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Copter Crash: Isabel Fall and the Transgender SF Debate

January 20, 2020

On New Year’s Day, the latest issue of the digital science fiction magazine Clarkesworld went live. The line-up included a mixture of established talents and new names; in the latter category was Isabel Fall, who contributed a story entitled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter.” ...

Bookmarked, Essays

Remembering Charlee Jacob: This Symbiotic Fascination

January 14, 2020

Having spent years charting a landscape of atrocity, degradation and twisted ecstasy across her short fiction, as discussed in the previous post in this series, Charlee Jacob made her debut as a novelist in 1997 with This Symbiotic Fascination. This novel tells the story of two employees at an ...

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The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 12: One More Decade

December 31, 2019

Two centuries ago, Dr. John Polidori’s story “The Vampyre” was published, and vampire literature was born. The Vampyre’s Legacy series has charted the evolution of the genre over two hundred years, taking one story from each decade to use as a case study. But the most recent decade ...

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Remembering Charlee Jacob: Dark as Ever

December 26, 2019

“I want to be the woman in red,” says Grace to her tattooist. It is the latest step in her journey of transformation. Grace has tried dressing in red, adorning herself with an array of sanguine garments: “Rustling scarlet taffeta. Crimson velvet as thick and soft as bat flesh. Wine colored ...

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A Tarnished Legacy: The End of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress

December 24, 2019

Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress, the once-influential anthology series that was founded in 1984, saw its thirty-fourth and final instalment this year. The series managed to survive a number of significant setbacks: one was the death of original editor Marion Zimmer Bradley in 1999; ...

Bookmarked, Interviews

Tres Dean: Professional Liker of The Rock

December 20, 2019

Tres Dean is a writer whose words can be found at GQ, Paste, Syfy, Geek.com, IGN, and more. He writes about shoes, geeky things, pop culture, and now he’s writing about The Rock in his very first book. For Your Consideration: The Rock from Quirk Books is a collection of essays exploring ...

Bookmarked, Reviews, Television and Film

Orphan Black: The Next Chapter Brings Back Our Clone Club Faves

December 17, 2019

A thrilling, if not entirely fulfilling, addition to the canon of the show, Orphan Black: The Next Chapter succeeds on an emotional level while adding a lot of — perhaps too many? — layers to the scientific conspiracies that led us here.

Bookmarked, Con Diaries, Events

A Book Fair for Grownups from Penguin Random House

December 10, 2019

In Midtown Manhattan last month, the publisher Penguin Random House hosted a Book Fair for Grownups. Themed loosely on the elementary school book fairs many of us may remember from our childhood, the event was a little bit like returning to childhood, but also had a club atmosphere with a line ...

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Discovering We Ride Upon Sticks at the NYCC Book Club

December 3, 2019

New York Comic Con boasts several events every year, ranging from panels of superstars to custom sketches by beloved artists, to themed “experiences.” This year, it also included a series of NYCC book club meetings featuring a range of different upcoming books to be published by Penguin Random ...

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The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 11: Urban Fantasies

November 28, 2019

The period following the publication of Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire saw vampire fiction entrench itself not as a subgenre of horror, but as a substantial body of fiction in its own right. Author David J. Schow would look back on this state of affairs in his 2018 collection DJStories: ...

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Copter Crash: Isabel Fall and the Transgender SF Debate

Remembering Charlee Jacob: This Symbiotic Fascination

The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 12: One More Decade

Remembering Charlee Jacob: Dark as Ever

A Tarnished Legacy: The End of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress

Tres Dean: Professional Liker of The Rock

Orphan Black: The Next Chapter Brings Back Our Clone Club Faves

A Book Fair for Grownups from Penguin Random House

Discovering We Ride Upon Sticks at the NYCC Book Club

The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 11: Urban Fantasies

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