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The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes: part agreement about Gaimen not seeming as cool as he used to, part disagreement about the finer points
Contributing to the Conversation: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology Kickstarter
You Can Look Forward to Playing a Workplace Version of the Hunger Games
The Angry Underground World of Failed Pickup Artists
Ginny Weasley: The Exceptional Woman
More London, in Brief!: should really go to Kensington...
Narnia: Susan, Problems of
Brave New Worlds – Of Alignment, Ethics and Morality<
12 Ways to Motivate Reluctant Readers
Better Than Renting Out A Windowless Room: The Blessed Distraction Of Technology: The Internet is not to blame for your unfinished novel: you are.
White Privilege
David Brin on the Need to Restore Optimism to Science Fiction: kind of interesting, kind of patronizing, weighed down with false equivalence, and generally irritating as hell
"For my piece on how publishers are responding to digital, I spoke to gentleman publisher Scott Pack of HarperCollins/The Friday Project.": Interesting enough, but the CRAZY! NEW! OPTIONS!! being discussed seem on the level of Storyspace. Jay David Bolter called, he wants his panting enthusiasm for limited old tech back.
Enjoy Orientalism-Lite with 'Stranger Magic'
Downton Abbey is the Edwardian Battlestar Galactica
KATE ZAMBRENO's well-written blog