Tag Archives: urban fantasy

Predictable Urban Fantasy Bashing – the female edition

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Cora

In the SFF community, the neverending genre versus literary debate has given way to the equally persistent but not quite so enduring slugfest of “Let’s all bash urban fantasy, because it has relationships and – gasp – sex and is … Continue reading →

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Good Friday Linkdump

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Cora

The Easter weekend is almost upon us and I am busy with other stuff, so here’s a linkdump: At Grasping for the Wind, urban fantasy writer J.A. Pitts discusses the necessity of (metaphorical) blindness for writers in order to get … 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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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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Leipzig Book Fair interviews, sexualized urban fantasy heroines, lost exchange students, blogs and e-book prices – yes, it’s a linkdump

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Cora

Since I’ve been busy building up the Buhlert Web Empire and lending some moral support to a relative in a difficult situation, today’s post is a linkdump. But then, the Internet has been serving up some very tasty links of … Continue reading →

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And now for that other controversial subject

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Cora

The whole nihilist fantasy debate is still driving a lot of traffic to the site. Yesterday, I had 60 visitors, down from an all-time high of 85 the day before. Today, there have been already 17 visitors. Related to the … Continue reading →

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A Hustle moment and some links

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Cora

At school today, I was practicing asking for and giving directions with the kids. First we used a practice map of a made-up town stuffed full with all sorts of interesting places to go and then the London tube map. … Continue reading →

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