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Using spec-fic in the classroom
On the weekend, I attended a wonderful conference put on by the English Teacher's Association of WA. They had kindly asked me to present a session on using SF/F in the classroom. The session was very well attended, and people seemed to enjoy it. It was great to be able to spread the word about some of our wonderful Aussie and West Aussie authors. ( Read more... ) -
Our favourite female sf/f writers
(ETA) - found a mistake in my numbers and didn't notice Catherine Asaro won 2 Nebulas. so there is only 39 women who have won the Nebula! )
More number crunching - so I have done the list of all women who have won any pro fiction category in the Hugos andNebulas. Interesting comparison. Total women winners of Hugos- 21. Total women winners of ( Read more... ) -
women winners of hugo and nebula fiction awards
I was doing some research on women writers of SF and needed some info on how many women
had won Hugos and Nebulas. When i couldn't find anything recent, I pulled this together from Locus awards page:
Hugo / Nebula awards won by women (pro fiction categories only)
Hugo awards
Total wins by women in fiction: 46 (out of roughly 217 ( Read more... ) -
This one's for Fe
and of course, anyone else who hapens to be around. Fe totally shamed me by cooking those haloumi burgers i posted about back in ... April! And asked about other recipes. ahem.
Well, for various reasons (which i will try and post about straight after this) the cooking fairy has abandoned me - quite frankly we're lucky if anything happens beyond the ( Read more... )
