photo by Jerry Bauer
Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 12:35PM My 1994 story "All Rights," a tale of midlist writers, agents, and alternative realities, is now available for Kindles and other e-readers as part of Wildside Press's Fifth Science Fiction Megapack--twenty-five stories by such masters as Allen Steele, Jay Lake, Carol Emshwiller, Avram Davidson, Cory Doctorow, Frederik Pohl, George Zebrowski, and more at only 99 cents for the whole anthology. Such a deal!
Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 11:11AM Mormon feminist Judy Dushku and atheist Susan Jacoby would seem to have little in common. But both women point out that in the ranks of both believers and skeptics, it's still men who speak for the group and largely control its discussion and practices. Joanna Brooks interviews Judy Dushku here, while Susan Jacoby writes about the underrepresentation of women among secularists here.
Friday, September 14, 2012 at 11:56AM I will be at Albacon 2012 on October 18-21 in Albany, New York and at the YALSA Young Adult Literature Symposium on November 2-4 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Friday, September 7, 2012 at 12:22PM Shulamith Firestone was ahead of her time in 1970, when she published The Dialectic of Sex, and as we're forced to fight political battles in the U.S. over issues that should have been settled long ago (I mean, contraception? Give me a break!), she seems even more revolutionary. The New York Times has an obituary of her here (marred as other Times obituaries are by the obit writer's apparent need to include a small swipe at the departed), and George Dvorsky discusses her influence on feminist sf at io9.com, while Julie Bindel's remembrance in the Guardian reminds us of both Firestone's radicalism and her increasing and ultimately tragic isolation.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 01:21PM Not the winners--you can find out about them here--but how the ceremony turned into a real-life sf story.