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Failure to Communicate (An Ongoing Problem)
Go Thou and Read Mary Gentle
Mass Effect and the Normalisation of the Woman Hero
Why Are Fantasy Films All About The Men?
Australian Author Karen Miller Answers Five Questions
Endurance and Persuasion – Traits of the Heroine?
The Smurfette Principle (We Can Do Better)
WE WUZ PUSHED. Lee Mandelo on Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling
As Above, So Below: Mary Gentle’s “Beggars in Satin” (1989) and “The Knot Garden” (1989)
Medley Time!
Sherwood Smith Answers Eight Questions
What Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover Stories Reveal About the History of Women in SFF
Sometimes There Are Men Who Get It Right
Cop-out Arguments
Michelle Sagara, AKA Michelle West, Answers Six Questions
Sarah Rees Brennan Answers Six Questions
An Exchange of Hostages
Is Atrocity Off-Limits or Fair Game?
Angel of Destruction
Religious Revelation and Social Upheaval
In the End it All Comes Down to Character
Homosexual Torturers, Immortal Rulers, and FTL Fighter-craft: R.M. Meluch’s The Queen’s Squadron
“Claymore”
R.M. Meluch’s Tour of the Merrimack Series
“He Left” or How About That War Then? R.M. Meluch’s Jerusalem Fire
Laura E. Reeve
So How About That For Boundary-Policing?
Recommend Some Things!
Anticipating the First Half of 2013
Kameron Hurley Answers Six Questions
Lesbian SFF Romance
Where Are the Older Women?
Historical Representations of Women, Now With Visual Aids
The James Bond of Cosy Mysteries
Epic Fantasy is Crushingly Conservative?
Urban Fantasy is Licentiously Liberal?
Aliette de Bodard Answers Five Questions
Thinking About Dishonored
Marie Brennan Answers Six Questions
Apologia Pro Consilia Mea
Karen Healey Answers Seven Questions
Martha Wells’ The Element of Fire
Martha Wells’ The Wizard Hunters
Martha Wells’ Wheel of the Infinite
Martha Wells’ Emilie and the Hollow World
Martha Wells Answers Eight Questions
Recent(ish) Hard SF By Women
What I’ve Been Reading/Recommend Some Things
Violette Malan’s Wandering Mercenaries
Yes, I’m Talking About SFF Lesbians In Love Again
Anticipating the Second Half of 2013
Tomb Raider is Bloody Awesome
Divine Possibilities and the Clash of Expectations
Kate Elliott’s King’s Dragon
Kate Elliott’s Cold Steel
Kate Elliott’s Crossroads Trilogy
Kate Elliott Answers Six Questions
Kari Sperring Answers Five Questions
Mary Robinette Kowal’s Shades of Milk and Honey and Glamour in Glass
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
The Obligatory Romance
Beth Bernobich Answers Seven Questions.
Vous qui savez: Elizabeth Wein
BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS
Writing Families in the Future
Here, Let Me Tell You About Some More Books
Dredd, Star Trek Reboots, and Dystopian Roles for Women
Reading, Writing, Radicalisation
Steampunk’s Dialectic of Core and Periphery
“Blown by the winds of war”—Aliette de Bodard’s On A Red Station, Drifting
The Best-laid Plans o’ Mice an’ Men
Thinking About Reading and Radicalisation
Jacqueline Carey’s Agent of Hel novels
2013 in Retrospect
Books To Look Out For
Elizabeth Bear Answers Eight Questions
But I’m Not Wrong… About Books. I Hope.
Always So Many Books, So Little Time
Between Lagos and Mars and LA and the Stars
How About Those Hugos?
“It is Very Simple, but in War the Simplest Things Become Very Difficult”
Sophia McDougall Answers Five Questions
More Books! Always More Books!
Orphan Black is FREAKING AWESOME
The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker
Books To Look Forward To, July-December 2014
Eleanor Arnason’s Big Mama Stories and Aliette de Bodard’s “Heaven Under Earth”
Recent Reading
All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry
Vampire Academy (2014) and Byzantium (2012)
Some Books and a Night of Awards
Another Post About Some Books
Laurie R King’s The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
Books, Redux
Sea Change and September Girls
Ann Leckie Answers Eight Questions
Again With The Books
What I Did On My Holidays — INSPIRE! Toronto International Book Fair
Still Talking About Books
Looking Back On 2014
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Books to Look Forward to in the First Half of 2015
I Want More of Everything I Like
One Book Leads to Another (and Another…)
Agent Carter, I Think I’m in Love
Competence is Important in Dragon Age: Inquisition
“She’d Die Like Joan of Arc First, and Spit Blood on You Through a Smile”
Introspection Is Probably Bad For Me, But Anyway…
WE WUZ PUSHED — Lee Mandelo on Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling
Mass Effect and the Normalisation of the Woman Hero
Marie Brennan Answers Six Questions
The Legend of Korra Saved My Sanity
Young Adult Books You Should Be Reading
More Lesbian SFF Romance
The Mystic Marriage by Heather Rose Jones
Ecology and Politics
Older Women As Lead Characters In Urban Fantasy
Young People These Days…
This Just In — Books Are Still Awesome
Mad Max: Fury Road
Amanda Downum Answers Six Relatively Short Questions
Looking Ahead in 2015
How Do We Talk About Strong Female Characters?
