In this month’s column, we apply our thought experiment to the arena of sports and athletic events, and consider what such competitions might look like in a world free of the complications of human sex. If sports games are not a direct allegory for sexual conquest, they at least echo it. The aggressive, competitive, and […]
Today, there are more ways than ever to get your fiction fix. Novels, musicals, comic books, movies, television shows, and video games have all dabbled in the realms of the strange and other worldly. They each have their own avid fans, claiming that their medium of choice is the best. Complicating the matter even more […]
Despite all the eating and shopping and general merrymaking of the week, it’s been business as usual here on the blog. Here’s what went down: On Sunday, our very own blog manager Anna O’Brien spent the weekend celebrating Margaret Atwood’s birthday; On Monday, Calee Jordan admitted her addiction to fairy tale retellings in her column […]
The term has been coined and codified for years. In fact, many of you reading this likely already have an idea of this character in your head—the ass kicking archetype with a mouth to make a longshoreman blush. The Sarah Conner and Ellen Ripley types (both of which I love). A simple Google search of […]
Pardon my grogginess (and possible rambling), but I just finished a bender, no, a binge. Two actually. In recent weeks, I plowed through Marisa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, then Chanda Hahn’s Unfortunate Fairy Tales, with more fever than I expected to muster for fairy tales. I’m not much of a fairy tale person since reading them […]
Dear readers! Here’s what appeared on our blog this past week: On Monday, Erin Wagner introduced us to the newest Ms. Marvel series in her column “A Woman Was Here”; On Tuesday, we shared the first of two Issue 035 author interviews, the first one with Rose Strickman where we talked about her story “The […]
Does an overtly racist writer deserve the energy it takes to write about them? I’m not sure. However, Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, based on Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, obliged me to read him. Turns out, her interest in Lovecraft is timely, so this month, I’ll focus on Lovecraft, and next […]
I sat down at my laptop to write about women authors. Then I found a foremother lurking in the background. Like most of my contemporaries, I cut my speculative teeth on male authors. I still feel grateful to Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick (“Mountains, Bruce, mountains…”) for making me feel perhaps the world was […]
The first issue of Marvel’s acclaimed new Ms. Marvel comic series is entitled Metamorphosis. And it’s appropriate—both to the ever-changing Kamala Khan (our new Ms. Marvel) and to the role of the series in changing and revamping Marvel’s brand as a more inclusive and gender-diffuse representation of the superhero landscape. (Though this transformation is far […]
Readers! Glorious, dear readers! What a week it has been. If you’ve missed a post or two from the ol’ blog, no worries. That’s what this wrap-up is for. Read on for a quick list of this week’s posts. On Monday, we posted our monthly LSQ News Flash; On Tuesday, it was time for another […]
