The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender (The James Tiptree Award Anthology series) (No. 3)
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... 1992. These stories can be found in her collection, Filter House ( Aqueduct Press ) which won the James Tiptree Jr Award in 2008. Visit her on the web at her livejournal, Nisi-la . (At the author’s request, comments are not activated.) Good Boy by Nisi Shawl “As out of several hundreds of thousands of the substrate programs comes an adaptable changing set of thousands of metaprograms,...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... 1992. These stories can be found in her collection, Filter House ( Aqueduct Press ) which won the James Tiptree Jr Award in 2008. Visit her on the web at her livejournal, Nisi-la . (At the author’s request, comments are not activated.) Bird Day by Nisi Shawl We sat in a circle on the side of the street. Some of us had lawn chairs, or folding chairs we’d brought out from our houses....
Biology in Science Fiction (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... life upon us, besides the more mechanical dooms . . . " ~"Beyond the Dead Reef" by James Tiptree, Jr. I have a guest post up at The Reef Tank: Ocean Denizens Strike Back . Go check it out ! I'll be writing a guest post there about once a month, so keep an eye out for my next post. Tags: science fiction , marine biology
Community Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... life upon us, besides the more mechanical dooms . . . " ~"Beyond the Dead Reef" by James Tiptree, Jr.
Visions of Paradise (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... The 1970s: Best Novel : Gateway / Frederik Pohl Best Short Fiction : The Girl Who Was Plugged In / James Tiptree Jr. Favorite Authors : Michael Bishop / C.J. Cherryh / George R.R. Martin / Robert Silverberg / John Varley The 1980s: Best Novel : No Enemy But Time / Michael Bishop Best Short Fiction : Her Habiline Husband / Michael Bishop Favorite Authors : Michael Bishop / Marion Zimmer...
frankwu (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
First off, anyone reading this going to Philcon? Second off, I'm on a panel at Philcon about aliens. What do you, o great lj overmind, think are the "most plausible" aliens in SF (as in hard SF)? Or, failing most "plausible," how about... most interesting? I'd like to nominate: The Swarm in "Swarm" by Bruce Sterling The insectoid creatures in "Love Is the Plan - The...
Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Nisi Shawl will be reading tonight at 7 p.m. at the Elliot Bay Book Company. Here's the info given on the store's website: Co-presented with the CENTRAL DISTRICT FORUM FOR ARTS & IDEAS. Seattle fiction writer, critic, writing teacher (and former bookseller) Nisi Shawl has recently added one more 'distinction' to her long list of accomplishments: 2008 James Tiptree Jr. Award winner...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... Elliott Bay Book Company. Shawl is a local author, book critic, and winner of the very worthwhile James Tiptree Jr. Award . Filter House is her new collection of stories. She plays with ideas of gender and sexuality in her sci-fi , which is something that usually gets swept under the rug to make way for big-breasted slave girls and manly space captains. That would be the reading of...
Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... you always wanted to know about women in fandom, women in publishing, women as writers: why "James Tiptree Jr" was thrown out of the legendary Khatru symposium on gender; what really happened in the ancient UK scandal of "Femizine," the "all female" fanzine that wasn't. . . with the added value that the snippets of tasty vintage gossip are woven into...
From the Dust Returned (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Screwfly Solution is an adaptation of a short story by by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon's male pen name), directed by Joe Dante ( Gremlins ). The concept behind this episode is one of the more intriguing in the entire Masters of Horror series, but this hour length treatment really doesn't do it quite enough justice. ***SPOILERS REGARDLESS OF GENDER*** A virus has spread across...
