Reading Joanna Russ: To Write Like a Woman (1995)
The next of Joanna Russ’s books, To Write Like a Woman, is a collection of essays and letters originally published between 1971 and the early ’80s. These pieces range in subject and tone from a letter titled “Is ‘Smashing’ Erotic?,” which d...
Owly: “The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer” by Andy Runton
The first collected volume of Andy Runton’s all-ages comic Owly, “The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer,” was released in 2005, but I ran into it much more recently than that — I snagged copies of this first volume and the third volume at a...
Chicks Dig Comics, edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Sigrid Ellis
Chicks Dig Comics is the newest in the line of “Chicks Dig” books published by Mad Norwegian Press, following the Hugo-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords. This volume is edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Sigrid Ellis; it collects over thirty pieces of short...
Contributing to the Conversation: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology Kickstarter
Kickstarter has become ubiquitous around the SF community, funding things like “An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer,” the digital archiving of Charles Brown/Locus Magazine’s extraordinary collection of SF-related documents, and a thousa...
Contributing to the Conversation: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology Kickstarter
Kickstarter has become ubiquitous around the SF community, funding things like “An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer,” the digital archiving of Charles Brown/Locus Magazine’s extraordinary collection of SF-related documents, and a thousa...
Swift and Dangerous: The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
Set in the same ragged, war-torn, post-peak oil future as 2010’s Printz Award-winning Shipbreaker, Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Drowned Cities takes place in and around the titular region of the used-to-be United States—the old capitol, in particular. ...
Wilds of the Soul: Mythic Delirium 26
To round out poetry month, there’s one more magazine I’d like to talk about: Mythic Delirium, edited by Mike Allen. This magazine has been running steadily since 1998, and across the years has featured poets such as Neil Gaiman, Greer Gilman, Suzet...
Reading Joanna Russ: The Hidden Side of the Moon (1988)
After the short collection of essays on sexuality and feminism, Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts (1985), comes Russ’s final collection of short fiction, The Hidden Side of the Moon. Containing nearly twenty-five stories—more...
Queering SFF: Stone Telling Magazine #7: “Bridging”
April is National Poetry Month — Tor.com has already been celebrating! — and that’s a perfect reason to turn Queering SFF toward a genre that I too-frequently forget to include: speculative poetry. Plus, the timing couldn’t be more serendipitou...
Telling Tales: Above by Leah Bobet
Leah Bobet’s first novel, Above, is a young adult urban fantasy—in the sense that “urban fantasy” means “fantasy set in a city”—published this week by Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic. The novel is told by Matthew, the first child born t...
No One Ever Quits: Black Heart by Holly Black
Black Heart, the third and final novel in Holly Black’s “The Curse Workers” series, picks up with Cassel Sharpe where the second book (Red Glove) left off: he’s playing several long games, trying to stay one step ahead of the teeth nipping at h...
Balancing Act: Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear’s newest novel, Range of Ghosts, begins the Eternal Sky trilogy, set in a world inspired by 12-13th century Central Asia (also featured in her 2010 novella Bone and Jewel Creatures). The book follows a set of exiles and outcasts from d...