More Books, Anyone?
You Had Me at “Gladiatorial Princesses”
Go Watch Sense8
What Do You Reread For Comfort Or Escape?
Conversations Founded On False Assumptions
Falling in Love with Nicole Kornher-Stace’s Archivist Wasp
What Do These Books Have In Common?
We’re Still Reading Over Here
Melanie Rawn Answers Five Questions
Stephanie Saulter Answers Six Questions
More Books To Talk About Than There Is Time To Read
I’m Still Behind On My Reading, Send Help
Ruth Frances Long Answers Six Questions
Jaime Lee Moyer Answers Seven Questions
Deaths, Edges, Bargains, and the End of the World
Strong Female Characters and the Double Standard
Sarah McCarry’s Orphic Metamorphoses
Early November Reading Edition
Tanya Huff Answers Seven Questions
Some Initial Thoughts Upon Finishing Marvel’s Jessica Jones
Don’t We All Want To Read Faster?
S.L. Huang Answers Nine Questions
Space Opera and Explosions
Sleeps With Monsters: Tempus Fugit
Looking Back On 2015
Books To Look Forward To In The First Half Of 2016
In Defence of Fanfiction, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Trust Myself
Catching the Stragglers from 2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Hollywood’s Problem With Really Low Bars
There’s A Counter In My Head
“There are Such Monsters in a Palace”
SFF Television and Female Mentorship
“Once Again We Return” — The Wicked + The Divine
The Women of The Expanse: An Interview with Daniel Abraham
“Kindness Cannot Save Me.”
Urban Fantasy, Space Opera, and Historical Mystery All Walk Into A Bar
Ghostbusters Go To Town
The Continuation Of Diplomacy
Towers, Spies, and Alexander the Great
Foz Meadows Answers Eight Questions
Sometimes The Book Equivalent Of A B-Movie Is Exactly What You Want
Different Kinds of Death
Fran Wilde Answers Nine Questions
Fun’s Important
Monsters of the Mundane
Being and Belonging
Cloaks and Daggers
2016 in Retrospect
Glorious Space Fights
Books I’m Looking Forward To In 2017
Superhero Hope
Certain Things Are Dark, Like Winter
Sleeps With Monsters: Magical Girl(Friends)
Magical Secrets in The Witch Who Came In From The Cold
Spring Space Opera Medley
Fascism Tomorrow But Cabaret Today
War and Revolution and Hope
Queens of Ice and Fire
Lovecraftian Cruelty and Kindness
Desert Planets and Biker Mercenaries
The Power of Community in Hidden Figures
Wonder, Incident, and Family
Gender Roles and Logan
Sundry Novellas for Spring
Thoughts on the 2017 Hugo Awards Ballot
Katabasis and Anabasis
Thorns and Wings and Dragons
Roses and Portals
Tanya Huff’s A Peace Divided
Space Opera and the Politics of Domesticity
Intergenerational Female Influences in Arrival and Moana
Teeth and Gods and Hearts
Science Fictional Democracy in Malka Older’s Infomocracy
Love and War in Wonder Woman
A Peculiar Couple of Things
Older Women and Tomorrow’s Kin
Entertaining Boys With Magical Problems
Short and Striking Things
Stop Erasing Women’s Presence in SFF
Stolen Tomatoes and Undead Deer
Is It Worldcon Yet?
Comedy and Romance
Peculiar Heroines
Sleeps With Monsters: Metal War Spiders and Creative Destruction
Shallow Space Stuff Can Be Fun
Sleeps With Monsters: Flying Beasts and Complicated, Amazing Worldbuilding
The Weird West of Wynonna Earp
Sleeps With Monsters: Why Can’t More Books Pander To Me?
Unexpected Pleasures
Sleeps With Monsters: The Cold Blade’s Finger
Power Ballads and Professionals
My Year In Queer
Sleeps With Monsters: The Steppes, The Steppes Are Calling
Melissa Caruso Answers Six Questions
Vivian Shaw Answers Seven Questions
Sleeps With Monsters: Helen S. Wright’s A Matter of Oaths
Lost Suns, Times, and Theorems
Sleeps With Monsters: Djinn and Politics in an Interesting Debut
Warding off Winter Darkness
Alex Wells Answers Six Questions
Therapeutic Compassion
Odd and Satisfying
Strange Differences and Unusual Similarities
Sleeps With Monsters: Magic Roadtrips, Graceful Space Opera, and a Bleak Take on Star Wars
Demons On A Mission
Time Travel and Living Ships
The Adventures of Murderbot
Sleeps With Monsters: Where Are the SFF Stories About Pregnancy and Child-rearing?
