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Dec. 5th, 2014
Allow me to answer a question unprovoked
Dec. 5th, 2014 01:12 am
What motivated Brunner to try his hand in a genre so far afield from his fan base?
BECAUSE STEAMBOATS ARE COOL!
I have a memory that Martin's Fevre Dream references the same race that inspired Brunner.
"We can stop Judgment Day
Dec. 5th, 2014 12:08 pmI am pretty sure the implications of T2, T3 and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is that they all they can do is jitter around in time loops defined by the need to have travelers sent back in time to futz with the beginning and timing of the Judgment War.
Yardsticks
Dec. 5th, 2014 12:40 pmCould someone remind me how many joules were released in the Twin Tower attacks on 9/11?
If I set the number of people murdered in the death-camps at roughly ten million and call that a Hitler, is that clear or obfuscatory?
If I set the number of people murdered in the death-camps at roughly ten million and call that a Hitler, is that clear or obfuscatory?
From their About page:
What we’re about
We are a monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora.
“But Africans don’t do speculative fiction!”
This is something a lot of us interested in speculative fiction have heard many times. And in a world where stereotypes have a way of taking flight and travelling, it is now almost accepted as fact.
However, this is a claim that anyone who has ever sat down to listen to tales of spirit husbands, mermaids and forest dwarfs, whose mats have the ability to make one rich, knows to be false. In our folktales animals talked and the gods walked among men; what is called fantasy today was as real as night and day.
But, we have lost the immediacy of those stories and have been reduced to trafficking in borrowed images that vilify our heritage. This is a tragedy because stories do more than entertain us, the best stories hold up a mirror to the world. They show us not just what is, but what could be, if it chose.
Omenana is the Igbo word for divinity – it also loosely translates as “culture” – and embodies our attempt to recover our wildest stories. We are looking for well-written speculative fiction that bridges the gap between past, present and future through imagination and shakes us out of the corner we have pushed ourselves into.
If you think you’ve got just the tale, send it in; we’d love to show it to the world.
Terri Luanna DaSilva (1974 - 2014)
Dec. 5th, 2014 07:45 pmFrom Facebook: Terri Luanna DaSilva, SF author Spider Robinson's daughter, has died.
We are saddened to share the news that our graceful woman warrior passed away today at 12:41 PM. As in all she did in her brief life, she passed gracefully and in peace, surrounded by those who loved her dearly. Deep gratitude for all your love and support, from her family and Team Terri
Now that I have an review website
Dec. 5th, 2014 11:58 pmI am getting offers of free copies of books that are really inappropriate for me. What's the proper etiquette on turning authors and publishers down?