I think I am at that magical point

Where my knee feels recovered enough I might foolishly believe what it is telling me.

While I like to see articles lauding Leckie

It seems to me the author of this one hews too closely to the standard forms used when writing about successful women.

For example, the photo of John Scalzi used in this article on Ann Leckie didn't have "John Scalzi, husband and writer" under it, it had "Sci-fi blogger and author John Scalzi is a big fan of Leckie", whereas Leckie's photo got (in part) with "St. Louis mother and first-time novelist.

Passages like

The first Nebula was given to Frank Herbert's Dune in 1966. Over the next thirteen years, only two awards for Best Novel went to a woman — both to Ursula K. Le Guin. That trend began to change in the late 1980s as more and more women began publishing. Since 2000 the gender split for Nebula winners, which is also awarded for novellas and short stories, has been about 50-50. But that hardly means we've arrived at a post-sexism literary world.

suggest the author means well, despite falling short.

Lee Harris leaves Angry Robot for Tor.com

Harris' account here.

Are fantastic, made-up tales an accurate depiction of the societies in which they are set?

No.


In compensation, have a music video.

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Are degenerates betraying Civilization when they read the wrong books?

Experts differ.