So, about military science fiction

I am sticking with my claim MilSF only recently gelled into a coherent subgenre.


No hits for Mil SF, MILSF, Mil SF, MIL SF, or Military Science Fiction.

Doris Lessing (1919 - 2013)

Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning author of The Golden Notebook and The Grass is Singing, among more than 50 other novels ranging from political to science fiction, has died aged 94.

Perseverance

Nicked from Sore Eyes

"Мышь vs. Печенька" (Watch on YouTube)

Today's lesson

Before picking up the sleeping feral cat first come up with an exit strategy.

(Nameless' fur is amazingly plush for a cat who has never willingly been petted or brushed)

WFC shows other cons how it's done!

Quite frankly, I’m not surprised that incidents were not reported. The hectoring tone of the convention’s communications, and their obvious contempt for issues such as panel parity and accessibility, gave me no confidence that the convention’s senior management would take such incidents seriously. As one of my friends said to me at the convention, Steve Jones is to customer service what King Herod was to child care. I can’t speak for anyone else, but if I had just been sexually harassed I wouldn’t be wanting to have to report the fact to him.

Now, where have I seen WFC's communications style before? Ah, yes....

YOU HAVE REQUESTED INFORMATION REGARDING: ALPHA COMPLEX. LOYAL CITIZENS ARE PROVIDED WITH ALL THE INFORMATION THEY REQUIRE, YOU ARE THEREFORE A TRAITOR. PLEASE REPORT FOR TERMINATION. THANK YOU.

YOU ARE IN ERROR. NO-ONE IS SCREAMING.

According to WFC on Sunday: "It’s Sunday. No one has lost their badge and no one has been harassed."


One of several harassees begs to differ.

The problem with community building with public readings of Eye of Argon

Jim Theis was 16 when he wrote it. Basically by doing the group mockage thing with EoA people are picking on a teenager. No worries! I have a solution:
replace Eye of Argon with professionally published work of F and/or SF. The floor is open to suggestions.

The Science Fiction Book Club Reviews Revisited: 1996 (fourth quarter)

ists courtesy of Andrew Wheeler.

Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index
to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/
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So, The Point

But there was this one kid, who was the son of the evil Count who was the aide to the King, (...)

I hear this not as a count who is an aide to the King and also evil but rather someone whose job is to be the designated Evil Count, so that he can make his cunning and malice available to the King.

This is so obvious it has to exist

Has anyone in Japan redone The Romance of the Three Kingdoms as an anime about extended conflict between high school clubs over who gets to be President of the Absurdly Powerful Student Council?

Clarkesworld Podcast January 2012: All the Painted Stars (Gwendolyn Clare)

All the Painted Stars (Gwendolyn Clare)

Read by Kate Baker

An alien cop finds itself unexpectedly thrust into the role of ambassador and more when it encounters humans.

I think the reasonable assumption is that the humans cannot be the only race the Brights took a shot on and it follows from that ( Read more... )

Escape: Evening Primrose (John Collier)

Evening Primrose (John Collier)

A sensitive young poet decides to escape the world by secretly living in a department store. He soon discovers that he is not the not the first person to have this idea, nor are the store dwelling Others inclined to slack their rules for his sake. Or for the sake of the down trodden girl he thinks he is in love with.

As useless poets go, this guy is pretty bad.