by Brenda W. Clough This post first ran in Mary Robinette Kowal’s “My Favorite Bit” blog. Content Warning: description of genital mutilation as outdated medical procedure A MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN is solidly set in the mid-Victorian period, an era full … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Nancy Jane Moore has joined the website Curious Fictions, where authors. publish reprints of short fiction. Her first story is now up: “Quiz,” which first appeared in her BVC collection of very short stories, Flashes of Illumination. She plans to … Continue reading
I have a picture library. Right now it’s bulging at 77,000 pictures. This is because I need to do some editing. It ought to be about 75,000 pictures. I say this firmly, knowing I’m unlikely to find editing time in … Continue reading
This post first appeared at Book Smugglers. You could argue that serialized fiction has no place in today’s literary universe. This is the era of instant gratification. Drones deliver pizzas to your door. You can download movies in one minute, … Continue reading
Thor and I are wrapping up our Greek island hopping, now on Naxos for more setting research for THE ARIADNE CONNECTION sequel. Stay tuned for a new Greece blog series starting next Saturday! Meanwhile, the stunning, massive Portara on Naxos, … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Originally this was going to be a part of last week’s essay, but it turns out there’s so much to say about ghosts, it wouldn’t all fit. And corporeal undead … Continue reading
Douglas Rushkoff, whose work I usually like, recently published an essay in which he argues that the counter culture — by which he means the hippies, the feminists, the Civil Rights activists, the gay rights movement, and the left generally, … Continue reading
The Washington DC area has been having an SF convention, in one form or another, for a good 40 years or so. (Somebody with a precise number will come along and correct me, I know.) Some highly creative things have … Continue reading
On the face of it, setting up a Facebook event is brilliant. You do minimal work – just enter the info and maybe a photo or two, put together a guest list – and hit go. Facebook – ideally, in … Continue reading
Free theater is a more ancient tradition than paying for the show. The plays of Aeschylus and Euripides were staged by rich Athenians, as an offering to Dionysus and Apollo and for the glory of the polis. It was more … Continue reading