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It’s banned books week, but apparently good articles on it also banned, because I got nothing. Instead you can see who won the Emmy’s, and then use the beautiful voice of Neil Patrick Harris to calm down from your rage over the rejection of speculation fiction shows. Read more »
The web is still recovering from the scandals of last week, but there’s lots of fun to be had: witness the existence of successful female action leads, hide the bodies when your roleplayers aren’t looking, experience the world from the eyes of an insect, and make a Spock for your Kirk. Once your Kirk has a Spock, you can write a love scene for them. Read more »
The interwebs are full of cultural conflict this week. From a dickwolves comment by PAX leadership to DC’s continuing scandals to a sexist story in Amazing Stores, everyone’s talking about gender in speculative fiction. Read more »
This week we see how far women have come in science fiction – and how much farther they still have to go. We learn why steel is folded to make swords and what it would take to travel to another universe. Then we question whether our characters belong in our story. Read more »
This week we have dystopian scifi tech that isn’t really dystopian, a roleplaying system for kids, and mythbusting for scifi publishing. Yes, and cats. They’re in the culture section. Read more »
This week there’s a delightful 13 minute film about fantasy and roleplaying, an article on what Finding Nemo would be like with real science, and lessons for creating villains and magnificent bastards. Read more »
If you haven’t already been assaulted by ads, its Geek Week on Youtube; Geek Smash has a roundup. Everyone else got nerdy about using your words. Except the roleplayers; they declined to use any words. Blame Gen Con Read more »
Part 3 of Anita’s series on tropes is out, highly recommended. We also have lots of real-world science this week to inspire your political thrillers, terrifying aliens, and future utopias. P.S. to Charlie Jane Anders: please stop writing so many good articles. Read more »
This week there’s several good pieces on characters and character dialog, a response to the “fake geek” concept, ways to refresh yourself and liven up your writing or roleplaying, and a stunning compilation of epic clips from spec fic movies. Read more »