October 2014

womenSFF
Why It Matters

The November/December 2014 issue of F&SF contains fiction by men and men alone. I brought this up on Twitter. According to Tangent Online: The issue reacts to Internet intolerance of difference by gathering what the editor describes as “stories that deal with touchy themes or go beyond the bounds of Political Correctness.” In other words, […]

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books
A Map to the Fairy Lands

When preparing to embark upon a journey through fairy woods and lakes, it's important to remember who you are and where you are going. One little distraction can lead you astray, and what then? What should you do when you encounter the fairy hordes? (Running and screaming might effective, but then again they may just […]

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gaming
ArcheAge

ArcheAge is my first MMO, which strikes me as very strange, but it's true! A friend talked it up enough that I was eager to check it out, and the early verdict is "I'm addicted, but!" We're not going to debate paying players versus F2P (I'm F2P right now, fyi); we're not going to debate […]

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watermark
Fairy Tracks

One of the most important things any author does is make a playlist. It must be second only to making a Pinboard (though back in MY day when we walked up hill to school both ways in the snow and fought the fairy hordes, we glued magazine photos in composition notebooks)... A playlist is one […]

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