Tag Archives: speculative romance

Cora’s Adventures at Flights of Foundry, the Obligatory 2021 Birthday Post and Some Other News

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Cora

Life has been busy this last week, so here is an overview post about several of the things that happened in the meantime. As you may recall, I took part in the virtual 2021 Flights of Foundry convention last weekend. … Continue reading →

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Cora Goes to Flights of Foundry

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Cora

I promise you that the detailed analysis of the 2021 Hugo finalists is coming, but for now I want to focus on a completely different convention. Because this weekend, April 17 and 18, 2021, I will be at Flights of … Continue reading →

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Cora goes to WorldCon 77 in Dublin, Ireland, and TitanCon in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Cora

This week, I’m off to Ireland for WorldCon 77 in Dublin and TitanCon, the 2019 EuroCon in Belfast the weekend after. I’ll be leaving early on Tuesday morning and am really looking forward to the experience. I’m particularly excited to … Continue reading →

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Mixed updates and more on hard SF and messy emotions

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Cora

First of all, I’ve been interviewed by British crime fiction writer J.T. Baptiste for the 12 days of crime series on her blog. We talk about writing, reading, favourite characters, Edgar Wallace movies and Dr. Mabuse, who is one of … Continue reading →

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Bloody Valentine Sale at DriveThruFiction

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Cora

The good folks over at DriveThruFiction are running a Bloody Valentine sale this weekend and offer 25% off e-books that fall under the “dark romance” umbrella. Lots of good stories on offer, including a couple of mine.

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Time Travel and Gender

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Cora

Back in July, Anna Smith asked at The Guardian “Why can’t women time travel?” and laments that mainstream time travel movies almost always feature male protagonists. My initial reaction to that article was: But women do time travel. There are … Continue reading →

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More Responses to Paul Cook

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Cora

The uproar sparked by Paul Cook’s badly argued post at Amazing Stories is happily chugging along, so here are the latest reactions. First of all, Steve Davidson, editor of Amazing Stories, has issued an apology of sorts for shutting down … Continue reading →

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“Get your girly stuff out of my SF, for SF should be sciency, manly and hard”

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Cora

At Amazing Stories, Paul Cook rants about SF which is – at least in Paul Cook’s opinion – not SF. This includes such luminaries of the genre as Gene Wolfe (just Arthurian fantasy), Lois McMaster Bujold (romance – ick), Sharon … Continue reading →

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Return of the Girl Cooties

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Cora

To be exact, they never really went away, because the multiple discussions about sexism and racism in SFF and what to do about it are still going on, which deserves another link round-up. Mostly, this one involves posts of note … Continue reading →

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Bride of the Girl Cooties

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Cora

Oh my God, the girl cooties are not just polluting SFF with their sheer femaleness, now they’re lesbian as well! It’s the end of the universe as we know it, I’m telling you. Anyway, the overlapping discussions about science fiction … Continue reading →

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