The editor of SFWA's bulletin resigns over sexist articles

Many Moons

The current reading stack.

The current reading stack.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody that reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history.
Iain Banks

Iain Banks: I have cancer, current novel will be my last

“I have cancer.  It started in my gall bladder, has infected both lobes of my liver and probably also my pancreas and some lymph nodes, plus one tumour is massed around a group of major blood vessels in the same volume, effectively ruling out any chance of surgery to remove the tumours either in the short or long term. The bottom line, now, I’m afraid, is that as a late stage gall bladder cancer patient, I’m expected to live for ‘several months’ and it’s extremely unlikely I’ll live beyond a year.  So it looks like my latest novel, The Quarry, will be my last.”

Comic shop drops Orson Scott Card over author’s opposition to gay marriage

“We don’t need anti-gay being thrown into reasons why comics shouldn’t be taken seriously,” said Comic Shoppe customer Alex Locke as he waited to buy new issues. “I’m glad you guys aren’t carrying it,” he told the cashier.”

DC Comics Stands By Their Bigot

Wonder Woman became a hero for girls, largely because she was the only real female superhero for decades, but that wasn’t her creator’s original intent. William Moulton Marston was a unique feminist who thought that women were superior to men. Men were aggressive and cruel, while women were peaceful and kind, and so he thought that women should be in charge. In fact, he thought that women WOULD be in charge. To Marston, female rule was inevitable. Girls didn’t need a hero, because they were well on their way to becoming heroes themselves. Boys needed a female hero to prepare them for the coming rise of women.
Wonder Woman & Beyonce

Racist Things Steampunks Are Not Immune To

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age—the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night—are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.
Preface, Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

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“I guess at the core of it, it’s about different ways that people deal with hard times, and the different ways that economic downturns affect people who live at the margins, who are disempowered, and how they make use of those situations or how they deal with those situations.”

“I guess at the core of it, it’s about different ways that people deal with hard times, and the different ways that economic downturns affect people who live at the margins, who are disempowered, and how they make use of those situations or how they deal with those situations.”

So long, Fringe. It was a beautiful story.

So long, Fringe. It was a beautiful story.