Home / cultural issues cultural issues Blog C.S. Lewis Our Country: C.S. Lewis, Calormen, and How Fans Are Reclaiming the Fictionalized East By Nasim Mansuri January 24, 2022 Comment 24 Books Fantasy Honor, Life, and Jade: Cultural Resonance in Fonda Lee’s Jade City By Phoebe Low June 9, 2020 Comment 5 Blog cultural issues Why Are There So Few SFF Books About the Very Real Issue of Population Decline? By James Davis Nicoll June 11, 2018 Comment 100 Books The Wheel of Time Where Do You Belong if You Don’t Fit Anywhere? Cultural Deterioration and The Wheel of Time By Preeti Chhibber December 19, 2017 Comment 28 Featured Essays geek culture The Death of Adulthood in American Culture: Nerd Culture Edition By Lindsay Ellis September 23, 2014 Comment 50 Books Diversity in SFF Diversity Beyond Borders: A Conversation with Charles Tan By Sarah McCarry July 29, 2014 Comment 4 Blog cultural issues A Few Thoughts on Other Cultures and Diversity in SFF By Aliette de Bodard September 20, 2013 Comment 39 Blog Comics Introducing Simon Baz, the First Muslim-American Green Lantern By Shoshana Kessock September 17, 2012 Comment 6 Blog homosexuality George Takei Takes on Anti-Gay Tenn. Bill, Wins the Internet By Stubby the Rocket May 20, 2011 Comment 15