Category Archives: Books

Revenge of the Girl Cooties or Do we need a different writers organisation?

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Cora

Warning! Knowing what happened to other women who dared to have opinions, be warned that trollish comments will either be deleted with extreme prejudice or held up for ridicule. In the past few days, the ongoing discussion about women in … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 55 Comments

Interview with Writer Nathalie Hamidi a.k.a. Irma Geddon

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Cora

Today I welcome Nathalie Hamidi a.k.a. Poison Godiva a.k.a. Irma Geddon to my blog. Irma is a French writer of dark fantasy and has been nice enough to answer some questions for me. Hi Cora! Thanks for having me! ^^ … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Invasion of the Girl Cooties

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Cora

At The Story Hub, Stuart Sharp offers his opinion about the increased popularity of science fiction romance. If you assume that he is worrying about romance writers somehow sullying the sacred halls of the SF genre, you got it in … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Links | Tagged , , , , , , | 13 Comments

A Big Dump of Mixed Links

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Cora

Somebody found my blog today by googling “cora buhlert sexy pics”. Now I’m torn between wondering who would be looking for sexy pics of my little old self on the internet and what exactly they were hoping to find. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Comics, Film, Links, TV | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

New Entries into Old Conversations

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Cora

The science fiction and fantasy genres have the tendency to have the same conversations over and over again, often for decades on end. There is the classic genre versus literary fiction debate, which never goes out of style, the evergreen … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Writing | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

Eurovision revisited and more feminism and music links

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Cora

First of all, there is an addendum to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, for Thomas Schreiber, the guy in charge of entertainment at the public TV channel ARD and therefore ultimately responsible for the German entry to the Eurovision Song … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Links, TV | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Pentecost Monday Links with Bonus Maikäfer

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Cora

This year’s Nebula Awards have been handed out and my reactions are mixed. IMO the weakest book by far won in the best novel category – a pity because there were so many interesting nominees. But then Kim Stanley Robinson … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Links, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Football and other links of interest

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Cora

More photos coming tomorrow, but today I’m starting with a subject that rarely comes up in this blog, namely sports, more precisely football (or soccer to the Americans among you). But here in Bremen, this really is the biggest news … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Links, TV | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Mother’s Day Linkdump

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Cora

The 2013 Locus Awards finalists have been announced. Many good choices there, though the male dominance (four men and one woman) in the YA category is a bit depressing, especially since YA is heavily female dominated. But then, the four … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Links, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Latest on the Women in SFF Debate

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Cora

I’ve been busy with other things these past few days, but meanwhile this year’s women in SFF debate is still going on. But then when is it ever not? Still, here are the latest links: As part of the Fantasy … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Links | Tagged , , , , , , | 6 Comments