( Trigger warning for Hugo Schwyzer )

Okay, so I'm feeling burned out due to political events and completely inadequate as a graduate student. But at least I have this: 3 planets in the Gliese system could possibly support life!

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I've started reading Still Forms on Foxfield, a short-by-today's-standards science fiction novel by Joan Slonczewski that published in 1980. I'm posting about it partly because it's just a really interesting book and as a follow-up to my earlier post about how I'd like to see more nerdy feminist discussion about science fiction and fantasy books ( Read more... )

I'm so excited I could scream! I wrote a proposal in April, and I just got the news this morning that I'm getting 75% of the funding I requested. It's not a huge amount, but this is the first time I've written a proposal for a specific project all by myself and succeeded in getting it funded. I feel like a little kid who won a prize. XD

This ( Read more... )

Having just put down yet another urban fantasy in which the main character hates every other woman in the universe, but that's okay because they all turn out to be meeeeeean to her eventually, I think I've finally figured out a decent in-universe explanation for why Sso many UF heroines meet with so much hostility from the rest of the female cast ( Read more... )

There's meme/challenge/whatever for writing a short description of your OTP that makes it sound as bad as possible. Now that I've started, I can't stop ( Read more... )

I'm at a really weird place in my life right now. My career is moving forward, and I feel more mentally healthy and stable than ever before, but I'm not making friends in my new town (is it still new by the end of my second semester?) as easily as I did last time around. So I could really go for some nerd bonding, even if it's only online, just ( Read more... )

I am becoming increasingly dismayed by the amount of cultural space taken up by A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, especially in what I'll call, for lack of a better term, nerd feminist discourse. This isn't just another "I'm tired of popular thing I don't like" complaint. Wherever I go to read women's thoughts about the fantasy genre or ( Read more... )

Has anyone else heard of Laura Mixon before? I've just started one of her books. I'm not very far along, but I'm enjoying it so far. She wrote a bunch of science fiction novels, at least one of which was well-regarded by the Big Names when it came out. I accidentally started with the sequel to that novel because I didn't know any better, having ( Read more... )

I'm having a huge amount of anxiety about what I'm doing as a graduate student today. I feel like I should post about fun fandom things to help myself feel better, but the anxiety birds won't stop squawking at me. Or I should post about serious political issues, but so much as looking at a serious political issue tonight feels like looking into a ( Read more... )