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On reading Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993) was one of the four books I vowed to read in 2010. It took me quite a while to get to it. I started it more than a month ago, but discovered that I...
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Writing about race in speculative fiction
Ever since I blogged about the casting of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, I’ve been thinking about a broader question: How exactly should one write about race in a novel of speculative fiction that is...
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This is what YA sci-fi looks like
Since my next novel is science fiction, I’ve been really interested in what young adult science fiction covers look like these days. So I started skimming through publishers’ catalogs for Fall 2011 and...
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Over the last month, I was involved in an email-facilitated roundtable discussion about the state of young adult science fiction. Hosted by Charles Tan, the roundtable includes comments from Australian...
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Recommended Read: Daughters of the North
Daughters of the North (originally published in the U.K. in 2008 as The Carhullan Army) by Sarah Hall is a striking, vividly written novel about a dystopian future England, in which women are forcibly...
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Free Book Friday: DIVERSE ENERGIES
Hellooo readers! This year I’ve decided to add something new to my blog: Free Book Friday. Like many authors, I’m privileged enough to get advanced review copies of some upcoming books, and sometimes I...
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On Space Opera: Why so many brothels in space?
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey Recently I read Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey, which bills itself as a good old-fashioned space opera. I picked it up after a recommendation from Laini Taylor...
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The underground city of the future in “Good Girl”
Last fall, the anthology Diverse Energies, edited by Tobias Buckell and Joe Monti, included my short story “Good Girl.” I recently learned that Diverse Energies has been selected as a Bank Street...
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LGBT Young Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy in 2013
It’s often been hard to find YA science fiction and fantasy with LGBT characters, but this year there’s been something of an explosion of SF/F with LGBT characters. By “explosion” I mean I’ve found 10...
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