Why Do You Write?: Women of Vision, edited by Denise Du Pont
Women of Vision, edited by Denise Du Pont and published by St. Martin’s Press in 1988, is a collection of interviews with then-contemporary women writers of science fiction and fantasy, including such folks as Ursula K. Le Guin, Alice Sheldon, Suzy M...
Symphony of Science -– “The Greatest Show on Earth”
The next installment of the Symphony of Science, #13, has gone live! It’s called “The Greatest Show on Earth,” and is a song about evolution, DNA, and natural selection – among other things. It features Bill Nye, Richard Dawkins, and David Atte...
Watch Science Fiction Conversations with Nisi Shawl, Eileen Gunn, Le Guin & More
There’s nothing quite like stumbling upon something cool that had previously slipped under my radar — like a present from the past, really — and this time around, the discovery was the program Science Fiction Conversations. The show was hosted by...
Reading Joanna Russ: Extra(ordinary) People (1984), Part 2
Yesterday we discussed the first half of Extra(ordinary) People, Joanna Russ’s 1984 collection of short fiction. I left off at the end of one of my favorite stories, the very genderqueer tale “The Mystery of the Young Gentleman,” and the potentia...
Reading Joanna Russ: Extra(ordinary) People (1984), Part 1
This is the first of the “Reading Joanna Russ” posts that will be a two-parter. The first part will be up today, the second tomorrow.The next book in Russ’s oeuvre is the collection of short fiction Extra(ordinary) People, originally published in...
Do It While I Can Still Remember Things: The Annotated Sandman, Volume One
There have been several iterations of Neil Gaiman’s iconic graphic novel series, The Sandman, from the original single issue run to the collected trades to the luxurious Absolute editions—and now, though Gaiman had initially intimated that he would...
The Prometheus Trailer is Really Trying to Get Us Thinking Alien
Stubby the Rocket commented on the new, official Prometheus trailer when it was released, and noted the typographical hearkening to the initial Alien trailer. Clearly, Tor.com weren’t the only ones who noticed, as this fan-made “trailer” for Alie...
Transformations and Discoveries: New SFF Anthology Heiresses of Russ Debuts
The inaugural installment of a series of books that will be collecting the best lesbian speculative fiction of the previous year, Heiresses of Russ 2011 is Lethe Press’s newest offering, a sister to the much-loved (at least around these parts) Wilde ...
Papercrafts! A Cute, Fun Geeky Gift (or, for Yourself)
If you’re still looking for a cool gift to give this season (or next) that’s also cheap, look no further: Cubeecraft is a free paper-craft website with an awesomely large selection of pop culture crafts. There are more than 300 doll-crafts to choos...
A Study in Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes ed. by Joseph R. G. DeMarco
A Study in Lavender, edited by Joseph DeMarco, is a 2011 anthology from Lethe Press that features a variety of queer-themed stories set in the Sherlock Holmes canon(s); some are (obviously) about Holmes and Watson’s relationship, but others deal with...
Queering SFF: Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Generally in this series, the books I’ve looked at have come firmly out of the speculative tradition, and have been prose fiction—no dramas, only a few books that are figured more as queer lit than as spec-fic. I think it’s high time to remedy th...
Smash Your Opponents to the Tune of Acapella: The Video Game Music Choir’s /sing
The best musical thing I’ve stumbled upon recently is a group called the Video Game Music Choir, who perform adaptations of video game themes with great technical and vocal skill. (We all know I love this kind of thing; refer back to posts on adaptat...
