Over at TOR.COM, Brit Mandelo suggests Where to Start with the Works of James Tiptree, Jr. Alice B. Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.) So, where do you start if you want…
At Tor.com, Kate Elliott talks about how to create believable female characters. There is an “easy” answer to this. Write all characters as human beings in all their glorious complexity…
…and provocative; plus, the linking factor is their complex engagement with gender, so naturally I tend to find them compelling. Read the rest of Mandelo’s fascinating insights about The James…
Daryl Gregory, author of the acclaimed We Are All Completely Fine, recently participated in Tor.com’s irreverent interview series The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe. If you regenerated…
…recurrent comments from a certain surprisingly flammable Waterloo-region reviewer. He complains about the erasure from SF memory of women writing SF back in the 1970s—but has that reviewer ever bother…
The fine folks over Tor.com are giving away three copies of James Morrow’s The Madonna and the Starship. Visit Tor.com for details. Only Uncle Wonder can save us from the…
…spend some time with it — reading it online wasn’t the same at all. I hadn’t read the play, either, ‘Three Shouts on a Hill’; entertaining stuff. My favourite of…
…Lydia to actually happen. Nevertheless. . . GNOMEQUEEN-TONKATOYLEGS showcases Ricardo de Avila and THE IMMORTAL CONQUISTADOR in their series of favorite fictional vampires. https://gnomequeen-tonkatoylegs.tumblr.com/post/627432709270192128/favourite-fictional-vampires-ricardo-de-avila At TOR.COM, Vaughn shares what she…
The fine folks at TOR.COM want to send you copies of Jane Yolen’s THE EMERALD CIRCUS, Peter S. Beagle’s THE OVERNEATH, and Jo Walton’s STARLINGS. Visit TOR.COM for all the…
…in “Searches beyond Google’s capabilities.” I can remember my own mother coming into my room in our suburban Pittsburgh home in the mid-1980s with a copy of “The Hobbit” in…