I did it again. I let Pinterest steal more than a half hour of my precious time away. It started out innocently enough. I opened the app – I’m not sure exactly why. Nothing else special was happening at the moment, or I was bored, or I was procrastinating from something I should have been […]
Feminist superhero movies were, until very recently, like unicorns: they didn’t exist. The vast majority of women who have a significant amount of screen time in superhero movies are restricted to love interests whose lives revolve around the hero. What few female heroes do show up usually meet the same fate and/or die (see: Black […]
Did you enjoy the Buck Moon and lunar eclipse last night? Such a treat! If you missed it, or any of our posts this week, have no fear! We have a recap just for you, dear readers: On Monday, Rebecca Buchanan deliberated her opinion on The Metaphysical Detective; On Tuesday, Suz Thackston recounted her otherworldly experience with the […]
These days, girl power is ruling the market for children’s literature—and given the current sociopolitical climate, it’s not hard to see why. Between the legacy of the Women’s March (which has itself been the subject of a picture book) and the ongoing discomfort and uncertainty that comes with being a woman in Trump’s America, it’s […]
When you hear the words “science fiction”, you may get a very particular image in your head, whether it be the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, a strange, alien planet, or the vast, starry void of space. Science fiction has very strong visual and aesthetic elements, many of which have influenced real-life design and architecture. There […]
Artemis turned me into a rabbit once. It was a moonlit summer night, humid and sweet with honeysuckle and multiflora rose, lit with lazy runes written by fireflies across the dark treeline. I was sitting in the orchard thinking about Artemis, as it was one of her festival days. Contemplating the dichotomy of a goddess […]
Dearest readers and fans of speculative fiction: we are pleased to present to you our weekly rendition of the blog overview. So please sit back, meander through our posts, and relax! On Monday, Beth McCabe sung the praises of used book stores in the second part of a series from her monthly column “Breakfast Anytime”; […]
Warning: Spoilers will follow. Can I contract swimmer’s ear from headsets? For the last month, I’ve worn headsets everywhere—in the yard, when I have a spare moment at work, in the tub, in the car (well, the headset covers only one ear then). I’m so addicted to my current set of audio books that my […]
Lately, I’ve been writing and reading realistic stories with a hint of guilt. Why guilt, you may ask? Because I’ve been a staunch defender of the literary merit of fantasy, sci-fi, and magic realism, and because my turn to realism in middle age is accompanied by a bit of skepticism about the paranormal and a […]
In her October 2014 blog post, “The Inner Child and the Nude Politician,” as published in No Time to Spare (2017), Ursula K. Le Guin had this to say about the Inner Child and the idea that a truly creative person is someone deliberately refusing to grow up: “It seems to me the Super-Perceptive Child […]
