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One of the better things I’ve discovered in recent weeks is the John Boswell-headed project, “Symphony of Science.” The idea is to “deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form.” In practice, there are s...
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A Twitter question and conversation involving Holly Black, among others, got me thinking about non-traditional relationships in speculative fiction. While I’m seeing more and more queer characters and couples in SFF, there’s still a dear...
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While the pop culture push has shifted toward zombies recently, for a while there, it was all about vampires. In fact, I was thoroughly vampired out. They may be one of my favorite mythical/supernatural creatures but there’s only so much one c...
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A recent announcement from Dark Horse, followed by a joint statement from Dark Horse and IDW, confirms that the spin-off comic series Angel will be returning to Dark Horse’s 2011 line-up. It appears that the storylines will intersect as Buffy ...
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“A Good Time to Be Careful” by Kathleen LolleyThere are many things I love about living in Kentucky and my home-city of Louisville. (While you may think that all of Kentucky is Appalachia, I assure you, it is not so, though an ...
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Urban fantasy is a genre that welcomes strong, capable women who hold their own against all manner of supernatural bad-ness. However, almost every single one of these female leads is straight as an arrow—which isn’t necessarily a bad thi...
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As I occasionally forget things, the presenting of the Eisner Awards on the 23rd of July sort of slipped by me: I read the list, nodded my satisfaction, and failed to post it amongst all the other Comic-Con coverage. But I am here now, and so is the...
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One of the things this series of posts has dealt with in the past is how hard it can be sometimes to find queer speculative fiction, especially when the big presses seem to actively avoid “outing” their books in flap copy. The endless se...
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Third in a series of anthologies that have been building steam since their first release in 2008, Wilde Stories 2010 seeks to provide, as it says on the front, “the year’s best gay speculative fiction.” That first collection (2008)...
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Elizabeth Bear is a Hugo-winning author whose books regularly deal with questions of gender, sexuality and identity. Her first novel was published in 2005 and she has since received awards ranging from the John W. Campbell for Best New Writer to the...
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