The Women of Black Panther Are Amazing
Old Influences and New Impressions
Looking (Queerly) Back On Season One of Star Trek: Discovery
Fighting For Better Futures
Awards Season (or, Some Things I’m Nominating for the Hugos in the Fiction Categories)
Feeling and Faith in The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher
Annihilation is Amazing, and Full of Women
Sleeps With Monsters: Comfort Reading
Sleeps With Monsters: Six Hotly Anticipated Upcoming Books
Sleeps With Monsters: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Of Foxes and Virtues
Sleeps With Monsters: Fun and Fast Reads
Sleeps With Monsters: Marriages and Monsters
Sleeps With Monsters: So Much Genre TV, So Little Time
The Spaceborn Communities of Becky Chambers
The Atmospheric Fantasy of Melissa Scott’s Astreiant Novels
The Intriguing World of Ilana C. Myer’s Fire Dance
Fun in Imaginary Countries
Sleeps With Monsters: Storybundle Pride Month Reading
A Couple of Fun Fantasies
Melissa Scott’s The Kindly Ones
Sleeps With Monsters: Melissa Scott’s Shadow Man
Melissa Scott’s The Game Beyond
Sleeps With Monsters: Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver
Sleeps With Monsters: Melissa Scott’s The Shapes of Their Hearts
Sleeps With Monsters: Melissa Scott’s Dreamships and Dreaming Metal
Sleeps With Monsters: Books Inspired by History and Historical Literature
Sleeps With Monsters: Astronaut Ladies
Uplifting Post-apocalypses from Carrie Vaughn
Inclusive SF We All Deserve
Spec-Fic Romances With Ladies Who Love Ladies
A Pair of Delightfully Queer Novellas
Secrets and Consequences
Fast and Fun Reads
Sleeps With Monsters: New and Upcoming Books Featuring Ladies Who Love Ladies
Sleeps With Monsters: Disgraced Witches and Norse Mermaids
Atmospheric and Compelling Stories
Sleeps With Monsters: Queer Retellings with Women
Brilliance and Fire
Sleeps With Monsters: Science Fiction Romance from Ada Harper
Unexpected Fun
Angels and Demons
‘Tis the Season for Fun Reads
More Stories With Queer Women
C.J. Cherryh’s Alliance-Union Books
Swords and Salvage
What I’m Looking Forward to in 2019
More Books to Look Forward to in 2019
Phyllis Ann Karr’s Sword and Sorcery Novels
Queering Classic Fantasy Stories
Epic Fantasy and Feminism in The Women’s War and The Ruin of Kings
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Quiet Novels About Changing The World
A Coincidence of Prisoners
Engaging Fantasy Thrillers
Intrigue, Espionage, and Capers
Intimate Space Operas
Brief and Complementary Tales
Sequel Time
Forests, Kingdoms, and Secrets
Forthcoming (Queer) Novels Starring (Queer) Women
Kaia Sønderby’s Xandri Corelel novels
Very Different, Very Good Books
Science Fiction Old and New
Time and Translation
Sleeps With Monsters: Books That Spark Joy
Sleeps With Monsters: Is This the Book I Wanted to Read?
New (and Old) and Well Worth Reading
Sleeps With Monsters: Queen of Coin and Whispers
Sleeps With Monsters: Very Different Debuts
Sleeps With Monsters: Optimism and (Game)Change
Sleeps With Monsters: An Impossibly Good Book to Choose
Sleeps With Monsters: Compelling Queer Teenage Girl Protagonists
K.A. Doore Answers Seven Questions
Sleeps With Monsters: Looking Forward to the Books of 2020
Sleeps With Monsters: Queer and Angry and Not Ashamed
Sleeps With Monsters: Two Satisfying Stories
K.B. Wagers Answers Six Questions
What to Read When the Whole World’s Falling Apart
What to Read When the Whole World’s Falling Apart, Part 2
Sleeps With Monsters: What to Read When the Whole World’s Falling Apart, Part 3
Sleeps With Monsters: What to Read When the Whole World’s Falling Apart, Part 4
Sleeps With Monsters: What to Read When the Whole World’s Falling Apart, Part 5
What to Read When the Whole World’s Falling Apart, Part 6
Spending Time With Physicians and Dragons
Celebrate Queer Pride by Reading Books
Revisiting Comforting Favourites
A Little Bit of Epic, a Little Bit of Fluff
Revisiting Lois McMaster Bujold’s Sharing Knife
Into the Woods With Emily Tesh and Carrie Vaughn
Revisiting Michelle Sagara’s Chronicles of Elantra
The Best Books I Haven’t Read in 2020
The Best Books I’ve Read in 2020
Most Anticipated Books For 2021
Romance and Magic in Julia Ember’s Ruinsong
Sleeps With Monsters: Hench, by Natalie Zina Walschots
The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
C.L. Polk Answers Seven Questions
Water Horse by Melissa Scott
In Conversation With Tasha Suri
Procedural Fantasy and Queering Historical Epic
Saffron, Robots, and Space Assassins
The Difference Between Survival and Cruelty
Books Visceral and Gripping
Making Good Choices
Sleeps With Monsters: Two Books About Family Situations
New in Series
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