Tag Archives: genre wank

A Game of Thrones from a non-genre POV

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Cora

Heather Havrilesky offers an interesting review of the TV adaption of George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones at the New York Times. Apparently, this particular article is not behind that noxious paywall, though another review of the same show … Continue reading →

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Epic and Urban Fantasy Linkdump

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Cora

Lots of people are thinking about epic fantasy, urban fantasy, gender and what makes a genre at the moment. And since I’m too tired to write something myself, here is a linkdump:

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More plagiarism allegations and more epic fantasy debates – yes, it’s one of those days

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Cora

Today was the last day of school, which means two weeks of Easter/spring holidays. In theory, the holidays only start on Friday, but my Wednesday class is currently doing work experience internships and Thursday is Future Day, which is the … Continue reading →

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Gender and the shifting definitions of epic and urban fantasy

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Cora

The hot topic of the moment certainly seems to be the differences (and commonalities) between male and female written speculative fiction.

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Speculative fiction, gender, taste and why “the domestic and mushy stuff” is important

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Cora

The debate over gender imbalances in speculative fiction reviewing rages on across the internet with several interesting posts. There are some links as well as lengthy ruminations by me behind the cut.

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Time Management for Translators and Jack of All Genre Links

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Cora

Today is another linkdump day, because I spent the evening at the monthly translators’ meet-up and also have two bigger translation jobs going on at the same time. Until yesterday I had three, but I got one of those translations … Continue reading →

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Gender Balance in Speculative Fiction – and a farewell to Mother Drombusch

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Cora

Apparently, the hot topic du jour is gender balance or rather imbalance in speculative fiction, inspired by this Strange Horizons post about gender imbalance in reviews of speculative fiction. Sherwood Smith, Kari Sperring and Juliet E. McKenna all weigh in. … Continue reading →

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Fantasy, Escapism and Truth

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Cora

It seems that after the nihilism in fantasy debate, we are now having the truth in fantasy debate, for Mark Charan Newton offers this post on fantasy, escapism and truth in response to the Guardian article by Damien G. Walter. … Continue reading →

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Let us now kick someone else’s genre

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Cora

Yes, it’s definitely that time of year again, at least in the UK. Yesterday, we had Stephen Hunt complaining about anti-speculative fiction bias on The Culture Show and today we have M. John Harrison complaining about an admittedly stupid Guardian … Continue reading →

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Deadly car crashes, the neverending death match of genre versus literary fiction, some e-books and some sex

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Cora

It’s that time of the year (or month?) again. The great literary vs. genre fiction death match enters round 316. This time around the initiating event was a BBC program entitled The books we really read, broadcast in honour of … Continue reading →

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