As a writer, you may write colorblind. You may pull out all the color and race and cultural tags for every single one of your characters, and thereby prove that they could be of any race! Sure. Let’s go with that. Nobody in your book has a skin color, or any sort of physical description […]
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You can now pick up a cheap copy of Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer on bookstore shelves. I did not lust after this book with ravenous passion of a bel dame, but I did enjoy much of what he did with it. My review/rant is here. Please support Series Fantasy That Doesn’t Suck.
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As I’ve been reading a recent SF title, it’s gotten me to think about what it is that makes fiction really great for me. Some of this I covered before when reviewing some of VanderMeer’s work, and the same issue is hitting me again with this book, only in the opposite way. See, so
Things are good-crazy, but that means there’s a lot of work to do, and man, sometimes it makes my brain hurt.
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pg 105 “All ten of us were women, Jamar. We gave up our wombs and in return were fitted with quantum computers running intrusion devices that can overpower lamina and make it extensions of our minds. It would be like being one with your ship, but anywhere. Your mind replicates, copying itself endlessly until you
When sharing music becomes foreplay, you know you have something beautiful.He knows to keep an eye on my hands, as the length of my finger nails is in direct proportion to how content I am with my life.You never wrote back, and today I stopped expecting you to.Night after night I stare at my phone
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One of the best fan rants ever: Maybe I’ll put it like this. To be a Star Wars fan, one must possess the ability to see a million different failures and downfalls, and then somehow assemble them into a greater picture of perfection. Every true Star Wars fan is a Luke Skywalker, looking at his
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From here. Real or not, I’m still waiting for a day when this is a given, not a privilege or an employer’s recruitment bargaining chip.
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