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More Christopher Priest versus the Clarke Award

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Cora

Yesterday’s post about the latest genre dust-up involving Christopher Priest’s very vocal criticism of this year’s Clarke Award shortlist has been linked by John Scalzi at Whatever, which has sent my stats shooting up since Scalzi gets as many visitors … Continue reading →

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German TV discovers Furries

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Cora

Tonight I watched Kulturjournal, a cultural program on the North German regional TV station NDR. And among the usual type of report found in this sort of program, presentation of a documentary about unhealthy food, the profile of a controversial … Continue reading →

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Yet More on the Review Uproar

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Cora

There is yet more on the current review controversy. So here is a whole lot of links on all sides of the issue:

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More on the Reviews Dust-up

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Cora

Yesterday’s post on genders and reviews got quite a bit of attention. So here are a couple of addenda to the Strange Horizons/A Theft of Swords part of the discussion:

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Gender and Review Bias – 2012 Edition

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Cora

Jennifer Weiner retackles the subject of major newspapers such as the New York Times ignoring women writers in their review sections, offering up plenty of data. There’s a shout-out to the New York Times‘s weirdly condescending portrait of Amanda Hocking … Continue reading →

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The e-book price wars, gendered toys and NASCAR hates breastfeeding

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Cora

Over at the Pegasus Pulp blog, I have a post entitled “2011 – Year of the Indie”. The subject should be rather obvious. Kristine Kathryn Rusch has an insightful post about the realities of the post Christmas e-book sales rush … Continue reading →

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Stormy December Linkdump

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Cora

At SF Signal, Daniel Abraham has written a letter from genre to mainstream. Quite amusing, even if it does read like a letter from a stalkerish ex-boyfriend. On a related note, at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books there is an interesting … Continue reading →

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The Enterprise versus the Space Nazis – 40 years late

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Cora

More than forty years after it originally aired in 1968, the Star Trek episode Patterns of Force a.k.a. the Space Nazi episode, has finally been broadcast on German TV this weekend.

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Salman Rushdie is being controversial again, the Booker Prize shortlist is too readable and a headline from a parallel universe

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Cora

In a lengthy interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz Salman Rushdie talked about a lot of things such as the fatwah against him, the persecution of writers worldwide, the Arab Spring, the upcoming film adaption of Midnight’s Children – oh … Continue reading →

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More on the GLBT YA issue

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Cora

There have been some new developments in the discussion about YA fiction with GLBT characters. In the past few days, there have been several great posts in response to Sherwood Smith’s and Rachel Manija Brown’s original post at Publisher Weekly‘s … Continue reading →

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