from the Inhabited Worlds)
Inside the Jump / Outside the Dome / Don’t bother looking / There’s nobody home. That’s a children’s rhyme on Sarronny, which contains worlds of paradox and irony: nobody home, but that absence means nobody any good. The Void is … Continue reading
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Tagged Excerpt, publication, Science Fiction, Tales from the Inhabited Worlds, Weekend Writing Warriors
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